Dew Drop – March 24, 2016 (#2215)

Top Links

• TechBash 2016 – Submit a Session Today! #techbash (Me)
• Is left-pad Indicative of a Fragile JavaScript Ecosystem? (Brian Rinaldi)
• Ratings and reviews in the VS Marketplace (Brian Harry)
• .NET Rocks! – Genetically Modified Foods Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Someone broke the Internet! Or why you may want to mirror your dependencies… (Maarten Balliauw)
• Host Bindings Are Breaking The ngModel Bridge In Angular 2 Beta 11 (Ben Nadel)
• Node.js Available in Beta on Google App Engine, Sort Of (David Iffland)
• List.js (Isaac Haynes)
• Get Started with ASP.NET Core Authorization – Part 2 of 2 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• TypeScript 1.8 to Future-Proof JavaScript Apps (Jeremy Likness)
• Angular 2 Http with ASP.NET Core APIs (Nicolas Bello Camilletti)
• Cloud vs On-Premises: Security, Reliability and Uptime (Chris Pietschmann)
• Node v5.9.1 (Stable) (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
• Building a Website with Node and a Bunch of Other Stuff, Part 3 (Shawn Rakowski)

 

XAML

• .NET Native, SilverlightSerializer, MakeGenericType and MissingMetadataException (Joost van Schaik)
• Getting started with map APIs and controls (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Debugging .NET based Windows Error Reports (WER) (Robert Muehsig)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Giving Up on TDD (Abel Avram)
• Chapter on Agile added to What Drives Quality (Ben Linders)
• Legacy Code for Developers: Managing your Manager (Erik Dietrich)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova 6.1.0 Released! (Steve Gill)
• Debug your Xamarin Apps with the Visual Studio Android Emulator (Gavin Gear)
• #Hololens – You can also create #2D apps !!! (Bruno Capuano)
• MonoGame on the Xbox One? It’s coming soon… (Yes, really) (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding HoloLens Spatial Mapping and HoloGram Ranges (James Ashley)
• Developer’s introduction to Azure IoT (Olivier Bloch)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office Dev Show – Episode 24 – DocuSign SharePoint App | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)
• Visual Studio Tools for Unity | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• AAWP Insight #175: Windows 10 Mobile for ‘all’? (Rafe Blandford)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 50 (Air Mozilla)
• RiYL Episode 160 (Bonus): The Dead Ships (Brian Heater)
• Game Dev Show 06 – Fast 2D and 3D Facial Animation | Game Dev Show (DaveVoyles & Adam Tuliper)
• 015 jsAir – AVA: Futuristic test runner with James Talmage, Mark Wubben, and Vadim Demedes (Kent C. Dodds)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 36: Azure Virtual Servers (Lynn Swayze)

 

Community / Events

• Hardware, Software Expectations Abound at Next Week’s Microsoft Build (Michael Domingo)
• Pebble is laying off 25 percent of its staff (Jacob Kastrenakes)

 

Database

• Amazon RDS for SQL Server – Support for Windows Authentication (Jeff Barr)
• Announcing Azure Storage Python Client Library 0.30 preview (Dinesh Murthy)
• Generating test data without complicated T-SQL (Erik Darling)

 

Miscellaneous

• When Interviews Fail (Ted Neward)
• BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a free copy of our new book, “Learn to Program with Small Basic!” (Ed Price)
• OneNote Class Notebook is the top app in my classroom (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2059 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading March 23, 2016 #1069 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 23rd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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