Dew Drop – July 28, 2016 (#2297)

Top Links

• Free Windows 10 upgrades end tomorrow (Tom Warren)
• Aurelia 1.0 is Here!!! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (Limin Zhu & Arunesh Chandra)
• TypeScript: Safety in the Absence of Types (Victor Savkin)

 

Web Development

• 4 Reasons To Drop MVVM (Dave M. Bush)
• Using Logentries With Angular 1.5 (David Posin)
• Using Fiddler With iOS 10 and Android 7 (Eric Lawrence)
• How to Receive a POST Request in Node.js (Eddie Zaneski)
• “ASP.NET Core Template Pack” (Greg Duncan)
• How to add MVC to your ASP.NET Core web application (Jon Hilton)
• Building a REST API With AWS SimpleDB and Node.js (Kyle Davis)
• Remote Control WordPress at Scale (Scott Fennell)
• Angular 2 Upgrade Strategies from Angular 1.x (Todd Motto)
• React Native and TypeScript – Developing cross-platform apps (Callum Gavin)
• Logic Apps out of preview! (Brian Loesgen)
• Why ChakraCore matters (Chris Heilmann)
• How to Teach Your Dog to Text Selfies (Greg Baugues)
• Fiddler Extension Development Tips (Jon Gallant)

 

XAML

Power Up Visual Studio Using XAML Power Toys (Mayur Tendulkar)

Interactive Toasts and Windows Phone 8.1 (Peter Freeman Foot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Enum Alternatives in C# (Steve Smith)
• Persistent Actors in Akka.NET (Jason Roberts)
• Why does setting the horizontal scroll bar range for the first time also set the vertical range, and vice versa? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Growing Agile… Not Scaling! (Andrea Tomasini & Dhaval Panchal)
• Books with Agile Practices and Tips (Ben Linders)
• Leadership and Data – A Filtered Experience (Peter Saddington)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Pervasive Computing – $64.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Time to Git Up! (Zach Stetka)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cross Platform Mobile Development in a Team using Xamarin, VSTS and Azure (Subodh Sohoni)
• Azure Logic Apps facilitates rapid integration for IoT solutions (Microsoft IoT)
• How the Internet of Things is Resulting in Non-Traditional API Communications Models (David Berlind)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Women in Tech and Code Pub with Astrid de Laval and Andreas Persson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Default parameters in JavaScript ES2015 (keantonc & Rosshe)
• 222 JSJ Nodal with Keith Horwood (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Dave Smith)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Live from SDCC 2016 with Tatiana Maslany, Danny McBride, Walton Goggins and Jody Hill (Chris Hardwick)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 65 (Air Mozilla)
• RiYL Episode 178: Starlee Kine (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 151 | Sam Nasr – The Joy of User Groups (Dave Rael)
• 033 jsAir – Getting started with web audio with Chris Lowis and Alejandro Mantecon Guillen (Kent C. Dodds)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 39 – OneNote APIs in the Microsoft Graph | Office Dev Show (Richard diZerega)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Michael Asks About Qualifications for Career Changes (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Register Now for the First Microsoft Data Science Summit (Joseph Sirosh)
• GitHub Universe: Last call for early bird tickets and proposals (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• CodeRush for Roslyn Webinar (Mark Miller)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 64: Mapping the Arctic, Smoking Grass, and Beanie Babies! (Nerd Nite Team)
• Innovation, passion and inspiration: Imagine Cup day 1 is in the books! (Student Developer Evangelism Team)

Database

• Altering lock escalation for SQL Server tables (Eli Leiba)
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server – Support for Native Backup/Restore to Amazon S3 (Jeff Barr)
• SQL SERVER – Becoming a More Effective DAX Developer with DAX Studio – Notes from the Field #134 (Pinal Dave)
• re: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (Oren Eini)
• Data Consistency Checks (Paul Hammond & Samantha Stoller)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script for Assigning Public IP Addresses to an Azure VM (Anindita Basak)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 tip: Temporarily delay the Anniversary Update (Ed Bott)
• Google Play Family Library: Share what you love with the ones you love (Raj Iyengar)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #232 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1710 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2145 (Chris Alcock)

 

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