Dew Drop – February 8, 2016 (#2183)

Top Links

• Diversity and the Tech Worker Life Cycle (Elise Wei)
• Syntax highlighting on WordPress with Prism and Markdown (Oren Novotny)
• DZone Refcardz – Scrum (Michael James)
• Android Studio 2.0 – Beta (Jamal Eason)

 

Web Development

• Building A Better Mental Model For Meta-Data In Angular 2 Beta 3 and Defining Optional Dependencies / Arguments Using ES5 In Angular 2 Beta 3 and Experimenting With Input Cursor Positions In Angular 2 Beta 3 and Rendering Large Datasets With Angular 2 Beta 3 And ReactJS 0.14.7 and Extending React.Component Using ES5 With ReactJS 0.14 (Ben Nadel)
• Using EF6 with ASP.NET MVC Core 1.0 (aka MVC 6) (Tony Sneed)
• Introducing the Angular 2 Explorer for Wijmo 5 (Alex Ivanenko)
• Open an ASP.NET MVC Dialog Box with Backbone (Peter Vogel)
• Fluent Validation in JavaScript (Ricardo Peres)
• FormatFilter and MediaTypeMappings in ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC (Filip W.)
• Thinking functionally in JavaScript (part two) and Web development is not as much fun as it’s cracked up to be (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Dependency Injection (DI) in ASP.NET MVC 6 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Angular 1.5.0 – ennoblement-facilitation has been released! (Pete Bacon Darwin)
• Angular 2: Attribute @Directive() and Creating An Infinite Scroll Directive (Oren Farhi)
• A Quick ASP.NET Core App on Any OS (Shayne Boyer)
• Start With AngularJS: Part Nine (Shiva Shukla)
• CRUD with oData V4 and ASP.NET Web API (Siddharth R. Barman)
• Azure Logic Apps : Orchestrating business processes and systems integration (Carey Payette)
• Free eBook: Fundamentals of Azure and BizSpark: Free Azure usage for Startups (Chris Pietschmann)
• Validating Data With JSON-Schema, Part 2 (Evgeny Poberezkin)
• How to Setup Application Insights in an Azure WebJob (Jon Gallant)
• How to Verify Phone numbers in Python with the Twilio Lookup API (Sam Agnew)
• Rapid Web Application Development With Meteor (Tom Whitbread)
• How (Not) to Send Emails From Your Web Site – The Problem (Part 1) and How (Not) to Send Emails From Your Web Site – Service Bus Queues (Part 2) and How (Not) to Send Emails From Your Web Site – Topics and Subscriptions (Part 3) (Jon Hilton)

 

XAML

• Enabling Live XAML Debugging in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• #VS2015 – Send tweets in an app #UWP #Windows10 using #TweetMoaSharp (Bruno Capuano)
• Conditional Back Button Visibility with BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)
• An AdaptiveTrigger that works with StateTrigger inside WindowsStateTriggers’ CompositeStateTrigger (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 v5.0.0 and Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 v4.2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Dynamic code generation in C# (Oren Eini)
• Using multipurpose Command Window to execute things faster in Visual Studio and 9 Hidden Features of Visual Studio that you should know (Abhijit Jana)
• Liskov Substitution Principle in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Search now available on Visual Studio Marketplace (Harysh Menon)
• How to get the Process Description of an external process using C#? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• StyleCop – Download: 4.7.50 (Alpha) (CodePlex)
• Update all ArgumentNullExceptions to nameof syntax (Daniel Fisher)
• The Error Model (Joe Duffy)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: Attaching New Entities With Existing Related Ones (Ricardo Peres)
• Microsoft.Composition (Portable MEF): Attribute Model and Microsoft.Composition (Portable MEF): Convention (Bnaya Eshet)
• If I issue a second overlapped I/O operation without waiting for the first one to complete, are they still guaranteed to complete in order? (Raymond Chen)
• Questions About The New Dotnet CLI (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working with feature-toggled systems (Martin Fowler)
• Article: Large Scaled-Scrum Development Does Work! (Almudena Rodriguez Pardo & Norma Acevedo Lopez)
• What Does Agile Mean to You? (Johanna Rothman)
• Having a long, successful, and technical career (one person’s opinion) (Bill Wagner)
• Dependency Injection 101 (James Bender)
• Demonstrating Risk, Stability, and Testing (Jim Holmes)
• Striving for excellence as a software developer (Josh Smith)
• A new experience with Work Items deletion in VSTS (Matteo Emili)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Frontend Architecture for Design Systems – $12.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Data Mocking – A way to test the untestable (Rosie Hamilton)
• What do you think of the new crisp and practical guidance? (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Android – ActionBar and Xamarin Android – Platform Version Support and Xamarin – No Intellisense in Axml files and Xamarin Android – Use Toolbar in place of ActionBar (David Yardy)
• Beer IoT: Building Universal Windows Application to monitor cooling process (Gunnar Peipman)
• Band 2 Design Template and Wind Alert App (Greg Duncan)
• What Mobile and IoT Mean for Your Career: An Interview with Jason Arbon (Josiah Renaudin)
• Mobile Cross-platform SDK V-Play Adds Material Design, Map-based Apps and More (Sergio De Simone)
• Internet of Things via Microcontrollers: Introduction (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• IoT Greenhouse – Machine Learning develops a disease model, part 2 and IoT Greenhouse – Machine Learning develops a disease model, part 3 and IoT Greenhouse – Searching history and supporting documentation with Azure Search (Tillman Dickson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #40 (Ron Gilbert)
• AFH 025: What Did We Learn in 2015? [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Xamarin Podcast – Simplify Your Code with C# 6 (Pierce Boggan & Mike James)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Josh Brolin (Chris Hardwick)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Technical Debt As Cause For Failure | Dmytro Orlyk (Vasco Duarte)
• 50 ngAir – TypeScript Deep Dive with Alex Eagle and Blake Embrey (Kent C. Dodds)
• Rocket 56: The Home of my Soul (Brianna Wu, Simone De Rochefort & Christina Warren)
• MS Dev Show – Kurve.JS and Graph API with Mat Velloso (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Empower Women In All Areas Of Life with Yasmine Mustafa – STEAMrollrs Special Edition (STEM Everyday #37) (Chris Woods)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 74 – Startup Box (Majora Carter) (CodeNewbie Team)
• TWC9: VSCode Insiders, Igniting Ignite, Future Edge, NFL Hololens and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & shenchauhan)
• Episode 198: Azure Container Service with Ross Gardler | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• TechNet Radio mini-series: Windows 10 System Center Configuration Manager vNext (Kim Spilker)
• Developer Tea – Turbulence and Developer Tea – Part One: Simon St. Laurent (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Geek Dinner Feb 16, 2016 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm Boston Beer Works, Canal Street (Jason Haley)
• Github: The full inside story (Julie Bort & Matt Weinberger)
• Meet Judy Gichoya, Doctor and Developer (Erin Symons)
• Aurelia Workshop in London (Rob Eisenberg)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Type Conversion Chart (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Columnstore, B-Tree and Hybrid Index Performance Comparison for Data Warehouses (Fikrat Azizov)
• MySQL – How to Generate Random Number and Interview Question of the Week #057 – What is GO in SQL SERVER? and SQL SERVER – How to Connect Using NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Account? (Pinal Dave)
• Using Custom File Delimiters in SSIS (Tim Mitchell)

 

PowerShell

• Deploying PowerShell modules with VSTS Build (Aaron Powell)
• Powershell ISE missing features (Michael Freidgeim)
• platyPS: write External Help files in Markdown (Sergei Vorobev)

 

Miscellaneous

• 25 Things You Didn’t Know About Philadelphia (Mental Floss)
• Windows 10 subscriptions aren’t happening. Here’s why (Ed Bott)
• Small Basic – Invalid Variable Names (Ed Price)
• Microsoft Needs a Store That’s as Good as Windows 10 (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 5, 2016 #1036 (Robert Diana)
• GameDev News – Week Ending January 29, 2016 and GameDev News – Week Ending February 5, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Collective #205 (Pedro Botelho)
• Have a Great #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 1st – February 7th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #2026 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #78 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 5th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #88 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #6, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links of the Week 2-7-16 (Chris Love)

 

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