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Dew Drop – October 25, 2016 (#2352)

Top Links

Join the PowerShell 10th Anniversary Celebration! (PowerShell Team)
Better Navigation in Xamarin.Forms (Jesse Liberty)
Women in Technology: Meet Comcast’s Kate Lawrence-Gupta (Sherry Lowe)
.NET Rocks! – Xamarin Update with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

PhpStorm 2016.2.2 is now available (Anna Lebedeva)
Responsive Images in CSS (Chris Coyier)
Vertical Slice Test Fixtures for MediatR and ASP.NET Core (Jimmy Bogard)
Getting Started with HTTP/2 and Server Push (Dean Hume)
Introducing Go 2.0 (Dave Cheney)
Troubleshooting Tips on Getting Started with Azure Service Fabric Application Development (Benjamin Xue)
First AWS Certification Study Guide Now Available (Jeff Barr)

XAML

Windows 10, UWP, Unity, HoloLens– Small Explorations of D3D and XAML based Unity Projects and Windows 10 UWP Unity and Adding a Reference to a (UWP) Class Library (Mike Taulty)
Introducing Pontoon – A flexible bridge to the Universal Windows Platform (Peter Freeman Foot)

Miscellaneous .NET

Optimizing read transaction startup time: Unicode ate my perf and all I got was (Oren Eini)
Building your C++ application with Visual Studio Code (Ankit Asthana)
How Many Developers Use C++ vs. C# vs. Other Programming Languages (Benjamin Xue)
Extending Visual Studio with menus, menus, menus and toolbars… (Greg Duncan)
Mini book: InfoQ eMag: A Preview of C# 7 eMag (InfoQ)
One-time Upgrades using Visual Studio and Database Projects (Rachel Hagerman)
UI designer tooling usage survey (Jura Gorohovsky)
Google releases .Net APIs for Google Cloud (Pierre-Luc Maheu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How To Transform Trello Into a Powerful Bug Tracker With The Marker Power-Up (Gary Gaspar)

Other Mobile Platforms

Announcing Azure Storage Client Library GA for Xamarin (Dinesh Murthy)
Introduction to Material Motion in Android (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
Using SQLite In A NativeScript Angular 2 Mobile App (Nic Raboy)
Build an end-to-end Swift app with Watson APIs (Belinda Vennam)
Announcing the Amazon Alexa API Mashup Contest (Glenn Cameron)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

MS Dev Show – Image2Docker with Trevor Sullivan (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Hello World Podcast Episode 77: Kevin Grossnicklaus (Shawn Wildermuth)
Entreprogrammers Episode 139: “Spin-off” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
The Married Gamers Presents Episode 402: The Great Geek Debate (Chris Brown)
Merge Conflict 16: There Will Always Be Room for Nintendo (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
Functional Geekery Episode 71 – Nikhil Swamy (Steven Proctor)
Revision Path 163: Jonathan Key (Maurice Cherry)
SSW TV – NDC Sydney 2016 – Ask Me Anything! with Damian Brady (Octopus Deploy, Getting Better at Deployment, Testing) (Sophie Belle)
Developer Tea – Interview with Dave Rael (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit 2017 agenda (Richard Siddaway)
How to follow along with our Microsoft Windows 10 Event (Elana Pidgeon)
18+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, October 24-30 (Jillian Wilson)
Top open source launches on GitHub (Brandon Keepers)

Database

What’s New in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
SQL SERVER – Displaying SQL Agent Jobs Running at a Specific Time (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

ebook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Step by Step, 3rd Edition (Kim Spilker)
What is new in cHyper-V PowerShell DSC Resource Module? (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

Motz’s Thoughts: Nintendo Switch (James Montemagno)
The Unspoken Benefits of Switching Careers into Software Development (John Sonmez)
The New and Not-So-New Ways to Effectively Network (Kalahari Meetings)
New book: Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-25 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2207 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1759 and Double Shot #1760 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading Notes #254 (Frank Boucher)
Interesting links of the week (10/17 – 10/23) (Mike Eaton)
Azure Weekly: Oct 24, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of 10/17/16 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 Next Generation Ultra Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker : Louder Volume 10W+, More Bass, Water Resistant, Perfect Speaker for Golf, Beach, Shower & Home (Black): Electronics

ASIN: B010OYASRG

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Dew Drop – April 19, 2016 (#2233)

Top Links

JetBrains joins the .NET Foundation (Hadi Hariri)
Refactoring Essentials now with a Roslyn Code Converter (Greg Duncan)
Getting Started with the Media Plugin for Xamarin (Pierce Boggan)
Intro to porting Unity 3D games to UWP: Building and deploying (Alex Teodorescu-Badia)

Web Development

Container and Presentation Components in Angular2 (Dave Baskin)
ngOfficeUiFabric v0.8.0 Released – Two New Directives (Andrew Connell)
Storm Reaches 1.0 (Kay Ewbank)
New languages with Azure Media Indexer 2 Preview (Adarsh Solanki)
Azure Container Service is now generally available (Ross Gardler)

XAML

What’s New in Infragistics WPF 16.1 (Brian Lagunas)
Map APIs and controls: Adding external elements (Windows Apps Team)

Miscellaneous .NET

What’s new for the .NET Native Compiler and Runtime in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 (Stacey Haffner)
C-Runtime Deployment: Why choosing AppLocal? (Eric Mittelette)
Edit and Continue Part 1 – Introduction (Josh Varty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Create Test Cases from the VSTS Kanban board (Esteban Garcia)
Ease Github Pull Request code review (Laurent Kempé)
The key first step for successful organizational change (Gojko Adzic)
Interactive Analytics for Application Insights (Abhijit Jana)
Hidden Parts of the Performance Equation (Albert Gareev)
Using database replication with automated deployments (Chris Heppell & Peter Gerrard)
Look ma, no hands! Deploying Linux-based workloads in Azure Stack through Azure Resource Manager (Matt McSpirit)
6 Red Flags That You Need To Start Cutting Your Losses (Elisa Doucette)
Code Metric Visualization: Lines of Code and Code Coverage (NDepend Team)

Other Mobile Platforms

One language to rule them all: How Azure and Xamarin dominate app development (Imagine Cup Team)
Android From Scratch: Common UI Design Patterns (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 9 – Table Controller Operations (Adrian Hall)
Playing RoboRaid on Microsoft HoloLens – Part 1 (Chris Pietschmann)
Getting Physical with the Beacon-Enabled Web (Jen Looper)
Stream premium content to Apple TV with Azure Media Services (Mingfei Yan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Making Windows Command Line Cool with Richard Turner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Changelog 200: JavaScript and Robots with Raquel Vélez (rockbot) (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to break stories down | David Bernstein (Vasco Duarte)
Hello World Podcast Episode 64: Richard Hundhausen (Shawn Wildermuth)
Defrag Tools #160 – PsPing | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
RiYL Episode 165: Adam Green (Brian Heater)
The Ops Team #017 – “Timekeeping with Tesar” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, Matt McSpirit, Simon May & Oguz Pastirmaci)
WebM, VP9 and Opus Support in Microsoft Edge (Andy Glass, Neil Hinnant & Jerry Smith)
Speech | Context (Mike Taulty & Andrew Spooner)
My Life for the Code Episode 22: The Smallest Possible Thing with Steve Kinney (Shawn Rakowski)
Developer Tea – Abstract Mental Models (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

Early bird offer for RavenDB Conference (Oren Eini)
15+ Excellent Events Happening In Philly This Week, April 18-24 (Jillian Wilson)
Many facets of India’s first Openness Days (MVP Award Program)

Database

Backwards Compatibility in SQL Server Data Tools for Integration Services (Koen Verbeeck)
MySQL – LEAST and GREATEST Comparison Operators (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 3.5 whirl wind tour: Is this a cluster in your pocket AND you are happy to see me? (Oren Eini)
How To Use PouchDB + SQLite For Local Storage In Ionic 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
Profiler, Extended Events And Analysis Services (Chris Webb)
The compiled query feature in Marten and why it rocks. (Jeremy D. Miller)

PowerShell

PowerShell Parameters Part II – ValidateSet and ValidatePattern (Tim Smith)
A study in PowerShell scripting – A beginners guide Part 3 (Wei-Yen Tan)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s mobile hardware mess: Android isn’t the answer (Ed Bott)
Finally, an all-emoji programming language (Michael Morisy)
Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Too much memory! (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-04-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-04-19 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2075 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1672 (Mike Gunderloy)
Geek Reading April 18, 2016 #1086 (Robert Diana)
Reading Notes #228 (Frank Boucher)
Daily Links 18 Apr 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 18th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Samsung Fast Charge Wireless Charging Stand, Black: Cell Phones & Accessories

ASIN: B01BMDQ9U8

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Dew Drop – February 11, 2016 (#2186)

Top Links

ReSharper Ultimate 10.1 EAP Build 1 (Part 2) and Project Rider: subscribe to receive early builds as soon as they are ready (Jura Gorohovsky)
Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 is available (Brian Harry)
Living with (and building for) the Amazon Echo (Simon Cross)
Microsoft Press Flash sale: Save up to 55% on all books & eBooks (Kim Spilker)

Web Development

Make a Local Web Server With Grunt Connect (Chris Love)
Encoded JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC Core (Ricardo Peres)
PhpStorm 11 EAP 144.3891 (Anna Lebedeva)
Making Your First Chart in AngularJS (Gagan Sikri)
RIMDev Post : Deploying Jekyll To Windows Azure App Services (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Microsoft Announces ASP.NET Core Schedule Changes and Renaming Precisions (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
ServiceStack and Razor Forms (Patrick Steele)
js-fatigue-fatigue (Axel Rauschmayer)
Get Started With Twilio SMS in Ruby With This Five Minute Video (Brent Schooley)
Building a Jekyll Site – Part 2 of 3: Adding a Jekyll CMS with CloudCannon (Chris Coyier)
Free eBook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure (DevOps, Availability, Storage, more) (Chris Pietschmann)
Securing Web Applications, Part 2. SQL (and other) Injection Attacks (Robin Sillem)
Azure Search – A Managed search as a service in the cloud (Venkata Koppaka)
Short note on use of alt=”” and the title attribute (Steve Faulkner)

XAML

Enum.GetNames() for Silverlight (Vinodhkumar M.)
“Project Oxford”–Speaker Verification from a Windows 10/UWP App (Mike Taulty)

Miscellaneous .NET

Where the white spaces are in my code ?– Automatically indicates white spaces in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
BaseServer: Abstract class for timer based jobs (Gunnar Peipman)
TFS 2015 Update 2 RC1 Available – With VS Release Management vNext (Jakob Ehn)
TPL Dataflow Starvation Fixed (Bnaya Eshet)
#VisualStudio 2015 Tips – How to enable/disable the Quick Launch? (Kunal Chowdhury)
A (Hitchhiker’s) Guide To The .NET Core Projects on GitHub (Mark Rendle)
Get your code hosted for free in VSTS (Matthew Mitrik)
If somebody creates or deletes a file in a directory while I am enumerating its contents, what happens? (Raymond Chen)
NDepend on a Real Project (Again): Version 6’s New Stuff (Steve Wilkes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Software Delivery with #NoEstimates (Ryan Ripley)
What is UI Automation testing, and why you should use it? (Michael Germann)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS 9: Additions to SceneKit (Davis Allie)
Claim Your Spot for Xamarin CI (Keith Ballinger)
Customizing Controls for different platforms (Android, iOS, and Windows Phone) using Renderer for Xamarin Forms (Arun Kumar)
Valve Brings SteamVR to the Unity Platform (JP Hawkins)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Game Development with Unity – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Announcing the People API (Laurence Moroney)
Don’t design for mobile, design for mobility (Sergio Nouvel)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – User Research with Lily Dart (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Yet Another Podcast #146 – Laurent Bugnion (Jesse Liberty)
AAWP Insight #169: new rings, 950 choices, decline and fall (Rafe Blandford)
The Joy of Coding – Episode 44 (Air Mozilla)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 30: What Is Your E to E Ratio? (Carlos L. Chacon)
Game Dev Show 01 – Which language should I program my game in? (David Voyles)
The Web Ahead 112: Imagining the Web of Things with Stephanie Rieger and Jonas Sicking (Jen Simmons)
What The Tech 295: Nokia Lumia 930, the Good and the Terrible (Paul Thurrott)
SSW TV – Build your own Marketplace: Online Payments | Ben Cull at DDD Brisbane (Sophie Belle)

Community / Events

Engaging with Progress Software (Lino Tadros)

Database

SQL Server Compress and Decompress Functions (Rajendra Gupta)
Troubleshoot SQL Server Agent Notifications and Database Mail (Varinder Sohal)
SQL SERVER – JSON Support for Transmitting Data for SQL Server 2016 – Notes from the Field #114 (Pinal Dave)
DocumentDB Tutorial 2 – Working with Documents (Eitan Blumin)

SharePoint

To Code or Not To Code – the ultimate SharePoint Question (Greg Galipeau)

PowerShell

How to add a new functionality to the Visual Studio Code PowerShell extension (Jan Egil Ring)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft debuts new Windows 10 Insider Release Preview Ring for PCs, mobile (Mary Jo Foley)
Mapping your Windows Special Folders to OneDrive for Business – Ultimate Backup (Martin Hinshelwood)
Ex-Microsoft Designer Explains How Office Mobile Came Together (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading February 10, 2016 #1039 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #2029 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 10th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
Microservices, Aurelia, and AngularJS NG2 on Thu Feb 11 2016 (Jeremy Likness)

The Geek Shelf

A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One: Daniel Abraham, George R. R. Martin, Tommy Patterson: 9780440423218: Books

ISBN: 044042321X
ISBN-13: 9780440423218

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