Dew Drop – February 25, 2016 (#2196)

Top Links (aka – Microsoft acquires Xamarin)

• Microsoft to acquire Xamarin and empower more developers to build apps on any device (Scott Guthrie)
• A Xamarin + Microsoft Future (Nat Friedman)
• Top 10 Xamarin Videos (Larry Larsen, Golnaz Alibeigi & Seth Juarez)
• Xamarin: Next Steps (Ted Neward)
• Xamarin Acquisition First Thoughts (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Web Development

• Execute JavaScript transactions and manage JSON data with Azure DocumentDB (Andrew Hoh)
• Strange arrayContains() Behavior In For-Loop In ColdFusion 10 (Ben Nadel)
• Azure Notification Hubs (Kevin Babcock)

 

XAML

• How to hire a WPF developer? (Vinodhkumar M.)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 14267 Released (Clint Rutkas)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Fun async tricks for getting better performance (Oren Eini)
• Understanding C# Delegates (Deborah Kurata)
• NDepend vs. ReSharper (Erik Dietrich)
• Implementing Missing Features in Entity Framework Core – Part 2 (Ricardo Peres)
• Port/Adapter/Simulator: read-only and write-only dependencies… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Logic Apps Preview Refresh released (Jeff Hollan)
• AutoMapper 4.2.1 released – Static is back (limited) edition (Jimmy Bogard)
• #VisualStudio 2015 Tips – How to organize “usings” across solution? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• State of Open Source in .NET (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Benchmarking .NET code (Scott Hanselman)
• Configure NLog to Log Application-Specific Data (Steve Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Adjusting to the Agile UX Workflow (Ben Melbourne)
• Flow Requires Focus, Not Time (J.B. Rainsberger)
• How To Speed Your Team Up (By Slowing Them Down) (Bob Gower)
• Using custom Quality Profiles with SonarQube and the new Team Build (Matteo Emili)
• What’s next? Next-level Splunk sysadmin tasks, part 3 (SplunkTrust)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Pull Request integration in IntelliJ and Android Studio (Madhuri Gummalla)
• Android Support Library 23.2 (Ian Lake)
• Introducing the Visual Studio Connected Service for Azure IoT Hub (James Osborne)
• Getting Started with Xamarin & MVVM Light – Android Step By Step (Richard Woollcott)
• Popular Open Source Projects for Swift Developments (Davis Allie)
• #Garmin – Working with resources and cultures in a #ConnectIQ app (Bruno Capuano)
• File – New – MonoGame (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing the Multilingual App Toolkit v4.0 (Microsoft Translator)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AFH 027: Mob Programming with Woody Zuill [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Template 10 for Windows 10 Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Jerry Nixon)
• A Different Kind of Toy Story | Codemash 2016 (Brian Sherwin)
• The Ops Team #014 – “did we name this one?” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit, Simon May & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• Azure Podcast Episode 116 – Machine Learning & Data Science (Sujit D’Mello)
• Machine Learning for Muggles | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby & Martin Kearn)
• What The Tech 297: FBI vs Apple; A Game of Unbreakable Encryption (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Italian Belly Laugh (Chris Hardwick)

 

Community / Events

• Sign up now for March 10 live event introducing SQL Server 2016 (Jennifer Warnick)
• Philly Nerd Nite No 58: Stem Cell Science, OpenStreetsPHL, and Dr. Mario, Plus Music by Victoria Watts! (Nerd Nite Team)

 

Database

• Disabling SQL Server Optimizer Rules with QUERYRULEOFF (Daniel Farina)
• Converting MS Access Reports to SQL Server Reporting Services Reports (Siddharth Mehta)
• MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.26 has been released (Andy Bang)
• Realm Launches New Database for React Native (James Chesters)

 

SharePoint

• ngOfficeUiFabric v0.5.0 Released – Two New Directives (Andrew Connell)
• Get started with Office 365/SharePoint Online dev – part 2: Developing SharePoint Add-ins (apps) (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• A study in Powershell Scripting – A beginners Guide Part I (Wei-Yen Tan)
• Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 RTM packages has been republished (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Featured Article – How to Publish Your Program (Ed Price)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14271 + Mobile Build 14267.1004 (Gabe Aul)
• Microsoft reportedly plans to release Windows 10 Mobile ROMs for OnePlus 2, 3 and Xioami Mi 5 (Rich Edmonds)
• Just how old are the most popular Windows Phone models? (Matt Lacey)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 24, 2016 #1049 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1648 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2039 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-02-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-02-25 (Dan Rigby)
• Microsoft acquires Xamarin, plus Node.js backend GA, Cordova client beta, file upload, and more Mobile Apps goodness… (Glenn Gailey)
• .NET Core, Angular, Microservices, Reactive Extensions and TypeScript on Wed Feb 24 2016 (Jeremy Likness)

 

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