Dew Drop – September 11, 2013 (#1,622)

Top Links

• Hosting A JavaScript Engine In .NET (K. Scott Allen)
• Expression API Cookbook (Sacha Barber & ipjohnson123)
• Exploring some fresh ReSharper plugins (Maarten Balliauw)
• Good Old F5 Experience With OwinHost.exe on Visual Studio 2013 (Tugberk Ugurlu)

 

Web Development

• Design Patterns for JavaScript Applications (Jan Stenberg)
• QuestionMark.js — Shortcut Keys Displayed with a Shortcut Key (Louis Lazaris)
• Live Edit in PhpStorm (Mikhail Vink)
• Free book from Smart-Bear – Why HTML5 Tests the Limits of Automated Testing Solutions and APress Deal of the Day – 11/Sep/2013 – Pro Website Development and Operations (Tatworth)
• Navigate through the MSLS.JS Core JavaScript via a Compiled Help File with ease (Michael Washington)
• Quantities and Units in Python (Gaston Hillar)
• Anti-pattern: data in prototype properties (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Fundamentals of Python: Functions & Variables (Week 1) (Dara Monasch)
• Ext JS on Tap (Don Griffin)
• Understanding ECMAScript 6 arrow functions (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Make your website more accessible to more users with Introduction to Web Accessibility (Scott Knaster)

 

XAML

• The Dew Review – DevExpress WPF Subscription – 2013.1 Release (Alvin Ashcraft)
• 2000 WPF Things #904 – Placing RadioButtons in a TabControl (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8 and Windows Phone Guidance for Visual and UX Designers (Andrew Spooner)
• Build an app for that awesome Windows Phone Camera (Susan Ibach)
• Search Based Apps Broken in Windows 8.1 (Jonathan Allen)
• Telerik Controls Are Windows 8.1 RTM Ready (Nikolay Atanasov)
• Your Phone Can Be a Very Scary Place (Sebastian Holst)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Book Review: Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad (Latish Sehgal)
• Mocking Static and Sealed Types Using Wrappers (Richard Carr)
• MSDN and TFS Licensing Gotchas (Dylan Smith)
• Also out yesterday, 2012.4rc3 – TFS 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 RC 3 (Greg Duncan)
• EasyNetQ: Big Breaking Changes in the Advanced Bus (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio 2013: Zooming In and Out of Text in the Editor and Visual Studio 2013: Never Cut or Copy a Blank Line Again (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using Entity Framework Code First with Telerik Reporting (Carey Payette)
• CryptoLicensing For .Net – License Your Software and DevExpress Document Server – Automate Office Without Microsoft Office Automation (Dirk Strauss)
• Kinect Toolkit 1.7 Released (Greg Duncan)
• Learn how to write Apps for Office code interactively with the API Tutorial for Office (Office Developer Team)
• Announcing Tracer: A Generic Way to Track Resource Usage and Leaks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #928 – How Objects Are Removed from the Managed Heap (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: PageObject (Martin Fowler)
• Book Review: Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• Becoming an Agile Coach – Effective Communication Techniques (Peter Saddington)
• What is a Wireframe and Why Are They Useful? (Gradient Girl)
• A little about our UI-less test harness (John Guin)
• Free book from TestComplete – Your Guide to Keyword-Driven Testing (Tatworth)
• Wise Project Management Always Starts With “Why?” (Tim Kitchens)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using the Barcode Scanner Plugin with Icenium (Anthony Abdulla)
• Capturing Photos in Cordova or PhoneGap (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Community / Events

• PASS Summit 2013 Schedule (Jen McCown)
• Dev of the Week: Duncan Brown (Allen Coin)
• Free online training event: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Jump Start (Sep 17) (Jon Galloway)
• Xamarin Around the Globe in September (Morgan Forsythe)
• Recruiters use hackathon best practices (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• Synonyms in SQL Server (Paresh Prajapati)
• (USE THIS): New SQL Server 2012 rewrite for sp_helpindex (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION – Part 5 (Pinal Dave)
• Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Clustered Indexes and Heaps (Robert Davis)
• Degenerate performance scenario for LMDB (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Clarification on the Current State & Future of Sandboxed Solutions (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• CNET throws the Lumia 1020 under the bus in latest review, gets facts wrong too (Daniel Rubino)
• Windows 8.1 RTM – Quick first impressions (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 10, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 11, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 10th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 10, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1199 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 9/10/2013 and Daily News Digest 9/11/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 11, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1439 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for Sep 10, 2013 – #0190 (Dave Campbell)

 

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