Dew Drop – September 16, 2013 (#1,624)

Top Links

• Increased Microsoft advertising opportunity, improved payout and Dev Center updates (Todd Brix)
• CodeLens for Visual Studio 2013 configuration (Jim Wooley)
• Perform Java code analysis with Team Foundation Server and SONAR (Charles Sterling)
• Angular Structure: Refactoring for Growth (John Papa)

 

Web Development

• Get it right: null and undefined in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Adding high performance Windows Azure Cache Service to your ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• "Windows Store Apps with HTML5 Refresh Jump Start" (Greg Duncan)
• Include JavaScript exceptions in your server side logs with JSNLog (Matt Perdeck)
• PhpStorm 7 Public Preview (Mikhail Vink)
• The complete guide to loading a free SSL certificate into an Azure website (Troy Hunt)
• Check If Internet Connection Exists in JavaScript and Using the classList API (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Bing Maps REST Services SDK (CHM) (MS Downloads)
• Azure Mobile Services, AngularJS and broken promises (Aaron Powell)
• Using Internet Explorer 11 and not able to record a web performance test successfully? (Manas Maheshwari)
• Hands-on Device to Cloud series… (Greg Duncan)

 

XAML

• Zero lines of code solution for in-app checking for updates on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #907 – Binding a TabControl to a List of Objects, part I (Sean Sexton)
• A Universal WPF Find / Replace Dialog (Thomas Willwacher)
• What happens when you change a free app to paid? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Just updated: Dev Center app and financial reporting (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Creating Objects with Assembly.CreateInstance (Richard Carr)
• Schema Modelling with Visual Studio 2013 Preview (Rob Sanders)
• Visual Studio Fix: Intellisense Not Popping Up or Not Working (OmegaMan)
• Custom Popup Fade-in Window in C#/Winform/.NET (Sean Chung)
• Visual Studio 2013 RC and Send to FSI (Visual Studio F# Team)
• TFSPivotViewer – Navigate your population of TFS work items with the power of silverlight pivot viewer and deep zoom (Pete Weissbrod)
• Programming Xlib with Mono Develop – Part 2: Athena widgets (proof of concept) (Steffen Ploetz)
• StructureMap – Don’t Scan All Assemblies (Mihai H.)
• Forcing a file handle closed when it has been opened remotely (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #931 – Objects with Finalizers Take Longer to Garbage Collect (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD: Day Three – Your First Test (James Bender)
• Architecture, Agile and Cloud Challenges (Michael Stephenson)
• The Circle of (Agile) Life (Gil Zilberfeld)
• New Online Course: TDD and BDD in Ruby (Roy Osherove)
• 7 Steps to Software Delivery Nirvana (Frank Kelly)
• Load Testing Web Services (Jared Twing)
• Program Management Blog Posts at Your Fingertips (JD Meier)
• What Was I Thinking When I Named That? (Jim Holmes)
• Benefits of Semiotics in User Interface Design (J. Salvador)
• Dont Get Caught up in the Architecture Modeling Debate (Mike Walker)
• Shufflin’ Ain’t Sortin’ (Patrick Lioi)
• The magic of a spec (Seth Godin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating a UI in Xamarin.iOS (Wally McClure)
• Learning Xamarin #2–Using the Genymotion Emulator (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 111: Smarter Than You Think (Mark Frauenfelder)
• MNR 491: TGS and Xbox One Tour Road to Launch (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: Windows 8.1 RTM on MSDN, Visual Studio 2013 RC’s, One ASP.NET and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• 075 JSJ Maintainable JavaScript with Nicholas Zakas (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Rash and Nat Faxon (Chris Hardwick)
• Windows Weekly 328: Kabini She Said (Paul Thurrott)
• The Changelog 103: GitLab and open source with Sytse Sijbrandij (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• The Tablet Show – Occasionally Connected Software with Michael Perry (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 188 – 09.13.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 19: Sleep Talk (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Boagworld: Code discrimination (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Great Opportunity For a Senior WPF/C# Developer (Karl Shifflett)
• A new F# Meetup Group – Washington DC F# Meetup (Don Syme)
• Imagine Cup 2014 – Registration Open (Sue Gee)
• My Secret Non-Software Developer Life I’ve Never Told You About (John Sonmez)

 

Database

• Determining Drive Letters in Use by SQL Server Databases (K. Brian Kelley)
• How to Prove Your SQL Server Needs More Memory [Video] (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Execute Operating System Commands in sqlcmd (Pinal Dave)
• Creating a MongoDB replica set cluster w/Windows Azure Linux VMs (Jeff Wilcox)
• The storage wars: Shadow Paging, Log Structured Merge and Write Ahead Logging (Oren Eini)
• Working With IndexedDB (Raymond Camden)

 

SharePoint

• Getting Started Developing for SharePoint 2010? (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Internal tools – cheap and tasteless? (Code Inside Team)
• Raspberry Pi – [Episode 1] The journey begins (Dave Auld)
• [Hardware Review] Life with Haswell… Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review – Part 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Intel Haswell Battery Life (John Papa)
• Teaching Kids Electronics, Computers, and Programming Fundamentals with Snap Circuits (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 15, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, September 13th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 13, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1202 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – September 13, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #81 (Mary Lou)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1442 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: September 6 to September 12 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 30 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #046 (Pinal Dave)
• Weekend Entertainment from Xamarin Developers (Joseph Hill)

 

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