Dew Drop – July 10, 2013 (#1,582)

Top Links

• Cross-Platform Portable Class Libraries with .NET are Happening (Scott Hanselman)
• Benchmarking mistakes, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Required JavaScript Reading (Rey Bango)
• Nokia Lumia 1020 grip case photographed from all sides, comes with a tripod mount (Phone Arena Team)

 

Web Development

• What if 20,000 Windows Azure Storage Transactions Per Second Isn’t Enough? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Babylon.js: Using multi-materials (David Catuhe)
• How JavaScript Objects are Associate Array (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 7 build 130.1167 (Dmitry Jemerov)
• ASP.NET GridView Filter Template (coming soon in v2013 vol 1) and New ASP.NET Image Gallery Control (coming soon in v2013 vol 1) (Mehul Harry)
• Application initialization of Node.js apps running in IIS 8 using iisnode (Tomasz Janczuk)
• What A Select $watch() Teaches Me About ngModel And AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Creating a Great Mashup Part 3 (Brian Hitney)
• Start Prototyping With the First Implementable Draft of HTTP/2.0 from the IETF Standards Community (Brian Raymor)
• Create Striped Backgrounds With Gradients (and a Sass Function) (Hugo Giraudel)
• Dropbox Launches Datastore API And Drop-Ins To Sync Data To And From Apps (Josh Constine)
• The case for setImmediate() (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Getting Started With OWIN, Katana, and VS2013 (K. Scott Allen)
• Node v0.10.13 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Development for Absolute Beginners (Larry Lieberman)
• WinRT as the new Silverlight and WPF (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #860 – Making a Tooltip Partially Transparent (Sean Sexton)
• Unofficial Windows 8 vs Windows 8.1 Assemblies – What’s the Diff…. (Greg Duncan)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #6: Store Improvements (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Debugging TouchDevelop scripts (Nikolai Tillmann)
• [Sample Of Jul 9th] Simulate TreeView with ListBox in WP8 (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Find the "Missing LINQ" – Future project of "hard to find Linq providers." Currently home of Linq2Management (WMI) (Greg Duncan)
• An Introduction to Neural Networks Using C# (Jeff Martin)
• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Peek Definition aka Go To Definition (Peek) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Be the first on your block to get the next Kinect (and news about the next Kinect for Windows SDK) (Greg Duncan)
• Dump MSBuild properties and items for a project (Kirill Osenkov)
• Team Development Series–Part 1: Introduction (Peter Hauge)
• Joining to an arbitrary SQL set in EF5 (Rohan Cragg)
• 2000 C# Things #884 – Things You Might Do in an Exception Handler (Sean Sexton)
• Instrumenting Your Application to Measure its Performance Part 5 Wrapping your code with EventSource (Dan Moyer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fast and Flexible. (Clemens Reijnen)
• The Ever-Fatter Thin Client (Andrew Binstock)
• See which commit deleted a file with Git (Jaco Pretorius)
• Get Started With Behaviour-Driven Development Focusing on the Domain Instead of on the Database (Jan Stenberg)
• How Does Your Software Grow? Do You Know? (Johanna Rothman)
• Unblock Design Tasks using Standard Styles (Nadia Romano)
• Not A Problem (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Press Showcase at Imagine Cup Finals | Imagine Cup World Finals 2013 (Channel 9)
• Video: Using CSOM to Add Taxonomy Fields to SharePoint Lists (Manya Susoev)
• The Verge Mobile Show 053 – July 9th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 205: MEGA (Gareth Myles, Dan Carter & Matt Davis)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: John Sonmez (Allen Coin)
• Bing at Imagine Cup (Bing Search Team)
• The Open Space Experience (John Teague)
• Online Education’s Millionaire Teacher (Krystyl)
• The best part of working on Bing (MS JobsBlog)
• Build 2013 Recap by Michael Collier (MVP Award Program)
• Imagine Cup World Finals – Day Two – presentations & recovery time (Susan Ibach)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Need Your Feedback – Next Action Items in SQL in Sixty Seconds (Pinal Dave)
• World’s smallest No SQL Database: Memory (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Announces: Power BI – The Next Big Thing (Joel Oleson)

 

SharePoint

• Introducing MVC support for apps for SharePoint (Chakkaradeep Chandran)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic: Stack Basics – Featured Article (Ed Price)
• Programming Tests (Ted Neward)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 9th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 9, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1159 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1395 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/10/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 July 2013  and Daily Windows 8 Development News 9 July 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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