Dew Drop – September 18, 2013 (#1,626)

Top Links

• And now, for no particular reason, a collection of Jeff Sandquist videos (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Learn Enterprise Library 6 and Unity 3 with newly released hands-on labs (Grigori Melnik)
• How many tuple types are there in C#? (Tomas Petricek)
• Future Friendly – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 Frameworks (Peter Provost)
• What PHP Programmers Can Learn from Ruby on Rails (Jason Chandler)
• Web API 2 Routing Attributes, Part 1 (Eric Vogel)
• Scope Analysis for JavaScript Code (Ariya Hidayat)
• Controlling CSS Animations and Transitions with JavaScript and Responsive Elements (Chris Coyier)
• Decoding complex non-alphanumeric JavaScript (Gareth Heyes)
• What’s different/better/worse than other JSON hypermedia media types? (John Sheehan)
• Why all those JavaScript libraries? (John Papa)
• Move Static Member refactoring for PHP in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure now fully supported by Juju (Venkat Gattamneni)
• JQuery Mobile Tree Using Collapsible Sections and Dynamic Views in LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• Sublime Text–Sublime? (Jesse Liberty)
• Auto-hiding scrollbars in IE10 (Bricss)
• Quick and easy way to run IIS Express on any path (Adam Anderson)
• Making Heroku Run A NodeJS App From A Sub-Folder (Derick Bailey)

 

XAML

• Make your mobile website into a Windows Phone app and Windows Phone WebBrowser control tips (Adam Denning)
• Windows Phone Developer Promotions for September (Bill Reiss)
• Windows Phone HTTP Proxy Caching Issue (Derik Whittaker)
• VS2013: upgrading a Windows Phone 7/8 and Windows 8 apps (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #909 – Binding a TabControl to a List of Objects, part III (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Issue [ TFS 2013 ] TF255466 A previous update or installation requires a restart (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 2000 C# Things #933 – The Garbage Collector Groups Objects into Generations (Sean Sexton)
• See what’s new in Kinect for Windows SDK 1.8 (Steve Clayton)
• Immutable Collections Should Not Implement Mutable Interfaces (Jonas Gauffin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Importance of Prioritizing and Sizing Your Backlog for Agile Planning (Vesselina Tasheva)
• Popular Code Conventions on GitHub (Phil Haack)
• Test Execution Order (Patrick Lioi)
• The benefits and challenges of remote working (Paul Boag)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android on x86: Understanding Android Device Emulation (Iggy Krajci & Darren Cummings)
• Four Tips While Using Icenium Mist (Anthony Abdulla)
• Source Control Options With Icenium (Jim Cowart)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ping 188: Cortana for all, Nokia wins, IMAP support, iPad trade ins | Ping! (Laura Foy & Mark DeFalco)
• The Verge Mobile Show 062 – September 17th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)

 

Community / Events

• Twitter hires longtime Microsoft developer evangelist Jeff Sandquist (Todd Bishop)
• US DPE Public Sector–Developer Tools October Events and DPE East Region–October Events and DPE Central Region–October Events and DPE West Region-October Events (MS Public Sector DPE Team)
• Your Pluralsight story could snag you free training! (Lora Beros)
• Get the coolest internship around (MS JobsBlog)
• Dev of the Week: Lukas Eder (Allen Coin)
• YUIConf 2013 Registration Now Open! (Andrew Wooldridge)
• This Month’s Nerd Nite Is All About Sustainability (Chris Cummins)

 

Database

• Using the REPLAY feature within SQL Server Profiler (Ben Snaidero)
• Updated Sql Server Data Tools for September 2013 (Jill McClenahan)
• SQL SERVER – Five Puzzles around UNION – Participate in All Five (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• [Sample Of Sep 17th] How to develop a custom content type with associated workflow in SharePoint (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8.1 Enterprise Heads to MSDN, TechNet, Volume License Customers (Paul Thurrott)
• Dictating Text Messages with Plantronics and Twilio (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Reading the Windows 8.1 pricing tea leaves (Kip Kniskern)
• The New Turbo Button – Balancing Power Management and Performance on Windows Servers (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 17th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 17, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Entity Framework Links #5 (Rowan Miller)
• Double Shot #1203 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 18, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1443 and The Morning Brew #1444 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for Sep 17, 2013 – #0191 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 7 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

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