Dew Drop – July 8, 2013 (#1,580)

Top Links

• Showcasing the World’s Brightest Students at Imagine Cup 2013 (S.Somasegar)
• Web Essentials 2013: Where is the TypeScript support? (Mads Kristensen)
• New Angular.js Option in the F#/C# MVC 4 SPA Project Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Visuals Studio 2013 feature: Scrollbar Map Mode with Preview (Clemens Reijnen)

 

Web Development

• Babylon.js: Using lights in your babylon.js game (David Catuhe)
• Pro Tip – When defining Custom Knockout Validation rules Wrap them in a Self Calling Anonymous function (Derik Whittaker)
• Objects in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing $select and $expand support in Web API OData (Javier Calvarro Nelson)
• A simple jQuery Qunit-based JavaScript Unit Test Project Template (John V. Petersen)
• Static websites and Amazon (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using HTML 5 SessionState to save rendered Page Content (Rick Strahl)
• Azure Mobile Services Update–Custom APIs (Mike Taulty)
• What is claims-based authentication? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #4: WebGL (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Developing Google Chrome Extensions (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Using Custom Data Attributes and Pseudo-Elements (Manoela Ilic)
• A File Input Directive For AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy July 2013 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• WPF Radio Buttons… “Once it is checked it just won’t uncheck” (Marlon Grech)
• Revisiting the Windows Phone Font Issue (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #858 – How to Set Properties for a Tooltip (Sean Sexton)
• How to Create a Cloud-Powered Windows Phone App with Telerik Cloud Controls – Part 1 (Todor Petrov)
• WPF Base Classes – Visual (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Multifile Templates in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: C++ Automatic Brace Completion and Visual Studio 2013: Making IntelliSense Transparent While You Code (Zain Naboulsi)
• The answer to the string concatenation puzzle (Eric Lippert)
• KegDuino (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #882 – What Types of Exceptions to Throw (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A fascinating look at the history of aspect ratios (Garr Reynolds)
• The Changing Resource Roster. Potential Project Killers Part 4 (Brad Egeland)
• Are we nearly there yet? (Dan North)
• Improve Your Execution Excellence with Roadmaps at a Glance (JD Meier)
• Signs you’re veering from good API design (@apiaxle) (John Sheehan)
• Article: The 4 Questions of a Retrospective and Why They Work (Laura M. Waite & Collin Lyons)
• Two week sprints; twelve month releases (Paul Stovell)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Upward Mobility: Android for iOS Developers, Part 4 (James Turner)
• Xamarin platform setup gotchas: Final Edition! (Pascal Arnould)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 102: Peter Bebergal and Dean Putney (Mark Frauenfelder)
• MNR 483: Details about the Halo 4 “Halo 4” Champions Bundle and MNR 484: Halo 4 Global Championship (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Randy Pitchford and The Nerdist Podcast – Charlie Hunnam (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Mobile-First Web Design with Shawn Wildermuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Using Collections in C# to Create a Dictionary and Populate it with Values (Manya Susoev)
• Ask Iris: Software engineer, software developer or programmer? (Stupid Q 217) (Iris Classon)
• Get Up And Code 009: When Conditions Are Not Ideal (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• GeekWire Radio: Behind the scenes with our favorite stories of 2013 so far (Todd Bishop)
• The Nothing Serious Podcast Where We Discover Tasty Mouse Testicles Are A Thing (Steven)

 

Community / Events

• Passion Projects with Jessica Hische (Julie Ann Horvath)

 

Database

• Data Mining Clustering Example in SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS (Dallas Snider)
• In Memory OLTP with SQL Server 2014 (Matt Bowler)
• SQL SERVER – Check Database Level (IsNullConcat) and Session Level Settings (CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL) using T-SQL and SQL – Difference between != and Operator used for NOT EQUAL TO Operation (Pinal Dave)
• World’s smallest No SQL Database: The Devil Is In The Details (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Yammer Roadmap Update – Configure On Premise SharePoint 2013 Newsfeed and More for Yammer (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• SkyDrive.com now supports panorama viewing – you can try it out now! (damaster)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eight – Working With Logic (Matthew Adams)
• Time to be Microsoft’s guinea pig again – the 2013 Xbox Live public beta is here (Michael Archambault)
• Changing Careers to Coding (Suzanne Axtell)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 6, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 7, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 8, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, July 5th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #71 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1156 and Double Shot #1157 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five-July 5, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-08 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 8, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/5/2013 and Daily News Digest 7/8/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (7/5/2013) (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1393 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #036 (Pinal Dave)
• WebGL around the net, 4 July 2013 (Tony Parisi)

 

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