Dew Drop – September 6, 2013 (#1,619)

Top Links

• dotCover 2.5 Released: Hot Spots and ReSharper 8 Integration (Daria Dovzhikova)
• ReSharper 8.0.1 is Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Top 10 things to know about the LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• What Makes Indigo Different? (Ambrose Little)

 

Web Development

• Providing A Return Value In A JavaScript Constructor (Ben Nadel)
• TypeScript is to JavaScript as C++ is to C (Bill Wagner)
• Windows Azure Service Bus & Web API a Match Made in Heaven? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Self Updating WCF Routing Services on Windows Azure Using CloudFx (Ilija Injac)
• A sales dashboard ASP.NET application (David Johnson)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP 131.61 (Mikhail Vink)
• WordPress Fragment Caching Revisited (Chris Coyier)
• A new breed of Chrome Apps (Erik Kay)
• Sliding Horizontal Layout (Mary Lou)
• Time to show what you can do with Google Cloud Platform (Scott Knaster)
• Sencha and Backend REST Services: How Modus Create Connects an App to DreamFactory (Todd Appleton)
• 3D Modeling Made Easy with JSModeler (Zef Hemel)
• Online Professional Quality Video: Premium media experiences without plug-ins in Internet Explorer 11 (Jerry Smith)

 

XAML

• No Excel? No Problem with RadSpreadsheet for WPF and Silverlight (Elena Pundjeva)
• MSDN Magazine Article Published on Upgrading from Windows Phone 7 to 8 (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #901 – Scrolling Content within a TabControl (Sean Sexton)
• Cocos2D-X on the highway to the Windows Store (Olivier Bloch)
• Locking orientation: how “Supported Rotations” in the manifest really work (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A LINQ Style Operator to Find Items with Distinct Properties (Richard Carr)
• With a little knowledge and a profiler, let us optimize! (Oren Eini)
• Stupid Question 237: Python in Visual Studio, really? (Iris Classon)
• Single Responsibility Principle in C-Sharp: Simplified (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Kinect to Water…AquaTop Display (Greg Duncan)
• Why are my posted messages getting lost when the user drags my window around? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #925 – The Managed Heap (Sean Sexton)
• NuoDB .NET Driver Offers Entity Framework Support (Seth Proctor)
• [Sample Of Sep 5th] How to retrieve output parameter from stored procedure in Entity Framework (Philip Fu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TellDontAsk (Martin Fowler)
• Steven Mundahl on 6 Ways to Avoid Behaviors that Could Lead to Your Downfall (J.D. Meier)
• A Tester’s Place in an Agile World (Steven Vore)
• What’s your Position, Velocity, and Acceleration? by Neal Tibrewala (Roy Osherove)
• Infragistics Test Automation ( part 2) (Damyan Petev)
• Six Great UI Design Pattern Resources (Gradient Girl)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Tips: Expandable/Collapsible Views (Tony Siciliani)
• Data Extraction in Mobile Apps (Jérémie Laval)
• How do you check (and update) your PhoneGap version in 3.0? (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Demystifying UX with Natasha Irizarry (Scott Hanselman)
• The (as-yet) Untitled Show: Episode 0 – Pilot (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Vergecast 092 – September 5th 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Retro Tech Addicts Podcast 02: The Computer Game (Gareth Myles & Matt Davis)

 

Community / Events

• My RavenDB’s Story Contest (Oren Eini)
• You are cordially invited to hack me first (and get free stuff!) (Troy Hunt)
• Ten Minutes With… Sean Sexton (Dirk Strauss)
• GeekWire Summit: StudentRND projects offer a glimpse of the future (Todd Bishop)
• Going Native 2013 – Day 2 (Eric Battalio)
• Xamarin User Groups, Everywhere (Joseph Hill)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Report Manager Tips and Tricks (Dattatrey Sindol)
• SSIS ReportingPack v1.1.1.0 – Execution Stats visualised in a Gannt chart via usp_ssiscatalog (Jamie Thomson)
• Primeworks, supplier of tools for SQL Server Compact, is closing, making all products free, open source (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• A T-SQL query to get current job activity (Kenneth Fisher)
• Rebuild or Reorganize: Index Maintenance Can Save Your Job (Kendra Little)

 

Miscellaneous

• On the crazy notion of @scottgu as the next Microsoft CEO (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft culture encourages career growth (MS JobsBlog)
• Nitrous.IO’s packaged Chrome app turns even a $200 Chromebook into a developer machine (Jon Russell)
• Newkia aims to rise from Nokia’s ashes on Android wings (Eileen Yu)
• VMware or Microsoft?–Did you know that there’s no extra charge? (Zain Naboulsi)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 5, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, September 5th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1196 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1436 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Dev News for Sep 05, 2013 – #0189 (Dave Campbell)

 

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