Dew Drop – July 25, 2013 (#1,592)

Top Links

• Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here (Miguel de Icaza)
• Pluralsight Expands into Open Source with Acquisition of PeepCode (Aaron Skonnard)
• Self Publishing is coming to Xbox One (Larry Hryb)
• The impact of a compliment (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• What is Bind method in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Microsoft Open Technologies and Azul Systems® to Partner on an OpenJDK™ Build for Windows Azure (Gianugo Rabellino)
• Firebug Extension: FireQuery – jQuery development (Jan Odvarko)
• Using ExtJS 4, JavaScript, And Visual Studio to Generate a Compiled SPA App with Sencha CMD (Peter Kellner)
• [Sample Of Jul 24th] Show spinner when loading large data in ASP.NET (Philip Fu)
• Resources to Get You Up to Speed in Ember.js (Rey Bango)
• Fun With the Chrome JavaScript Console and the Pluralsight Website (Steve Michelotti)
• APress Deal of the Day 25/Jul/2013 – Pro HTML5 Programming (Tatworth)
• Scorched Earth Deployments on Amazon EC2, TeamCity & Web Deploy – Part 1: Amazon config and Scorched Earth Deployments on Amazon EC2, TeamCity & Web Deploy – Part 2: Site config and Scorched Earth Deployments on Amazon EC2, TeamCity & Web Deploy – Part 3: Build config (Doug Rathbone)
• Developing Custom Workflow Activities for Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• Using NPM behind a firewall (Simone Chiaretta)
• Katana? OWIN? What? Here’s what and how to get started with them too… (Greg Duncan)

 

XAML

• Book Review: Jeremy Likness, Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML (Bill Wagner)
• New book: Windows Phone 8 Development Internals (Devon Musgrave)
• Resources from Bluetooth and NFC for Windows Phone and Beyond (Peter Foot)
• Proximity in Windows Phone 8 (Peter Torr)
• 2000 WPF Things #871 – Popup Control Automatically Sizes to Fit Its Content (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 Preview starting with the XAML templates (Jeffrey Ferman)
• Windows.Foundation.Collection Types, Part 2: Vectors and Vector Views (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Tip: Extend Your Most Recently Used List (Peter Vogel)
• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: Stepping through make everything easier (Oren Eini)
• RadControls for WinForms Q2 2013 SP1 has been released with RadGanttView Beta and Visual Studio 2013 Readiness (Carey Payette)
• Load Testing Siebel Applications using Visual Studio (Charles Sterling)
• Stupid Question 222: What is type forwarding in C#? (Iris Classon)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Ten – Getting Started With Operators in F# (Matthew Adams)
• Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client While Running Tests (Shai Raiten)
• MSBuild is now part of Visual Studio! (Will Buik)
• 2000 C# Things #895 – Catching a Custom Exception Type (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Code Evolution (Alois Kraus)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplifying the Rhino Mocks Code Base (M. Meisinger)
• Designing Event-Driven Task Manager (Rinat Abdullin)
• Free APress e-book on GIT! (Tatworth)
• Migrating Code From TFS to GitHub (Keith Elder)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Platform Updates: New Facebook SDK for iOS and API for Page Locations (Greg Schechter)
• Android 4.3 and Updated Developer Tools (Dave Burke)
• Google Launches Google Cast SDK For iOS, Android and Chrome, Lets Developers Stream Their Apps To Chromecast (Frederic Lardinois)
• Android Studio 0.2.x: Good Release, Tough Upgrade (Jim Wilson)
• Programming iOS with JavaScript (Alex Curylo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 104: Andy Ihnatko and Joshua Glenn (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Windows 8 Goodness with Mark Minasi (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 174: Paul Stack on automating Windows configuration management with Puppet and PowerShell (Jon Galloway)
• The Nerdist Podcast – yeahYUH (Chris Hardwick)
• Speaker Idol 2013 Wrapup + Video (Jeffrey Fritz)
• Video of .NET Rocks Testing Episode (Jim Holmes)
• A Look at 3D Printing and Windows 8.1 (Larry Larsen)
• Design Expo: Clashers and Design Expo: Greenery and Design Expo: AMP (Laura Foy)
• Watch the Xbox coverage during Comic Con 2013 in San Diego (video) (Ron)
• Azure Mobile Services Tools in Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Webinar Recording: Debugging PHP with PhpStorm (Mikhail Vink)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Science Fiction Author Gregory Frost (Chris Urie)
• Microsoft’s CityNext Program Comes to Philly (Maanvi Singh)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Create a Very First Report with the Report Wizard (Pinal Dave)
• Article: How to Provide SQL Access to NoSQL Type Data using Multi-Record Type (Randal Hoff)
• Azure SQL Data Premium Now Available (Bryan Group)

 

Miscellaneous

• Featured Article – Developer Roadmap for Using Small Basic (Ed Price)
• Microsoft: There are ways besides blocking sites to keep online porn from kids (John Callaham)
• Can Your Side Project Make You Rich? (Manya Susoev)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 25, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 24th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 24, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1406 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/25/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 24 July 2013 (Jax)
• Windows Dev News for July 24, 2013 – #0176 (Dave Campbell)

 

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