Dew Drop – September 25, 2013 (#1,631)

Top Links

• Show us your apps & new release: Windows Phone App Studio Beta (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Standup Smells (Matt Davey)
• AppsAmuck: Over 30 New Online iPhone App Development Lessons (Chris Craft)
• Sorting: Merge Sort (Sergey Barinov)

 

Web Development

• Essential Knockout.js, Part 2: Best Practices and More (Mark Michaelis)
• Unicode and JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.4 Beta (Jasper de Groot)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications (Kim Spilker)
• Command Line Tools Based on Symfony Console (Doctrine, Laravel) in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• [Sample Of Sep 24th] Print a specific part of webpage in ASP.NET (Philip Fu)
• Focus transition (Chris Coyier)
• Building a Custom AngularJS Unique Value Directive (Dan Wahlin)
• Understanding AngularJS (Rahul Bandopadhyaya)
• Node v0.10.19 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM in Web Applications (Ralph Waldenmaier)

 

XAML

• XamDockManager – Data Binding ContentPanes with MVVM (Brian Lagunas)
• WinRT 8.1: this is why you will use the Properties pane in Visual Studio (Jeremy Alles)
• #VisualStudio 2013 Improvements – better commenting in XAML (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #914 – Drawing a Border Around an Expander (Sean Sexton)
• Making it easier to give your app an age rating (Ted Dworkin)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 Colour Themes (Richard Carr)
• EasyNetQ: IConsumerDispatcher (Mike Hadlow)
• Pacman Kata at Progressive F# Tutorials NYC 2013 (Phillip Trelford)
• Map Then Collect (Wes McClure)
• Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools (Bryan Group)
• The Best .NET ORM: The LightSpeed Story (John-Daniel Trask)
• Granting access to Team Foundation Server 2012 for diagnostic troubleshooting (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Using Redgate’s ANT .net Profile, Nails Memory Problem in 5 Minutes! (Peter Kellner)
• 2000 C# Things #938 – Finding Out What GC Generation an Object Is In (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Importance of Measuring Iteration Velocity and Capacity for Agile Planning (Vesselina Tasheva)
• Five Guiding Principles for Usability Testing (DevToolsGuy)
• Merge Pull Requests from your phone (Jake Boxer)
• User Testing Your Mobile Balsamiq Mockups with HeatData (Leon Barnard)
• Balsamiq Release: Retina Support, new Mockups for Google Drive UX, big myBalsamiq improvements, and MUCH more! (Giacomo Guilizzoni)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Quick Tip: Read Text file Programmatically in iOS using Objective-C (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 113: Underground comics legend Denis Kitchen and author Peter Bebergal (Mark Frauenfelder)
• RavenDB 3.0 Mystery Feature #1–Recorded (Oren Eini)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ken Marino (Chris Hardwick)
• ‘On the Whiteboard’ goes behind-the-scenes of Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 launch (Athima Chansanchai)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 19: Jeff SquarePants (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• The Verge Mobile Show 063 – September 24th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Week 38-2013 Video and Stupid Question 141-142: With an overwhelming amount of information how do I pick, and how do I make it ‘stick’? (Iris Classon)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 25th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft BizSpark Program–Start Ups Get free Microsoft Software and Support (Doris Chen)
• Meet Panos Panay and see the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 at your local Microsoft Store (Sam Sabri)
• Dev of the Week: Simon Jackson (Allen Coin)

 

Database

• Oracle In-Memory Database Cache (Matt Davey)
• SQL SERVER – How to Access the Previous Row and Next Row value in SELECT statement? – Part 4 (Pinal Dave)
• Article: How to Make Your In-memory NoSQL Datastores Enterprise-Ready (Yiftach Schoolman)
• Choosing Backend As A Service (BAAS) Provider (Craig)
• Indexes in Memory Optimized Tables (Jonathan Allen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft business ‘blades’: Thinking outside the Surface consumer box (Mary Jo Foley)
• Deals on Xbox 360 Underway at Top Retailers (Larry Hryb)
• Xbox One indie games likely to launch early 2014 (Michael Archambault)
• Sit, Stand, Walk, Type – Using a Treadmill Desk (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 24th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 24, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/25/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1449 (Chris Alcock)

 

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