Dew Drop – September 4, 2013 (#1,617)

Top Links

• Expanding Windows Azure MSDN Benefit (Brian Harry)
• Windows Azure: New Distributed, Dedicated, High Performance Cache Service + More Cool Improvements (Scott Guthrie)
• Leveraging your XAML MVVM Skills in HTML – Working with Observable Arrays (Derik Whittaker)
• What’s new for HTML Developers in Blend for Visual Studio 2013 (Ryan J. Salva)

 

Web Development

• Why is The New Windows Azure Cache Service Important? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• The JavaScript and HTML5 Magazine – What’s New this Week? (Dan Wahlin)
• WebStorm 7.0 Beta is available for download (Ekaterina Prigara)
• How Node.js Makes Network Code More Testable (Greg Smith)
• Book Review: HTML 5 Unleashed (Andrea Thacker)
• Built-in Webserver in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Announcing New Windows Azure Cache Preview (Mark Brown)
• How-To: Windows Azure Hosted Cloud Services SSL Guide (Matt Smith)
• [Sample Of Sep 3rd] How to modify sessionState section at run time in ASP.NET (Philip Fu)
• Metaprogramming Fun In JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
• Relative URLs and Absolute URLs (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Debug ScriptBundle results in 404 if virtualPath parameter contains a dot (Xinyang Qiu)
• 10 Uses for Realtime Web Technologies (Chris Missal)
• Using the ChildBrowser Plugin in Icenium (Jim Cowart)
• Durandal, Breeze and Ruby (John Papa)
• SproutCore 1.10.0 Release Candidate 2 (SproutCore Team)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #899 – Displaying Multiple Controls on a TabControl’s Tabs (Sean Sexton)
• "Windows Store Apps Succinctly" 185 page ebook from, guess who? (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Duplicate Finder, Part of ReSharper Command Line Tools (Dmitry Matveev)
• Computing a Cartesian product with LINQ (Eric Lippert)
• Updated NuGet Support in Visual Studio 2012.4 (Immo Landwerth)
• Reusing a Virtual Machine with Windows 7 and Handling Genuine Windows issues (Julie Lerman)
• Working with Objects with the Window Form DataGridView (Peter Vogel)
• Show Current File in Solution Explorer (Jakub Chodounský)
• Feedback on Your C++ Development Activities (Eric Battalio)
• Product Review: Crypto Obfuscator for .Net (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Tangible T4 Editor 2.0 Makes Creating T4 Templates Manageable (Peter Kellner)
• 2000 C# Things #923 – An Object Isn’t Necessarily Deleted as Soon as Its Dereferenced (Sean Sexton)
• Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook – A Review (Simon Jackson)
• Serilog gets a “diagnostic context” (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is agile software architecture? and Tools for diagrams, tools for slides (Simon Brown)
• Testing Asynchronous Javascript (Martin Fowler)
• Putting Absolutely Everything in Version Control (Andrew Binstock)
• Project Scope, Schedule, Resources – Pick Two (TeamPulse Team)
• Introducing Indigo Lite (Ambrose Little)
• The Gift of Adversity (JD Meier)
• Why Responsive Design Is a Waste Of Time (John Sonmez)
• UX, Design and Rich Application Frameworks (Kevin Richardson)
• Lookin’ for Tests in all the Wrong Places (Steven Vore)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Introducing the Unit Test Generator for Visual Studio (Brian Keller)
• Windows Phone Central 161 and Windows Phone Central 162 – Microsoft buys Nokia (Daniel Rubino)
• New Microsoft DevRadio Episode: World of Warcraft API Starter Kit for Windows Phone (David Isbitski)
• [Recording] Taming Brownfield Codebases with AOP + Q&A (Britt King)
• Video for Programming with Kinect For Windows Presentation (Latish Sehgal)
• What the Tech 179: Microsoft Buys Nokia (Paul Thurrott)
• Podcast #52 – We Didn’t Need Headphones (Alex Miller)
• The Verge Mobile Show 061 – September 3rd, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Ping 186: Xbox Money, Windows 8.1, Pitbull loose, Skype goes 3D | Ping! (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• GoingNative 2013 Streaming Live, Sept.4-6, 9AM PST (Charles Torre)
• Interview: Richard Minerich on Functional Programming, F#, Type Providers and Dynamic Languages (Richard Minerich)
• Dev of the Week: Scott Westfall (Allen Coin)
• Xamarin Partners with Parse and Facebook at Parse Developer Day (Morgan Forsythe)

 

Database

• Cumulative Update – 8 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
• SQLAuthority News – 10 SQL in Sixty Days Video in 10 Days – Contest to Win 10 Cool Gifts (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Great SharePoint Apps & Security Post Resources (Andrew Connell)
• Using SharePoint Documents in LightSwitch HTML Client (Prem Ramanathan)

 

PowerShell

• How to install Windows Server features using PowerShell – Server 2012 R2 update (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft responds to pressure over canceled TechNet subscriptions (Ed Bott)
• [Not Humor] Windows To Go Fact Sheet from the NSA (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 3rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 3, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1194 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1434 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #47 (Jason Strate)
• Windows Dev News for Sep 03, 2013 – #0187 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 5 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Links of the month (August Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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