Dew Drop – March 23, 2016 (#2214)

Top Links

• Conditional Workflows in Postman (Ankit Sobti)
• Cross-Platform Messaging for iOS, Android, and Windows (Pierce Boggan)
• .NET Rocks! – Angular 2 with John Papa (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How to set up a Raspberry Pi 3 from scratch (with video)! (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Public Properties, Component Inputs, And The Change-Detection Contract In Angular 2 (Ben Nadel)
• Delayed Reaction [My experience converting a jQuery/Knockout.js application to use the React library] (David Anson)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 22, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Looking at JavaScript with “new” eyes: Digging into the specs to learn more about the new operator (Leo Balter)
• Tutorial: Secure, Anonymous Phone Calls and SMS in Ruby, C#, Node, Java, PHP, or Python (Siraj Raval)
• Parameterized Snippets in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• Cloud vs On-Premises: Security, Reliability and Uptime (Chris Pietschmann)
• Twitter to Launch Twitter Kit 2.0 (Eric Carter)
• Accessible, Simple, Responsive Tables (Davide Rizzo)
• (Not so) Stupid Question 288: What is RaaS? (Iris Classon)
• Automated R Deployments in Azure (Jess Panni)
• Full text search of audio and video files (Liam Cavanagh)
• A sample application for pulling data from SQL into an Azure Event Hub (Spyros Sakellariadis)
• Keeping your Hosted Web App secure (Jeff Burtoft & Rami Sarieddine)

 

XAML

• Cryptic Build Failure in Release Mode for Universal Windows Platform Application (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ICYMI, My General Advice re DDD, EF & Domain Models with or without Data Models (Julie Lerman)
• Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio (John Lam)
• Beware of SortedSet<T> and a custom Comparer (Alois Kraus)
• Based on your project, we have identified extensions you may find helpful (Kevin Babcock)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using parallel environments and release promotion in test automation (Abhishek Agarwal)
• Polish and Russian Book Bundles for Retrospectives and Should you measure defects? (Ben Linders)
• How Our Telerik Teams Test Software: Chapter One (Daniel Djambov)
• CI with TeamCity and Docker (Gabriel Schenker)
• Add structure to your diagrams in Microsoft Visio 2016 (Kim Spilker)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How Android Debugging Works (Vipul Patel)
• #Hololens – #Developers materials available now ! (Bruno Capuano)
• Biometric Authentication with Microsoft Passport (Sam Basu)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: SQL on Linux, Microsoft Joins Eclipse Foundation, UWP Porting Guides for Android/iOS, Dogs and Cats living together and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Robert Green & Scott Klein)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 119 | Google Cloud Big Wins, AWS Big Losses, SharePoint 2016 RTM and New Azure Options for DoD and in Germany (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Gone Mobile 31: FreshMvvm with Michael Ridland (Gone Mobile Team)
• Web.Dev 2: Getting Started with Angular 2.0 | Web.Dev (Jeremy Foster)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Reggie Watts (Chris Hardwick)
• Developer on Fire Episode 114 | Robert Martin – Master Craftsman (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 47 – John A. De Goes (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Cloud for ISPs with Barnaby Jeans (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Microsoft Mechanics – What’s New: Office 365 Video (Mark Kashman)
• Developer Tea – Part Two: Interview with Sam Lambert (@isamlambert) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Causes of the diversity imbalance (Stephen Roughley)
• Beating the Odds (Bill Gates)
• Watch Imagine Cup 2016: United States finalists on March 31 at //Build (David Voyles)
• 1 Million UK Students Will Get Free Programming-Friendly Computers (Shaunacy Ferro)

 

Database

• Next Generation Databases: NoSQL, NewSQL, and Big Data (Ian Stirk)
• How to deploy and use MySQL from the Azure Marketplace (Marc Gagné)
• Installing Rust on Windows (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Knowing Yourself With Data – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Stored Procedure Call Failing, but nothing in Profiler? (Theo Moore)
• Power BI announces new features at Data Insights Summit and celebrates 5 million subscribers (Thomas Kohnstamm)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone isn’t dead, Part V: How Alcatel fits into the Windows ecosystem (Jason Ward)
• XKCD’s Randall Munroe is providing illustrations for science textbooks (James Vincent)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2058 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1662 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 22, 2016 #1068 (Robert Diana)
• The week in .NET – 3/22/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/7-3/20) (Dara Monasch)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 22nd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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