Dew Drop – December 17, 2015 (#2154)

Top Links

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 11082 (Gabe Aul)
• Learning Meteor.js: A Simple Chat App Tutorial (Ricky Robinett)
• Lock Me Down Show 1: Double Agent and Show 2: Ashley Madison and Show 3: Interview – Sijmen Ruwhof and Show 4: Black Wednesday (Max McCarty)
• .NET Rocks! – Smarthome Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Friction-less immutable objects in Bridge (C# / JavaScript) applications (Dan)
• Telerik Leading the Way with Angular 2 (Daniel Shain)
• Running ASP.NET 5 website on IIS (Filip W.)
• Build a Smooth Slide-Out Navigation Menu with jQuery (Learning JQuery)
• ASP.NET 5 Migration to RC1 Notes (Steve Smith)
• Node v5.3.0 (Stable) (Colin Ihrig)
• Learn Ruby programming with GitHub and Udacity (John D. Britton)
• Splunk Logging Driver for Docker (Den Gladkikh)
• Rajiv Perera Scales His Caretime App With NodeJS and Twilio (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Now Available: Beta Exam 473 Design and Implement Cloud Data Platform Solutions (Liberty Munson)
• Adding ESLint to the Microsoft VS Code Editor (Rey Bango)

 

XAML

• Using WebAccountProvider with Facebook on Windows 10 Mobile (Scott Lovegrove)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Shortcuts: Surround With (Jeremy Clark)
• Introduction to R for .NET Developers (James McCaffrey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agility is a Strategy, Agile is a Tactic (Karl Scotland)
• Root Cause Analysis – Core Competency (Michael Dougherty)
• Be Careful with Software Metaphors (Erik Dietrich)
• 5 Ways You Frustrate Your Boss (Kestrel Blackmore)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS From Scratch With Swift: First Steps With UIKit (Bart Jacobs)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning JavaScript Robotics – $11.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Exciting Time for Makers! We’re in a Maker Renaissance! (Chris Pietschmann)
• IBM Brings Watson to IoT (Abel Avram)
• Build Your Own Game Levels with CoinTime (Craig Dunn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast: How to be a six figure developer (Ed Charbeneau)
• Exceptional Podcast: Tim Ferris and Derek Sivers (Scott Watermasysk)
• SSW TV – Building APIs with MVC 6 and OAuth | Filip Ekberg at DDD Brisbane 2015 (Sophie Belle)
• Video -How to create object in JavaScript using the new operator – #JavaScriptin5minutes (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 190 JSJ Web Performance Part 2 with Nik Molnar (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 22: Eight Years of sp_whoisactive (Carlos L. Chacon)
• CodeChat 050 – Observables Everywhere! | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Defrag: Error Installing GPU Driver, Manually Installing 1511, Reactivating After a Reinstall and more… | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• SE-Radio Episode 244: Gernot Starke on Architecture Documentation using arc42 (Eberhard Wolff)

 

Community / Events

• My positive experience as a woman in tech (Lea Verou)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® Data-Tier Application Framework (December 2015 Preview) and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 CTP3.2 Report Builder (MS Downloads)
• First Steps for SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – How to Create a Readable Secondary Server in SQL Server Standard – Notes from the Field #107 (Pinal Dave)
• [EBook] Iterative Development and MongoDB (Molly Bartlett Dishman)
• When Should You Use Identity as a Clustered Index Key? (Matan Yungman)

 

PowerShell

• About format-list (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Family Safety snags new features for desktop, mobile and Windows Store (Richard Hay)
• At long last, Firefox has finally gone 64-bit on Windows (John Callaham)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 16, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1992 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 16th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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