Dew Drop – July 24, 2013 (#1,591)

Top Links

• Windows Azure July Updates: SQL Database, Traffic Manager, AutoScale, Virtual Machines (Scott Guthrie)
• Scriptcs and multiline REPL! (Filip W)
• Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction (Howard Dierking)
• The Nokia Lumia 1020: It’s All About the Camera (Christina Warren)

Web Development

• Adding OWIN to an empty ASP.Net MVC app (Wes McClure)
• Async Actions in ASP.NET MVC 4 (Eric Vogel)
• Windows Azure Traffic Manager Explained (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure Traffic Manager – High Performance, Availability & Resiliency (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Tracking Down Performance Issues in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Super Useful Tools for CSS (I. Haynes)
• Configuring ASP.NET MVC 5 Login Options (Imran Baloch)
• Consensus: SignalR + AngularJS (Nick Berardi)
• jQuery is not a framework but I avoid using it too (Rob Ashton)
• Data Visualization With d3.js (K. Scott Allen)
• Publish HTML/JS website to Linux/Apache using Visual Studio (Xinyang Qiu)
• Lazy Loading Image With AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Getting Started with RequireJS Library (Gil Fink)
• Speed up LightSwitch Development with “Edit & Refresh” (Sudhanshu Kulkarni)
• Using ExtJS with WebAPI CheckBoxList Setting Defaults Correctly (Peter Kellner)
• Glitch and Distort Images (Val Head)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 App Development: Using Voice Commands (Gaston Hillar)
• Unity Game Contest for Windows and Windows Phone (Bob Familiar)
• Using Buddy with Windows Phone 8 (JC Cimetiere)
• Your First Telerik Windows 8 Program–A step-by-step guide to building your first Windows 8 XAML app using RadControls (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing Windows Phone Developer Magazine (Nick Landry)
• 2000 WPF Things #870 – Popup Is a ContentControl (Sean Sexton)
• Renew your Windows 8 Developer License before it expires. (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Generic Object Pool (Richard Carr)
• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: going deeper (Oren Eini)
• Multi Lingual LINQ and Rx (Jim Wooley)
• Get started with some basic TFBuild Scripts (Andy Lewis)
• dotTrace 5.5 Performance is Released! (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Kinect PowerPoint Mapper – A fresh look at Kinect’ing to PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
• Team Foundation Server 2013 is production ready (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Assign a keyboard shortcut to collapse all projects in Solution Explorer (Pascal Arnould)
• 2000 C# Things #894 – Creating a Custom Exception Type with Custom Data (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: UserDefinedField (Martin Fowler)
• Product Owner Survival Camp 2: Bigger and Better (Gojko Adzic)
• Agile Winter Is Coming (Gil Zilberfeld)
• 10 Design trends 2013 – Where did all the gradients go? (Megan Isaak)
• Fixie’s Elevator Pitch (Patrick Lioi)
• Spreading the Word on Software Testing (Peter Varhol)
• Top 5 Reasons to Use a Mocking Framework (Phil Japikse)
• How to make smart project decisions: the checklist (Scott Berkun)
• Quality enablement to achieve predictable delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• New Features in Visual Studio 2013 for Web Developers | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• The Verge Mobile Show 055 – July 23rd, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Video: The Chuck Norris & Rotten Tomatoes API Starter Kits for Windows Store Apps (Bob Familiar)

Community / Events

• Live Webinar ‘What’s New in ReSharper 8′ on Friday, July 26 (Robert Demmer)
• Become a Microsoft Student Partner: Earlybird bonus! (Susan Ibach)
• Dev of the Week: Anders Abel (Allen Coin)
• Philadelphia Podcast Fest: Come Listen to Story Shuffle & The Pincushions (Eric Smith)
• First State .NET UG Meeting 7/25 – Build Windows 8 Apps with the APIMASH Starter Kits (First State (DE) .NET)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 CU5 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Installing SQL Server Data Tools and SSRS (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL Database Adoption Trends (Srini Penchikala)

Miscellaneous

• How Game Creators are Using the Power of Xbox One (Xbox Wire)
• The father of Microsoft’s Singularity OS moves on (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Small Basic Environment (Ed Price)
• Analyst: Xbox One could outship PS4 three-to-one in 2013 (John Callaham)
• Why the customer experience is the next big thing (MS JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 23, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 23rd (Rob Caron)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 24, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/24/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for July 23, 2013 – #0175 (Dave Campbell)

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