Dew Drop – June 10, 2013 (#1,564)

Top Links

• WintellectNOW FTW – Wintellect now providing on-demand learning for everyone (and there’s even a few free sessions too) (Greg Duncan)
• Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together (Immo Landwerth)
• Use PowerShell for Visual Studio Build Events (Damon Payne)
• C# Language Specification 5.0 and Visual Basic Language Specification 11.0 (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• JavaScript Timing: Accuracy vs Precision (Ariya Hidayat)
• CSS Flexible Box is Best New Web Technology 2013! (glazou)
• Better solution for ASP.NET MVC checkbox list and Aloha Editor–simple and easy to use WYSIWYG editor (Gunnar Peipman)
• Angular.js and IE8 caching (Jef Claes)
• Obscure WinJS features, part 4: WinJS.UI.scopedSelect and getItemsFromRanges (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Setting an Endpoint ACL on a Windows Azure VM (Neil Mackenzie)
• How Does A LightSwitch HTML Client Application Work? (Michael Washington)
• Processing Pixel Data with Web Workers (Al MacDonald)
• June 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Freezing instances and the first invoked constructor (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Detecting Browser Features and Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode (Jason Gaylord)
• Instant Razor View Engine How-to – A Review (Abhijit Jana)
• Using requestAnimationFrame and Build a motion activated security camera, with WebRTC, canvas and Device Orientation (Chris Coyier)
• How To Choose an API That Works For You (Eran Galperin)
• Linking and Resource Expansion: REST API Tips (John Sheehan)
• Do you really need API Versioning? (Andreas Krohn)
• 3 new HTTP headers that we actually need (Thomas Fuchs)
• [Sample Of Jun 8th] AspNet EF4 (CodeFirst) CRUD in GridView with DetailsView (Philip Fu)
• Highlighting the Active Menu Item In AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• 25 New Script Libraries and Plugins on GitHub (Grace Smith)

XAML

• Dealing with self-signed SSL certificates on Windows Phone (Nigel Sampson)
• SQLite WinRT Wrapper with Lightweight APIs (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Windows Azure Mobile Service to SQLite Data Sync for Windows Phone and Windows RT with Portable Class Libraries and Windows Azure Mobile Service to SQLite Data Sync for Windows Phone and Windows RT with Portable Class Libraries – Conflicts and Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 4) (Nick Randolph)
• Windows Phone Capabilities and enabling the camera in the emulator (Pascal Arnould)
• 2000 WPF Things #838 – Using a Label’s Access Key to Give Focus to Another Control (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Neural Network Activation Functions in C# (James McCaffrey)
• Using Environment.FailFast (Richard Carr)
• CSI: Visual Studio – Unable to translate Unicode character at index X to specified code page (Scott Hanselman)
• New C# based CQRS Tutorial available (Jan Stenberg)
• Part 2 – Testing: Reactive benefits with commodity option barrier events (Wes McClure)
• Review "Instant Net 4.5 Extension Methods how-to" (Pierluigi Riti)
• Sharing an input queue takes what used to be asynchronous and makes it synchronous, like focus changes (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #862 – Options for Including catch and finally Blocks (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reintroducing software architecture into agile teams (Simon Brown)
• Number of Unit test projects in Visual Studio solution (Michael Freidgeim)
• Article: What Managers Can Do To Support Agile Transformation (Nancy Y. Nee)
• 10 Random ideas about Test Automation Estimation (Shrini Kulkarni)
• On friction in software (Oren Eini)
• The Broken Windows Principle (Alexandre Brisebois)
• The One Thing You Don’t Know How To Do That You Do Every Day (John Sonmez)
• Amortizing de-duplication at read time instead of write time (Kelly Sommers)
• Are you measuring something that easy to measure or something that is important ? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Don’t Etch your User Story Map in Stone (Steve Rogalsky)
• The design revolution at Microsoft is anything but flat (Jeffrey Meisner)
• What’s the Point of Application Penetration Testing? (Jim Bird)
• Distributed systems reading list (Jimmy Bogard)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Tutorial: UITableView with Search Bar in Xcode 4.6 (Eric Gregory)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 168: John Sheehan on Runscope (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 230 – PowerScripting Podcast – Kevin Hill talks NetApp and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 478: E3, State of Decay and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Aasif Mandvi and The Nerdist Podcast – Alex Winter (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 92: Sidekiq, Ruby, and more with Mike Perham (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• TechEd North America 2013 sessions now online (Athima Chansanchai)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 18: Bernardo Works on Both Sides (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• The Tablet Show – State of Mobile Development at DevTeach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 062 JSJ Dojo with Dylan Schiemann (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Engadget Podcast 347 – 06.07.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Nokia 41-megapixel ‘EOS’ video demo shows camera lens in detail (Tom Warren)
• Mister Rogers, Remixed (Again) (Chris Higgins)

Community / Events

• Join the Game On Virtual Event (Robert Rodriguez-Lawson)
• Windows Phone Central’s E3 2013 Plans and Predictions (Paul Acevedo)
• .NET Tools Team at NDC Oslo: 2 Workshops, 2 Talks and Booth (Robert Demmer)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2014 Announced and SQL Server 2014 Datasheet (Pinal Dave)
• What comes after leveldb? (Oren Eini)
• The Accidental DBA (Day 7 of 30): Backups: Recovery models and backup types and The Accidental DBA (Day 8 of 30): Backups: Planning a Recovery Strategy and The Accidental DBA (Day 9 of 30): Backups: Essential BACKUP Options (Paul Randal)

PowerShell

• Long-running background tasks in ShowUI GUIs from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic – Fun, Simple, Social, Gradual (Ed Price)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Five – Running a program (Matthew Adams)
• Teaching Programming to Middle Schoolers (Mitch Ruebush)
• Small Basic for Little Kids Series – Pong (Ray Fast)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, June 7th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 7, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #67 (Pedro Botelho)
• Pie in the Sky (June 7, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #1139 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five-June 7, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily Links 8 Jun 2013 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 6/7/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1373 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reblog: May 31 to June 6 (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #032 (Pinal Dave)
• Weekly Digest 17 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Some great SQLite for Windows Phone posts (Nick Randolph)

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