Dew Drop – January 26, 2016 (#2174)

Top Links

• “Let’s Encrypt” Azure Web Apps the Free and Easy Way and Two Strategies for Crossing Origins with Performance in Mind (Nik Molnar)
• EF7 is now EF Core 1.0, Package and namespaces change too (Julie Lerman)
• Angular 1.x to Angular 2 Quick Reference (Deborah Kurata)
• .NET Rocks! – Containers and Microservices in Azure with Michele Bustamante (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Microsoft renames ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core 1.0 and FontAwesome Fonts and Mime Types in IIS and other Web Servers (Rick Strahl)
• Creating A Pseudo “Link Function” For A Component In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
• HTML Standard now more community-driven (Anne van Kesteren)
• Fortifying Security in WordPress, Part 1 (Barış Ünver)
• Project Nami: WordPress for Azure SQL Database/SQL Server (Casey Karst)
• Creating a photo album for ASP.NET MVC 5 Users using Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Customizing the WebStorm layout (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Thinking functionally in JavaScript (part one) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• How to add AngularJS to your ASP.NET 5 applications (Matt Honeycutt)
• Revisiting the Float Label Pattern with CSS (Robin Rendle)
• Create a really, really simple offline page using Service Workers (Dean Hume)
• Free eBook: Enterprise Cloud Strategy (Chris Pietschmann)
• Front-end Application Libraries and Component Architectures (Cody Lindley)
• Setting Up Trello SMS Alerts with Twilio and Zapier (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• React and the economics of dynamic web interfaces (Nicholas C. Zakas)

 

XAML

• Troubleshooting launch issues with xaml based apps using Coded UI Test (Abhitej)
• XAML relative binding trick (Corrado Cavalli)
• Magically format your XAML with XAML Magic (Greg Duncan)
• Color Theme Generator is now available for WPF (Kalin Todorov)
• Using MVVM Light ViewModelBase class with Template 10 (Marco Minerva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Dashboard widget SDK, create branch from work item, test visualizations and so much more – Jan 25 (Karen Ng)
• How to compute the Hash value of a file using #CSharp? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• VeST Redux – Specification-driven development and Don’t Run With Feature Toggles In Your Hands (Sebastien Lambla)
• Technical Debt in your team (Gregor Suttie)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Visio 2016 Step By Step (Kim Spilker)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• #Xamarin – Resource list to create “nice apps” with #XamarinForms (Bruno Capuano)
• Android Layout Background Color and Instrumenting iOS Apps II (Noel Rice)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Indie Dev Podcast – Ep 26 – Howard Dortch, Shawnee State University (David Voyles)
• On .NET 1/21/2016 – F# with Don Syme (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 101 “Wedgie Of A Lifetime” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David Duchovny (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #151 – Media eXperience Analyzer part 3: Audio Glitch Analysis | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Reactor Space in San Francisco | Microsoft Campus Tours (Larry Larsen, Golnaz Alibeigi & Kaitlin McKinnon)
• Talk Python to Me #43 Monitoring high performance Python apps at Opbeat (Michael Kennedy)
• Partially Derivative Episode 38: Mind Control and Parasites (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)
• Away from the Keyboard Episode 30: Adam Saxton Is A Guy In A Cube (Richie Rump)
• Introduction to the new Azure Portal and A Brief Look at the .NET Portability Analyzer (Seth Juarez)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin’s Newest Most Valued Professionals (Joseph Hill)
• Recruiting, Selecting and Motivating Event Volunteers (Kalahari Meetings)
• Top 10 Things To Do In Philly This Week, January 25-31 (Kristina Jenkins)

 

Database

• Automate Alerting for SQL Server Suspect Database Pages (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL SERVER – Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• ngOfficeUiFabric v0.3.0 Released – One New Directive, One Breaking Change & More (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Azure DNS – Using PowerShell V1.0 to Add a Subdomain (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Working with shutdown reason code (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• This is Microsoft’s iPhone keyboard (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 25, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2017 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #218 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1632 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/11-1/24) (Dara Monasch)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 26, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 25th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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