Dew Drop – January 12, 2016 (#2165)

Top Links

• Support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 end today, leaving you with 11 or Edge (Rich Edmonds)
• Unit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Functional programming for beginners (Eric Lippert)
• TDD in Xamarin Studio – Live Coding FreshMvvm (Michael Ridland)

 

Web Development

• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF / XSRF) Race Condition In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Getting started with Azure API Apps and Azure MVC web App in Azure App Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Angular 2: an MIT Open Source Licensed Framework (Max Sills)
• Microsoft Tools for Beginner Web Developers (James Quick)

 

XAML

• WPF musings: UI framework and plug-ins (Laurent Bugnion)
• Refactoring Data Passing Methods in BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• MSBuild Dependency Visualizer tool (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Did you know – You can play sound when Build Succeeded or Failed in Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services roadmap update (Brian Harry)
• Exploring the Visual Studio bounty program (DevToolsGuy)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Creating a Team Project and Git Repository (Graham Smith)
• Regular Expressions Instance Methods (Richard Carr)
• One code snippet at a time [and more] with the Code Snippet Studio (Greg Duncan)
• DZone Refcardz – Core .NET (Jill Tomich)
• Dashboards Futures (January 2016) (Karen Ng)
• Whats new in the ruby WinRM gem 1.5 (Matt Wrock)
• Creating a shell extension that applies only to files with a very specific name (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Multiple copies of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives (Ben Linders)
• The importance of a data format: Part IV – Benchmarking the solution (Oren Eini)
• Testing microservices (Andrew Siemer)
• Git Experience Futures (January 2016) (Jeremy Epling)
• Accomplishing ALM with Agility (Jeremy Likness)
• 50+ fresh resources for designers, January 2016 (Juan Pablo Sarmiento)
• VSTS Process Customization futures (January 2016) (Justin Marks)
• Accidental Agility (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin 4 Improvements: Worth Upgrading? (Wallace McClure)
• iOS – Objective-C – Fast Reflection for Value Types (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock with the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi – Raspberry Pi Pod (Michael Horne)
• Swift 2 Parse JSON (Deserialization) (Jordan Gregon)
• Open Apps Introduction (Noel Rice)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Raspberry Pi Cookbook – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Messaging is Forever with Clemens Vasters (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Xamarin Podcast: Test Your Way to a Five-Star App (Pierce Boggan)
• SSW TV – The Best and Worst JavaScript Frameworks and What You Should Be Using In 2016 and SSW TV – Windows Server Containers: What do I need to know as a ASP.NET Developer? | Jeremy Cade at DDD Brisbane 2015 (Sophie Belle)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 57: Billy Hollis (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Samantha Bee (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 99 “Bookkeeping Time” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Defrag Tools #150 – Media eXperience Analyzer part 2: Video Playback Power Saving | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• 2 | Nordstrom : Tips for making a DevOps transformation | DevOps Dimension (David Tesar, Joe Breslin & chach)
• Partially Derivative Episode 37: Do it LIVE! (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)

 

Community / Events

• New Boston PowerShell User Group (Steve Parankewich)
• Happy 2016 from Xamarin! (Joseph Hill)
• Welcome to Microsoft Imagine Academy (Alison Cunard)

 

Database

• MySQL Master-Slave Replication on the Same Machine (Ivan Bojovic)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 7395, Level 16, State 2 – Unable to start a nested transaction for OLE DB provider (Pinal Dave)
• Compare Power BI Desktop vs. Power BI Online (Scott Murray)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Secret Sauce That Gets Attendees Returning Every Year (Kalahari Meetings)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella attending President Obama’s final State of the Union address as guest of the First Lady. (Kellogg Brengel)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 11, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2007 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 12, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 11th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links of the Week 1-10-16 (Chris Love)

 

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