Dew Drop – September 14, 2016 (#2328)

Top Links

• 1-Day TechBash Tickets and Discounted Room Rates (Jason Gaylord)
• Announcing the ASP.NET Core September 2016 Patch Release (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Major Updates: iOS 10, Android Nougat, and Other Tasty Bits (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing September 2016 Updates for .NET Core 1.0 (Rich Lander)

 

Web Development

• Automatic Property Calculation Support With Animations In Angular 2 RC 6 (Ben Nadel)
• Bending ASP.NET Core MVC To Your Will (James Chambers)
• Why there is no CSS4 – explaining CSS Levels (Rachel Andrew)
• Getting Started with YAML in Node.js using js-yaml (Dave Johnson)
• Learn gulp.js for free, read an ebook (Kris van der Mast)
• The Troubles with JavaScript Classes (K. Scott Allen)
• First impressions of React (Remy Sharp)
• Aurelia: Custom Element vs Compose (Jeremy Danyow)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to Twilio Programmable Voice (Devin Rader)
• My #1 advice for getting into web development (Pam Selle)
• Transpiling ES6 (Ryan Christiani)
• Reimagining Dreamweaver: Creating the Ultimate Modern UI for Web Design (Creative Cloud Team)

 

XAML

• Accessibility and your app design (Michael Crump)
• Microsoft is “dedicated to mobile,” Dona Sarkar says (Laurent Giret)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2.2: bug fix to a bug fix (Jura Gorohovsky)
• New book: Begin to Code with C# (Kim Spilker)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: Null Semantics (Ricardo Peres)
• Overview of the .NET Standard Library (Toni Pohl)
• dotTrace 2016.2 adds folding recursive calls in Timeline Viewer (Alexey Totin)
• Visual C++ for Linux 1.0.5 Updates (Marc Goodner)
• What’s in a Name? Spelling Matters in Code (Serge Baranovsky)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Establish Peace to the QA vs Dev Battle (Dave M. Bush)
• Why Functional Programming Matters (Adrian Colyer)
• What’s a spike, who should enter it, and how to word it? (Andrew Fuqua)
• Team Services September Extensions Roundup – App Stores! (Joe Bourne)
• Git: Rebase VS Merge (Lee Richardson)
• Pin a detailed view of your work item(s) on your dashboard (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Preparing Machines for Xamarin Cycle 8/iOS10/AndroidN (James Montemagno)
• #Hololens – Now #Xamarin Devs can create Hololens Apps ! (Bruno Capuano)
• Testing iOS 10 in Xamarin Test Cloud (John Lago)
• Mysterious crashes in your iOS 10 program? Check your info.plist (Larry O’Brien)
• Windows IoT : Bi-Directional DC Motor Control (Carey Payette)
• How Wireframes Help Build Mobile Apps (Jane Brewer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Emerging Experiences with Giorgio Sardo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Scott Hunter talks ASP.NET Core at DEV intersection Fall Count Down Show #3 | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• Yet Another Podcast #163: James Montemagno and Xamarin Cycle 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 146 | Continuous Integration and deployment using Visual Studio Team Services with Gavin Barron (Andrew Connell)
• Episode 212: Service Fabric Series (3 of 3) – Service Fabric on Linux | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Chris Risner & Bruno Medina)
• RunAs Radio – Migrating to Exchange 2016 with Paul Cunningham (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Tuesdays with Corey: The Azure Bot built on Microsoft Bot Framework | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE-Radio Episode 268: Kief Morris on Infrastructure as Code (Sven Johann)

 

Community / Events

• Top 5 Reasons You Don’t Want to Miss Oracle OpenWorld 2016! (Ramona Costea)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 67: Aquatic Insects, Noir, and Plant Music! (Nerd Nite Team)
• #splunkconf16 preview: What’s the next big thing in big data? Machine learning. (Theresa Vu)

 

Database

• Book Review: Murach’s SQL Server 2016 for Developers (Ian Stirk)
• Automatically upload SQL Server Database Backups to Azure with Integration Services (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Database Change Management Strategies Compared (Adam Anderson)
• Using DB Connect With SQLite (Jack Coates)
• U-SQL Updates – What’s New and What’s Changed | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

SharePoint

• Web part properties in the SharePoint Framework – part 1 (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Summing CSV data with Powershell (Robin Osborne)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2178 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1735 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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