Dew Drop – July 26, 2013 (#1,593)

Thanks to everyone who came to my APIMASH Starter Kit talk at First State .NET last night. I’ll be posting slides and other resources from the talk later today. Be sure to come out next month to see Nik Molnar give a Glimpse Project Walkthrough. http://firststatedot.net/

Top Links

• Advise the .NET Framework Team (Rich Lander)
• Intel Haswell Ultrabook Pre-release First Look (Jesse Liberty)
• What is the type of the null literal? (Eric Lippert)
• Testing Your APIMASH app with Fiddler (Jim O’Neil)

 

Web Development

• Caching: Your Worst Best Friend (Karl Seguin)
• Essential Studio for JavaScript Released with 30 Controls for LOB Based Windows Store Applications (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Profile-Guided JavaScript Optimization (Ariya Hidayat)
• WebStorm 7 EAP 130.1362; EJS support (Dmitry Jemerov)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.4.0 Alpha (Jasper de Groot)
• Migrating to EventStore in Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services in Visual Studio 2013 (Merwan Hade & Richard Lee)
• Cloud Service Fundamentals – Introduction into Fault-Tolerant Data Access Layer (Valery Mizonov)
• Website Deployment: Let Us Count The Ways! (Chris Coyier)
• IE11 Developer Preview for Windows 7: Enabling Next Generation Sites and Apps – Faster (Sandeep Singhal & Rob Mauceri)
• Use cache to turbo-boost LightSwitch App (Saar Shen)
• Sorting by Multiple Fields with Different Sort Orders Using the AngularJS orderby Filter (Rob Larsen)
• Node v0.10.15 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Microsoft’s modern.IE scanning tool goes open source (Wayne Williams)

 

XAML

• Create a Twitter App using RadControls for Windows Phone 8 (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #872 – Animating a Popup (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – UIElement – Visibility and Status (Richard Carr)
• Should You Create a Wide Tile for Your App? (Matt Lacey)
• [Sample Of Jul 25th] Merge multiple images into a single image in WP8 (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio a leader in software quality suites (Brian Harry)
• Stupid Question 223: How do you do type forwarding in C#? (Iris Classon)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Getting Caller Information (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio 2013+1 Promises New C# / VB Functionality (Jeff Martin)
• JustMock 2013 Q2 SP1 is Visual Studio 2013 Ready (Phil Japikse)
• What is the default cursor for a thread? (Raymond Chen)
• Displaying and Searching std::map Contents in WinDbg (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #896 – Custom Exceptions Should Be Marked as Serializable (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Stop writing code. Start drawing it. (Tom Giannattasio & Adam Christ)
• It Only Takes One Change Order (Brad Egeland)
• Free E-Book on Practical Performance Profiling (Tatworth)
• More on the Programming Tests Saga (Ted Neward)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android 4.3: Jelly Bean Improvements (Alex Chitu)
• Android Apps Made Easy (Mobile Man)
• Xamarin.Mobile: new, improved and open-sourced (Craig Dunn)
• APress Deal of the Day 26/Jul/2013 – Pro Windows Embedded Compact 7 (Tatworth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• RadioTFS – Ben Day Moves Conchango to Scrum (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
• Video: Combining MSIL and C# (Manya Susoev)
• Inside Windows Phone 59 | Nokia’s Imaging SDK for Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• New Windows Azure Benefits for MSDN Subscribers! (Craig Kitterman & Scott Guthrie)
• Edge Show 69 – Windows Azure AD Application Access | Edge (David Tesar)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Live from SDCC 2013! (Chris Hardwick)
• Podcast #50 – Listen To This Podcast (Alex Miller)
• Video: The Pixel Painter and Video: The Instagram API Starter Kit for Windows Store Apps (Bob Familiar)
• 068 JSJ – ES6 with Aaron Frost (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Vergecast 086 – July 25th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Boagworld: Prioritisation paralysis (Paul Boag)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 99 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Philly Geek Awards Spotlight: Q&A With Shawn Caple (Jo Pincushion)

 

Database

• Creating a Visual Studio Database Project for an existing SQL Server Database (Rick Krueger)
• Adding Stored Procs to your LightSwitch Intrinsic Database (Beth Massi)
• SQL – What is the latest Version of NuoDB? – A Quick Contest to Get Amazon Gift Cards and SQL SERVER – Data Sources and Data Sets in Reporting Services SSRS (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Stories from the interview room (Oren Eini)
• Images of Nokia’s 6-inch phablet leaked, already in production? (damaster)
• Startup culture emerging at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Choosing the right Portable Power Phone/Tablet/Gadget Battery Charger (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, July 25th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 25, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1166 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for July 25, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for July 25, 2013 – #0177 (Dave Campbell)

 

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