Dew Drop – December 10, 2015 (#2149)

Top Links

• Announcing Open Live Writer – An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer (Scott Hanselman)
• Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1 (Stacey Haffner)
• NUnit 3 Brings Extensibility and Parallel Execution: Interview with Charlie Poole (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Cortana: Now available here and when you need her, no matter what smartphone you choose (Marcus Ash)

 

Web Development

• HTML Developers: Please Consider (Steve Faulkner)
• Focus by Firefox – Content Blocking for the Open Web (Denelle Dixon-Thayer)
• Microsoft Azure Certification: Where to Start? A Study Resource List (Chris Pietschmann)
• Introducing the Create Class Action (Gary Hockin)
• Future of Web Design – Watch out for these 7 Trends (Keval Padia)

 

XAML

• Christmas Trees in WPF using FSharp.ViewModule (Reed Copsey)
• Easy Parallax effect in Windows 10 (Shawn Kendrot)
• #VS2015 – Create all graphic Assets for your #UWP app from a single image (Bruno Capuano)
• Release of WpWinNl 3.0.0 alpha with UWP support – and map data binding (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# 6 Feature Review: Auto-Property Enhancements (Jimmy Bogard)
• Testing Akka.NET Actor Systems (Jason Roberts)
• VS2015 Update 1 Improves C++ Edit and Continue Support (Jeff Martin)
• Why doesn’t findstr use the standard regular expression library? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bane On Task Estimation (Ben Nadel)
• Scaling Without Blueprints and the Agile Scaling Cycle (Ben Linders)
• The Art of Removing Impediments (Michael Dougherty)
• Easy way to gain high level understanding (Andrew Siemer)
• Understanding non-destructive workflows in Photoshop (Dan LeFebvre)
• The Most Important Code Metrics You’ve Never Heard Of (Erik Dietrich)
• Release Management Workflow Migrator (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS From Scratch With Swift: Swift in a Nutshell (Bart Jacobs)
• Android Developer Story: SGN game ‘Cookie Jam’ increases user conversions with Store Listing Experiments (Lily Sheringham)
• Demystifying iOS 9 Spotlight Search for Developers (Richard Forsythe)
• Flip that App! Hybrid Mobile to JavaScript Native (Jen Looper)
• Level 0 – “Build 5 Mobile Games in 5 Days” (Greg Duncan)
• Higher-order functions in Swift (Josh Smith)
• Windows IoT Core and Azure IoT Hub – Putting the ‘I’ in IoT (Artur Laksberg)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Visual Studio 2015 Shortcuts with Joseph Woodward (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 43 ngAir – Writing Angular 2 Libraries with Dmitriy Shekhovtsov and Nathan Walker (Kent C. Dodds)
• 189 JSJ PureScript with John A. De Goes and Phil Freeman (Joe Eames, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David Spade (Chris Hardwick)
• 3D Printing with Multiple Materials using Windows 10 and 3D Builder (Gavin Gear & Alexandre Blondin)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Debian GNU/Linux and Azure Container Service | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Azure Resource Manager Explorer with David Ebbo and Remote Profiling in Azure with Hamid Safi (Scott Hanselman)
• Startup Success Podcast 3.11 – Business Development with Kacie Gonzalez (Bob Walsh)
• MSDN Flash 2015: Connect();, OSS, Microsoft Band, Hour of Code, DevOps + more (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Mobile Testing Made Easy with Xamarin Test Recorder (Courtney Witmer)
• Geek of the Week: Bryan Kravitz of Philly Typewriter Repair (Chris Urie)
• Microsoft officially joins Tumblr, with stories about people and technology (John Callaham)

 

Database

• Exploring Azure DocumentDB in Visual Studio (Andrew Hoh)
• Run U-SQL scripts locally with updated Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio (Omid Afnan)

 

Miscellaneous

• The New WordPress.com App for Windows Is Here (Mark Armstrong)
• Announcing Open Live Writer (Jon Gallant)
• Live Writer is now Open Source (Rob Dolin)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 9, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1603 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 9 Dec 2015 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1987 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-10 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 8th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 9th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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