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Morning Dew Deal – Reactive Applications with Akka.NET – Discount Code

Posted on January 27, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Manning Publications has a new MEAP (Manning Early Access Preview) title, Reactive Applications with Akka.NET.

Reactive Applications with Akka.NET begins with an overview of reactive and a sample application written in the reactive style. You’ll learn concepts of the actor model and what these mean in a real-world reactive context. This hands-on book builds on fundamental concepts to teach you how to create reliable and resilient applications. You’ll also learn useful Akka.NET features for building real-world applications. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to look at a problem domain and understand how to create applications which are able to withstand the demands of a modern day application.

From now thru February 3, 2016, Morning Dew readers can get 40% off all formats of this title by using discount code rakkanet at checkout.

Cheers!

Alvin

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Dew Drop – January 27, 2016 (#2175)

Posted on January 27, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Servicing Update Available for Visual Studio Update 1 (Kaycee Anderson)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
The Static Void Podcast – .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Todd Snyder, Chris Gomez & Jess Chadwick)
You suck at TDD #4 – External dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)

Web Development

Correlating Directive Life-Cycle Events To DOM State In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
MVC Controller Resolver Cache (Ricardo Peres)
PhpStorm 11 EAP 144.3398 (Anna Lebedeva)
Fortifying Security in WordPress, Part 2 (Barış Ünver)
Ember.js 2.3 Release Brings Significant Changes (James Chesters)
CSS Font Features (Myles Maxfield)
Two Factor Authentication in Rails 4 with Devise, Authy and Puppies (Phil Nash)
jQuery UI 1.12.0 Beta 1 (Scott González)
Creating a Filter Pipe in Angular 2 (Deborah Kurata)
Azure Cloud Load Testing – Part 2 (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
Making the Firefox developer tools accessible (Marco Zehe)
Announcing the first Technical Preview of Microsoft Azure Stack (Mike Neil)
Paging in ASP.NET Web API (Spencer Schneidenbach)

XAML

Windows SDK for Facebook (Doug Mahugh)
#UWP – Single source code line to find if our app is on Desktop, #IoT, Mobile, or #XBox (Bruno Capuano)
Intel RealSense SR300, Windows 10 and UWP? (Mike Taulty)

Miscellaneous .NET

Different ways to launch the Application Insights Search Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
How to compute the Hash value of a file using #CSharp? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Steering LED RGBW light bulb in .NET (Marcin Kawalerowicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Production Postmortem: The Razor Suicide (Oren Eini)
The Wrong Abstraction (Sandi Metz)
Fixing Spaghetti: How to Work With Legacy Code (Jason Ables)
Three Common Mistakes of the First Time Tech Lead (Patrick Kua)
Technical Debt and Team Morale when Maintaining a Large System (Ben Linders)
Mood Driven Development (Chris Coyier)
How I’m Testing Redux’ified React Components (Jeremy D. Miller)
Some senior executives are afraid to provide feedback, because they know that their feedback will be given too much weight (Raymond Chen)
Continuous Deployment With Heroku and Github (Sam Atkinson)
Git 2.7: a Major New Release with Many New Features and Improvements (Sergio De Simone)

Other Mobile Platforms

Using the Basic UI Controls in Android: Buttons, Texts, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Toggle Buttons, and Spinners (Building a Simple Android Application Demo) (Vipul Patel)
Progress update: Node.js SDK for Azure App Service Mobile Apps (Adrian Hall)
Instrumenting iOS Apps III (Noel Rice)
6 mobility trends to look out for in 2016 (Neudesic Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Service Discovery with Ian Cooper (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Gone Mobile 29: Push Notifications (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
Startup Success Podcast 3.15 Welcome to 2016 (Bob Walsh)
RiYL Episode 149: Josie Long (Brian Heater)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 28: How Do You Know There Is A Problem? Baselines! (Carlos L. Chacon)
Developer on Fire Episode 090 | Jamie Dixon – Consistently Virtuous (Dave Rael)
RunAs Radio – Microsoft Operations Management Suite with Cameron Fuller (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 112 | Build conference tickets, MS $Billion donation, Node with Chakra, Office UI Fabric and the cloud news (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Tuesdays with Corey: Troubleshooting and Diagnostics for VMs in Azure | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
SSW TV – API Management | Dev Superpowers Episode 19 – Danijel Malik (Sophie Belle)
Developer Tea – Part 2 – Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

Xamarin Evolve 2016 Speaker Spotlight: Charles Petzold (Joseph Hill)
Software Industry Pioneer Ed Yourdon Dies (Shane Hastie)
First-ever Hack for Her Summit champions gender inclusiveness for the benefit of everyone (Christina Chen)

Database

SQL SERVER – Add failover cluster node fails with “number of cluster nodes supported for edition” (Pinal Dave)
Learning To Love Data Science (Kay Ewbank)
Another reason why scalar functions in computed columns is a bad idea (Erik Darling)
Memory Optimized Tables and Columnstore (Jeremiah Peschka)

PowerShell

Using PowerShell To Record SQL Server Virtual Log File (VLF) Growth (Tim Smith)
PowerShell function to delete if exist and create empty folder and Batch file that required administrative privileges. (Michael Freidgeim)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft rolls out Universal Windows 10 Power BI apps (Mary Jo Foley)
Introduction to Microsoft’s Small Basic by TheFishiVersity – Class 1 (Ed Price)
Microsoft: Surface tablets have not experienced a single failure in 2 years on NFL sidelines (Kurt Schlosser)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 26, 2016 (Robert Diana)
Top News from October-December 2015, Part 1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Double Shot #1633 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #2018 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: January 27, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
The week in .NET – 1/25/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 26th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Docker: Up & Running (9781491917572): Karl Matthias, Sean P. Kane: Books

ISBN: 1491917571
ISBN-13: 9781491917572

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Dew Drop – June 28, 2013 (#1,375)

Posted on June 28, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Windows Azure: General Availability of Web Sites + Mobile Services, New AutoScale + Alerts Support, No Credit Card Needed for MSDN (Scott Guthrie)
ReSharper 8.0 Beta is Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
Designing the Visual Studio 2013 User Experience (Eric Zocher)
Announcing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tools in Visual Studio 2013 (F# Team)
What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Preview for authoring Windows Store XAML apps (XAML Tools Team)
Business Apps, Cloud Apps, and More at Build 2013 (S.Somasegar)

Web Development

Autoscaling Windows Azure Cloud Services (and web sites) (Maarten Balliauw)
HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview (Van Kichline)
Adding External Logins to your ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2013 and Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications (Pranav Rastogi)
Babylon.js: a complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5 and WebGL (David Catuhe)
KnockoutJs ProTip: When Checked Bindings and Attr Bindings on a check box, order matters (Derik Whittaker)
Improved version of ASP.NET checkbox list values collecting method (Gunnar Peipman)
Custom logging with Windows Azure web sites (Larry Franks)
Live from //build/: Windows Azure Mobile Services and Web Sites GA, Autoscale Preview and new Virtual Machines Images (Olivier Bloch)
Simple DropDownList With Default Value Using ASP.NET MVC4, Razor and an HtmlHelper (Peter Kellner)
The new Auto Scaling Service in Windows Azure (Shiju Varghese)
Introducing Polymelia Deploy (Fredrik Normen)
Building a Web App From Scratch in AngularJS (Leon Revill)
The Rise of the Cloud Stack (Aaron Levie)
Mobile Web Problems and How to Avoid Them (Chris Coyier)

XAML

My Developing Windows 8 Apps w/ XAML Live Lesson is Live (Derik Whittaker)
The first ever cloud-powered controls for Windows Phone! (Deyan Ginev)
WinRT/XAML Performance Fundamentals (Jonathan Allen)
2000 WPF Things #852 – Setting a Three-State CheckBox to an Indeterminate Value (Sean Sexton)
Tiles, Toasts, and Notifications in Windows Store Apps (Christian Nagel)
Application Reliability in Windows Store Apps (Jonathan Allen)
[Sample Of Jun 27th] How to realize dynamic fontsize for TextBlock in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)
New advertising SDK helps marketers target in-app ads more effectively within Windows 8 (Steve Wiens)
The Windows Store for Windows 8.1 (Ted Dworkin)

Miscellaneous .NET

LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Preview! (Beth Massi)
Announcing LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Preview (John Stallo)
Seeing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger (Yaniv F.)
Second Look at LightSwitch in VS2013 Preview (Xpert360)
Using the 2013 CPU Sampling Profiler to Understand C++ Compiler Optimizations (Andrew B Hall)
NET 4.5.1 Is Bigger Than It Appears (Jeff Martin)
2000 C# Things #876 – Unhandled Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
Get the latest .NET Bits (The .NET Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Analysis and Design in Agile (Dave Rooney)
What allows agile to succeed in an organization? (Mark Kilby)
Customize the colors in Team Foundation Server 2013 Agile Planning Tools (Martin Hinshelwood)
Book Review: The Human Side of Agile (Patrick Kua)
GoodUI (Chris Coyier)
Book Review: Design Evolution (Rachel Andrew)
Why It’s Critical to Use Reporting for Your Projects and Potential Project Killers Part 3. The Indecisive Customer (Brad Egeland)

Other Mobile Platforms

Visual Studio, Xcode and VMware Fusion Shared Folders (Pascal Arnould)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 101: Mark Dery, cultural critic (Mark Frauenfelder)
Ask Udi 1: Alternative Architectures & Preaching to the Unconverted (Udi Dahan)
The Vergecast 082 – June 27th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
Build Day 1: The Hackathon has begun! (Laura Foy)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 96 (Windows 8.1 Preview Edition) (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

BUILD 2013: 2nd Keynote: ASP.Net, Azure mobile services, autoscale and Active Directory (Iris Classon)
Build 2013 Keynote (MVP Award Program)
Geekend Picks: Philly Beer Week, Punk Rock Puppets, Zombie Beach Party (Nicole Kline)
An ‘all-new Microsoft’ gets cheers from developers at Build (Todd Bishop)
What happened at the Build conference? (David Helgason)

Database

Comparing SQL Server and Oracle background processes (Ben Snaidero)
SQL SERVER – How to Set Variable and Use Variable in SQLCMD Mode (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 2.5: What is new here? (Oren Eini)
SQL 2014 CTP1, where is my BIDS? (Koen Verbeeck)
Managing Transaction Log Growth (Ted Krueger)
The Accidental DBA (Day 27 of 30): Troubleshooting: Tempdb Contention (Paul Randal)

PowerShell

SCVMM – Round 2 – How to create a Private Cloud using PowerShell (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Outlook RT preview: Which features are (and aren’t) supported (Mary Jo Foley)
Introduction to Systematic Programming – Week 3 (Dara Monasch)
Free Xbox One Shirt for your Xbox 360 Avatar (Larry Hryb)
Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale (Timothy)
2 Cool Things in Windows 8.1 I’d Like to See Come to Windows Phone (Matt Lacey)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 28, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 13 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, June 27th (Rob Caron)
Double Shot #1151 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows Dev News for June 27, 2013 – #0166 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #1387 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-06-28 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: June 28, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 6/28/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 27 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 27 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming the Mobile Web: Maximiliano Firtman: 9781449334970: Books

ISBN: 1449334970
ISBN-13: 9781449334970

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