Dew Drop – August 11-12, 2013 (#1,601)

Top Links

• Everyone can build an app – introducing Windows Phone App Studio beta (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1 (Jonathan Turner)
• Get front row seats for the unboxing of Xbox One (Jennifer Warnick)
• Pixar’s Sneak Peek at Next 3 Major Movies (Chris Taylor)

 

Web Development

• Why JavaScript Will Become The Dominant Programming Language Of The Enterprise – ReadWrite (Nolan Wright)
• Reactive JavaScript (Alex Young)
• Using the Ignite UI Grid and Breeze.JS in a Hot Towel SPA – a complete CRUD app (Angel Todorov)
• Windows Azure Training Kit (August 2013 Update) and Windows Azure SQL Database VS SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines VS Alternatives and Save Money by Setting Cache-Control on Windows Azure Blobs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• HTML Prototype Viewer Done! – What’s Next? (Ambrose Little)
• Making SignalR work in IE8 with Chrome Frame (Anders Poulsen)
• How to make LESS CSS more smooth for you to use with HTML ! (Anirudha Gupta)
• 3 Easy Steps to Replace Existing Charts with Telerik’s HTML5-based ASP.NET Chart (Antonio Stoilkov)
• JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 1 (Ariya Hidayat)
• The flag /g of JavaScript’s regular expressions (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Binding Checkboxes with KnockoutJS (Brian Lanham)
• Babylon.js: Creating a convincing world for your game with custom shaders, height maps and skyboxes (David Catuhe)
• CRUD operation on ASP.NET Web API from .NET client (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Message handlers scoped per route in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Mastering the HTML5 Canvas: Part 1 (Josh Anderson)
• Targeting first and last rows in CSS grid layouts (Keith Clark)
• Optimizing JavaScript Performance Through Custom Memory Allocation (Kevin Dangoor)
• Named Callbacks in JavaScript (Kevin Griffin)
• Language-wide Features in CSS (Louis Lazaris)
• Using the PhpStorm built-in SSH terminal and remote SSH external tools (Maarten Balliauw)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP build 130.1562 (Mikhail Vink)
• How many JavaScript frameworks do you need to make a landing page? (Thomas Fuchs)
• Building a Circular Navigation with CSS Transforms (Sara Soueidan)
• Content Validation in ASP.NET Web API – Back to Basics (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Secure Web API 2.0 Services using External Authentication like Twitter (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Choice List improvements (Amr Altahlawi)
• Quick Tip: Analytics and InPrivate Browsing (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Using Compass With Visual Studio for SASS work (Peter Kellner)
• Mixing Static Content With ngSwitch And ngSwitchWhen In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Glimpse 1.6.0 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Callable entities in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Understanding Cross-Site Request Forgery in .NET (Bill Morefield)
• Autoprefixer: A Postprocessor for Dealing with Vendor Prefixes in the Best Possible Way (Chris Coyier)
• Browser Wars: Websockets vs. AJAX (Chris Missal)
• Making the most of your free Azure benefits with MSDN and Step-by-step: Getting setup on Azure with your MSDN benefits (Colin Beales)
• My attempt to understand the dark side… err… AMD/RequireJS and Inject Add-Ons And Plugins With RequireJS, Non-AMD Libraries And Shims (Derick Bailey)
• Not able to create instance of HttpClient class in Console Application: Solved (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting Started with the RequireJS Library and Building a Custom Site Map Provider (Gil Fink)
• Creating a 3D Cube Image Gallery (Kushagra Gour)
• Dead Simple Web Deployment Process (Jason Young)
• Using Icenium Everlive With RequireJS (Jim Cowart)
• Structuring an Angular Project (John Papa)
• Welcome to PhoneJS! (Julian Bucknall)
• ParcelKit : integrating Core Data with Dropbox using the Dropbox Datastore API. (Mark Petherbridge)
• Embeding Executify Scripts (Nick Berardi)
• The New IE11 F12 Tools (Rey Bango)
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense? (Scott Hanselman)
• Group and Display Data with Underscore and AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Converting the Dynamic Data Project Template to Bootstrap and Adding Some More Bootstrap Love to the Dynamic Data Project Template (Steve Naughton)

 

XAML

• Extending App Studio’s Code as a Developer (Peter Kuhn)
• Why developing apps for Windows Phone can be good for your career (Geek Champ)
• Windows Phone 8: Tiles, lock, & notifications – //build/ 2-206 (Adam Denning)
• FREE IG Theme for WPF and Silverlight Microsoft Controls (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows Phone App Studio – Shows Potential … (Colin Eberhardt)
• Synchronization: Handling the off-line mode for Line of Business Applications in WPF With Telerik (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone App Studio – Build your WP app in 4 easy steps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 5 Things I bet you didn’t know about RadControls for WPF and Silverlight and Quick Info on the 10322 Windows Phone SDK Update (Michael Crump)
• Modifying look and feel of your App Studio generated Windows Phone app using Blend and Visual Studio (Joost van Schaik)
• All About Borderless Windows in WPF (Rabeb Othmani)
• The Future of WinJS and XAML (Scott Kuhl)
• 2000 WPF Things #880 – Adding an Offset When Positioning a Popup and #881 – Positioning a Popup Relative to an Arbitrary Rectangle and #882 – Popup Placement at Screen Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
• Making it easier to get started with Windows Phone App Studio beta, simplified phone registration, support options & more payout markets (Todd Brix)
• How to Create a Cloud-Powered Windows Phone App with Telerik Cloud Controls – Part 3 (Todor Petrov)
• XAML Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 (Harikrishna Menon)
• Developing world-ready apps in XAML (part 1) and Developing world-ready apps in XAML (part 2) (Sam Spencer)
• Windows 8: Live Tiles, Services, Authentication (Mike Taulty)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-484- Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps using C# (Kim Spilker)
• Taking your Apps to Market (Brian Hitney)
• Prism: Dynamically Discover and Load Modules at Runtime (Brian Lagunas)
• "What platform should I use when creating a WinStore app" Flow Chart (Greg Duncan)
• Cookie Isolation (Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient API) and What happens to an app when a developer account expires? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Visual Studio Magazine Column Debuts: Modern C++ (Keith Ward)
• Console Application Input and LINQ Style Append and Prepend Operators (Richard Carr)
• Provisioning a Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Preview machine in Azure (Colin Beales)
• MSIL for the C# Developer Preview (Filip Ekberg)
• Decompile Your Visual Studio 2013 Preview Projects with JustDecompile (James Bender)
• C# – Wildcard Search Using LINQ (John Atten)
• New Puzzle! (Kathleen Dollard)
• What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 for native development (Marius Bancila)
• The mysterious ways of the params keyword in C# (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio Extension Sprint Burndown Plus Released (Tarun Arora)
• Visual Studio 2013: IntelliSense and Visual Studio 2013: Insert a Line and Visual Studio 2013: Matching Braces (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using the C++ Spell Checking API (Kenny Kerr)
• Kinect Status Notifier – Notify Kinect Status in System Tray (Abhijit Jana)
• Heroku .NET buildpack now with nginx (Michael Friis)
• Feedback on the refreshed Microsoft Developer Network (Brian Harry)
• .NET Garbage Collection, Variable Scope and You (Dennis C. Dietrich)
• Quick news: New review of Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Devon Musgrave)
• AGENT.Contrib – AGENT, Community and you! and OneNote 2013 COM API XML Schema (Greg Duncan)
• Optimizing C++ Code : Dead Code Elimination (Jim Hogg)
• Windows Event Log Integration with ETW (Jonathan Allen)
• dotPeek 1.1 is Released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• New book: Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Weak references have no effect on object lifetime and On partially-constructed objects, additional remarks, not as interesting and Why does the CLR report a NullReferenceException even if the referenced access is not exactly the null pointer? (Raymond Chen)
• Setting Up Symbols for Offline Environments (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #904 – Getting the Innermost Wrapped Exception and #905 – Examining an Exception’s Stack Trace and #906 – Adding Custom Data vs. Using a Custom Exception Type (Sean Sexton)
• Wondering why mscorsvw.exe has high CPU usage? You can speed it up. and Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster. (Rich Lander)
• Microsoft Is Not Open Source And Therefore Irrelevant? (Tim Murphy)
• Update for Extension Authors: VSIX Manifest Version Range Attribute (Tony Goodhew)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Blink Estimation (Dan North)
• The Quest for Excellence (J.D. Meier)
• Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2013) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Motivation (Jimmy Larkin)
• Automation Device Price Drop (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Are Daily Stand-ups Necessary? (Jaco Pretorius)
• Strategy Development, Consumer Experience, and Technology Build Out (JD Meier)
• The New Release of Telerik Test Studio Is Here! (Jim Holmes)
• Mob programming (Marcus Hammarberg)
• The Leakiest Abstraction and Tiny Nudges in the General Direction of Success (Patrick Lioi)
• Why Exploratory Testing Should Be Part of Your Process and Why You Should Care About Distributed Load Testing (Peter Varhol)
• Deliberate Practice In Tests (K. Scott Allen)
• How to Manage Risk (Steven Lott)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Application Development Doesn’t Require a Huge Financial Investment (Mobile Man)
• Porting A PhoneGap App To Firefox OS (Andrew Trice)
• The New York Times Objective-C Style Guide (Abel Avram)
• What’s the Difference Between Icenium and PhoneGap Build? (Anthony Abdulla)
• Modifying the PhoneGap Template in PhoneGap 3.0 (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 106: You Are Now Less Dumb (Mark Frauenfelder)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 126 – “@Alex Built His First App” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• .NET Rocks! – Automating Deployment with Papadimoulis and Kuemerle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 176: Jon McCoy on Hacking .NET (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 237 – PowerScripting Podcast – Shannon Bray on SharePoint Architecture (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 487: Unboxing Xbox One (Larry Hyrb)
• Hanselminutes – Enough With The JavaScript Already! with Nicholas Zakas (Scott Hanselman)
• The Changelog 98: AFNetworking, Helios, and mobile & iOS development with Mattt Thompson (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• New Video: Getting Started with C# Interfaces (Dan Wahlin)
• 070 JSJ Book Club: JavaScript Allongé with Reginald Braithwaite (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rogue Wave and The Nerdist Podcast – Vince Gilligan (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 014: Avoiding Fad Diets (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Ping 184: MSDN make-over, Xbox matchmaking, 3D printing, Microsoft Way | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 101 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• 10 Years…and I Missed It! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Blogging for 10 Years and Counting (Jason Gaylord)
• Dev of the Week: Jim Bird (Allen Coin)
• Interview: Erik Meijer on Monads (Erik Meijer)
• 10 Years… My blogging is now in the double digits! (wow) (Greg Duncan)
• A heartfelt goodbye to Telerik and Dotnet Mentor, and an excited hello to Evry and back to school (Iris Classon)
• Open Source Project Advice (Jim Cowart)
• I’m ThatExcited about ThatConference (Kendra Little)
• August Webinars: Async, Dropbox, Salesforce, and more (Rich Taylor)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Expressions Tips and Tricks (Dattatrey Sindol)
• SQL Server – How to Move Database Files – Data File and Log File – From One Drive Location to the Other (Suresh Raavi)
• "How the heck is Hekaton part of SQL Server 2014…" More on SQL Server 2014’s In-Memory Tech (Greg Duncan)
• What Queries are Failing in My SQL Server? (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Running SQL Code – Day 2 of 10 and SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Joining Tables – Day 3 of 10 and SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Code Comments – Day 4 of 10 and SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Using Management Studio – Day 5 of 10 and SQL – NuoDB Releases 1.2 has Several SQL Enhancements (Pinal Dave)
• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: What about free pages? and Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: MVCC and  Lightning memory-mapped database is Esent (Oren Eini)
• Publishing Your Data Scripts and SSDT SQL Menu Options and SSDT Schema Compare and SSDT Data Compare (Deborah Kurata)
• How are COALESCE and ISNULL different? (Kenneth Fisher)
• Querying a Key/Value Database – Learning with Riak (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Autohosted apps (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Defeat Public Speaking Apprehension (Jakub Chodounský)
• Innovation, Disruption, and Progress: What Do Vaccines, Software, and Shipping Containers Have in Common? (Bill Gates)
• First Impressions of the Intel Haswell Ultrabook (Steve Smith)
• Get Started with Small Basic – Featured Article and Small Basic – Control Statements (featured article) (Ed Price)
• Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a ‘Silicon Valley’ company (John Cook)
• Where do recruiters mine for candidates? (MS JobsBlog)
• Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – 1st impressions (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Skype for Windows Phone updated with filters and UI changes, still no Video Messages support (Tom Warren)
• Top 100 Apps Availability on iOS, Android, Windows Phone & Windows 8 (Nick Landry)
• Channel 9 Windows Phone 8 App (Beta) now available… If you 8, you’ll want 9… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 8 GDR3 update to bring screen rotation lock, text message syncing, driving mode, and more (damaster)
• Bing Apps Released for Windows Phone 8 (Steve Chang)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 7, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 8, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 9, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 10, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 11, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 6th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 7th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, August 8th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 9th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 6, 2013 and Geek Reading August 7, 2013 and Geek Reading August 8, 2013 and Geek Reading August 9, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #76 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1174 and Double Shot #1175 and Double Shot #1176 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five-August 9, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (August 9th, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 7, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: August 8, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/7/2013 and Daily News Digest 8/8/2013 and Daily News Digest 8/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1415 and The Morning Brew #1416 and The Morning Brew #1417 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-07 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-08 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Reblog: August 2 to August 8 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 25 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #041 (Pinal Dave)
• Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 09/08/13 (John Sansom)
• Windows Dev News for Aug 06, 2013 – #0182 (Dave Campbell)

 

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