Day: December 19, 2016

Top Links

• Android 7.1 Developer Preview Now Available (Miguel de Icaza)
• Visual Studio Code 1.8 Adds Hot Exit, Zen Mode, More Debugging Options (Sergio De Simone)
• TWC9: Last Show of 2016 | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Robert Green & Scott Klein)
• Top JavaScript Frameworks & Topics to Learn in 2017 (Eric Elliott)

 

Web Development

• UI Change Detection in Angular 2 (Mihail Poddubsky)
• Investigating KnockoutJS in Oracle JET (Chris Muir)
• MVC Areas with ASP.NET Core and Set Layout for Views in MVC Areas (Josh Morales)
• @media queries and face palms (Julian M. Bucknall)
• How to create Toggle Panel using HTML and CSS (No JavaScript)? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 5 Awesome Free jQuery Calendars for Your Next Project (Learning jQuery)
• Best jQuery Plugin for Falling Snow Effect (Megan Rafferty)
• SEO Friendly URL’s for ASP.NET Core (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Config Transformations in ASP.NET Core (Thomas Ardal)
• A Simple CRUD Application Using Wijmo FlexGrid and Angular 2 (Michael Washington)
• The Cloud tradeoff from a business quality attribute perspective. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Chrome remote debugging over wifi (Remy Sharp)
• Razor Engine for Parsing Razor Pages Stored as String (Anjani Singh)
• Azure Portal UI now generally available including a preview of new APIs experience (Anton Babadjanov)
• Bing Location Control helps devs add location to the conversation (Bing Team)
• Running Docker Containers Securely in Production (Hrishikesh Barua)
• Application Security and Single Sign On (Rush Frisby)

 

XAML

• UWP Experiences – App Samples (Nikola Metulev)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Debugging and 64 Bit .NET Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Decimal vs Double and Other Tips About Number Types in .NET (Matthew Jones)
• Warden vNext (Piotr Gankiewicz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Creating Your Own Flavor of Agile (Oliver Hookins)
• You may not need a Tech Lead, but others do (Patrick Kua)
• Developing Software Effectively From Home (Anna Majowska)
• DZone Guide to Software Development Lifecycle published (Ben Linders)
• The Importance of Time Boxes (David Bernstein)
• 9 Steps To Approach A Development Task (Kayleigh Oliver)
• Use the SonarQube Scanner with the new activity for the Team Build (Matteo Emili)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Software Teams – $10.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• 15 Tips for Making Software 100% Bug Free (Rohit Sharma)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google Targets IoT with Android Things (Abel Avram)
• Xamarin Forms Layout Engine, Under The Hood (Adam Pedley)
• How to Make an Android and iOS App in C# on a Mac (Demir Selmanovic)
• Xamarin.Forms: Google AdMob Ads in Android (James Montemagno)
• System X-Ray for Amazon Fire TV: Displaying Custom Information (Andy Haldeman)
• Build your Mobile Development Toolkit for 2017 (Cormac Foster)
• Connecting Alexa to a Botframework Chatbot (Robin Osborne)
• Using Cortana Intelligence in HoloLens Applications (Scott Haynie & Senja Filipi)
• Swift and Objective-C Runtime Programming (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Keith Adams on the Architecture of Slack, using MySql, Edge Caching, & the backend Messaging Server (Keith Adams)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 119 – Indie iOS Developer (Ish Shabazz) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Android Central 318: Smartwatches are dead (Daniel Bader)
• The Changelog 233: Webpack with Sean Larkin (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #327 – An Interview with Avidan Ross (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Episode 221: Azure CLI with Jason Shaver | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• StarTalk Radio – The Lunar Legacy, with Buzz Aldrin (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Developer Tea – Avoiding, “I Told You So” (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• It’s Hat Season…Announcing Winter Bash 2016 (bluefeet)
• Secret Sauce of What Makes Rangers Tick (Edward Fry)

 

Database

• Free eBook: Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• SQL SERVER – How to Download Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle (MSDAORA) for 64 bit? and SQL SERVER – CREATE OR ALTER Supported in Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2016 and How to Use OR Condition in CASE WHEN Statement? – Interview Question of the Week #103 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server on Linux: How? Introduction (Scott Konersmann, Slava Oks & Tobias Ternstrom)
• SSIS Execution Status Lookup and SSRS 2016: Great and Getting Better (Tim Mitchell)
• Updating Multiple Documents With PouchDB and Creating A PouchDB Plugin For Bulk Document Updates (Ben Nadel)
• Auditing and Improving Security with SQL Secure (K. Brian Kelley)
• Power BI Model Size Bloat And Auto Date/Time Tables (Chris Webb)
• DevOps for the database – the inside story (Matt Hilbert)

 

PowerShell

• The Power of PowerShell, Part 2 (Gigi Sayfan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Cool Scratch Projects (Harry Fairhead)
• The Great AI Awakening (James Ashley)
• Microsoft would not work on a Muslim registry if it was asked, the company says a day after meeting with Donald Trump (Kit McDonald)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-19 (Dan Rigby)
• Collective #273 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #261 (Frank Boucher)
• Coming right up. It’s our Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 12th – December 18th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 19, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Azure Weekly: Dec 19, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev News – Week Ending December 16, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #133 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #51, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
• What articles C# developers liked in 2016 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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