Dew Drop – July 21, 2016 (#2292)

Top Links

• Developer Productivity in VS 2015 and VS 15 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• Refactor This: The Gilded Rose Kata for .NET Core (Bobby Johnson)
• .NET Rocks! – Thorium Molten Salt Reactor Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

• Using ES6 Generators And Yield To Implement Asynchronous Workflows In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Understanding ASP.NET Core Initialization (Ed Charbeneau)
• Completion Changes in PhpStorm (Gary Hockin)
• Integrating AutoMapper with ASP.NET Core DI (Jimmy Bogard)
• 12 jQuery Plugins to Create Image Zoom Effect (Learning jQuery)
• Create A Mobile App From Your Angular 2 Web App With NativeScript (Nic Raboy)
• Accepting Dates in Web Pages (Dino Esposito)
• Back to the ngFuture (Jeremy Likness)
• How To Build A Conference Line With Twilio (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Simple Interactive Points Effect (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• What is app attribution? (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Lifetime of Data in C# and Visual Basic (Tim Patrick)
• How timers works in the CLR (Oren Eini)
• Step by Step working with GitHub Repository and Visual Studio 2015 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting Prime Factors in F# (with Good Math) and Functional Practice: Euler Problem #5 in F# – Brute Force Version (Jeremy Clark)
• Build C# and F# Apps on Your iPad with Continuous Mobile Development Environment (James Montemagno)
• Visual Rx 3.0.0 (Bnaya Eshet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing anti-patterns: Structural Inspection (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Test Driven Development Kata – Roman to Arabic in JavaScript (Dave M. Bush)
• Software QA vs Test – What’s in a Name? (Bill Roske)
• Debugging all the time isn’t fun… (Nick Chamberlain)
• Static Analysis Isn’t Just for Techies (Erik Dietrich)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android From Scratch: How to Store Application Data Locally (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Building Secure Apps for Windows IoT Core (Artur Laksberg)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Localization & Globalization with Lori Lalonde (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• 221 JSJ Visual Studio Code with Wade Anderson Live From Microsoft Build 2016 (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
• AAWP Insight #186: Skype, Panorama, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• RiYL Episode 177: Minty Lewis (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 149 | Nick Gauthier – Evidence-Based Features (Dave Rael)
• Yammer updates – From new user experiences to new IT controls (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Radio TFS – Core Agents with Chris Patterson (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 38 – OneDrive APIs in the Microsoft Graph | Office Dev Show (Richard diZerega)
• Developer Tea – Working on Saturdays (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• A dedicated team for AngularDart (Naomi Black)
• Handing in my ears… (Shayne Boyer)
• New AWS Training Bootcamps to Help You Build Technical Skills (Jeff Barr)
• Skill Up 2016: Developer Skills Report (Packt Publishing)

 

Database

• The new SQL Server Management Studio (Andrew Pruski)
• Beware of Side-Channel Attacks in Row-Level Security in SQL Server 2016 (Aaron Bertrand)
• Amazon Aurora Update – Create Cluster from MySQL Backup (Jeff Barr)
• Free DBA Tools for SQL Server Professionals – Notes from the Field #133 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell to automate your Azure DB creation (James Phillips)
• A Story of PowerShell Quoting Rules (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft readies new appointment-booking service for Office 365 Business Premium users (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1707 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #230 (Pedro Botelho)
• Links for my weekly newsletter, 3rd week of July (David Voyles)
• The Morning Brew #2140 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-21 (Dan Rigby)

 

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