Dew Drop – March 1, 2016 (#2199)

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro 3.0.0 (Nigel Sampson)
• A love letter to jQuery (Mike Riethmuller)
• Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird (Malte Skarupke)
• Introducing first ever experiences for the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition (Kudo Tsunoda)
• Announcing Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition open for pre-order, shipping March 30 (Tiina Jaatinen)
• Windows 10 IoT Core support for Raspberry Pi 3 (Billy Anders)

 

Web Development

• Unhandled Errors In RxJS Observable Streams Will Throw Errors In Angular 2 Beta 6 (Ben Nadel)
• ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served Per Second (Ben Adams)
• Book Review – jQuery Pocket Primer (Ian Elliot)
• 10 jQuery Panorama Plugins (Learning JQuery)
• 10 Newest Interesting jQuery Plugins (jQuery By Example)
• Now on GitHub: Windows Azure Pack Connector (MS Openness Team)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning JavaScript – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Download Azure Resource Manager Tools for VS Code (Alexandre Brisebois)
• TypeScript 1.8 Brings Module Augmentation Support (James Chesters)
• Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown (Jurgen Leschner)
• Beginner’s Guide to VS Code: Up and Running in Ten Minutes (Rachel Weil)
• How to Create a News Reader With React Native: Setup and News Item Component (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

 

XAML

• Enabling / Disabling design data in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• #AZURE – #AzureIoT Hub Sample using Windows Universal Apps #Windows10 (Bruno Capuano)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Weekly Keyboard Shortcut #1: ReSharper’s Ctrl + T (Nick Chamberlain)
• Page Number Grouping (Richard Carr)
• Developing C++ cross-platform projects with CMake? (Eric Battalio)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Sending availability alert based on response content in Application Insights (Abhijit Jana)
• 7 Retrospective Facilitation Good Practices (Ben Linders)
• When You Need All the Requirements (Johanna Rothman)
• Multiple Undo in Photoshop (Julieanne Kost)
• Methods for Testing the Back End: An Investigation (Matthew Heusser)
• Building Test Environments with Azure DevTest Labs (Noel Rice)
• Upskilling your upskilling skills. Part 2: The Tools (Karoline Klever)
• When criticism should be praise (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Forms preview with Gorilla Player (Corrado Cavalli)
• iOS and Web Browser Video Calls with Python and Swift (Matt Makai)
• Xamarin acquisition thoughts (Nigel Sampson)
• Raspberry Pi 3 offers a 64-bit CPU, built-in Wi-Fi for just $35 (Harish Jonnalagadda)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Containers and Microservices Panel at NDC London (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 190 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Live from Kiev: Building Mobile Cross-Platform Apps in C# with Xamarin (Nick Landry)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 41 (Vic Bonacci)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 58: Jim Wooley (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 106 “We Have Become The Man!” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Blame culture leads to self destruction | Ricardo Fiel (Vasco Duarte)
• Defrag Tools #155 – Boot Performance | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• RiYL Episode 155: Tom Hart (Brian Heater)
• Interview with Crystal Thune | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon & Crystal Thune)
• Partially Derivative Season 2, Episode 3: Chris Looks at Your Search History (Jonathon Morgan, Chris Albon & Vidya Spandana)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Events This March (Jayme Singleton)
• 12+ Things To Do In Philly This Week, February 29-March 6 (Jillian Wilson)
• How two software engineers found fantastic roles at Microsoft through Codess (vsclarkmnc)
• Getting started with the Philly startup / tech scene (David Voyles)

 

Database

• Import Active Directory Data to a SQL Server Table (Douglas Correa)
• SQL SERVER – Instance Definition Working with Oracle and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Writing Always Encrypted Data with Integration Services 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Backup Individual database and delete all it’s respective files by keeping a recent file (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kids and Code: Conditions and loops (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 29, 2016 #1052 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1649 and Double Shot #1650 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Coding4Fun February 2016 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #2042 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-01 (Dan RIgby)
• Visual Studio, Debugging, Xamarin and Application Insights Tips & Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – February 2016 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 29th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links of the Week 2-28-2016 (Chris Love)

 

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