Dew Drop – February 3, 2016 (#2180)

Top Links

• Best Markdown Editors for OS X (Bill Morefield)
• Three Months of Alive (Amadeus Wieczorek & Josh Varty)
• Turn Events into Commands with Behaviors (David Britch)
• New features in C# 7, part 2 (Kenneth Truyers)
• Register now for Microsoft Ignite (Windows Community)

 

Web Development

• Two-Way Data Binding Is Just A “Box Of Bananas” In Angular 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
• Serving Up node_modules In ASP.NET (K. Scott Allen)
• Chrome 49 Beta: CSS custom properties, background sync with service workers, and new ES2015 features (Josh Karlin)
• Angular 2.0 with TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)
• Setting up Angular2 Beta in Visual studio 2013 (Patel Ketan R)
• What To Expect From JavaScript In 2016 – Beyond the Browser (TJ VanToll)
• Free eBook: Azure Web Apps for Developers (Chris Pietschmann)
• Using Bootstrap to power your apps (DevToolsGuy)
• Unifying Your Web Dev Skills for Office Add-ins (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
• Is your code ready for the leap year? (Matt Johnson)
• Microsoft Translator API and Hub Feedback and Support has Moved (Microsoft Translator)
• Using the Azure Resource Manager: Part 2 Networking Templates – 29 Days of Azure (Rachel Hagerman)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 Devices and ‘The Developer Portal’ (Mike Taulty)
• Arriving or Leaving a ViewModel with BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Customize the content of Find Result Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• C# 6 Features: Immutable Auto-Properties (Joe Reynolds)
• Automated Testing with Visual Studio (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
• SpecFlow 2.0, NUnit3, Visual Studio and TeamCity (Matthew Adams)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Configuration of Feature Toggles (Martin Fowler)
• Measuring baseline costs (Oren Eini)
• Test-Driven Development With Laravel & Doctrine (Alireza Rahmani Khalili)
• How Testability Can Help Teams to Go Faster (Ben Linders)
• Table Based Specs and Custom Assertions with Storyteller 3 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Value of Burndown and Burnup Charts (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Beer IoT: Estimating beer cooling time (Gunnar Peipman)
• Texturing high-fidelity characters: Working with Quixel Suite for Unity 5 (Silvia Rasheva)
• #KinectSdk – Hand and Finger, tracking and detection (Bruno Capuano)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – NuML with Seth Juarez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• RunAs Radio – Cloud PBX with Tom Arbuthnot (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Advanced development features in Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition (Larry Larsen & Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Talk Python to Me #44 Project Jupyter and IPython (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 113 | Azure on-prem with Azure Stack, Google IAM, AWS Certificates and MS domination with office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Special Guest Jeffrey Snover talks about Azure Stack | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Developer Tea – Part 2: Una Kravets (@Una) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Building custom Office 365 apps to manage Lotus F1 Team race crew logistics. | Microsoft Mechanics (Zachary Cavanell)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 29: Are You Thinking What SQL Server is Thinking? (Carlos L. Chacon)

 

Community / Events

• The top 30 technology writers followed most by other US tech writers (Richard Laven)
• Slack’s Erica Baker On Hiring A Head Of Diversity And The Need For Inclusion In Tech (Megan Rose Dickey)
• Hacktory Grand Re-opening Party this Saturday (Sandro Braidotti)

 

Database

• How to read data from multiple Excel worksheets with SQL Server Integration Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER InMemory OLTP: Understanding Optimistic Multi-Version Concurrency Concepts (Pinal Dave)
• 45 Database Performance Tips for Developers (Redgate Team)
• Developing U-SQL: Local Data Folder (Jess Panni)
• A funny thing happened on my way to set up Mirroring… (Erik Darling)

 

PowerShell

• Connect to all Office 365 Services with PowerShell (Steve Parankewich)
• Azure DSC Extension Data Collection (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft acquires SwiftKey in support of re-inventing productivity ambition (Harry Shum)
• Get ready for Yammer! (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
• A Hitchhikers Guide to Search (Matias Quarantaas)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 2, 2016 #1033 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1637 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The week in .NET – 2/2/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• The Morning Brew #2023 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-02-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-02-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 2nd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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