Dew Drop – January 13, 2016 (#2166)

Top Links

• Project Rider – A C# IDE (Matt Ellis)
• WallabyJS is a slick and powerful test runner for JavaScript in your IDE or Editor (Scott Hanselman)
• 6 Things You Should Stop Doing Now That IE Is Dead (Chris Love)
• Connect with your users with Google Search and App Indexing (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• Mutating An Array During .forEach() Iteration In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• How to add Critical CSS to a WordPress site (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Moving Along a Curved Path in CSS (Chris Coyier)
• 20 Useful PHP Scripts Available on CodeCanyon (Eric Dye)
• JSLint and recursive functions in JavaScript (Julian M. Bucknall)
• How to Validate Forms Using jQuery (Learning jQuery)
• React with Babel Cheatsheet (James K. Nelson)
• Mark Russinovich on Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications (Kim Spilker)
• Using Python with Azure (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
• Node v5.4.1 (Stable) (Myles Borins)

 

XAML

• Additional Windows using Regions with BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Use C# Interactive Window for your coding experiment in Visual Studio 2015 and Command Line C# Interactive Script Execution for Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Sample chapter: Working with Variables, Operators, and Expressions in Microsoft Visual C# (Kim Spilker)
• Visual Studio keeps showing suggested extensions (Mads Kristensen)
• Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services roadmap gets major update (Vanessa Ho)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The importance of a data format: Part V – The end result (Oren Eini)
• Asshole driven development (Scott Berkun)
• Become a better programmer (Stephen Young)
• 5 tips on working with technical debt (Matt Lacey)
• Communication is the Common Denominator (Seema Camp)
• GitHub: The beginner’s guide (Shannon Duncan)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Executing Long Running Background Tasks in Android Apps Without an Interface (Using Services) (Vipul Patel)
• Instrumenting Android Apps I (Noel Rice)
• iOS vs Android – How To Draw – Part 1 – Intro and iOS Vs Android – How To Draw – Part 2 – Styling and iOS Vs Android – How To Draw – Part 3 – Drawing and iOS vs Android – How To Draw – Part 4 – Text (Stephen Zaharuk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Successful Test Automation with Arnon Axelrod (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AFH 024: A Bonfire of Metaphors with Bill Caputo [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• RunAs Radio – Chef, PowerShell and DSC with Steven Murawski (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Functional Geekery Episode 42 – Claudia Doppioslash (Steven Proctor)
• RiYL Episode 147: Walter Martin (of The Walkmen) (Brian Heater)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 26: Devops for the Database–Everyone is Doing it, Right? (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 084 | Bruce Tate – About the Journey (Dave Rael)
• Talk Python to Me #41 Getting your first dev job as a Python developer (part 2) (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 110 | AC and CJ’s 2016 Predictions and Wishes (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Security Center preview and Custom RBAC Roles | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Hybrid Apps | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby)

 

Database

• Pro SQL Server Administration (Ian Stirk)
• Manage Extended Events for SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services in Management Studio (Rajendra Gupta)
• Parallelism setting in SQL Server – reduce CXPACKET waits? (Dennis Cheung)
• Continuous Deployments for SQL Server – Part 4 (Gregor Suttie)
• SQL SERVER – System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly (Pinal Dave)
• Descriptive Statistics In Power BI/M With Table.Profile() (Chris Webb)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Essential SQLAlchemy – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft updates Windows 10 for PCs, IoT to Build 10586.63 (Mary Jo Foley)
• [How To] Disable Welcome Page In Microsoft Edge (Kapil Arya)
• Securing Windows 10 with BitLocker Drive Encryption (Zubair Alexander)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 12, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1624 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The week in .NET – 1/12/2015 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (12/28-1/10) (Dara Monasch)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 13, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 12th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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