Dew Drop – March 9, 2016 (#2204)

Top Links

• Announcing NuGet 3.4 RC (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Microsoft Open-sources the Team Explorer Everywhere Eclipse Plugin for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (Paul T. Barham)
• Celebrating International Women’s Day (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)
• ReSharper Ultimate 10.1 EAP 5 (Dmitry Matveev)

 

Web Development

• Ward Bell: Do Not Expect EventEmitter To Be Observable In Angular 2 (Ben Nadel)
• New SDK for Service Fabric (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the Azure WebJobs SDK to create custom Slack integrations (Christopher Anderson)
• Azure Logic Apps Preview Refresh Released (Kent Weare)
• Improving Development with TypeScript (Long Le)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A cross-platform interactive C# script editor (Christian Jacobsen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Continuous Improvement Matters in Agile (Ben Linders)
• How Agile Changes Testing, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• Publish a GitHub Release from Visual Studio Team Services (Jakob Ehn)
• Revamping GitHub’s Subversion Bridge (Jonathan Hoyt)
• Starting With Data (Dave Laribee)
• VS Team Services Update – March 3 (Brian Harry)
• An Example of the Open/Closed Principle in Action (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• App Theming with Xamarin.Forms Control Templates (David Britch)
• As Swift opens up, so does demand for Apple’s new language (Michael Morisy)
• What’s new in Swift Package Catalog v0.1.1 (Manuel Silveyra)
• Building Hosted Web Apps with Windows App Studio (Windows Apps Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Azure Continuous Delivery with Jeffrey Palermo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 34: In-Memory Tables (Carlos Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 108 | Avdi Grimm – Your Passion Is Yours and Yours Alone (Dave Rael)
• Evelina Gabasova on Machine Learning | NDC London 2016 (Evelina Gabasova)
• RunAs Radio – Cloud Security with Orin Thomas (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Web.Dev: Introducing the Team | Web.Dev (Jeremy Foster & Adam Tuliper)
• Celebrating Women In Startups | GALs (Joanna Braunold)
• The Married Gamers Episode 383: Sixteen in 2016 (Kelly Brown)
• Talk Python to Me #49 – Microsoft’s JIT-based Python Project: Pyjion (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 117 | Interview with Borja Burgos of Docker Cloud (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Developer Tea – Part Two: Interview with Rachel Smith (Jonathan Cutrell)
• DevIntersection Spring 2016 CountDown Show #5 with Scott Hanselman | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Scott Hanselman)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft hones MVP program to focus on developers, IT pros and Bill Gates on FBI/Apple: We need to modernize the laws ASAP (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation (Brian Harry)
• Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation and brings more tools to the community (Shanku Niyogi)

 

Database

• SQL Server on Linux: A Savvy Move By Microsoft (Paul Ballard)
• SQL SERVER – ApexSQL Generate – SQL Server Test Data Generation (Pinal Dave)
• Big Data For Chimps (Kay Ewbank)
• Microsoft Data Platform Specialist Certifications (Chris Pietschmann)

 

PowerShell

• Automate Out of Date SQL Server Statistics with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• Package Management Preview – March 2016 for PowerShell 4 & 3 is now available (Manikyam Bavandla)

 

Miscellaneous

• Finding the Perfect Mouse (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2048 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1654 and Double Shot #1655 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 8, 2016 #1058 (Robert Diana)
• Daily Links 8 Mar 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• The week in .NET – 3/8/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Angular NG2, NodeJS on Raspberry Pi, Skype Collaboration and JavaScript on Wed Mar 9 2016 (Jeremy Likness)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 8th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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