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Dew Drop – October 8, 2015 (#2107)

Posted on October 8, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Optimizing your XAML app for performance (10 by 10) (Rajen Kishna)
Journey to the intelligent cloud (Scott Guthrie)
Moving into the next generation of the Microsoft MVP Award (Steve Guggenheimer)
ASP.NET 5 Anywhere with OmniSharp and Yeoman (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi & Shayne Boyer)

Web Development

Overriding Core And Custom Services In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
PostCSS Quickstart Guide: Exploring Plugins (Kezz Bracey)
6 Free JavaScript Books for Advanced Learners (Learning jQuery)
Modules in JavaScript Circa 2015 (K. Scott Allen)
React v0.14 (Ben Alpert)
intercepting-method-calls (Axel Rauschmayer)
Introducing Graph API v2.5 (Jianting Wen)
Using extended srcset and the picture element to tailor your image to every device and layout (Greg Whitworth)
How Azure File Storage Works (Paul Ballard)
How to break your site with a content security policy: an illustrated example (Troy Hunt)
React, GraphQL and Relay: A brief introduction (Samer Buna)

XAML

Windows 10 Development for Absolute Beginners (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous .NET

Creating a Genuine Value Object (Peter Vogel)
Article: Big Memory .NET Part 1 – The Challenges in Handling 1 Billion Resident Business Objects (Dmitriy Khmaladze & Leonid Ganeline)
CodeCop – The JSON configurable method interception library for .NET (CodeCop Team)
How do we change permissions on a share as fast as Explorer does it? (Raymond Chen)
Exploring Interop Communication (Marcin Kawalerowicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Thinking In (A Different) Context – A Prototype For User Experience (UX) Designers (Ben Nadel)
Are You a SOLID Coder? (Steve Green)

Other Mobile Platforms

DataBinding Settings in Xamarin.Forms and Optimizing & Testing Libraries Leveraging Xamarin Test Cloud (James Montemagno)
Visual Studio Emulator for Android – Day 8 – VS 2015 Series (Venkata Koppaka)
Objective-C: Properties vs. iVars (Ophir Prusak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Web Performance Testing Tools with Charles Sterling (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
180 JSJ Finding a Job (Charles Max Wood & Aimee Knight)
The Married Gamers Episode 377: Toy Box (Chris Brown)
Mac Power Users 282: MPU Live: Making It Up As We Go Along (David Sparks & Katie Floyd)
Discussion on MVP New Award structure (Scott Hanselman & Phil Haack)
Defrag: Windows 10 Upgrade Tips, Microsoft IoT Starter Kits, Windows To Go and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
Why does Microsoft exist? An interview with CEO Satya Nadella (Nilay Patel)
OfficeDevShow – Episode 14 – Getting Started Experience on Dev Office | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 SP2 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft® Office® (MS Downloads)
Including NULL Values in JSON Output in SQL Server 2016 (Rajendra Gupta)
SQL SERVER – Why Should You Not to Use Old Style JOIN? (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

PackageManagement PowerShell Modules Preview (MS Downloads)
Discovering SSRS Report Parameters using PowerShell (Donabel Santos)

Miscellaneous

HP Offers Premium Windows 10 PCs for the World (Terry Myerson)
HP Announces New PCs Built to Deliver Amazing Experiences Made Possible by Windows 10 (The Windows Team)
Dell brings Windows 10 to Life with New XPS Devices (Yusuf Mehdi)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading October 7, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1942 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-08 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-08 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 7th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Swift in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) (9780672337246): BJ Miller: Books

ISBN: 067233724X
ISBN-13: 9780672337246

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Dew Drop – October 7, 2015 (#2106)

Posted on October 7, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Update News: Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1, Visual Studio Emulator for Android, Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from Microsoft (Terry Myerson)
HTTP Event Collector, your DIRECT event pipe to Splunk 6.3 (Glenn Block)
Microsoft HoloLens developer kit coming Q1 2016 for $3,000 (Joseph Keller)

Web Development

Overriding Directive Definitions In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Using Kendo UI in a Meteor Application (Cody Lindley)
Authorization Policies and Middleware in ASP.NET 5 (K. Scott Allen)
Getting started with Emscripten (David Voyles)
Splunk admin & some basics around working with REST APIs (Hal Rottenberg)

XAML

NavigationService with MVVM Light and Template 10 (Marco Minerva)
Using PasswordRevealMode for unmasking the Password in Universal Windows Apps (Abhijit Jana)
Custom trigger with user interaction mode in Universal Windows App (Arun Kumar)

Miscellaneous .NET

AppVeyor extension for Visual Studio 2013/2015 (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
Exploiting Generic Types with StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)
First, try reading the error message, episode 4: Even programmers see error messages without reading them (Raymond Chen)
Making Reports Suck Less (Sam Basu)
New Mobile Features – Day 7 – VS 2015 Series (Venkata Koppaka)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Getting NUnit Test Parameters From a File (or Other Source) (Jeremy Clark)
Be Quick, but Don’t Hurry (Dave Rael)
How to Estimate Software Projects Like a Pro: Setting up the Right Team and Structuring Communication (Sergey Smetyukh & Artyom Vorobyov)
Defining and Dealing with Technical Debt (Geoff Graham)
Master “The Art of Stage Presence” with James Whittaker (PowerPoint Team)

Other Mobile Platforms

52 Weeks of Xamarin – Week 9: Databases part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
In-app translations in Android Marshmallow (Barak Turovsky)
Now available: Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3 (Jordan Matthiesen)
5 Tips for Android Developers Transitioning to Windows Phone Using Unity (Susan Ibach)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Omnisharp with David Driscoll (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
SSW TV – ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6, Where’s my cheese? | Dev Superpowers Episode 15 (SSW Team)
AAWP Insight #155: Lumia 950 and 950 XL event (Rafe Blandford)
The state of open source in .Net (Amy Palamountain)
Developer on Fire Episode 043 | Greger Wikstrand – Specializing in Generalizing (Dave Rael)
Functional Geekery Episode 29 – Carin Meier (Steven Proctor)
RunAs Radio – Understanding How Apps are Used with Andreas Grabner (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Talk Python to Me #28 Making Python Fast: Profiling Python Code (Michael Kennedy)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 097 | Recapping the News from AzureCon 2015 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Away from the Keyboard Episode 21: Brent Ozar Takes Over The World (Richie Rump)
Tuesdays with Corey: Out and About – John Ashenden, Head of Design at Mesosphere | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)

Community / Events

Microsoft demos mixed reality gaming on HoloLens with Project Xray and Microsoft announces the Surface Book, available on October 26 starting at $1499 (Jared DiPane)
Microsoft unveils a new Surface docking station, compatible with the Pro 3, 4 and Book (Jez Corden)
The new Surface Pen for the Surface Pro 4 has a tail eraser and full year of battery life (John Callaham)
Microsoft’s new Display Dock turns your Lumia 950 into a desktop PC (Joseph Keller)
Microsoft’s new Type Cover has a fingerprint reader and a bigger trackpad (Joseph Keller)
The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 is official! (Richard Devine)

Database

SQL Server 2016 Query Store SSMS Panes (Svetlana Golovko)
SQL SERVER – SSMS Query Command(s) completed successfully without ANY Results – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

WP 8.1 to 10 Device Upgrade Eligibility List (MS Downloads)
Moving to Skype for Business: Know Your In-Place Upgrade Options (Dino Caputo)
Surface Book or Surface Pro 4? (Oren Novotny)
Business Customers and Windows 10 (The Windows Team)
How To Learn a New Programming Language While Maintaining Your Day Job and Still Being There For Your Family (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading October 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-07 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 6th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
The Morning Brew #1941 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Project Management with Kanban (Developer Best Practices): Eric Brechner: 9780735698956: Books

ISBN: 0735698953
ISBN-13: 9780735698956

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Dew Drop – September 30, 2015 (#2101)

Posted on September 30, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introduction to MvvmForms (Klaus Löffelmann)
Tips on compiling NuGetGallery source code and hosting it on IIS (Michael Sync)
Microsoft unveils its new Azure IoT Suite at AzureCon (Tracy Ith)
Xamarin & Azure Apps Everywhere at AzureCon (James Montemagno)

Web Development

JavaScript Added To NGINX (Alex Armstrong)
Decoupling Component Directives From Layout In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Implementing ASP.NET Web API Versioning using Custom Header and testing it in an Angular.js application (Mahesh Sabnis)
Get an Advantages of Interactive Console during Debugging in PhpStorm 9.5 EAP and PhpStorm 9.5 EAP 142.5282 (Anna Lebedeva)
Vorlon.js: Focus on DOM Explorer (David Catuhe)
WebStorm 11 EAP, 142.5255: Flow support, npm scripts, JSX in TypeScript (Ekaterina Prigara)
Meteor 1.2: ECMAScript 2015 and support for AngularJS, React (James Chesters)
Push-state vs. Hash-based routing with React.js (James K. Nelson)
That time when CSS’ position:fixed didn’t (Julian M. Bucknall)
List of SVG Properties You Can Manipulate with CSS (Robin Rendle)
JavaScript Promise API (K. Scott Allen)
Angular js with ASP.NET MVC Insert,Update, Delete (Sujit Bhujbal)
New Azure Container Service to bring together Mesos, Docker and Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
Handling file upload window with AutoIt (Abhijeet Das)
Why Do We Have `repeating-linear-gradient` Anyway? (Ana Tudor)
well-known-symbols-es6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
Setting up Go in IntelliJ IDEA (Hadi Hariri)

XAML

WPF, Chrome Embedded and WebApi Self-hosted (Robert Muehsig)
Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 now available with UWP support (Clint Rutkas)
Windows 10 Development: Responsive Design with AdaptiveTriggers (Josh Morales)
Save 30% on Windows 10 book & eBook pre-orders (Kim Spilker)
Get Thee, Developer, to Windows 10 (Mark B. Schramm)

Miscellaneous .NET

Ionide is a New Atom-based F# IDE Written in F# (Sergio De Simone)
Now Available: Visual Studio 2015 ALM Virtual Machine and HOL’s / Demo Scripts (Brian Keller)
Display Just One Project in Solution Explorer (Peter Vogel)
Entity Framework Pitfalls: Using Stored Procedures for Basic Operations (Ricardo Peres)
dotnet – corefxlab – System.CommandLine (.NET Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Upcoming Agile Retrospective workshops (Ben Linders)
5 easy ways to be more Agile (Callie Johnson)
Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots. (Peter Seibel)
Key Qualities for a Content Developer (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Git 2.6, including flexible fsck and improved status (Michael Haggerty)
Introducing Digital Triage (Paul Boag)
How to undo (almost) anything with Git (Robin Rendle)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android 6.0 Marshmallow coming to devices soon (Dave Burke)
iOS 9-ify your Xamarin.Forms App (Craig Dunn)
A Microsoft Band client to read temperatures and control a fan on a Raspberry PI2 (Joost van Schaik)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Swift – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Method Interception using JSON with Ricardo Barbosa (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
34 ngAir – Angular Connect Primer (Kent C. Dodds)
The Nerdist Podcast – Matt Braunger Returns (Chris Hardwick)
SSP 3.3: Consulting your way into your startup (Bob Walsh)
Developer on Fire Episode 041 | Dan Dalrymple – The History Coder (Dave Rael)
Functional Geekery Episode 28 – Tom Stuart (Steven Proctor)
Building the Internet of Things with Doug Seven | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
MAME Emulator Shown Running On tvOS-Based Apple TV [Video] (Paul Morris)

Community / Events

Find Microsoft Azure Events Happening in Your Area (Alexandre Brisebois)
Catch up the latest on Microsoft Azure through Virtual Event–AzureCon (Benjamin Xue)
Mütter Museum October Events Roundup (Gina Leigh)
Learning and Hanging with the TechGirlz, October Events (Peak Johnson)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® Data-Tier Application Framework (September 2015 Preview) (MS Downloads)
Search all string columns in all SQL Server databases (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER – What is Windows Internal Database Edition? (Pinal Dave)
HBase Essentials (Ian Stirk)
Window Functions and Cruel Defaults (Erik Darling)
Overview Power BI V2 Features End-to-End (Melissa Coates)

PowerShell

PowerShell Cmdlet Designer for Developers (Rod Trent)
PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux (MS Downloads)
Tips: Make Get-WinEvent cmdlet perform quicker (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

USPTO grants Microsoft design patent for HoloLens (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
How to get into the gaming industry: Build a digital portfolio (David Voyles)
Sharing Your Work in Scratch (Rachel McCollin)
Review: TP-Link AC3200 (Archer C3200) Wireless Router (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading September 29, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-30 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 29th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Monopoly: Game of Thrones Collector's Edition Board Game: Toys & Games

ASIN: B00UB25IJA

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