Dew Drop – June 10, 2016 (#2269)

Top Links

• Thank you for watching dotnetConf 2016! (Beth Massi)
• Node Hero – Node.js Unit Testing Tutorial (Gergely Nemeth)
• Microsoft releases free trial version of Minecraft Education Edition to teachers (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tracking down a performance hit (Jon Skeet)

 

Web/Cloud Development

• The Node.js MySQL Driver Doesn’t .end() As Gracefully With Connection Pooling (Ben Nadel)
• The Weekly Top 10: JavaScript Programming Resources (Ian Elliot)
• New Enterprise Web-App Design Choices for 2016 (Paul Hammant)
• Angular Directives Mapped to React (Dave Ceddia)
• Improvements Coming for Routing in Angular (Stephen Fluin)
• Azure Marketplace: FreeBSD 10.3 (Chris Pietschmann)
• End-to-End Data Science Using Spark on Azure HDInsight (Debraj GuhaThakurta)
• Open-sourcing the Microsoft Edge WebGL GLSL transpiler (Frank Olivier)
• Fix for Azure Stream Analytics–Duplicate property names are not allowed (Jon Gallant)
• Uber Opens UberRUSH API to All Developers for On-Demand Deliveries (Patricio Robles)

 

XAML

• Understanding Prism – Part 3 – Scoped Regions (Rohit Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Events and levels – structured logging concepts in .NET (2) (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Investigating an app compat problem: Part 2: Digging in (Raymond Chen)
• Debugging a background task on a time trigger (Windows Apps Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Muffin Sprint (Peter Saddington)
• Styles of unit testing (Vladimir Khorikov)
• 3 Reasons Agile Will Not Succeed (Dave M. Bush)
• Harvesting Brain Power – The Gift of Neurodiversity in Tech (Ramona Maxwell)
• 5 Habits that Help Code Quality (Erik Dietrich)
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
• Save 50% – Take Control of Slack and Slack Admin Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• [Release] Balsamiq Mockups 3 for Confluence Cloud! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 30-Day Xamarin University Trial: Now with Self-Guided Learning (Bryan Costanich)
• Become a Xamarin Studio Expert (Mikayla Hutchinson)
• Security “Crypto” provider deprecated in Android N (Sergio Giro)
• Adding Push Notifications to your iOS app with Swift and Twilio Notify (Sam Agnew)
• From Kinect Unity Project to the Windows Store, a Five Step Journey (Greg Duncan)
• Debug view mode for physics collision geometry (Morten Skaaning)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers – Living Functional Programming with OCaml and Gina Marie Maini and Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Scale Sets (Scott Hanselman)
• Game|Life Podcast: The Games We Most Want to Play at E3 (Chris Kohler)
• Episode 094 introducing new co-host Andrew Coates—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard DiZerega & Andrew Coates)
• 096 AiA Angular 2 and TypeScript with Dan Wahlin (John Papa)
• Rocket 74: Pirate Reform (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
• Adventures in Space Exploration: Astronaut Doug Wheelock’s Stories for Admirers & Words of Wisdom for NASA’s Next Generation (Daniel Egan, Adam Tuliper, Mary Baker, Shaina Houston & Yesenia Alvarez)
• Radio TFS – The BK in the BKVM Brian Keller is back (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Azure Podcast Episode 130 – Mapping the Google Cloud Platform capabilities to Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
• Data Discovery with Azure Data Catalog | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Going to Dockercon16? We’ll be there! (Bill Emmett)

 

Database

• SQL Server errors with drop login and drop user (Ahmad Yaseen)
• Free eBook: Migrating SQL Server to Databases to Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
• Getting Started With Oracle Week: NULLs and NULL handling (Erik Darling)
• Moving a SonarQube installation to SQL Azure Database (Matteo Emili)
• SQL Server 2016 Management Studio – Warning: SSMS install detected shared components on this machine (Pinal Dave)
• OuT WITH RAVEN embedded In with litedb (Sacha Barber)

 

PowerShell

• Syncing my PowerShell profile between machines (Daniel Egan)

 

Miscellaneous

• I love you Xbox, but don’t cancel things on your fans (Richard Devine)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 9, 2016 #1124 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-06-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-06-10 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Eleven for June 9th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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