Dew Drop – December 7, 2015 (#2146)

Top Links

• Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source (Gaurav Seth & Adalberto Foresti)
• 5 Reasons to Fall in Love with Angular Material (Lukas Ruebbelke)
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10586.29 (Gabe Aul)
• The 2015 Christmas List of Best STEM Toys for your little nerds and nerdettes (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• PHP 7 Released (Kay Ewbank)
• Pick up Custom Directives in AngularJS (Abhay Saxena)
• Export to PDF in jQuery Using Shield UI (Shield UI Team)
• Top 4 Javascript Concepts a Node.js Beginner Must Know (Ankit Singh)
• HTML5 Mastery: Fragments (Florian Rappl)
• Implement Data Serialization using Node.js for JSON Data (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Brainstorming development workflows with Docker, Kitematic, VirtualBox, Azure, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• ES6 on AWS Lambda (Robin Ricard)
• An Introduction to ClojureScript (Kev Zettler)
• Universal React (Jack Franklin)
• Aurelia dbmonster (Jeremy Danyow)
• From ChocolateChip-UI to TruckJS (Robert Biggs)
• Deploy Your Web Site or Web App on Azure (Shahed C)

 

XAML

• Fixing “Payload file rd.xml does not exist” when creating a Windows 10 UWP NuGet Package (Joost van Schaik)
• SplitView Bug in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Regular Expression Inline Options (Richard Carr)
• What’s the time Mr Wolf? (Aaron Powell)
• Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1 (Andrew Pardoe)
• How to serialize/deserialize a Dictionary object in #CSharp? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Application contracts with Swagger powered APIs for .NET or Why SwaggerProvider (Sergey Tihon)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• You suck at TDD #1: Rewrite the steps (Eric Gunnerson)
• Helping Hardware Be Agile, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• Exporting Application Insights data to Excel – It’s just a single click ! (Abhijit Jana)
• Review of Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles (Jonathan Snook)
• Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think (Mike Hadlow)
• Integration Testing with MongoDB with MongoDB.Testing Library (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Uncle Bob’s Oath (Dave Rael)
• UI Design: Go Out and Get Data and Article: Q&A with Vasco Duarte on the #NoEstimates Book (Ben Linders)
• Continuous Delivery of Azure WebJobs via Git (Jan Hentschel)
• The High of Release (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Things to remember when you work with Azure and the new Team Build (Matteo Emili)
• My Thoughts on Choosing and Using Persistence Tools (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS From Scratch With Swift: Creating Your First iOS Application (Bart Jacobs)
• Abusing the Internet of Things (Harry Fairhead)
• IBM’s Swift Response (Alex Blewitt)
• Windows 10 IoT Core Breathalyzer (Greg Duncan)
• Creating Tic-tac-toe in Swift: Artificial Intelligence (Josh Smith)
• Hello Swift! IBM Swift Sandbox Day 1 Wrapup (Patrick Bohrer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #32 (Ron Gilbert)
• Agile For Humans 023: Remote Teams with Mark Kilby and David Horowitz [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Xamarin Podcast – Xamarin 4: Everything You Need to Build Great Mobile Apps (Pierce Boggan)
• TWC9: Share Your HoloLens Idea, Powering up with PowerApps, VS/TFS 2015.1 and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Mark DeFalco)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Allison Tolman (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – MS Band SDK with Ali Alvi (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 185: Kong, APIs, and Microservices with Ahmad Nassri (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Mean On Azure Episode 1 (Daniel Egan)
• Developer on Fire Episode 069 | Ari Meisel – Do Less to Get More Done (Dave Rael)
• Episode 193: Azure Redis Cache Premium Tier with Pranav Rastogi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Il-Lumia-nation | Pocketnow Weekly 177 (Jules Wang)
• RadioTFS – Mass Hysteria Git and TFVC living together (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• StarTalk Radio – The Science of Illusion with Penn & Teller (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Here’s our show from the Microsoft Store, and a chance to win an Xbox One (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Accepting Nominations for 2016 PowerShell Heroes (Dave Wyatt)
• BUILD.Microsoft.com (Toni Pohl)
• Vote Early, Vote Often… Only a couple days left for the Bytes that Rock 2015 Awards! (Greg Duncan)
• Dealing with Impostor Syndrome (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Microsoft’s next Build conference starts on March 30th in San Francisco (Tom Warren)
• Get involved in Hour of Code and Computer Science Education Week (Traci Coffman)
• .NET User Group Leaders (Vicky)
• Amazon to begin move into new Seattle campus next week, with rooftop dog park and indoor basketball court (Jacob Demmitt)

 

Database

• Solve Common SQL Server Restore Issues (Sergey Gigoyan)
• How to find UDFs causing SQL Server performance issues (Fikrat Azizov)
• SQL SERVER – Resource Governor and Database Mapping and SQL SERVER – Easy Way to Import and Export SQL Server Data and Interview Question of the Week #048 – How to Move TempDB to Another Drive? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Azure Resource Manager Authentication In PowerShell (Scott Banwart)
• Recent updates to DSC Resource Kit (Karol Kaczmarek)

 

Miscellaneous

• #Lumia 850 leak shows it in its full glory. Reveals Size specs. (KN)
• Multi-Language Programming in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (Soulskill)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #197 (Pedro Botelho)
• Geek Reading December 4, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #212 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1600 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Cloud and Data Friday Fives! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1984 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 30th – December 6th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News – Week Ending December 4, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsltter Issue #69 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #79 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #49, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• links of the week 12-6-15 (Chris Love)
• Weekend Reading: Microsoft devices news and stories you may have missed (Microsoft Devices Team)

 

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