Dew Drop – June 5, 2013 (#1,561)

Top Links

• Microsoft confirms Outlook RT to arrive with Windows 8.1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Going Top Gun on Your Code (David Starr)
• An integer division identity (Eric Lippert)
• VS 2013 round tripping (Brian Harry)

Web Development

• Running code fast in web browsers: PNaCl versus asm.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Auto Starting Websites on IIS 7.5 (Andy Schwam)
• The Future of JavaScript – What to Expect (DevToolsGuy)
• Building an HTML5 Web Sockets Server with Node.js (Dan Wahlin)
• Unit Test like a Secret Agent with Sinon.js (Elijah Manor)
• Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A Free HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps, Sites And Ads (Frederic Lardinois)
• Sharing AngularJS modules with component.js (Hugo Josefson)
• The race for speed part 2: How JavaScript compilers work (John Dalziel)
• Creating a Basic node.js API with Restify and Save (Dom Udall)
• Obscure WinJS features, part 1: WinJS.Utilities.QueryCollection and WinJS.Utilities.add/remove/has/toggleClass (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Language Injection in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• The Top 10 Things to Know When Running SQL Server Workloads on Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Roger Doherty)
• Node v0.10.10 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• CORS Control in JetBrains Chrome Extension (Vladimir Krivosheev)
• YUI 3.10.2 Released (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Don’t Inject Markup in A Web Page using Document.Write (Chris Love)
• Check if a variable is defined in CoffeeScript (Jaco Pretorius)

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8: Local Data (Adam Grocholski)
• Adding Custom Commands to RadDataForm in Conference Buddy for WPF (Jesse Liberty)
• Halo: Spartan Assault coming to Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 in July! (Paul Acevedo)
• A New SQLite Wrapper for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 – The Basics (Matteo Pagani)
• 2000 WPF Things #835 – Displaying Custom Content in a GroupBox Header (Sean Sexton)
• Background processing in Windows 8: Part 3: Lock screen applications (Gill Cleeren)
• Single Sign On with OAuth in Windows Store Apps (Jeremy Likness)
• Kick Backs – WP8 back button handling. (Jesse)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using Riak MapReduce with F# (Don Syme)
• TFS 2013 Team Rooms (Gunnar Peipman)
• New Visual Studio Guides (Nina V.)
• Bing it on, Reactive Extensions! – Story, code and slides (Andrei Rinea)
• .Net framework versions and dll hell (Peter van Ooijen)
• [Sample Of Jun 3rd] Use Task Based programming technology in Service Bus (Philip Fu)
• Asynchronous input vs synchronous input, a quick introduction (Raymond Chen)
• C++ REST SDK 1.0.0 is now available (Sana Mithani)
• 2000 C# Things #859 – The Scope of a try Block (Sean Sexton)
• dotTrace 5.5 EAP: Introducing Subsystems (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Entity Framework – Second Level (2L) Cache – I (Mihai Huluta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: EmbeddedDocument (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Teamwork in Practice (Ian Mitchell)
• Finding the Problems in Your UI and Listening to Users Effectively (Peter Vogel)
• Showing Your Customers the Respect They Deserve (Gregg Boer)
• Building the right software…right, It’s easy…RIGHT? (Isaac Hogue)
• Microsoft Test Manager: Customization of test result fields and marking test results as NA (Nivedita Bawa)

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Build Android Applications with Ignite UI Mobile Controls and Nomad for Visual Studio (Mihail Mateev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 229 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Jeff Hicks on the PowerShell Summit and more (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Video: Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2013 (Brian Keller)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 200: It’s About Time (Gareth)

Community / Events

• Leon Gersing is a GitHubber! (Chad Humphries)
• The Personal Touch: Helping MVPs Connect with Microsoft and TechEd 2013 – Day 1 Summary (MVP Award Program)
• Xamarin’s WWDC Party is THE Monday Night Destination (Jo Ann Buckner)

Database

• My 2 cents on SQL Server 2014 (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
• SQL Server Backup Paths and File Management (Graham Okely)
• Book Review: SQL Wait Stats Joes 2 Pros (Ian Stirk)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Hosted Apps in SP 2013 as Single Page Apps (Andrew Connell)
• Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 4 – Installing SQL Server (Koen Verbeeck)

PowerShell

• PowerShell 4.0: Desired State Configuration (bink)

Miscellaneous

• More Microsoft restructuring news (Kip Kniskern)
• Ben and Jerry’s needs your help making an ice cream flavor just for Seattle (Taylor Soper)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 4th (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1370 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 6/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for June 04, 2013 – #0155 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf