Dew Drop – September 9, 2013 (#1,620)

Top Links

• A month with an Intel Haswell prototype (Scott Hanselman)
• Upgrading to Durandal 2.0 (John Papa)
• The Tablet Show – Big Changes in the Tablet and Mobile Space with Mary Jo Foley (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: Nokia, XBox One, More MSDN Azure, Designing Hub Experience and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Using dhtmlxScheduler with Node.js (DHTMLX Team)
• Free HTML5 Programming Course and Free Node.JS Tutorial (Frank LaVigne)
• Improved Authentication with Filters in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• TypeScripted Knockout in ASP.NET MVC (Sumit Maitra)
• KnockoutJS and ASP.NET MVC – Alternate techniques and using the Anti Forgery Token (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Access Windows Azure Cache Service from Node.js and Express (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Using a Visual JavaScript Code Editor With Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• Updating your JavaScript apps to use the new Windows.Web.Http API (Peter Smith)
• Running Visual Studio Web Form Pages By Dragging Them Out of Visual Studio (Peter Kellner)
• Don’t be Fooled, Blob Lease Management is Tricky Business (Alexandre Brisebois)
• My workflow for comment notifications (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Dropbox Datastores and Drop-Ins (Carlos Cessa)
• Fun with Favicons (Eric Lawrence)
• Firebug Tip: Resend HTTP Request (Jan Odvarko)
• Google APIs Console picks up the Picker API (Scott Knaster)
• 3D Modeling Made Easy with JSModeler (Zef Hemel)

 

XAML

• Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Organize your UI layer in XAML (Andrea Boschin)
• #VisualStudio 2013 and Windows Phone app development (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #902 – The TabControl Automatically Creates Multiple Rows of Tabs (Sean Sexton)
• SkyDrive Sync on Windows Phone – Uploading Content To SkyDrive (Dennis Delimarsky)
• What’s New in Windows 8.1 Background Tasks (Tony Champion)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• F# for Numerics and F# for Visualization update (Jon Harrop)
• [Sample Of Sep 8th] How to fill a DataTable with the result of LinqToEntity (Philip Fu)
• Update to dotTrace Performance is Available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• ORM Profiler v1.5 beta has been released! (Frans Bouma)
• "Netduino Home Automation Projects [for Lazy Boys]" (Greg Duncan)
• How to rescue a broken stack trace on x64: Recovering the stack pointer (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #926 – How Memory Is Allocated for Objects on the Managed Heap (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Set Your Motivation on Fire (J.D. Meier)
• Building A Spaceship With TDD – The Prequel (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Ideas on Managing Distributed Teams Using Agile [3/3] – Review and Conclusion (Peter Saddington)
• You are responsible for YOU (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• MonoAndroid: Using bound Services (ThatsAlok)
• Firefox OS: Phones for Apps Initiative Begins (Vygantas)
• How do you check (and update) your PhoneGap version in 3.0? and Working with Plugins in PhoneGap 3.0 (Raymond Camden)
• Debugging from a new Nexus 7 to Chrome/Windows 8 (Steve Albers)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 130 – “Baby Travis” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Technology & Friends Episode 282: Jose Mojica on Podcasting (David Giard)
• Episode 239 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Willis from Microsoft on the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 490: Xbox One launches November 22nd (Larry Hyrb)
• 074 JSJ Grunt.js with Ben Alman (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Episode 113 – Introduction to the Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Preview Virtual Machine Image | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten, Nick Harris & Chris)
• Windows Weekly 327: Nokiasoft (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Doug Jones and The Nerdist Podcast – Katey Sagal (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 102: RVM and Managing Ruby versions with Michal Papis (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Yet Another Podcast #107–Windows 8.1 For Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• Get Up And Code 18: The Truth About Calories (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• GeekWire Radio: Microsoft + Nokia, new Kindle Paperwhite, and the future of satellite broadband (Todd Bishop)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 197: Lars Vogel (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• Why I Think ALL Technical User Groups Should be on Meetup (G. Andrew Duthie)
• RavenDB 3.0–Mystery Feature #1–Webinar (Oren Eini)
• Going Native – Day 3 (Eric Battalio)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Report Manager Tips and Tricks (Dattatrey Sindol)
• #0293 – SQL Server – TRY_CAST v/s TRY_CONVERT – Differences, When and How to use? (Nakul Vachhrajani)
• Using the Deploy Database to SQL Azure Wizard in SQL Server Management Studio to move to the Cloud (Brady Upton)
• How to Deploy to SQL Azure with Deployment Manager (Andrew Denty)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB High Performance Book is OUT and RavenDB 2.x Beginner’s Guide is out (Oren Eini)
• Importance of RAID in Databases (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

SharePoint

• Microsoft boosts per file upload limit for SharePoint Online to 2GB (John Callaham)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Delete Registry Entries – Remote Machines – Example Profile Deletion (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 8.1 (MS Downloads)
• Windows Unit Gets Fresh Leaders as Phone, PC and Xbox Efforts Move Closer Together (Ina Fried)
• Nokia Amber Update Tip: Secured Camera (Jeffrey Fritz)
• Surface 2.0 benchmarked against Surface RT, sees dramatic speed boost (Ron)
• VMware or Microsoft?–Did you know that there’s no extra charge? (Zain Naboulsi)
• Xbox One video leak offers a closer look at the next-gen dashboard and Leaked Nokia Lumia 1520 image shows the giant 1080p Windows Phone and This is the Nokia Lumia 1520, a giant 6-inch 1080p Windows Phone (Tom Warren)
• Screenshots from Windows Phone 8 GDR3 and Nokia’s Lumia Bittersweet Shimmer updates leaked (damaster)
• Video of Windows Phone 8 GDR3 and Nokia Bittersweet shimmer in action (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 6, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 7, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 8, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 09.01 ~ 09.09 (yuanjian)
• Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, September 6th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 6, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (September 6, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #1197 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – September 6, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #106 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1437 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 9, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reblog: August 30 to September 5 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 29 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #045 (Pinal Dave)

 

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