Dew Drop – December 16, 2015 (#2153)

Top Links

• Angular 2 Beta (Brad Green)
• Running Swift within Docker (Kevin Lai)
• Getting Started with .NET and Docker (Elton Stoneman)
• 7 Tools That Bring Cross-Platform Languages into Visual Studio (Terrence Dorsey)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 Mastery: Web Security (Florian Rappl)
• How to clone a JavaScript backend Mobile Service (Glenn Gailey)
• What I Learned After A Week of Visual Studio Code and ASP.NET 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• TypeScript + ASP.NET Web API + AngularJS Bootcamp – Week 5 (Stephen Walther)
• WCF Connected Service Visual Studio Extension Preview for ASP.NET 5 Projects (Zhenlan Wang)
• Tip for a WebApi, Json and System.Net.Http.Formatting exception (Kevin Logan)
• Getting Started with Electron: Building a Desktop Chat App (Eddie Zaneski)
• Hashes and Code-Signing (Eric Lawrence)
• Introducing the new Calendar Resource API (Muzammil Esmail & Wesley Chun)
• Amazon Releases AWS Price List API (Janet Wagner)
• Building a Rest API with the Bottle Framework (Leandro Lima)
• Application Insights Telemetry in Glimpse (Nik Molnar)
• Designing the VS Code extensibility API by watching developers build extensions (Steven Clarke)

 

XAML

• WinRT Extensions using RuntimeBroker (Chris Lovett)
• Building an app for a 3rd party? How to package their Store app (Tim Harader)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio – Class Coupling (Abhijit Jana)
• In Case I Forget a Third Time: project.json config for referencing full .NET DLLs (Julie Lerman)
• C# Features From 3.0 to 6.0 (Rakesh Dabde)
• Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio (Adam Welch)
• Raw .NET Data Access / ORM Fetch benchmarks of 16-dec-2015 (Frans Bouma)
• Intel RealSense SDK updated with improvements in facial tracking and recognition (John Callaham)
• The Era of Portable .NET (Sam Basu)
• My Favorite .net Open Source Projects – Autofac (Simon Timms)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Helping Hardware Be Agile, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
• Handling Impediments: Recognizing the Problem (Ben Linders)
• Rebooting ALM, Part III: Weakness (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Plough Horses and Context Shifting (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Developer Tools for Testers (Seda Bulut)
• Release Management Workflow Migrator (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS From Scratch With Swift: Exploring the Foundation Framework (Bart Jacobs)
• Apple has hugely ambitious plans for open-sourced Swift, and hints on what’s coming to iOS (Lou Miranda)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: iOS 9 Swift Programming Cookbook – $38.99 Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• More Responsive Tapping on iOS (Wenson Hsieh)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Helping Developers Build Secure Web Apps with Bill Sempf (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• RunAs Radio – SharePoint 2016 with Todd Klindt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kathleen Kennedy (Chris Hardwick)
• RiYL Episode 143: Colin Hay (Brian Heater)
• Developer Division’s transformation to DevOps by Sam Guckenheimer (Charles Sterling)
• Developer on Fire Episode 073 | Arlo Belshee – Refactoring Humanity (Dave Rael)
• The Ops Team #007 – “Groundhog Day” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit, Simon May & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• Functional Geekery Episode 39 – Philip Wadler (Steven Proctor)
• Talk Python to Me #38 Continuous Integration and Delivery at Codeship (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 107 | Covering the Latest news in Azure, Office 365 and Amazon Web Services (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)

 

Community / Events

• Indie Game Developers Get Xamarin for Free (Joseph Hill)
• NORAD Tracks Santa returns for 60th anniversary (Athima Chansanchai)

 

Database

• Discover and Manage your SQL Server environment with SQL Inventory Manager (Greg Robidoux)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server After Patching (Pinal Dave)
• DocumentDB paging support with TOP and more query improvements (Aravind Ramachandran)
• When Should You Use Identity as a Clustered Index Key? (Matan Yungman)

 

PowerShell

• Recap of the Dec 2015 PowerShell Editor Services Hack Week (David Wilson)
• Sample chapter: Working with functions (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bing Pulse rebrands as Microsoft Pulse (Brian Fagioli)
• Interview Questions for Developers (Gregor Suttie)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 15, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1607 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1991 (Chris Alcock)
• The week in .NET – 12/15/2015 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 14th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links from the latest newsletters (David Voyles)
• Progressive Web Apps, Docker, ReactJS and More Tue Dec 15 2015 (Jeremy Likness)

 

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