Dew Drop – December 5, 2016 (#2376)

Top Links

• NoSQL .NET Core development using an local Azure DocumentDB Emulator (Scott Hanselman)
• The 7 most vexing problems in programming (Peter Wayner)
• Introduction To Xamarin Workbooks (Adam Pedley)
• X-Platform development with Xamarin.Forms & F# (Phillip Trelford)

 

Web Development

• Performing The Stream Equivalent Of Promise.all() Using RxJS (Ben Nadel)
• Your First Angular 2, ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio Code – Part 1 (Aaron Marisi)
• Announcing a Week of ASP.NET Core (John Bristowe)
• jQuery.parseJSON vs JSON.parse (Learning jQuery)
• My 360 Degree Guide to ASP.NET Core—The Webinar Recap (Sam Basu)
• Tutorial: An End-To-End Angular 2 Application Using MVC 5 and OData 4 (Michael Washington)
• Screen Scraping As A Service with Azure Functions in 5 Mins (Jason Roberts)
• Modern Authentication for Your Clients Made Easy (Ado Kukic)
• Deploying Azure Functions Automatically (Adrian Hall)
• Make Phone Calls with Crystal and Twilio (Phil Nash)
• Bringing Your Web Application to Desktop Life with Electron (Rion Williams)
• Receiving files sent to your botframework chatbot (Robin Osborne)
• Exploring Azure with Code First (Jason)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Tag Admin extension is now available for Visual Studio 2017 (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Writing C# build scripts with FAKE, OmniSharp and VS Code (Filip W.)
• Code Quality Tools in Visual Studio 2015 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Building Cross Platform Applications with Visual Studio 2017 (Nick Randolph)
• fck: Fake Construction Kit (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Lockbox (Piotr Gankiewicz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We Need to Talk About Technical Debt (Harry Roberts)
• Entities vs Value Objects in Domain Driven Design (Abhi Jain)
• You will love it (Michał Komorowski)
• Sharing our experience of self-organizing teams (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova iOS 4.3.1 (Shazron Abdullah)
• Accommodating The On Screen Keyboard in Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Optimizing Android Apps for Multi-Window Mode (James Montemagno)
• Developing for the Living Room: How to Build an Android App for Fire TV (Part 4) (Mario Viviani)
• RavenDB on Raspberry PI (Oren Eini)
• New Alexa Skill Tutorial for Python Programmers (Marion Desmazieres)
• Introduction to Alexa Skills: From Zero to Echo (Robin Osborne)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Event Hubs, Service Bus, & More with John Taubensee (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 026 – Matt Bok on Retro Gaming Tech Again (Matthew Groves)
• Indie Dev Podcast, Episode 34, Gil Almogi, representation and humanity in gaming (Dave Voyles)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2017 Powers Up Your Productivity, Holoportation, Slack on the C64 and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Nikola Metulev)
• Android Central 317: All Day I Dream About Daydream (Daniel Bader)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 117 – Diversity in Tech – Part II (Ashe Dryden) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 188 | Eric Lippert – Programming Languages and Impact (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #325 – An Interview with David Kronstein (Tesla500) (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Cody Asks About Developer Speed (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• 12 Excellent Art Exhibitions And Events To Check Out In Philly This December (Erica Minutella)
• Finding women tech speakers is really difficult (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Database

• Access is denied error when attaching a SQL Server database (Simon Liew)
• Simple Procedure to Make a Copy of a SQL Server Database (Eli Leiba)
• SQL SERVER – Errors When Disk Space is the Reason (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Gotchas (Michael Sorens)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Ventures’ newest investments: Private cloud, analytics, texting and IoT and How and why Microsoft is stepping up its focus on ‘families’ with Windows 10 (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Importance of Computer Science Curriculum (Alison Cunard)
• A programmer evaluates the MacBook Pro (Touch Bar) (Axel Rauschmayer)
• IoT and Maker Gift List 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• New book: Windows 10 Inside Out, Second Edition (includes Current Book Service) (Kim Spilker)
• My first year with Solar Power (Omar Shahine)
• Symlinks in Windows 10! (Yosef Durr)
• Microsoft has a new AI bot in town, and its name is Zo (Zac Bowden)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-05 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2236 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1779 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #259 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #269 (Pedro Botelho)
• Happy December! We’re back with the Friday Five. (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 28th – December 4th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly: Dec 5, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 5, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• GameDev News – Week Ending December 2, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #131 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #49, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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