Dew Drop – July 11, 2013 (#1,583)

Top Links

• Petition seeks to bring back Xbox One policies (Michelle Starr)
• InRelease for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available (S.Somasegar)
• New hints on what’s coming next for Microsoft Surface, Skype, Windows Phone and Microsoft to add VPN support to Windows Phone 8 in 2014 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Building Spotify remote control service with ASP.NET Web API and SignalR (Filip W)

Web Development

• If Kerouac wrote JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• Changes in the Web Deployment Project (Dave M. Bush)
• Moving a WordPress Blog to Windows Azure, Part 1 and Moving a WordPress Blog to Windows Azure – Transferring Your Content (Dave Bost)
• Deleting Properties of JavaScript object (Dhananjay Kumar)
• PhpStorm 7 Early Access Program started (Mikhail Vink)
• Stressing SignalR by Crank-ing it up (Suprotim Agarwal)
• jQuery and WinJS working together in Windows Store apps (Eric Schmidt)
• How does VS determine which version of Razor engine to use when editing razor webpage files (Xinyang Qiu)
• Performance optimizations and for loops (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Brackets Sprint 27 available (I. Haynes)
• How OAuth 2 trumps Basic authentication (Jason Harmon)
• AngularJS Drag and Drop Photo Directive (K. Scott Allen)
• A quick look at Dropbox’s new Datastore API (Zack Gramana)

XAML

• XAML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013 (Charles Sterling)
• Private App Stores for Windows Phone and WinRT (Jonathan Allen)
• Making Windows Phone an even better choice for business (Robert Hoover)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #7: Perf, Perf, Perf (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to Terminate WP8 Application Programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013 Simplifies Windows Store Apps with Improved Exception Reporting (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013 (Charles Sterling)
• Viewing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger (Visual Studio F# Team)
• Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview – Upgrade FAQ (Andrea)
• InRelease Acquisition is complete and Team Foundation Service Update – July 9 (Brian Harry)
• New ALM Partner Hands-on-Labs: inteGREAT (Brian Keller)
• Is This a Reference? (David Starr)
• HttpClient 2.2 is now RC (Immo Landwerth)
• Use the Disposed Object View in JustTrace to Find the Zombies in Your Code (James Bender)
• Intercepting HTTP Request/Response using C++ Rest HTTP Library (Kavya Kotacherry)
• 2000 C# Things #885 – Getting Information about the Method that Threw an Exception (Sean Sexton)
• AIDE for LightSwitch General Release (Xpert360)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SQL – Agile Software Development Methodology vs Waterfall Software Development Methodology (Pinal Dave)
• Pattern: Value Driven Documentation (Wes McClure)
• Instrumenting Your Application to Measure its Performance Part 6 Injecting EventSource Using AOP (Dan Moyer)
• Show local commits with Git-Svn (Jaco Pretorius)
• hgs: Manage Lots of Mercurial Projects Simultaneously (Leon Bambrick)
• Does your company culture resemble Survivor? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• CodePlex integrates with Zapier (Rick Marron)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android & iOS Developers Needed For The Future (DevToolsGuy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – .NET Gadgeteer Update with G. Andrew Duthie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 232 – PowerScripting Podcast – Thomas Kisner on Lync and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Asynchronous Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Videos and Training on Windows Azure IaaS from TechEd New Orleans (Buck Woody)
• Video: Query Plans with Stored Procedures (Manya Susoev)
• Engadget HD Podcast 357 – 07.09.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Charlie Day (Chris Hardwick)
• Mrityunjay Bhadauria CEO of EduKinect | Imagine Cup World Finals 2013 (Channel 9)
• What the Tech 173: TV As We Know It (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• Understanding the SQL Server HASHBYTES hashing algorithms (K. Brian Kelley)
• Microsoft Releases Best Practices for Virtualizing SQL Server 2012 (Paul Ballard)
• Pick of the Shelf – SQL Server 2012 (Kay Ewbank)
• Simplifying Repetitive Queries with IN (Richard Carr)
• World’s Smallest No SQL Database: Concurrency (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Welcoming Dropbox Datastore (Eric Sink)
• Beginning Microsoft Small Basic – Review by “Courtney Six” (Ed Price)
• Why is the syntax for touching a file from the command prompt so strange? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 10, 2013 (Jian Zhen)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 10th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 10, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1159 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 10 Jul 2013 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1396 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-11 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 11, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 July 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 July 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management (9780978739249): Johanna Rothman: Books ISBN: 0978739248 ISBN-13: 9780978739249