Dew Drop – August 17, 2016 (#2311)

Top Links

• 12 Days Left for Room Discounts at TechBash 2016 (Jason Gaylord) – Now 11.
• Stop Running with the Visual Studio Debugger (K. Scott Allen)
• Wire – Writing one of the fastest .NET serializers (Roger Johansson)
• Visual Studio’s most useful (and underused) tips (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• Moving to ASP.NET MVC Core 1 (Ricardo Peres)
• Create an Aurelia Application With ASP.NET Core 1.0: Part 2 — Navigation (Jonathan Danylko)
• Looking At ASP.NET Core’s IApplicationLifetime (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• 12 great free Bootstrap themes (Tammy Coron)
• Build an integration for GitHub (Corey Hobbs)
• Node v6.4.0 (Current) (Colin Ihrig)
• Building Components with D3 Data Join by Chris Price (Chris Price)
• Stay Sharp with Razor TagHelpers (Ed Charbeneau)
• Google’s Chrome 53 Beta Brings Shadow DOM V1 (James Chesters)
• Extending Azure Logic Apps Using Azure Functions (Kent Weare)
• Node v4.5.0 (LTS) (Myles Borins)

 

XAML

• Using an InkToolbar with InkCanvas in your Windows Universal Apps (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating a Custom Ruler with DirectInk (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Networking – HttpListener (Benjamin Summerton)
• Visual Programming Tool Helps Developers Bring Games to Universal Windows Platform (Richard Hay)
• Refactoring File System Access (Steve Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Doing Agile… Isn’t Agile. (Bill Roske)
• Does your workplace use best practices like code reviews, unit testing, pair programming, etc…? (Nick Chamberlain)
• What Makes a Good User Story (Yvonne Chen)
• How Startups Get Software Built (Yousef Awad)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• IdentityModel.OidcClient for Xamarin.Android with Chrome Custom Tabs (Kevin Dockx)
• Node.js IoT: Tracking the ISS through the Sky (Dave Johnson)
• Book Review: Exploring Raspberry Pi (Mike James)
• 10 Awesome Mobile UX Design Strategies That Work (Keval Padia)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Cross-Platform Apps using Electron with David Neal (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Using Temporal in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Using Azure Notification Hubs from a Xamarin.Android Application and Using Azure Notification Hubs in an Android Application and Using Azure Notification Hubs for Push Notifications in Google Chrome (Scott Hanselman & Seth Juarez)
• AAWP Insight #189: Anniversary Update rolls out (Rafe Blandford)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to change the mindset of an organization | Mike Collins (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 142 | Women in Technology and #IStandByYou with Cathy Dew (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – 8/16/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Developer Digest 9 (Ed Charbeneau)
• RunAs Radio – Building a Blameless Post-Mortem Culture with Jason Hand (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• CodeChat 065 – The Amazing JS Data | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• StarTalk Radio – Confronting Zika and other Viruses, with Bill Nye and Laurie Garrett – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• SE-Radio Episode 266: Charles Nutter on the JVM as a Language Platform (Charles Anderson)

 

Community / Events

• The First Ever NativeScript Community Event (Brian Rinaldi)
• Celebrating Three Years of ID@Xbox (Chris Charla)
• Join the conversation with Build Azure Slack group (Chris Pietschmann)
• Why I’m excited about SIGNAL London (Phil Nash)

 

Database

• Using the SQL Server 2016 Decompress Function (John Miner)
• Announcing Azure App Service MySQL in-app (preview) (Sunitha Muthukrishna)
• Database Building 101: The cost of graphing (Oren Eini)
• Query Tuning Week: How to Start Troubleshooting Parameter Sniffing Issues (Brent Ozar)
• Database Sharding – How to Identify a Shard Key? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Junctions with PowerShell (Daniel Fisher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update for phones (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Rewards replaces Bing Rewards — collect points to get free stuff! (Mark Wilson)
• akka : persistent actors (Sacha Barber)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2159 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-17 (Dan Rigby)

 

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