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Dew Drop – May 22, 2015 (#2020)

Top Links

Save the day with a Visual Basic, C#, or F# T-Shirt! (Anthony D. Green)
Win10 apps in .NET- common library issues (Lucian Wischik)
Build 2015 – Ask Anders Anything (Anders Hejlsberg & Seth Juarez)
When everything you know is wrong, part two (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

Normalizing Untrusted Deferred / Promise Values For The $digest Lifecycle In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Quick Tips to Boost Your WordPress Website’s Speed: Further & Better Optimization (Barış Ünver)
Simplifying the JavaScript Callback function for .NET developers (Dhananjay Kumar)
Customize ASP.NET MVC 6 View Location Easily (Jeff Fritz)
Angular Select List Value not binding with Static Values (Rick Strahl)
True Hash Maps in JavaScript (Ryan Morr)
Content Delivery Networks: Which one is right for you? (Dean Hume)
Apigee API Studio: Designing, Testing and Sharing APIs (Abel Avram)
Intel’s contributions in Microsoft Edge: SIMD and other performance enhancements (Rob Hwacinski, Gaurav Seth & Juan Rodriguez)

XAML

Apps on Windows 10 – the broad strokes (Andreas Hammar)
MS Media Platform Player Framework – Windows 10 Universal Apps XAML BETA (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous .NET

Bug Fix Update to ReSharper Ultimate is Available (Daria Dovzhikova)
Sign Up for the Office 365 Developer Program! (Andrew Connell)
What Every Programmer Should Know About Compiler Optimizations, Part 2 (Hadi Brais)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Delivering Value on Time by Using #NoEstimates and Developing Provably-Correct Software Using Formal Methods (Ben Linders)
Use Metrics to Tell a Story (Jann Thomas)
Democracy Vs. Dictatorship (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Have A Point Of View And A Plan (Mike Cottmeyer)

Other Mobile Platforms

Always-on and Wi-Fi with the latest Android Wear update (Wayne Piekarski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 046 platform dev with Mike Fitzmaurice and Andrew Connell (Jeremy Thake)
Hanselminutes – Getting started making NodeBots and Wearables with Kassandra Perch (Scott Hanselman)
Azure Podcast Episode 78 – SQL Azure DB Elastic Tools (Sujit D’Mello)
Scrum is a method to understand how the system behaves | Jeremy Jarrell (Vasco Duarte)
The Changelog 156: Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage with Ben Word and Scott Walkinshaw (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
The Nerdist Podcast – Richard Lewis (Chris Hardwick)
The Amp Hour #250 – An Interview with Vic Aprea – Federated Firmware Functionalism (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

Community / Events

RSVP for Xamarin’s WWDC 2015 Party (Joseph Hill)
Announcing the 4th Batch of DockerCon 2015 Speakers (Adam Herzog)
My slide decks from the //build tour are up (David Voyles)
CodeConf 2015: Speakers, Workshops and Hotel Discount (Kelsey Schimmelman)

Database

SQL SERVER – Only Formatted Files on Which the Cluster Resource of the Server has a Dependency can be Used (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB Sharding – Adding a new shard to an existing cluster, splitting the shard (Oren Eini)
Query Folding in Power Query to Improve Performance (Koen Verbeeck)
A taste of DocumentDB through our Query Playground (Andrew Hoh)

PowerShell

SQL Server Monitoring with Powershell and the SQL Server Platform: Data Processing (Part 2 of 3) (Fikrat Azizov)
Azure Power Shell: Azure Cloud Services for the Command Line Junkie -Part 3 (Adarsha Datta)

Miscellaneous

New ways to get more done in Outlook.com (Outlook Team)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading May 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1506 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: May 22, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
The Morning Brew #1866 (Chris Alcock)
my weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-22 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 21st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks: Adventures in Better Web Apps (Pragmatic Programmers): Jack Moffitt, Frederic Daoud: 9781937785635: Books

ISBN: 1937785637
ISBN-13: 9781937785635

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Dew Drop – January 5, 2015 (#1926)

Top Links

Visual Basic .NET: 14 Top Improvements in Visual Basic 14 (Lucian Wischik)
Top 10 Things Every ScrumMaster Should Be Doing (Michael Burns)
Tech Predictions, 2015 (Ted Neward)
C# String Equality: == vs .Equals() and LINQ: LET vs INTO (Dustin Davis)

Web Development

Forcing MVC Model State to invalid for Unit Tests (Derik Whittaker)
How to Roll Your Own Simple WordPress Podcast Plugin (Geoff Graham)
Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin with WordPress (Jeff Reifman)
Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Security (Simon Timms)
Moving Items from One Multi Select List To Another using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
Reading Azure config in ASPNet5 (Aaron Powell)
Why JSON Triumphed Over SOAP (Bill Doerrfeld)
TypeScript: Understanding TypeScript (Peter Vogel)

XAML

Changing the Pivot Header template in Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone WinRT (Iris Classon)
Using XAML ScrollViewer in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
Windows Phone 8.1: Adding Application Data to the Windows Phone 8.1 Map Control (Keith Pijanowski)
Connecting Windows/Windows Phone Apps to Azure Mobile Service and Creating Your Solution and Your Azure Mobile Service and Updating the Data Model with Azure Mobile Service (Nick Randolph)
Sensing the future with WPF (Pete O’Hanlon)
WPF Windows XP Style ProgressBar (Tanna)
WPF Shapes – Path – Simple Geometry (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

Visual F# Power Tools – v1.7.0 Release (F# Projects Team)
How to get MSBuild log files in Markdown format (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
What’s new in C# 6.0? – await in catch and finally blocks (Kunal Chowdhury)
Porting a commercial compiler from OCaml to F# (Jon Harrop)
Fix Visual Studio Error “No exports were found that match the constraint” (Zhiming Xue)
.NET SQL Server Stored Procedure Data Access Layer (Peter Piotti)
Walkthrough: Scheduling jobs using Quartz.net – Part 1: What is Quartz.Net? (Tarun Arora)
Data Points: Looking Ahead to Entity Framework 7 (Julie Lerman)
How do you prevent the linker from discarding a function you want to make available for debugging? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Introducing Bug Magnet – an exploratory testing helper (Gojko Adzic)
Some Thoughts on LeadingAgile Going Into 2015 (Mike Cottmeyer)
Continuous Improvement in Scrum: Peer Feedback (Rajeev Kumar Gupta)
Concurrency, part 2: Patterns for Asynchronous Methods (Schabse Laks)
Mindmapping Software: A Game Changer for Project Management (Chance Brown)
Stop solving problems (Wes Higbee)

Other Mobile Platforms

Launching the Native Map App from Xamarin.Forms and Handling Orientation Changes in Xamarin.Forms Apps (Chris Sells)
Jump Start the New Year with Xamarin! (Jayme Singleton)
INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE: Watch your Android App Version (Rick Strahl)
Lollipop AppCompat PreferenceActivity (James Montemagno)
Swift from Scratch: Optionals and Control Flow (Bart Jacobs)
Hello IoT… (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 291 – PowerScripting Podcast – Garrett Serack from Microsoft on OneGet (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
Scrum Master Toolbox – A New Podcast Will Be Born January 2015 (Luis Gonçalves & Vasco Duarte)
The Nerdist Podcast – Kate Walsh (Chris Hardwick)
Get Up And Code 072: It’s a New Year (Douglas Coleman)
StarTalk Radio – Season 5 Time Capsule (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community / Events

Welcome to 2015: A look ahead as Microsoft faces perhaps its biggest year, ever (Kip Kniskern)
Big Start to the New Year at MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)
Lenovo unveils new Thinkpad products at CES 2015 (Richard Devine)

Database

SharePoint / O365

Developing for Office 365 – thoughts on use of custom master pages and web templates etc. (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

Drop and Re-Create All Foreign Key Constraints in a SQL Server database using PowerShell (Johan Bijnens)
SQL Server Table and Index Compression Information With PowerShell (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

Do elite software developers exist? (Eric Sink)
HTC One M9 (Hima) photos surface ahead of CES 2015 (Adrian Potoroaca)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 2, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Reading Notes #169 (Frank)
Collective #149 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1454 and Double Shot #1455 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 1/5/2014 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1770 (Chris Alcock)
Last Week on Channel 9: December 29th, 2014 – January 4th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
Reblog: December 26 to January 1 (Jason Strate)
Weekly Programming Digest #88 (Jakub Chodounský)
Links of the month (December Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin Essentials: Mark Reynolds: 9781783550838: Books

ISBN: 178355083X
ISBN-13: 9781783550838

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Dew Drop – January 2, 2015 (#1925)

Top Links

Creating Developer Opportunity with Windows Store in 2015 (Todd Brix)
AutoMapper 3.3 feature: parameterized projections (Jimmy Bogard)
ContentPresenter for Xamarin.Forms and DataTemplateSelector for Xamarin.Forms (Oren Novotny)
Software Gardening: Harvesting (Continuous Delivery Techniques) (Craig Berntson)

Web Development

JavaScript: A Look Back Before a Look Forward (Don Kiely)
Using jQuery Instead Of jqLite In AngularJS and Creating jqLite Plugins In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
jQuery Takes over the Pointer Events Polyfill from Google (Abel Avram)
Forcing MVC Model State to invalid for Unit Tests (Derik Whittaker)
Developing on Pantheon with PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
Stop Kendo Template Capitalization Mishaps in Visual Studio 2015 Copy/Paste (Rachel Hagerman)
Adding Filter Hooks to Your WordPress Theme Framework and Creating Child Themes for Your WordPress Theme Framework (Rachel McCollin)
Gulp Your TypeScript in ASP.NET 5 (Shayne Boyer)
Hardware Accelerated CSS: The Nice vs The Naughty (Ariya Hidayat)
Additions on a Bootstrap Panel (Paul Sheriff)
Running grunt tasks when deploying ASPNet5 apps to Azure (Aaron Powell)
Create a Twitter Widget with the Latest Twitter API (Agbonghama Collins)
New Lodge Course Finished: Everything You Need To Know About SVG (Chris Coyier)
Static Class Members in ES6 (Ravi Kiran)
Speeding up HTTPS with session resumption (Nick Sullivan)

XAML

WPF Validation – Using IDataErrorInfo (K K Srinivasan)
Using XAML RepeatButton in WPF and Using XAML RichTextBox in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
How to Use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Media Library – FMRadioService and How to Use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Device Info – DeviceExtendedPropertiesService and How to Use Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Media Library – MediaLibraryService (Sara Silva)
WPF Shapes – Polyline (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

Less Defects with F# Units of Measure (Jonathan Wood)
C# basics: why we override Equals method and C-Sharp Basics: What is Checked and Unchecked operations (Dhananjay Kumar)
Getting Used to Git in Visual Studio: Branches (Jeremy Clark)
Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Playing with Faces (Mike Taulty)
SpecFlow Strategy (Dave M. Bush)
Entity Framework Pitfalls: Non Public Entity Sets Setter and Entity Developer Review, Part 4 (Ricardo Peres)
Apps for Office: Publishing and Distribution (Josh Morales)
A Lap Around the Kinect for Windows V2 SDK (Pete D.)

Design / Methodology / Testing

10 Reasons Why You Won’t Achieve Your Goals (J.D. Meier)
Scrum – My New Year’s Resolution (Michael Burns)
Naming Things is Hard: Method-Naming Patterns and Finding a Balance: Code ‘Complexity’ (Steve Wilkes)
Problem Solving for Software Engineers (Giovanni Scerra)
Writing Bug Reports that won’t bug you…(or the dev that picks it up) (Greg Duncan)
Article: We Need No Less Than Pervasive Leadership (Jean Richardson)
The QA Department Mindset (Rob Galanakis)
Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult!?#@% (Steven Sinofsky)
Handoff erodes trust (Wes Higbee)
Deliberate Practice for Programmers? (John Sonmez)

Other Mobile Platforms

App and User Settings in Xamarin.Forms Apps (Chris Sells)
Styling Views on Android (Sachit Wadhawan)
Connect the IoT Dot’s with help from ConnectTheDots.io (Connect your tiny IoT devices to Azure…) (Greg Duncan)
Mobile First, Cloud First and How it Applies to Line of Business Software and Field Engineer Sample for Azure Mobile Services (Nick Randolph)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Typewriters on Tablets using Xamarin with Jon Peppers and .NET Rocks! – State of DevOps in .NET at NDC London (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Computer Vision Explained with PyImageSearch’s Adrian Rosebrock (Scott Hanselman)
140 JSJ Using Art to Get and Keep People Interested in Programming with Jenn Schiffer (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
The Nerdist Podcast – Ho-Ho-Hostful (Chris Hardwick)
Hello World Podcast Episode 48: Dave Ward (Shawn Wildermuth)
Adventures in Angular 023 – Back& with Itay Herskovits and Relly Rivlan (John Papa)
The Married Gamers Episode 353: Drink Up! (Chris Brown)
The Amp Hour #230 – Prepping For Hoverboards – Gallionic GitHub Gabble (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Nerds At Play 076: Technical Difficulties, the Sequel (Melisa Snyder)
RiYL Episode 086: Cory Doctorow (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

Microsoft web camps across the US in January (David Voyles)
Systems Thinking about WIT (Jessica Kerr)
Dev of the Week: Erich Styger (John Walter)
Thanks for an Incredible 2014! MVA 2.6 Million Customers Strong! (Michael Aldridge)
New and Renewed MVPs Announced – Happy New Year! (MVP Award Program)

Database

Add a linear trendline to a graph in SQL Server Reporting Services (Koen Verbeeck)
SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP (Ian Stirk)
Show 13 – SQL Server Monitoring (Matan Yungman)
SQL SERVER – Fix – Missing “Mirroring” and “Transaction Log Shipping” option in the Database Properties (Pinal Dave)
Data Subscriptions in RavenDB and Side by side indexes in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Bidirectional Relationships And Many-To-Many In The Power BI Designer (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

Creating SharePoint Word Documents with AngularJS using LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

PowerShell

Drop and Re-Create All Foreign Key Constraints in a SQL Server database using PowerShell (Johan Bijnens)
Securely allocating GUIDs in PowerShell Desired State Configuration Pull Mode (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

Joe Belfiore: More news on Office for Windows Phone is coming before Feb. 19 (John Callaham)
Microsoft Band possibly back in stock Saturday at Microsoft’s retail stores (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading December 31, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for 2014! (Dmitry Lyalin)
Double Shot #1452 and Double Shot #1453 (Mike Gunderloy)
A Look Back at 2014: Round-up of Codrops Resources (Mary Lou)
Coding4Fun 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
The Morning Brew #1767 and The Morning Brew #1768 (Chris Alcock)
December 2014 Links (Kevin Logan)
Top 10 Most Popular .NET Tips of the Year – From Daily .NET Tips (Abhijit Jana)
Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
Top 3 UX Articles of 2014 (Anthony)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#: Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin: 9780131857254: Books

ISBN: 0131857258
ISBN-13: 9780131857254

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