Dew Drop – May 16, 2013 (#1,548)

Top Links

• Where Is .NET Headed? (K. Scott Allen)
• Android Studio: An IDE built for Android (Xavier Ducrohet, Tor Norbye & Katherine Chou)
• Xamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video – How C# Saved My Marriage (Scott Hanselman)
• Xamarin.iOS Netflix Style Grid (Brent Schooley)

Web Development

• JavaScript quirk 6: the scope of variables (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 Weekly – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• How to Write Testable and Maintainable Code in PHP (Chris Fidao)
• Importing External Files in JavaScript (Dmitry Sheiko)
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services – Part 4 (Larry Franks)
• Support for Google App Engine PHP in PhpStorm (Mikhail Vink)
• Multi-line strings in JavaScript and Node.js (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Extend WordPress – Contact Forms with Contact Form 7 (Grant Palin)
• DOM Clobbering (Gareth Heyes)
• Eventual consistency in REST APIs (Jimmy Bogard)
• WebMatrix Database Migration for Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• The Case Against Synchronous Worker APIs (Alex Russell)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #821 – Use TextFormattingMode to Make Text Look More Clear (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – ScrollViewer (Richard Carr)
• Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience (Keith Boyd)
• Thoughts on Monetization #3: Using Ads (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Prism for the Windows Runtime – Book Download (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Known Issue and Workaround for TFS 2012 Update 3 RC1 (Andrea)
• WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Prerelease (WCF Team)
• Working with WCF: Part Six–Fault Contracts (James Bender)
• CslaContrib 4.5.30 (CodePlex)
• Use the NotMapped Attribute with Entity Framework in Partial Classes (Kevin Logan)
• Native DirectX Audio for Windows Store Apps (Loek van den Ouweland)
• Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 2 – Getting Started (Mike Larah)
• May be this is the best time for Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Framework (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What does GDI use biXPelsPerMeter and SetBitmapDimensionEx for? (Raymond Chen)
• Obtaining Reliable Thread Call Stacks of 64-bit Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #845 – Using the Generic Queue Class (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to write a unit test (Dror Helper)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting rid of magic strings in iOS interface design (Matt)
• Objective-C Literals (Alex Curylo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tim Huckaby Brings Us Up to Date on Gesture (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• From Data to Insight & Impact using Data Explorer, Power View and GeoFlow (Marc Reguera)
• Mobile Architectures and Oracle ADF Mobile – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Fitz and the Tantrums (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 88: Vagrant, HashiCorp and beyond with Mitchell Hashimoto (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Windows 8 Tip 3: Using Windows File Explorer | Windows 8 Tips (Larry Larsen)
• Defrag: .hlp files on Win8, Cutting PC Power, Moving PageFile | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Local Poet & Designer Paul Siegell (Chris Urie)
• Announcing Party with Palermo: DevTeach 2013 edition! (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• Creating a multi-server query SSRS report using Central Management Servers (Svetlana Golovko)
• SSAS – Find Cube Database Name, Size,Status and Total Size of SSAS Server (Prashanth Jayaram)
• The difference between Ordering & Boosting (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• ScriptCS or PowerShell? part 1 (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• How to land a sales, marketing and services job at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why ‘Star Trek’ beats ‘Star Wars’ (Amanda Kooser)
• Why does Small Basic exist? (Ed Price)
• Hack yourself first – how to go on the offence before online attackers do (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 15th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 15, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1129 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1357 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 May 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 15 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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