Dew Drop – March 2, 2016 (#2200)

Top Links

• Cross-Platform Dev Approach That Isn’t Xamarin (Michael Domingo)
• The Importance of the LED Moment – I DID THAT (Scott Hanselman)
• World’s Largest Arduino Maker Challenge (Steve Guggenheimer)
• .NET Rocks! – Virtual Realty, XAML and More with Laurent Bugnion (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• EventEmitter Is An RxJS Observable Stream In Angular 2 Beta 6 (Ben Nadel)
• Angular’s Models Conform To The M In MVC just fine (Paul Hammant)
• What’s New in jQuery 3 (Aurelio De Rosa)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 1, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• How to Work With WordPress Post Metadata (Tom McFarlin)
• Announcing Docker Cloud (Borja Burgos)
• Caching for a Global Netflix (Faisal Zakaria Siddiqi)
• TypeScript 1.8 Brings Module Augmentation Support (James Chesters)
• Setting up Docker on Windows (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown (Jurgen Leschner)
• Secure Communications Between Azure Web Apps and Virtual Machines (Thomas Ardal)

 

XAML

• Windows Store analytics API now available (Bernardo Zamora)
• #AZURE – #AzureIoT Hub and Windows Universal Apps #SourceCode (Bruno Capuano)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Back to Basic : How to count occurrences of a specific word in a sentence using C# ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Why a TFS pre-release in production? (Matteo Emili)
• Introducing Postal.NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Sale: save 35% all Developer Reference series titles (Kim Spilker)
• Delay an action: Debounce and throttle (Rudy Huyn)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Test Automation is Fragile…” NOT! (Bill Roske)
• Bliki: InfrastructureAsCode (Martin Fowler)
• From tests to debugging: node workflow (Remy Sharp)
• VeST Redux – Testing strategy for aggregates in DDD (Sebastien Lambla)
• Monitoring and troubleshooting critical applications? There’s a platform for that! (Bill Emmett)
• How to avoid common UX traps (James George)
• Visualize Your Data in Microsoft Visio 2016 (Kim Spilker)
• Guide: Software Release Management For Small Teams (Lucas Mancini)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• What is Xamarin ? (Julien Fiaffé)
• Add Background Data Refresh to Your iOS Apps (Mike James)
• Xamarin Forms Maps Windows Renderers (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Build Apps That Talk with the Microsoft Band (Nick Randolph)
• Building a media-centric Hosted Web App (Kiril Seksenov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePointIntersection Spring 2016 CountDown Show with Bill Baer | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• AAWP Insight #172: MWC 2016 and Lumia 650 (Rafe Blandford)
• On .NET 2/26/2016 – Scott Hanselman (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Startup Success Podcast 3.18 – Chad Lawie (Bob Walsh)
• Developer on Fire Episode 105 | Gerald Weinberg – Quality (Dave Rael)
• RunAs Radio – Managing Linux Virtual Machines with Tim Warner (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• CodeChat 056 – Marsman and Me | CodeChat (Jennifer Marsman & Jeremy Foster)
• Talk Python to Me #48 – Building Flask-based Web Apps (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 116 | Latest Cloud News plus Making the Case – Docker For Developers (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)

 

Community / Events

• Visual Studio Code – 14 NEW COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENTS: Render Ligatures, Alt+Z to Toggle Word Wrapping, Build Binary on Linux ARM, & More! (Ed Price)
• All you need to know about the .NET Foundation (DevToolsGuy)
• What if I suck? Confessions of a WTF contributor by Iris Classon (Iris Classon)

 

Database

• Import Active Directory Data to a SQL Server Table (Douglas Correa)
• Identify Unused SQL Server Tables (Ahmad Yaseen)
• Joining SQL Server tables using large character type columns (Sergey Gigoyan)
• How to Use Parameters Like a Pro and Boost Performance (Guy Glantser)
• Moving Databases with ALTER DATABASE (Erik Darling)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 1, 2016 #1053 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1650 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2043 (Chris Alcock)
• The week in .NET – 3/1/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-02 (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 Mar 1st, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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