Dew Drop – April 28, 2016 (#2240)

Top Links (Xamarin Edition)

• The future of mobile app development (Nat Friedman)
• Welcoming Xamarin to the .NET Foundation (.NET Foundation Team)
• Live from Evolve: Faster and Easier Mobile App Development with Xamarin.Forms (Jason Smith)
• Live From Evolve: Open Source Xamarin, Ready for you! and Live from Evolve: Previews and Updates in Xamarin Studio, Xamarin for Visual Studio, and Workbooks (Miguel de Icaza)
• Live from Evolve: The New, Mobile-Optimized Development Lifecycle (Keith Ballinger)
• News from Xamarin Evolve: What’s next for Visual Studio and Xamarin (Amanda Silver)

 

Web Development

• Input And Output Bindings Can Be Namespaced In Angular 2 Beta 14 (Ben Nadel)
• Redirection Using JavaScript (Chris Love)
• Node.js v6 – Now Available! (Andre Powell)
• V8 JavaScript Engine 5.1 Brings More ECMAScript Compliance, Adds WASM Support (Sergio De Simone)
• Visual Regression Testing with CSS Blend Modes (Sarah Drasner)
• Introducing the New Twilio Console (Billy Chia)
• What is Azure Resource Manager? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Three Out Of This World Node 6 Features You Need to Know About (Eddie Zaneski)
• Debug Microsoft Edge from Sublime or VS Code with the new Edge Diagnostics Adapter (Andy Sterland & Kenneth Auchenberg)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Web Development with Django Cookbook – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML

• Releasing MVVM Light V5.3 to Nuget (Laurent Bugnion)
• SnapGold with Azure, DocumentDB, UWP and more (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Iterator Specifics in C# (L. Milkov)
• Interview: Rachel Reese on The Good and Bad of Microservices (with F#) (Rachel Reese)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• If You’re Not Automated, You’re Not Agile (Adrian Kearns)
• Hook Execution Order in SpecFlow 2 (Jason Roberts)
• 5 Reasons Architects and Developers Don’t Get Along (Erik Dietrich)
• Who Assures Quality? (Jim Holmes)
• Spring cleaning: Package management updates (Matt Cooper)
• OneNote transforms the way we work as a staff (Stewart Davies)
• 2016 – The year of CLI (Shayne Boyer)
• Publish Services to Mobile Employees via a Web Gateway (Rob Tiffany)
• Design thinking: finding your inspiration (Windows Apps Team)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Pressure Is On with 3D Touch in iOS Apps (Greg Shackles)
• Viewing Your Work Items in IntelliJ and Android Studio (Leah Antkiewicz)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 13 – The HTTP Table Interface (Adrian Hall)
• Unity Step Zero: Launching a scene in the HoloLens Emulator (Josh Morales)
• How to Create a Text-to-Speech Audio Broadcast with PubNub and Raspberry Pi (Josh Marinacci)
• Developing for Direct Boot (Wojtek Kaliciński)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Universal Apps on XBox One with Chris Gomez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 020 jsAir – JavaScript Frameworks: Ember with Gavin Joyce, Matthew Beale, and Robert Jackson and 64 ngAir – Conference Prep Show (Kent C. Dodds)
• 209 JSJ TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg (Charles Max Wood & AJ O’Neal)
• AAWP Insight #179: Windows 10 Mobile’s future, Continuum (Rafe Blandford)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 55 (Air Mozilla)
• RiYL Episode 166: Rob Crow (Brian Heater)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 41: Index Maintenance (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• Talk Python to Me #56 Data Science from Scratch (Michael Kennedy)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 27 – Azure AD Converged Authentication and the Microsoft Graph | Office Dev Show (Vittorio Bertocci & Richard diZerega)

 

Community / Events

• Pieter Hintjens (Jef Claes)

 

Database

• Modifying the SQL Server Model System Database to Customize New Database Settings (Artemakis Artemiou)
• Migrate the Correct Logins with a SQL Server Database (K. Brian Kelley)
• The design of RavenDB 4.0: The implications of the blittable format (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server NOWAIT Hint (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Beginner’s Guide to the Synth (Meg Neal)
• CERN scientists release 300 terabytes of Large Hadron Collider data, free and open (Xeni Jardin)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2082 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1676 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading April 27, 2016 #1093 (Robert Diana)

 

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