Dew Drop – February 9, 2016 (#2184)

Top Links

• Project.json all the things (Oren Novotny)
• GitHub Activity Guilt and the Coder’s FitBit (Scott Hanselman)
• OWASP #6 Preventing Sensitive Data Exposure in ASP.NET – Part 2 (Max R. McCarty)
• Meet the M.o.N.K.E.y Stack! (Jen Looper) – Can’t wait for the #PuppyMoNKEyBaby  stack.

 

Web Development

• Differentiating Between Initialization And Update With ngOnChanges() In Angular 2 Beta 3 (Ben Nadel)
• Using Vim as a JavaScript IDE (Latish Sehgal)
• Is Sass Right For Your CSS (Ed Charbeneau)
• Building OWIN MiddleWare for ASP.NET vNext (Matt Millican)
• Introducing Twilio’s Next Generation Helper Libraries (Billy Chia)
• PowerApps: Building Apps without Code (Chris Pietschmann)
• Announcing early preview of Azure PaaS services and DevOps tools for Azure Stack (Azure Stack Team)
• Reflections on ESLint’s success (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Docker in Production – $11.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• I Learned How to be Productive in React in a Week and You Can, Too (Sarah Drasner)
• The New Fetch Standard (K. Scott Allen)
• Rapid Web Application Development With Meteor (Tom Whitbread)
• Data Management Gateway auto-update is available (Clinton Ho)

 

XAML

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Windows 10 (Michelle Miller)
• Text to Speech (and more) with Windows 10 UWP & ‘Project Oxford’ and Windows 10, UWP, AudioGraph–Recording Microphone to WAV File (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 v4.2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Create Simple, Reliable Asynchronous Apps with BlockingCollection (Peter Vogel)
• Getting an Application Insights Instrumentation Key inside Visual Studio itself (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel and Context Sensitive Test Execution with Visual studio 2015 Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
• Contest: Show Us Your Favorite C# 6 Feature (Jayme Singleton)
• The longest introduction to C# (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Specification pattern: C# implementation (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Windows Forms Message Boxes (Richard Carr)
• Help Creating High-DPI Friendly VS Extensions (Greg Duncan)
• Retargeting .NET Code (Jeff Martin)
• What’s inside a PDB File? (Jim Hogg)
• How can I get the canonical name for a known folder? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Final part of Feature Toggles (Martin Fowler)
• Article: Metadata-Driven Design: Creating an User-Friendly Enterprise DSL (Aaron Kendall)
• What to do when safety is low in a retrospective (Ben Linders)
• Estimate Theater (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Why The Heck Can’t We Change Our Product? (Steven Sinofsky)
• The Azure Devops Cycle – Using VSTS and AI to manage, develop, deploy and monitor your application. (Venkata Koppaka)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• What Do Android App Developers Gain with Android Marshmallow? (Juned Ghanchi)
• Google Fit for Android: Reading Sensor Data (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• A guide to modal windows and mobile design (DevToolsGuy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Container Patterns with Ben Hall (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 103 “Panic Room” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Defrag Tools #153 – Media eXperience Analyzer part 5: Audio Glitch Analysis II | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Configuration Management | DevOps Fundamentals (Greg Oliver & Thiago Almeida)
• Talk Python to Me #45 The Python Testing Column, Now a Thing (Michael Kennedy)

 

Community / Events

• Martin Thomson Appointed to the Internet Architecture Board (David Bryant)
• Top Picks For Mardi Gras Celebrations In Philadelphia (Elisa Ludwig)
• Like me, on Facebook (Eric Lippert)

 

Database

• SQL Server Availability Group Monitoring with SQL Monitor (Jeremy Kadlec)
• SQL Developer 4.1 now supports Oracle NoSQL (Michael Schulman-Oracle)
• SQL Server Auditing and Recovery With ApexSQL Log 2016 (Pinal Dave)
• How to Embed a Power BI Report Into Any Website (Jon Gallant)
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse: January 2016 Updates (Nicolle Anger)

 

PowerShell

• Deploying PowerShell modules with VSTS Build (Aaron Powell)
• Up Next: David Wilson from Microsoft talks about PowerShell ISE & VS Code (Hal Rottenberg)
• ebook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Step by Step, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Essential Audio-Visual Questions Every Event Planner Must Ask (Kalahari Meetings)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 8, 2016 #1037 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #220 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1641 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 1st – February 7th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/25-2/7) (Dara Monasch)
• The Morning Brew #2027 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 8th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links from my weekly newsletter (57 & 58) (David Voyles)

 

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