Dew Drop – August 25, 2016 (#2315)

Top Links

• What’s New in C# 7.0 (Mads Torgersen)
• TechDays Online—Starting September 12! (MVP Award Program)
• JSON support is generally available in Azure SQL Database (Jovan Popovic)
• .NET Rocks! – Patterns and Anti-Patterns with Steve Smith and Brendan Enrick (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• PhpStorm 2016.2.1 is out (Anna Lebedeva)
• Cache Rules Everything Around Me – Using ASP.NET MVC6 TagHelpers to Bust Cache (Rion Williams)
• Free Website Hosting in Microsoft Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
• A Simple Way to Receive an SMS with Ruby, Sinatra, and Twilio (Greg Baugues)
• 7 Killer Web Design Principles for High Fidelity User Experience (Keval Padia)

 

XAML

• Do you UWP? Then you’ll want this… (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Upcoming Changes to How You Log into Visual Studio Team Services (Shantaram P)
• Make The Debugger Focus on Code That’s Important To You (Bartlomiej Filipek)
• Considering a Port to .NET Core? Use NDepend (Erik Dietrich)
• Implementing a synchronization barrier in terms of WaitOnAddress (Raymond Chen)
• C++14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS “15” Preview 4 (Stephan T. Lavavej)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Communication Anti-Patterns (jzb)
• How We Test Software: Chapter Two—Telerik Platform Part Two (Angel Tsvetkov)
• Becoming more productive with Git: Tower and Team Services (Tobias Günther)
• Deliver Shippable Products with Good Engineering Practices (Ben Linders)
• Git Commands 101: Commit & Push (Carolyn Sullivan)
• Attributes of a great development team member (David Starr)
• Attaching your project to a bug report (Gintautas Skersys)
• Why Automate Code Reviews? (Serge Baranovsky)
• What is Empathy and Why Designers Need to Understand It (Stanka Bozalieva)
• Book Review: Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team (Steve Berczuk)
• New requirement when updating Team Services extensions on the Marketplace (Will Smythe)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Feature: Audio Streaming in Alexa Skills (David Isbitski)
• Readying your enterprise for mobile, part 6: Application maintenance and testing (Neudesic Team)
• Three Simple Ways To Get Online With A Raspberry Pi Zero IoT Device (Nic Raboy)
• #Hololens – Some APIs will work, other no, and there is no easy way to find it :S (Bruno Capuano)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 226 JSJ Test Doubles with Justin Searls (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance & Joe Eames)
• AAWP Insight #190: What’s in a Surface Phone? (Rafe Blandford)
• RiYL Episode 183: Miss Lasko-Gross and Kevin Colden (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 159 | Glyph Lefkowitz – People-Focused Software (Dave Rael)
• How Does Focus Management Work? (keantonc & Rosshe)
• What The Tech 322: Microsoft Breaks Millions of Webcams (Paul Thurrott)
• Developer Tea – Digging Up Your Job Description (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 141 – App Service Environments (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Kristine Byun, Local Artist and Twitch Streamer (Albert Hong)

 

Database

• Database Cloning in SQL Server for Troubleshooting and Diagnostics (Manvendra Singh)
• Database Building 101: Stable node ids and Database Building 101: Graph querying over large datasets (Oren Eini)
• 10 Cloud Databases for Developers (Cynthia Harvey)

 

PowerShell

• Fixing “Debug adapter process has terminated unexpectedly” error in VSCode for PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 tip: Shut down OneDrive completely (Ed Bott)
• An Epic Tale of Comparison in The Text Editor Wars (Zlatin Stanimirovv)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2165 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1725 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #240 (Pedro Botelho)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-25 (Dan Rigby)

 

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