Dew Drop – December 11, 2015 (#2150)

Top Links

• The .NET Journey: Recapping the last year (Ron Petrusha)
• Optimizing Xamarin.Forms Apps for Maximum Performance (Pierce Boggan)
• Announcing Rust 1.5 (Rust Core Team)
• Help Create Microsoft’s Next Casual Game (Kevin Lambert)

 

Web Development

• PhpStorm 10.0.2 is now available along with new JetBrains branding (Anna Lebedeva)
• WebStorm 11.0.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• HTML5 Mastery: Constraint Validation (Florian Rappl)
• Javascript CSV Export with Unicode Symbols (lmilkov)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: CSS Secrets – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Referencing CSLA 4.6.300 from ASP.NET 5 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Use Azure Resource Explorer to discover hidden settings for Azure provisioning (Ruslan Albu)
• Table-driven Tests in Go (Alan Hohn)

 

XAML

• No Excuse For Not Developing For Windows Phone (Tim Murphy)
• Saving and Loading App Data (Windows Store C# UWP / 8.1) (Matthias Shapiro)
• #VS2015 – Sending tweets from an #UWP app #Windows 10 (Bruno Capuano)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2015 Test Tools getting started content (Charles Sterling)
• Powering F# Development on Visual Studio Code with Ionide (Jeff Martin)
• Create .zip Files from Code (Peter Vogel)
• It’s Been a Big Couple of Weeks for Microsoft Development Technologies! (Don Kiely)
• The dedoublifier, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Aggregate Queries in Seq Part 6: Serving Data (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Limits (Amir Barylko)
• You suck at TDD #2–Mocking libraries (Eric Gunnerson)
• Helping Hardware Be Agile, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• Retrospectives – not just for agile teams (Patrick Kua)
• The Right Way to Think About Semantic Versioning (Tab Atkins Jr.)
• Custom work item fields and more – Dec 10 (Aaron Bjork)
• Product Team Ceremonies (Jann Thomas)
• Adding a custom field to a work item (Justin Marks)
• How to deal with never ending meetings (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Events and the Xamarin MessagingCenter (Wallace McClure)
• iOS From Scratch With Swift: More Swift in a Nutshell (Bart Jacobs)
• Android Studio 2.0 Preview: Android Emulator (Jamal Eason)
• Unit testing for JavaScript/Cordova: new content on the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova site (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The importance of fixing your own consumer electronics with IFixit’s Kyle Wiens (Scott Hanselman)
• Episode 075 on Android dev and Hackathons—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake & Richard DiZerega)
• New Features in Visual Studio 2015 for C++ Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 071 AiA Angular Material with Thomas Burleson (John Papa)
• Rocket 48: Split the Cells (Brianna Wu, Simone De Rochefort & Christina Warren)
• The Amp Hour #277 – Interconnectorama (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Why We’re Still Talking About Gender in STEM on Ada Lovelace’s 200th Birthday (Sophia Smith)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Connecting to Azure SQL DB (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI Desktop Custom Visualization (Scott Murray)
• Hadoop Fundamentals (Guy Glantser)
• Database Design Evils (Karen Lopez)

 

Miscellaneous

• Philosophy of science books every computer scientist should read (Tomas Petricek)
• Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It’s All in One Place (Cade Metz)
• Doing Math with Python (Mike James)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 10, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1604 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Day in Development Recap Thu Dec 10 2015 (Jeremy Likness)
• The Morning Brew #1988 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 10th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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