Dew Drop – June 11, 2013 (#1,565)

Top Links

• Construction destruction (Eric Lippert)
• Simple Validation with MVVM for Windows Store apps (Jeremy Likness)
• Channel 9 Live Time-Lapse at Tech Ed North America 2013 (Larry Larsen, Golnaz & Vivala Smith)
• Tip: Using Notepad++ to read log files (Dror Helper)

 

Web Development

• jQuery UI Drag and Drop with FunScript (Daniel Mohl)
• Scaling Node.js Real-time Apps with Windows Azure Service Bus (Shiju Varghese)
• Simple Unit Tests With AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Fix: PhantomJs, YSlow and Loadspeed load pages very slowly on windows machines (Roy Osherove)
• Understanding the risk of mixed content warnings (Troy Hunt)
• Linking and Resource Expansion: REST API Tips (John Sheehan)
• Do you really need API Versioning? (Andreas Krohn)
• Minimizing Billable Transactions with Bing Maps (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Capturing Web Page Without Stylesheets (Ariya Hidayat)

 

XAML

• Cloudy Text – Windows Phone 8 to Voice to Text to Azure (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #839 – A Label’s Target Could Have Its Own Label (Sean Sexton)
• Image editor for Windows Phone – Q2 2013 (Viktor Skarlatov)
• Background processing in Windows 8: Part 4: more lock screen apps (Gill Cleeren)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Released LINQ to Twitter v2.1.06 (Joe Mayo)
• Extending Visual Studio Team Explorer 2012 + MyHistory Extension (Mike Fourie)
• Getting a Game Rating Certificate for Windows Store and Windows Phone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 2000 C# Things #863 – How a finally Block Works with No catch Block (Sean Sexton)
• Announcing the Data Explorer June Update (Data Explorer Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: What Managers Can Do To Support Agile Transformation (Nancy Y. Nee)
• What Keeps Leaders Up at Night (JD Meier)
• Run Indigo Prototypes on Any Device (Ambrose Little)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 097: Ramez Naam and Jason Snell (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Windows Weekly 315: Haswell That Ends Well (Paul Thurrott)
• Halo on Xbox One: Official E3 Trailer (Antonio Hernandez)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for June 10th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• APP MASHUP Leveraging Meetup, Twitter & Facebook APIs – Free Webcast (Michael Cummings)
• Passion Projects with Sara Chipps (Julie Ann Horvath)
• .NET Tools Team at NDC Oslo: 2 Workshops, 2 Talks and Booth (Robert Demmer)
• You said it: The geek guy’s guide to summer (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle #1 – Querying Pattern Ranges and Wild Cards (Pinal Dave)
• The Accidental DBA (Day 10 of 30): Backups: Backup Testing for Validation (Paul Randal)
• Database Benchmarks – Big Data Edition (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 8 – Verifying PowerPivot Integration (Koen Verbeeck)

 

Miscellaneous

• Programming Tips – Small Basic Featured Article (Ed Price)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Five – Running a program (Matthew Adams)
• Apple’s Siri dumps Google in favour of Microsoft’s Bing in iOS 7 (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 10th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 10, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1140 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 6/11/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1374 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 11, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Dev News for June 10, 2013 – #0157 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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