Dew Drop – January 18, 2016 (#2169)

Top Links

• Peasy – An easy to use middle tier framework for .net (Aaron Hanusa)
• Learn Roslyn Now: Part 16 The Emit API (Josh Varty)
• Optimize your UWP app without laziness (Rudy Huyn)
• Technical Debt: A Definition (Ted Neward)

 

Web Development

• Parallel JavaScript with ParallelJS (Florian Rappl)
• JQuery 3.0 Beta Marks 10th Anniversary (Ian Elliot)
• Managing Locally Cached Data With Redux In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• NGINX Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing for ASP.NET 5 Applications with Docker Compose (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Enumify: better enums for JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Creating Unit Tests for ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Docker 1.10 Release Candidate Now Available: Important Tips on Updating Engines and Migrating Images to New IDs (Arnaud Porterie)
• WP REST API: Setting Up and Using OAuth 1.0a Authentication (Bilal Shahid)
• Free ebook: Enterprise Cloud Strategy (Kim Spilker)
• learnyounode – My First Async I/O! and learnyounode – Filtered LS and learnyounode – Make It Modular and learnyounode – HTTP Client and learnyounode – HTTP Collect (Matthias Shapiro)
• Preparing for Load Balancing Diagnostics a Retrospective (Mitchel Sellers)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Security for Web Developers – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• The HTTPS-Only Standard (Robin Rendle)

 

XAML

• Toggling the SplitView Pane using a Hamburger Button in a UWP Application and Toggling the SplitView using Visual States and Keeping Visual States in Sync with Application States using Adaptive Triggers and BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 v4.1.0 (MS Downloads)
• Organizing the Bookmarks using folder structure in Visual Studio and Developing kinect for Windows v2.0 App with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10 (Abhijit Jana)
• Focus on right section of the solution by Scoping your Solution Explorer in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• C# REPL – Introducing C# Interactive (Dirk Strauss)
• NUnit File Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Back to Basic : Difference Between int.Parse() and int.TryParse() (Abhijit Jana)
• The complete list of #VisualStudio keyboard shortcuts (Kunal Chowdhury)
• What does this crash in TppRaiseHandleStatus mean? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The importance of a data format: Part VI – When two orders of magnitude aren’t enough (Oren Eini)
• Building a Bridge Between Designers and Developers (DevToolsGuy)
• Successful Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Agility (Jeremy Likness)
• Image Credits About Frisby: Frisby is a rest API automation test framework. It … (Abhishek Verma)
• Duplicating Layer Groups in Photoshop (Julieanne Kost)
• “Dear GitHub…” — An Open Letter to GitHub (Sergio De Simone)
• Automatically inject fakes in test fixture with FakeItEasy (Thomas Levesque)
• First Draft of My Stand (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Android Player–Improving Performance (David Yardy)
• How to Create a To-Do List App With Polymer and Cordova (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Instrumenting Android Apps III and Instrumenting iOS Apps and Managing Android Packages (Noel Rice)
• Your First Band 2 App, via a new Web Tile (Greg Duncan)
• Perfect Aims to Bring Swift to the Server-side (Sergio De Simone)
• HomePi – A Windows 10 & Raspberry Pi 2 IoT app – Part 1 (Shoban Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Developer on Fire Episode 086 | Tomas Petricek – Remeber Curiosity (Dave Rael)
• The Changelog 191: Elm and Functional Programming with Richard Feldman (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 71 – Internet For All (Danilo Campos) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 085 | Vaughn Vernon – Scaling Learning (Dave Rael)
• TWC9: Build Registration Opens, ChakraCore Opens, R Server Free for Dev’s and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 196: Migrating to Mobile Apps with Matthew Henderson | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Developer Tea – Comparison Conundrums (Jonathan Cutrell)
• StarTalk Radio – Science and Social Justice with David Crosby (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Agile 2016 Needs You (David Starr)
• Chocolatey Community Feed Update! (Rob Reynolds)
• Eric Smith Makes Error Reporting A Breeze With Exceptionless (John Sonmez)
• MVP Community Contributors (Vicky)
• Announcing the 2016 Big Idea: Design Winners! (Pablo Veramendi)

 

Database

• How to read data from an Excel file starting from the nth row with SQL Server Integration Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• How to Kill a Blocking Negative SPID in SQL Server (Ahmad Yaseen)
• SQL SERVER – Dedicated Database Development with SQL Source Control and Interview Question of the Week #054 – Retrieve User Defined Object Details from sys.objects (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with Change Tracking in SQL Server (Tim Mitchell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Machine Learning Week – Packt Publishing (Ricardo Peres)
• Google Has Toughest Interview Process For Developers, But Not the Worst (samzenpus)
• Python will be Moving to GitHub (Sergio De Simone)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 15, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1625 and Double Shot #1626 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #202 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 18, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 11th – January 17th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #2011 (Chris Alcock)
• GameDev News – Week Ending January 15, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #75 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 14th, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 15th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #85 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #2-#3, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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