Dew Drop – April 8, 2016 (#2226)

Top Links

• Android Studio 2.0 (Jamal Eason)
• New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016 (Michael Dick)
• Introducing the Creative Cloud Platform for Web Developers (Adobe Creative SDK Team)
• CI/CD with Docker Cloud (Chris Hines)

 

Web Development

• Ext JS 6 by Sencha – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (Dave M. Bush)
• Predefined Namespaces And Custom Base View Page in ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC (Filip W.)
• The New Configuration Model in ASP.NET Core (Julio Avellaneda)
• Cloth Physics Simulation for Babylon.js (Raanan Weber)
• ES6 module loading: More complicated than you think (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Material Design Avatars using Canvas (jQuery Rain)
• Blue-Green Deployment in Docker Cloud (Gabriel Schenker)

 

XAML

• Project Centennial desktop-to-UWP app converter now available for download (Harish Jonnalagadda)
• Bringing Your Universal Windows Apps to Microsoft HoloLens (Abhijit Jana)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Closure-based State: F# (Ted Neward)
• Error & Exception Handling in C# (Abhi Jain)
• Messaging Patterns with Postal.NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Improved performance in Redgate’s .NET profiling tools (Ben Emmett)
• Hosting Suave in the Azure App Service (Isaac Abraham)
• What I think is and is not better about .Net OSS these days (Jeremy D. Miller)
• New Features Of Entity Framework 7 (Jignesh Trivedi)
• CodeRush for Roslyn: Quick Nav (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why No One Talks About Agile Testing! (Thomas Peham)
• Code review in JavaScript projects (Maria Khalusova)
• Pattern Implementations (Ted Neward)
• Three Challenges Facing the Adoption of Microservices (Andrew Phillips)
• Can “Normal Developers” Learn Design? (John Sonmez)
• Code Reviews: why and how? (Kenneth Truyers)
• Increase Visibility of Your DevOps Environments With New Puppet App For Splunk (Stela Udovicic)
• Visual communication and visual cues (Windows Apps Team)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Map APIs and controls: Location services (Windows Apps Team)
• Adding Coroutine-Like Functionality to a MonoGame Project (Shawn Rakowski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #151 – Jon Galloway on //build/ (Jesse Liberty)
• Android N and Coffee with Googler Ian Lake (Laurence Moroney)
• 087 AiA Angular’s Developer Relations Team with Jules Kremer (John Papa)
• AAWP Insight #176: Build, branches, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• Rider Session Recordings from Munich (Robert Demmer)
• An Interview with Richard Campbell at Microsoft Build (John Bristowe)
• Windows Weekly 460: Its Names are Legion (Paul Thurrott)
• Developer Tea – Two Incredibly Important Mindsets for Becoming a Great Debugger (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 122 – Premier Architecture Services (Sujit D’Mello)
• GeekWire Radio: Amazon’s Alexa returns as our special guest (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Recap: Bing Maps at //Build/ 2016 (Bing Maps Team)
• Gwen Stefani to headline this year’s Worldwide Partner Conference celebration (Tracy Ith)

 

Database

• Automatic SSRS report output of all report parameter combinations (Daniel Farina)
• We now offer free community editions of our MySQL tools (David Atkinson)
• SQL SERVER – Identifying Database Default Locations for Data and Logs (Pinal Dave)
• How to find all objects in a SQL Server Schema (Steve Smith)
• DocumentDB: Everything you need to know about using the new pricing options (Mimi Gentz)

 

PowerShell

• Upload files to DropBox from PowerShell (Laurent Kempe)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration as Code with PowerShell DSC (Graham Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Translator now offers the most comprehensive translation solution for the iOS ecosystem (Microsoft Translator)
• Introducing Wunderlist, Facebook and Evernote in Outlook on iOS and Android (Outlook Team)
• In Search of the Cortana Analytics Suite (Robert Sheldon)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2068 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1670 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading April 7, 2016 #1079 (Robert Diana)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/21-4/3) (Dara Monasch)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 7th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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