Day: June 2, 2016

Top Links

• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14356 (Dona Sarkar)
• .NET Core Reloaded (Ricardo Peres)
• Download SQL SERVER 2016 Developer Edition for FREE (Pinal Dave)
• A change in leadership for the Windows Insider Program (Gabe Aul)

 

Web Development

• Creating a CSS Curtain Opening Effect (Geoff Graham)
• JavaScriptCore CSI:A Crash Site Investigation Story (Mark Lam)
• ASP.NET Core and VS Code (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Quick Angular 2 Hosting with the Angular CLI and GitHub Pages (TJ VanToll)
• Export SVG Animations for the Web with Snap.SVG (CJ Gammon)
• BlueGriffon 2.0 released (glazou)
• Introducing the Speech Synthesis API in Microsoft Edge (Jerry Smith)

 

XAML

• Creating AR and VR Apps on Windows and AR Basketball Spinner and the Kinect (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Conflicts in C# and Visual Basic (Tim Patrick)
• Using light bulb action to refactor asynchronous method to synchronous – Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• CSLA .NET Version 4.6.400 released (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD In Real Life – Part 2 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Solving the Challenge of Overworked Staff (Peter Saddington)
• Bliki: ActivityOriented and Bliki: OutcomeOriented (Martin Fowler)
• Unit tests value proposition (Vladimir Khorikov)
• How requirements help make vacations successful (Jason Bock)
• Building a better code review process (Gregory Brown)
• Designing the Life You Want (Brandon Watson)
• How to Get Developers to Adopt Coding Standards (Erik Dietrich)
• If you got to test a web application, the first action performed will be login o… (Purva Kawatra)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android From Scratch: Connecting Activities and Applications (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Xamarin Quick Tip : Setting a UI Table View Background Image and Xamarin Quick Tip : Add a Full Color Image to the Navigation Bar (Carey Payette)
• Android Networking: How to Mock the Internet (László Urszuly)
• Android Developer Story: Vietnamese games developer Divmob finds more users with localized pricing on Google Play (Lily Sheringham)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 28 File Handling (v2) (Adrian Hall)
• Default HoloLens Toolkit occlusion script turns magenta (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Learning Haskell with Mark Seemann (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AFH 036: Get Momentum with Jason Womack [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Build a Unity Game Part 4 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Gone Mobile 33: Realm with Tim Anglade and Kristian Dupont (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• 214 JSJ Pebble with Heiko Behrens and François Baldassari (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance & Joe Eames)
• Windows Weekly 468: Fibonacci Sequence and What The Tech 309: Is Microsoft Launching A New Xbox One? (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Robert Kirkman #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• Game Dev Show 16 – Introduction to Physics in Unity – Part 2 | Game Dev Show (Adam Tuliper)
• Developer Tea – Defeating The Interview Lull (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Meet Dona Sarkar, the new head of Microsoft’s Windows Insider program (John Callaham)
• Announcing the Final Speakers for DockerCon 2016 (Sophia Parafina)
• Happy 10th Anniversary ALM Rangers! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Events are not cesspools of harassment (Stormy Peters)
• Local Xamarin Developer Events In June (Jayme Singleton)

 

Database

• Implementing a SQL Server Cluster in Azure (Greg Robidoux)
• SQL Server Data Tools GA update for June 2016 (Abbie Petchtes)
• Teamwork is the key to developing SQL Source Control as well as using it (Kate Duggan)
• Database migrations made simple (Kenneth Truyers)
• T-SQL Date Format with Convert (Mandar Mulay)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Finding Value in Data – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code MSDEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell profile shortcuts (Daniel Egan)

 

Miscellaneous

• More Momentum for Clean Energy (Bill Gates)
• Commit to Contribute (Remy Sharp)
• 5 Yoga Poses Every Programmer Should Try (Daragh Byrne)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-06-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-06-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2105 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1696 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading June 2, 2016 #1119 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 1st, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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