Dew Drop – October 14, 2016 (#2345)

Top Links

• Microsoft IIS Administration Preview (Jimmy Campbell)
• Hanselminutes – Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady (Scott Hanselman)
• Live Webinar | Xamarin University Presents: Introduction to Xamarin with Visual Studio (Courtney Witmer)
• Using F# on Azure (Sylvan Clebsch)

 

Web Development

• Localization & Routing in ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Is jQuery Still Relevant? (TJ VanToll, Jen Looper, Todd Motto, Jeremy Likness , Aurelio De Rosa & Nathanael Anderson)
• Some Tips for Minimising the Pain of HTML Input Forms (Dino Esposito)
• Managing containerized ASP.NET Core apps with Kubernetes (Mete Atamel)
• October Surprise: Azure Developer Updates (Michael Domingo)
• Tesseract.js – A pure Javascript port of the popular Tesseract OCR engine. (Guillermo Webster & Kevin Kwok)
• Sending a Regular SMS with Azure Functions and Twilio (Jason Roberts)
• In the Works – VMware Cloud on AWS (Jeff Barr)
• Hosting .NET Core Services on Service Fabric (Mike Rousos)
• What’s Used Most Frequently To Build Web Applications? (Tom Smith)
• Artifacts and guidance for Azure DevTest Labs (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

XAML

• Shared folders #UWPLunch (Matt Lacey)
• Internet of Things on the Xbox (App Dev on Xbox series) (Shen Chauhan)
• UWP Alien Sokoban – Part 1 (Daniel Vaughan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Faster C++ solution load and build performance with Visual Studio “15” (Jim Springfield)
• C++/WinRT Available on GitHub (Eric Battalio)
• MediatR Pipeline Examples (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Standards on GitHub (Anne van Kesteren)
• The Relationship between Static Analysis and Continuous Testing (Erik Dietrich)
• Get testing with Taplytics in the Student Developer Pack (Carol Smith)
• New to InnerSource? A panel of experts talk through the corporate version of open source (Kara)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Android – Generating A Dropdownlist Using Widget Spinner (Jose Carlos Macoratti)
• HoloLens development on MacOS using Parallels (Anders Haahr)
• Amazon Enables Developers to Extend Shopping and To-do List Capabilities – a New Addition to the Alexa Skills Kit [Limited Participation Beta] (David Isbitski)
• Fun With RFID and NFC (Erich Styger)
• Add A Small LCD Display To Your Raspberry Pi (Jason Follas)
• Some Key IoT Security Considerations (Kin Lane)
• Decrypting JSON Web Encrypted tokens in PCL (Roy Cornelissen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 114 AiA Life Lessons from Angular Air – Jeff Whelpley – Angular Remote Conf (John Papa)
• Radio TFS – Rambling with Josh Garverick (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Joel Spolsky Talks About Building Stack Overflow and Values Developers Care About (Seth Juarez)
• SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2016 – Ask Me Anything! with Niall Merrigan (IoT, Common Security Problems) (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Dev Career Roadmap, Step One: Create a Time Budget (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Enter To Win A Harry Potter Weekend In Philadelphia (Jillian Wilson)
• Geekend Picks: Philly Geek Awards, Dark Side of Philadelphia History Party, Body Art Benefit for the Animals and More! (Monica Piluso)

 

Database

• Connect to a SQL Server AlwaysOn replica with Management Studio when the Readable Secondary is set to Read-intent only (Vitor Montalvão)
• Refresh the Data for a KPI in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server – Understanding Connection Timeouts and Query Timeouts (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Retrospective: Explicit indexes & auto indexes (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Introduction to Using Kendo UI in SharePoint Online – A “How To” Series (Ed Musters)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14946 for PC and Mobile (Dona Sarkar)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-14 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2200 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1755 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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