Dew Drop – June 14, 2013 (#1,568)

Top Links

• Windows Azure: Major Updates for Mobile Backend Development (Scott Guthrie)
• What’s the difference? sizeof and Marshal.SizeOf (Eric Lippert)
• OWASP Top 10 2013 Released (Timothy)
• Architecture Tools in ReSharper 8 and Inline Parameter Refactoring in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)

 

Web Development

• New Tutorial: Using Apache ZooKeeper on Windows Azure to Manage Solr on Linux Virtual Machines (Brian Benz)
• Real World OAuth using ASP.NET MVC (Sumit Maitra)
• Google Changes Rankings of Smartphone Search Results (Yoshikiyo Kato & Pierre Far)
• Node v0.10.11 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Combining Laravel 4 and Backbone (Conar Welsh)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #842 – The Differences Between Label and TextBlock (Sean Sexton)
• Data Storage for Windows Store Apps – a Walkthrough (Georgi Atanasov)
• Win8Templates now at 71 – 71 Windows 8 App Design Reference Templates and counting… (Greg Duncan)
• Two bits: system colors and the TileUpdater.clear() method (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Pro Tip – Show File in Solution Explorer with Resharper (Jakub Chodounsky)
• NuGet Install Is Broken With F# (Mike Hadlow)
• HUY Volume III– Popups, Dirty Visual Collections, and Using Prototypes To Calculate Child Collections (Michael Washington)
• 2000 C# Things #866 – A catch Block Without Arguments Catches All Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• A big little program: Monitoring Internet Explorer and Explorer windows, part 2: Tracking navigations (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: ConfigurationSynchronization and Bliki: ImmutableServer (Martin Fowler)
• Antipattern: Mediating Involvement and Pattern: Reduced Risk Initial Project (Wes McClure)
• Build Software with Less Stress (Andy Singleton)
• Code Review and it’s Importance (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Sticky Navigation Pattern Solves Usability and Design Issues (Marshal Datkowitz)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Device Manager and SDK Location (Pascal Arnould)
• iOS 7 and Seizing an Opportunity (Rob Bazinet)
• Using Errorception with PhoneGap (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 93: Just What is TypeScript with Ben Hoelting (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• iOS 7 Beta vs Windows Phone 8 – The Striking Similarities [VIDEO] (Ben Reid)
• Video: Building a Meetup+Bing Maps Mashup for Windows 8 and Video: Exploring the Mashery API’s (Bob Familiar)
• 063 JSJ Burnout (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 011: TechEd, Team Pages, Samsung Award, Women’s App Challenge! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 182 – 06.12.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 94 (Richard Hay)
• All Evolve session videos now available (Ryan Paul)

 

Community / Events

• THE Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas March 3-6 #SPC14 (Joel Oleson)
• Upcoming Speaking events: Aberdeen and Edinburgh (Bill Wagner)
• Working at Microsoft (Damien Guard)
• Developers at National Day of Civic Hacking Use US Census Bureau API to Create Innovative App and Infographics (Janet Wagner)

 

Database

• More Details on SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Capabilities (David Ramel)
• Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence System Architecture – Part 2 (Arshad Ali)
• SQL – Quick Start with Explorer Sections of NuoDB – Query NuoDB Database (Pinal Dave)
• Virtual SQL Playground Adventure: Introduction (Marlon Ribunal)

 

SharePoint

• Upgrading your app for SharePoint (Miguel Caballero Pinto)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft delivers Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Small Basic: How to Debug – Featured Article (Ed Price)
• Bungie introduces the world of ‘Destiny’ (Jeff Blagdon)
• How to Lock Shapes in Visio 2013. You can lock shapes, but don’t. Use layers instead. (Jon Gallant)
• ‘Project Spark’: build a game, or don’t, with Microsoft’s incredible new sandbox (Paul Miller)
• Response to the Crotchety Olde Geek’s Career Advice for IT Newbies (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Stop Doing Internet Wrong. (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft and Best Buy team up to create a ‘Windows Store’ inside 600 retail locations (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 14, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 12th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, June 13th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 13, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1377 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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