Dew Drop – May 31, 2013 (#1,558)

Top Links

• What the meaning of is is (Eric Lippert)
• Why I <3 AngularJS. Easy to learn. One lib. Backed by Google. (Jon Gallant)
• Conference Buddy on WPF–Initial Architecture (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Infragistic’s XamTabControl with Caliburn Micro – Part 2 (Rohit Sharma)

Web Development

• Debugging in the Land of Server Side JavaScript (Bobby Johnson)
• JavaScript quirk 8: array-like objects (Axel Rauschmayer)
• jQuery 1.10.1 and 2.0.2 released (Dave Methvin)
• Building Resilient, High-Scale Services in Windows Azure (Neil Mackenzie)
• Using SignalR and ASP.NET MVC’s Hot Towel SPA template to create an Online Collaboration application (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Node v0.10.9 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Winds of Change: Azure Is Breaking Through (Andrew J. Brust)
• Getting up to speed with Katana (Jon Galloway)

XAML

• Decoding the IXamlMetadataProvider interface – Part 1 (Morten Nielsen)
• Update your Windows Phone App to Support Theme Changes (Jason Gaylord)
• WPF XamDockManager Floating Panes and XamRibbon Menu Integration (Brian Lagunas)
• Android to Windows Phone 8: Working with a SQL Database (Eric Genesky)
• Windows Phone Registration Failure: Error 0×64 (Pascal Arnould)
• NFC – Simple text tags on Windows Phone (Peter Foot)
• SQLite WinRT wrapper for Windows Phone (Peter Torr)
• 2000 WPF Things #832 – Creating a Cursor File (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – GroupBox (Richard Carr)
• Credential Locker: Your solution for handling usernames and passwords in your Windows Store app (Doug Rothaus)
• MS Open Tech Brings the Creative World of Cinder to Windows Store Applications (Adalberto Foresti)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012.3 RC2 available (Brian Harry)
• WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Release (WCF Team)
• How to auto publish a website each time a #TFS build succeeds? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Simplifying debug statements (Nigel Sampson)
• [Sample Of May 30th] Use CodeDom to generate code for WinForms Designer (Philip Fu)
• The posted message queue vs the input queue vs the message queue (Raymond Chen)
• NServiceBus performance counters letting you down? It’s probably your fault (Matt Davey)
• How to debug silent crashes in .Net (Samuel Jack)
• 2000 C# Things #856 – Choosing an Exception Type to Throw (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do you have a terms of reference for the software architecture role? (Simon Brown)
• Code Review Checklist and Guidelines for C# Developers (Mohammed Hameed)
• Non Coding Skills That Make You A Better Programmer (Fran Hoey)
• Delegate, Delegate, Delegate… (Jurgen Appelo)

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap 2.7 Released, 1.9 Officially Deprecated (Jonathan Allen)
• Touch Your Way To App Development with Microsoft TouchDevelop (Paul Ballard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 118 – “SPA on Mount Everest” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Hanselminutes – A Desktop Developer moves to the Web – with Mark Rendle (Scott Hanselman)
• Edge Show 64 – Windows Azure Point to Site VPN | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)
• Mobile Nations podcast 21: Announcing Talk Mobile 2013! (Daniel Rubino)
• Steven Sinofsky: The Full D11 Interview (Video) (Ina Fried)
• Developer Diaries: Blake Miller talks Bodeefit and Think Big Partners | Developer Diaries (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Technical Calendar – June 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Meet Xamarin at TechEd, WWDC, Build, and Microsoft WPC (Stephanie Schatz)
• Now Accepting Applications for the DOer Express to the International Startup Festival (Miranda Luna)
• How Adzerk Made It Big (With Reddit’s Help) (John Biggs)

Database

• Raven.Storage – that ain’t proper logging for our kind of environment (Oren Eini)
• Stored procedure debugging in SSDT and LocalDB (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Add search capabilities to your apps for SharePoint (Chakkaradeep Chandran)

PowerShell

• Say Hello to PowerShell (Doug Finke)
• PowerShell Script to Bulk-Change Excel File Formats (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Miscellaneous

• ‘Family Ties’ actress goes to college to learn coding (Amanda Kooser)
• Microsoft’s changing of the guard for IE11 (Brad Sams)
• Xbox One designed with purpose, down to the last tenth of a millimeter (Jennifer Warnick)
• Blog Updates (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Get your first look at Windows 8.1 (Lukas Velush)
• Windows Phone to get read-it-later feature with Reading List (Robert Brand)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 31, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 05.15 ~ 05.31 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading May 30, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 30th (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1367 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 31, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/31/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for May 30, 2013 – #0152 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 30 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 30 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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