Dew Drop – March 30, 2016 (#2219)

Top Links

• Build starts tomorrow (Steve Guggenheimer) – Today!
• Sponsor Prospectus and Call For Speakers – Now on TechBash.com (Me)
• Unit Testing in Rider with External Tools (Hadi Hariri)
• Build your own Echo: This Alexa-powered speaker runs on a Raspberry Pi (James Risley)

 

Web Development

• Intuitive Testing in ASP.NET MVC (Nick Chamberlain)
• Node.js on Windows with Sublime Text 3 (Adam Anderson)
• VS Code Improves JavaScript Editing Abilities (Jeff Martin)
• Getting Started with the Twilio Video JavaScript SDK (Sam Agnew)
• Upstreaming custom elements and shadow DOM (Anne van Kesteren)
• Should I use Grid or Flexbox? (Rachel Andrew)
• Announcing the publication of Parse Server with Azure Managed Services (Adrian Hall)
• Azure Marketplace Part I: Why Partners Should Care (Benjamin Xue)
• The Elevator Pitch for React (Cody Lindley)
• In Defense of ES6 Classes (Cory House)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Drupal 8 – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• How to Build a Monitoring Application With the Google Cloud Vision API (Romin Irani)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Singleton Implementation: F# (Ted Neward)
• Value Objects: Entity Framework vs NHibernate (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile and Lean Program Management is Done (Johanna Rothman)
• Visual Studio Team Services announces the newest release of our Eclipse Plugin: Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) 14.0.3 (Jason Sholl)
• Saved replies (Ayman Nadeem)
• Doing a retrospective when you can’t get the team to meet? (Ben Linders)
• Error Handling in Rust (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Reduce coupling: Free your code and your tests (Jon Hilton)
• TFVC Branch Visualization extension and Azure Active Directory (AAD) Authentication Plug-in for SonarQube (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting started with ionic and cordova development- create first cross platform android app. (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How does Google protect your Android devices and data? Be in the know next week and every month going forward (Jane Smith)
• Simplify Sharing with Plugins for Xamarin (Pierce Boggan)
• Announcing Xamarin SDK, Unity SDK and open APIs for Azure Mobile Engagement (Piyush Joshi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• RunAs Radio – SQL Server 2016 with Brent Ozar (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sharlto Copley (Chris Hardwick)
• Functional Geekery Episode 48 – Matthias Felleisen (Steven Proctor)
• GoingNative 48: ISOC++ @Jacksonville Debriefing | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• Sara Chipps on Teaching Girls to Code with Wearables (Greg Baugues)
• Deployment options for Office 2016 in Office 365 ProPlus and Updates to the Office 365 ProPlus service model (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Build 2016: Before the Big Event (Scott Hanselman, Larry Larsen, Golnaz, Kaitlin McKinnon & Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Matt Gale Asks About Onboarding New Team Memebers (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Objects and Inheritance in JavaScript – Free Webinar on 31st March (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET Core Slack Community (Shayne Boyer)
• Students: Get the most out of Build 2016 (Gavin Gear)
• Meet The SIGNAL Speakers: Engineering “Mad Science”, Investing and Testing (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Query Store (Sergio Govoni)
• SQL Server Inner Join – Concepts and Best practices (Mandar Mulay)
• SQL SERVER – How to Query Active Directory Data Using ADSI / LDAP Linked Server (Pinal Dave)
• How to use the Power BI Enterprise Gateway (Scott Murray)
• Happy 20th Birthday, ER/1…ER/Studio (Karen Lopez)

 

PowerShell

• Export Azure Resource Groups to ARM Templates with PowerShell (Chris Pietschmann)
• Configure the firewall profile with DSC (Part 1) (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• Minecraft helps autistic kids build richer lives – CNET (Dave Cheng)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2061 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1666 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 29, 2016 #1072 (Robert Diana)
• The week in .NET – 3/29/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 29th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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