Dew Drop – February 18, 2016 (#2191)

Top Links

• The Evolution of Interactive C# (Miguel de Icaza)
• Atom 1.5 Released (I Programmer)
• New in PostSharp 4.3 Preview: Command-Line Interface and New in PostSharp 4.3 Preview: Improved Debugging Experience (Gael Fraiteur)
• Enhancing the User Experience of iOS Chat Apps using Swift (Brent Schooley)

 

Web Development

• Directive Conflict When Classes Export The Same Name In Angular 2 Beta 6 (Ben Nadel)
• Learn CSS Layout with me – online or in person. (Rachel Andrew)
• JavaScript: How to Define and Process a Promise Object (Ajitesh Kumar)
• React, Redux and Immutable.js: Ingredients for Efficient Web Applications (Ivan Rogic)
• Essential Tools for Building SPAs with AngularJS (Nora Georgieva)
• Get started with Polymer 1.0 and WebStorm 11 and Enable Authentication in ElasticSearch (Raffaele Garofalo)
• Production npm defaults (Remy Sharp)
• Announcing more open options and choice on Microsoft Azure (Corey Sanders)
• Ruby/Rails Code Smell Basics 01 (Ed Wassermann)
• Build a Custom Affiliate Link With the Amazon Product Merchandising API (Ian Spangler)
• Azure Bites: Background tasks for your web site using Azure WebJobs (Jon Hilton)
• Building a Great Hosted Web App (Jeff Burtoft)

 

XAML

• Triggering State Changes in BuildIt.States (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Create Sophisticated Asynchronous Applications with BlockingCollection (Peter Vogel)
• You can track Out of Scope Objects by assigning an Object ID during debugging in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• FeatureToggle v3.3 Released (Jason Roberts)
• #VisualStudio 2015 Tips – How to work with the Window Layout? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Don’t just grab the foreground window and host UI on it, redux (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Show area path dependencies extension (Anisha Pindoria)
• GitHub – Posters are here! (Brandi Firestine)
• Issue and Pull Request templates (Ben Bleikamp)
• Faster, Smarter DevOps (Derek Weeks)
• Coding Standards Survey (2016) (David McCarter)
• Stubbing, Mocking and Service Virtualization Differences for Test and Development Teams (Wojciech Bulaty)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google Fit for Android: Recording API (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Do more with your Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi Projects for Dummies (Rob Zwetsloot)
• Building your next Windows/Xbox game with Lumberyard (Greg Duncan)
• Detecting low Power Mode in Swift (iOS-Blog Team)
• Triggering SMS And Voice Notifications For IoT Devices (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Modern Agriculture Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 311 – PowerScripting Podcast – David Wilson From The PowerShell Team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 45 (Air Mozilla)
• Game Dev Show 02 – What does a Universal Application Platform mean for Game Devs? (Amanda Lange)
• RiYL Episode 153: Gene Luen Yang (Brian Heater)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 31: What Has Virtualization Done To My Database? (Carlos L. Chacon)
• The Ops Team #013 – “Missing Matt” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit, Simon May & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• 010 jsAir – ESLint with Feross Aboukhadijeh, Gyandeep Singh, Ilya Volodin, and Jamund Ferguson (Kent C. Dodds)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Office 365 Groups: Quick tour of new user and admin experiences (Jeremy Chapman & Christophe Fiessinger)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 23 – Getting Started with a Ruby App | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev & Richard diZerega)
• Developer Tea – Part Two: Interview with David Hemphill (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 115 – Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• SIGNAL: An Open Letter to Your Boss (Marcos Placona)

 

Database

• The SQL Server Numbers Table, Explained – Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
• Getting Started With Oracle: Working With Strings (Erik Darling)
• SQL SERVER – Attaching and Restoring Database in a SQL Server Clustering Configuration Generates An Error – Notes from the Field #115 (Pinal Dave)
• Connect to on premise data sources with Power BI Personal Gateway (Scott Murray)

 

SharePoint

• Get started Office 365/SharePoint Online dev with an Azure VM – part 1: Create trial environments and a VM (Chris O’Brien)
• Auditing, reporting and storage improvements for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business (Mark Kashman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Upload a VHD to Azure Storage Using AzCopy (Alexandre Brisebois)
• New book: Microsoft OneNote Step by Step and Microsoft Press Round-Up for February 17, 2016 (Kim Spilker)
• Outlook.com—out of preview and better than ever (Javier Soltero)
• Everything you need to know about the Apple versus FBI case (Troy Hunt)
• 22 Handy Slack Hacks Everyone Should Know (Carly Stec)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 17, 2016 #1044 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1645 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew – #2034 (Chris Alcock)
• The week in .NET – 2/17/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 17th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Authentication in NodeJS, Memory Profiling in Visual Studio, TypeScript environment in Visual Studio Code on Wed Feb 17 2016 (Jeremy Likness)

 

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