Dew Drop – December 21, 2016 (#2388)

Top Links

• Create great looking, fast, mobile apps using JavaScript, Angular 2, and Ionic 2 (Jordan Matthiesen)
• New Technical Tutorial: How to Build a City Guide for Alexa (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Get your analytics to the next level with Azure Cognitive Services (Stéphane Eyskens, Tony Pohl & Martina Grom)
• Your First Angular 2, ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio Code – Part 5 (Aaron Marisi)

Web Development

• Retrying Bulk Updates In PouchDB Using A Recursive Promise Chain (Ben Nadel)
• Using Kendo UI with Angular 2 (Burke Holland)
• Dissecting Angular 2 Modules (Dave M. Bush)
• Updating Your Templates in PhpStorm (Gary Hockin)
• Create a URL Shortener using Ottoman ODM with Node.js and Couchbase (Nic Raboy)
• Service Bus, .NET Standard, and Open Source (John Taubensee)
• Angular 2.4.0 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• Angular $broadcast vs. $emit – diffs, pros and cons (Renso Hollhumer)
• Updating an ASP.NET Core Site to the December 2016 Release (Steve Gordon)
• Netflix Conductor, an Orchestration Engine for Microservices (Abel Avram)
• Introducing Brotli compression in Microsoft Edge (Rob Trace)
• Node v7.3.0 (Current) (Colin Ihrig)
• Amazon ECS – Support for Windows Containers (Beta) (Jeff Barr)
• Getting started with Azure Functions and using them within Logic Apps (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

XAML

• How to sort records in a WPF ListView/GridView control? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Book Review: Practical Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (Joseph Guadagno)
• CMake support in Visual Studio 2017 – what’s new in the RC.2 update (Marian Luparu)
• Let Other Processes Run When Debugging One Process (Peter Vogel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Awesome, Text-Based Diagrams with Mermaid (Adam Anderson)
• Consider Rolling Wave Roadmap and Backlog Planning (Johanna Rothman)
• Tim Ferriss’ Top Tips For Being A Productivity Titan In 2017 (Leah Ryder)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Universal UX Design – $29.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Studio Tutorial: An Introduction (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Simple and Intuitive App Shortcuts in Android 7.1 (James Montemagno)
• Start building Actions on Google (Jason Douglas)
• Microsoft Certified for IoT Device Catalog (Chris Pietschmann)
• Submitting a Project to IBM Cloud Tools for Swift (Emma Tucker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Mobile Apps using Ionic v2 with Justin James (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – The goal of Agile | Gav Adam (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 171 | More AWS re:Invent news, Microsoft news and an Interview with Scott Hoag and Ben Stegink on What’s New in Azure (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – .NET Core triage on On .NET, ShareX (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Design for Surface Hub | Design and Develop Apps for Surface Hub (DXSurfaceHub)
• Functional Geekery Episode 79 – Lennart Fridén (Steven Proctor)
• StarTalk Radio – Maker Mix, with Bill Nye (Part 1) – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• RadioTFS – Looking Back on 2016 (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Year end wrap up looking for FEEDBACK! | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE-Radio Episode 278: Peter Hilton on Naming (Felienne)

Community / Events

• Filling big boots: I’m joining the SQL Relay team (Alex Yates)
• Women in Technology: Meet Kamisha Williams (Ally Stinchfield)
• Happy holidays 2016 (Brian Harry)
• Save the date: GitHub Universe 2017 (Brittany Walker)
• Semi-official Windows historian Raymond Chen explains what the Y2k was like at Microsoft (Kareem Anderson)

Database

• SQL Server 2016 COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS functions (Simon Liew)
• RunAs Radio – SQL Server 2016 SP1 with Bob Ward (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• SQL SERVER – Testing Database Performance with tSQLt and SQLQueryStress (Pinal Dave)
• Report Portal in SSRS 2016 (Tim Mitchell)
• Is NOLOCK Ever The Right Choice? (Erik Darling)
• Why the Database Needs to Be Part of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline (Yaniv Yehuda)

SharePoint

• Microsoft SharePoint-OneDrive sync now due in January 2017 (Mary Jo Foley)

Miscellaneous

• Syncfusion 2016 Tech Gift Guide (Graham High)
• Sling TV poised to launch ‘AirTV Player’ hardware to incorporate streaming, OTA signals (Andrew Martonik)
• Secure and Simplify: Overcoming Cybersecurity Threats (Sabrina Loureiro)

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2248 (Chris Alcock)

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