Dew Drop – September 24, 2013 (#1,630)

Top Links

• Surface take 2: how Microsoft’s powerful new tablets compare to the competition (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• .NET Rocks! – DurandalJS with Rob Eisenberg (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Metallica (Chris Hardwick)
• Announcing Code Health Metrics for CodeLens – A DevLabs Project (David Starr)

 

Web Development

• dhtmlxGantt 2.0 – Interactive JavaScript Gantt Chart (dhtmlx Team)
• Unicode and JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Bringing the Power of HTML5 to Telerik Reporting (Carey Payette)
• Getting Audio File Information With HTML’s File API And Audio Element (Derick Bailey)
• Quick Tip – Empty a JavaScript Array (Gil Fink)
• All You Need is JavaScript (John Papa)
• Easy API Scaffolding with Simple-API and Node.js (Joe Wegner)
• Sending Asynchronous Emails Using LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• Mobile First With Bootstrap 3 (Carlos Cessa)
• ProgrammableWeb’s Directory Hits 10,000 APIs. And Counting. (David Berlind)
• Targeting Menu Elements with Submenus in a Navigation Bar (Ray Messina)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM in Web Applications (Ralph Waldenmaier)
• Creating an image gallery with Tile Manager (Marina Stoyanova)

 

XAML

• WinRT 8.1: this is why you will use the Properties pane in Visual Studio (Jeremy Alles)
• The WinRT Geolocator object, the consent prompt, and scope (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• 2000 WPF Things #913 – Changing the Direction that an Expander Expands (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Porting an Icenium Project to Visual Studio (Jonathan Tower)
• Visual Studio Tips: Starting to code your class project in TFS (Susan Ibach)
• Announcing Code Health Metrics for CodeLens preview on DevLabs (Charles Sterling)
• Kinect for Windows SDK v1.8 (Greg Duncan)
• Granting access to Team Foundation Server 2012 for diagnostic troubleshooting (Martin Hinshelwood)
• An Exercise in Virtual to Physical Memory Translation (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #937 – Forcing a Garbage Collection (Sean Sexton)
• Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features (Shivprasad Koirala)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Setting and Achieving Goals as a Change Agent (Peter Saddington)
• What Really Matters in Developer Testing (Peter Provost)
• So, You’re a Web Designer, Right? (Gorka Molero)
• Why Software Developers Should Prototype (Gradient Girl)
• How dev and IT can happily coexist (Lynn Greiner)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Porting existing .NET apps to iOS (Nish)
• Quick Tip: Create your own Objective-C Delegate Protocol and Objective-C Strings: A guide for beginners (yffaria)
• Icenium Mist Adds ZIP Upload, Remote GIT, Moving Code Blocks and Keyboard Shortcuts (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Learning Xamarin–Application Lifecycle (Jesse Liberty)
• Remote Debugging Icenium Apps With Weinre (Jim Cowart)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Defrag Tools: #57 – New Job, New Systems, 2 Questions and 2 Crashes | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 189: Kinect SDK, MSFT Stock Buyback, Romance Games, IE11 on Win7 | Ping! (Laura Foy & Mark DeFalco)
• Surface and the Art Center College of Design and Surface Remix Project (Microsoft News Center)

 

Community / Events

• 0000101011011110 >> 12 (Ade Miller)
• Microsoft and Oracle unveil next steps in partnership at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• PASS Votes and So Should You (Grant Fritchey)
• Falafel Software Launches Kendo UI Training (Mike Dugan)
• Getting Started with CodeRush webinar (Mark Miller)
• Microsoft Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2 forums are now open! (Rich Edmonds)

 

Database

• Determining Permission Issues for a SQL Server Object (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet #20 : change database password (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – How to Access the Previous Row and Next Row value in SELECT statement? – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Article: How to Make Your In-memory NoSQL Datastores Enterprise-Ready (Yiftach Schoolman)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 Enhancements That DBAs Should Care About (David Klee)
• Simplifying Data-Heavy Apps with Couchbase Lite (Zack Gramana)
• Indexes in Memory Optimized Tables (Jonathan Allen)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Restart Service – Local or Remote Machines (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: Surface tablet with LTE wireless coming in 2014 (Mary Jo Foley)
• My Software Development Predictions In The Next Few Years (John Sonmez)
• Create a complete System Image Backup with Windows 8.1 and File History (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 24, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 23rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 23, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1208 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 9/24/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1448 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #50 (Jason Strate)

 

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