Dew Drop – December 9, 2016 (#2380)

Top Links

• Awesome, legal, wireless retrogaming with a Hyperkin Retron 5 and 8bitdo’s nes30pro (Scott Hanselman)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 Release Candidate (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Working with ASP.NET Core and Data Grids (Burke Holland)
• The ‘cellular PC’ revolution begins: full Windows 10 and desktop apps are coming to mobile ARM chips (Daniel Rubino)

 

Web Development

• Your First Angular 2, ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio Code – Part 3 (Aaron Marisi)
• 5 Benefits Of Choosing Aurelia Over AngularJS (Arnab Sarkar)
• Does Angular 2 Surpass React? (Arsalan Rashid)
• Getting Started with Kitura and AngularJS (Jennie Oliver)
• Integrating Angular 2 Unit Tests with Visual Studio Team Services (Jeremy Likness)
• New book: ASP.NET Core Application Development (Kim Spilker)
• Angular 1.6.0 released (Pete Bacon Darwin)
• Angular 2.3.0 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• Dear JavaScript… (James Kyle)
• Publishing with GitHub Pages, now as easy as 1, 2, 3 (Ben Balter)
• How big is the Microsoft Azure Cloud? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Giphy and Twilio Text A GIF Using RapidAPI (Megan Speir)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Writing my own synchronization primitive ReaderWriterLock (Oren Eini)
• Use Custom Visualizers for C++ Objects (Bartlomiej Filipek)
• Conversion options for bringing your existing desktop app to the Universal Windows Platform using the Desktop Bridge (Adam Braden)
• The best log viewer in the universe (Matt Watson)
• Using the N1QL RETURNING keyword from .NET Core (Matthew Groves)
• Couchbase .NET SDK 2.3.10 Now Available! (Mike Goldsmith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• December Hosted Build Image Updates (Chris Patterson)
• How to Do Test Automation Without Coding (Christie Marsh)
• Anil Dash On The Future Of Tech (Hint: It’s Weirdly Human) (Lauren Moon)
• 5 Strategies for Increasing Workplace Productivity (Dmitry Pashkevich)
• Learning to Loosely Couple with Solr (Don Albrecht)
• How Much Code Should My Developers Be Responsible For? (Erik Dietrich)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Use Swift and Vapor to Generate Twilio Access Tokens (Brent Schooley)
• Objective-C is Dead (Victoria Brinsley)
• Announcing Conexant’s Development Kit for Amazon Alexa: An Easier Way to Build with AVS (Ted Karczewski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 110 with Yina Arenas on Microsoft Graph—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 212 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Rethinking Front End Design and Development with Una Kravets (Scott Hanselman)
• [Webinar Recording] Performance is a Feature (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• Video: A Story About Obnoxious Aggression (Elisse Lockhart)
• Windows Weekly 495: Hold On, Eeyore! (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 100: We’re Judging (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Device Innovation Opportunities in Mixed Reality, Gaming and Cellular PCs | WinHEC December 2016 (Terry Myerson & Alex Kipman)

 

Database

• SQL Server Management Studio: “Include Client Statistics” Button and Should I Install Multiple Instances of SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
• Create a linked server to MySQL from SQL Server (Ranga Babu)

 

Miscellaneous

• Here’s what’s first on Microsoft’s LinkedIn integration to-do list (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft and LinkedIn begin journey to empower professionals around the world to achieve more (Microsoft Corporate Blogs)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2240 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 9, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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