Dew Drop – September 13, 2013 (#1,623)

 

Top Links

• Reflection and default parameters (Eric Lippert)
• Immutable collections are now RC (Immo Landwerth)
• Windows Phone 8.1 photos show notification center and UI changes (Tom Warren)
• Caliburn Micro Part 6: Introduction to Screens and Conductors (Jason Fauchelle)
• Versioning RESTful Services v2 (Howard Dierking)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 Live Video Streaming via WebSockets (Dominic Szablewski)
• Client IP Address Filtering with Windows Azure Web Sites (Nathan Totten)
• Creating New Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC (Johni Sutanto)
• Client-side full-text search in CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Do Programmers even NEED a degree? (Dave M. Bush)
• Adding high performance Windows Azure Cache Service to your ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• The LightSwitch HTML Table Control (Rohit Agrawal)
• Meet PhpStorm Team at Web&PHP Conference, DrupalCon, PHPNW, ZendCon (Mikhail Vink)
• Defining Instantiatable Classes In The AngularJS Dependency Injection Framework (Ben Nadel)
• Icenium: Blank Project and Hello World (Josh Morales)
• Glimpse 1.6.1 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Using Hardware to Decode and Load JPG Images up to 45% faster in Internet Explorer 11 (Jatinder Mann)
• Toastr 2.0.1 Released (John Papa)
• Writing Tests Against Page Objects (Martin Fowler)
• Getting Started with Advertising on Your Website (Matt Smith)
• How I fixed an anonymous infinite loop in jsbin (Remy Sharp)
• Coder: a simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi (Scott Knaster)
• Moving Data In An AngularJS Directive (K. Scott Allen)
• History and the TravelLog (Eric Lawrence)

 

XAML

• States, Navigation and Testing with Portable Class Libraries for Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• What’s new in Windows 8.1 for XAML Developers – Part 2 (Carey Payette)
• Rx for Windows Phone article now available (Jim Wooley)
• 2000 WPF Things #905 – Executing Some Code when a User Changes Tabs on a TabControl and #906 – Programmatically Changing the Current Tab on a TabControl (Sean Sexton)
• Supercharged Styling: Quickly Finding and Setting a CSS Property in Blend (Visual Studio Blog)
• Link: Protecting your Windows Store app from unauthorized use (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to calculate distance between two coordinates in WindowsPhone? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• [Sample Of Sep 12th] Making an await WebClient in WP8 (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• My Favorite New LightSwitch Features in Visual Studio 2013 (Beth Massi)
• Working around a bug in Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Peter Kuhn)
• Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio 2013 Custom Web Servers and OwinHost.exe (Howard Dierking)
• Community TFS Build Extensions – Sep 2013 (Mike Fourie)
• EasyNetQ: Topic Confusion! (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio 2013: Never Cut or Copy a Blank Line Again and Visual Studio 2013: Cut or Delete the Current Line (Zain Naboulsi)
• Developing apps for Agent SmartWatch in C# (Zubair Ahmed)
• Compile can not resolve System.Net.Http in currently targeted framework (Naeem Khedarun)
• Is There Anything in that String? (Peter Vogel)
• .NET that shall enmesh them all – Shakespeare compiler for .NET (James Curran)
• Microsoft.Bcl.Build Package Updated with Support for Conditional Import (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Introducing ‘/Gw’ Compiler Switch (Ankit Asthana)
• Why care about the next Telerik Icenium release if you are a .NET developer? (Anthony Abdulla)
• More with the Entity Framework V6 RC1 (Rob Sanders)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Deleting Detached Entities With Required References (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #929 – Visualizing How Objects Are Removed from the Managed Heap and #930 – Objects on the Heap Can Refer to Each Other (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: ThresholdTest (Martin Fowler)
• The Importance of Timeboxing and Iterations for Agile Planning (Vesselina Tasheva)
• Scrum, velocity, and driving down the motorway the wrong way (Gojko Adzic)
• 30 Days of TDD: Day Two – A Review of Object Oriented Principals (James Bender)
• How a LazyDecorator can let your application avoid building massive object graphs (Giorgio Sironi)
• Scaling? Focus On Raw Speed (Karl Seguin)
• Stupid Question 238-239: Should I do code Katas and what is a Kata? (Iris Classon)
• Is Offshoring Less Expensive? Exposing Another Management Myth (Johanna Rothman)
• Why the Cloud is Disrupting Testing Practices (Peter Varhol)
• Free Space Art Assets to help you build your game (Susan Ibach)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started with Xamarin Android (Jesse Liberty)
• Notice for iOS NDA developers using iOS 7 beta (Miguel de Icaza)
• What’s Coming in Sencha Touch 2.3 (Jamie Avins)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Apps for Google Glass with Chris May (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 240 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Wouters on becoming an MVP, starting a usergroup and more (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Hanselminutes – Vision-Based Computing with Dr. Neil Roodyn (Scott Hanselman)
• What the Tech 180: New Surface and New iPhones (Paul Thurrott)
• Continuous Agile: Release More Frequently Workshop [Video] (Adam Feber)
• Inside Windows Phone | From the Archive | Getting Started With Windows Azure Mobile Services (Larry Lieberman)
• HDC13 LIVE – Interview with Michael Crump on Windows Phone 8 and More (Michael Crump)
• Edge Show 74 – Virtualize Enterprise Workloads with Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• The Vergecast 093 – September 12th 2013 (Verge Video)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tegan and Sara (Chris Hardwick)
• Behind The Scenes Of The Channel 9 Live Homepage (Duncan Mackenzie, Geoffrey & Karsten Januszewski)
• Dev Diary: Paul Baldwin, CEO of Joybits | Developer Diaries (Laura Foy)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 105 (Richard Hay)
• Why DC is a Hot Place for Start Ups (Frank LaVigne)

 

Community / Events

• What a Long Strange Trip it’s been (Bill Wagner)
• Arduino Show and Tell at Pablo’s Fiesta (Sharon Cichelli)
• The First Glance Film Festival: Geek Picks (Dan)
• Geek of the Week: Actress & Model Montana Marks (David Goodman)
• Ten Minutes With… Beth Massi (Dirk Strauss)
• A Programming Life: Choose Your Own Adventure (Rachel Roumeliotis)

 

Database

• Manage SQL Server Reporting Services in Management Studio (Scott Murray)
• SQL SERVER – Automatically Store Results of Query to File with sqlcmd and SQL – Weekend Project – Watching Technically Seth Series – What is your plan for this weekend? (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Configuration Manager – Remote Procedure Call Failed (Ted Krueger)
• Selecting an Edition of SQL Server 2012 (Wes Miller)
• The storage wars: Shadow Paging, Log Structured Merge and Write Ahead Logging (Oren Eini)

 

Miscellaneous

• You can help decide what features come next in the Excel Web App (Athima Chansanchai)
• Nokia Lumia 1520 to be announced on September 26? and Render of Nokia “Sirius” tablet leaked (damaster)
• New Google Chromebooks announced with Intel Haswell chips (Kevin C. Tofel)
• Google introduces new Chromebooks running Intel Haswell processors for better battery life, performance (Nathan Olivarez-Giles)
• New leaked screenshot suggests "Cortana" is not just limited to voice interactions (Seth Brodeur)
• Windows Phone 8.1 – App list sorting and actionable notifications revealed in alleged screenshots (Daniel Rubino)
• Nokia Shows Off Two New Chargers for their Windows Phone Lumia Line (Antonio Hernandez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 13, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, September 11th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, September 12th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 11, 2013 and Geek Reading September 12, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1200 and Double Shot #1201 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-12 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 12, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: September 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/12/2013 and Daily News Digest 9/13/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1440 and The Morning Brew #1441 (Chris Alcock)

 

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