Dew Drop – February 1, 2016 (#2178)

Top Links

• Say Hello to the Prism Template Pack (Brian Lagunas)
• Microsoft VS Dev Essentials + Xamarin University (Bryan Costanich)
• TWC9: Seth and Shen Stack Azure, Encrypt Web Apps, Challenge VSCode and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Seth Juarez & shenchauhan)
• Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview is now available for download (Azure Stack Team)

 

Web Development

• The Significance of Free SSL on Azure Web Sites (Chris Love)
• Directive Output Bindings Use “$event” For Dependency-Injection In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 and EXCEPTION: TypeError: Cannot Read property ‘subscribe’ Of Undefined In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 and Attribute Directive Selectors And Outputs Cannot Have The Same Name In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
• Viewer.js – JavaScript image viewer (Fengyuan Chen)
• Modularizing monolithic javascript projects (Étienne Tétreault-Pinard & Alex C. Johnson)
• Building ES6 Javascript for the Browser with Gulp, Babel, and More (Aaron Krauss)
• Styling in React (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Extending Sass with PostCSS (Chris Coyier)
• What to Expect from JavaScript in 2016 – Language Enhancements (Cody Lindley)
• Sending ASP.NET WebHooks from Azure WebJobs (Link) (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• HSTS Supercookies with ASP.NET (Paul Mooney)
• Debugging Typescript in Visual Studio Code and Chrome (Jaime Tarquino)
• Building a live chat app in 40 minutes with React and Meteor (Paul Dowman)
• The final feature set of ECMAScript 2016 (ES7) and ES2016 feature: Array.prototype.includes and exponentiation-operator and ES proposal: async functions (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Free eBook: Azure Automation and What is Azure Stack? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Deploy a website to Azure using GitHub (David Voyles)
• How to Convert an Azure On-Demand WebJob to a Scheduled WebJob (Jon Gallant)
• Update on 1/28 service outage (Sam Lambert)

 

XAML

• Working with FontIcons in UWP (Robert Muehsig)
• #UWP Tips: Building a Toast Notification with buttons (Part 2) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using a style replacing behavior for making UWP adaptive layouts (Joost van Schaik)
• Announcing Humanizer 2.0 (Oren Novotny)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# 6 Features: String Interpolation and C# 6 Features: CLR Version (Joe Reynolds)
• Changing the Search Scope to find and replaces files in Visual Studio ? and Did you know–There are multiple find results windows in Visual Studio ? and “Appending Search Results”–use same find result window for multiple Search in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Rename Visual Studio project including files, folders and namespaces (Alex Zeitler)
• Insert GUIDs directly into Visual Studio Code (Heath Stewart)
• Process Customization in Visual Studio Team Services (Subodh Sohoni)
• Logging with Serilog.Exceptions (Muhammad Rehan)
• Visual Studio Solution Folders (Richard Carr)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How NOT to run scrum meetings for software developers (DevToolsGuy)
• BDD Tool SpecFlow V2 with Parallel Execution (Jan Stenberg)
• Leaving Your Work at Work (When You Work From Home) (James Chambers)
• The Importance of Empathy (Roland Weigelt)
• ALM and Project Manager Resources Updated (Kevin Logan)
• Standards development happening on GitHub (Anne van Kesteren)
• Handling Impediments: Increasing Your Effectivity (Ben Linders)
• What Mr. Robot Says About Bugs (David Bernstein)
• Auto Healing (Gabriel Schenker)
• What Software Developers Can Learn From Arnold Schwarzenegger (Saeed Gatson)
• What happened when the Test Case Explorer extension hit turbulence (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin–Android–DrawerLayout and Xamarin ListViews (David Yardy)
• How to price Xamarin.Forms components (Michael Ridland)
• Adding Back Button Support to Xamarin.Forms with BuildIt.Forms (Nick Randolph)
• Should App Developers Go for Xamarin? (Openxcell)
• What is Azure IoT Hub? (Chris Pietschmann)
• #ProjectOxford – New features for #FaceAPI: beard, moustache, smile detection and more !!! (Bruno Capuano)
• watchOS 2 Tutorial: Downloading Files (iOS-Blog Admin Team)
• Microsoft may be close to releasing the first HoloLens development kits (Joseph Keller)
• Chris Lattner on Swift 3 and Cocoa “Renamification” (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #39 (Ron Gilbert)
• What The Tech 293: Dueling Samsung, iPhone 7, and Surface Phone Rumors (Paul Thurrott)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Learning Comes From Failures | Pedro Gustavo Torres (Vasco Duarte)
• The Changelog 192: Crystal with Ary Borenszweig and Juan Wajnerman and The Changelog 193: Funding Open Source with Nadia Eghbal (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 73 – Coding Chef (Adrienne Lowe) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 091 | Basel Farag – Persistent Fire and Developer on Fire Episode 092 | Eileen Uchitelle – Facing Fear (Dave Rael)
• Episode 197: Azure .NET SDK Updates with Brady Gaster | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Why Can’t I Draw on the Desktop Anymore? (keantonc & Rosshe)
• The immortal UltraPixel | Pocketnow Weekly 185 (Michael Fisher)
• Segmenting and Sending targeted notifications through Azure Mobile Engagement (Scott Hanselman)
• Developer Tea – Part 1: Una Kravets (@Una) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• StarTalk Radio – The Value of Science, with Brian Cox (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Don’t Miss Big Medium’s Josh Clark at Xamarin Evolve 2016 (Joseph Hill)
• Save the Dates: GitHub Events in 2016 (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• Tweetium developer Brandon Paddock returns to Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
• .NET Project Inspirations (Vicky)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 R Services: Executing R code in SQL Server (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server: Return Newly Inserted Row (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ and Interview Question of the Week #056 – How to fix Installation Failure – Rule “Setup account privileges” Failed in SQL Server and SQL SERVER – 2016 IF EXISTS Functions on SQL Azure Databases and More (Pinal Dave)
• Writing Blazing Fast MySQL Queries (Tom Whitbread)
• If you’re a db, you need to manage CPU / Memory / IO (Oren Eini)
• Creating a better future with big data (Rob Farris)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Pester Testing for Parameter Validation (Rob Sewell)
• Using PowerShell to make Azure Automation Graphical Runbooks – Part 1 (Tim Pringle)

 

Miscellaneous

• Obama Unveils Computer Science for All (Sue Gee)
• Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (Ian Stirk)
• The Joy of Sketching: An Homage to Bob Ross (Charles Purdy)
• Small Basic Featured Article: Automatic Type Conversion (Ed Price)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #204 (Pedro Botelho)
• Geek Reading January 29, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1636 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Go into the Weekend with Your MVP #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Coding4Fun January 2016 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: January 25rd – January 31st, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #2021 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 1, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #77 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Links of the Week 1-31-16 (Chris Love)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 29th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #87 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #5, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
• 31 Days …. 31 Visual Studio Tips & Tricks from Daily .NET Tips–January 2016 Links (Abhijit Jana)

 

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