Dew Drop – September 30, 2013 (#1,634)

Top Links

• Starting October 9th, you’ll be able to install apps on up to 81 devices with your Microsoft account (Sam Sabri)
• Exclusive video: Steve Ballmer’s intense, tearful goodbye to Microsoft (Nilay Patel)
• Auto-sync JavaScript Intellisense in VS2013 RC (Mads Kristensen)
• Alternative to IEnumerable for Read-Only Collections (J. Gauffin)

 

Web Development

• Handling Cloud Service Role Configuration Changes in Windows Azure (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Tips for using window in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• KnockoutJS tip: Maintain Input Focus While Tabbing and Rebinding (Cory House)
• Dynamic per-controller HttpConfiguration in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• ListView Changes between WinJS 1.0 and WinJS 2.0 (Windows 8 to Windows 8.1) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP build 131.205 (Mikhail Vink)
• Paging and Sorting in LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• Check If You Are On a Touch Enabled Device (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Going Beyond Usernames and Roles with Claims-Based Security in .NET 4.5 (Peter Vogel)
• Injecting dependencies into AngularJS routeProvider’s resolve (Billy McCafferty)
• Structuring an Angular SPA (John Papa)
• AngularJS CRUD Grid v4: Sorting, AngularJS 1.2.0 & Bootstrap 3 (Jon Gallant)
• Mixed mode HTTP / HTTPS (Matt Davey)

 

XAML

• Oh Behave… Behaviors SDK and the new BlendBehaviors.NET (Greg Duncan)
• XAML Mood Wheel / Spinner Wheel Control for Windows 8/Store Apps (Harish Ranganathan)
• Join local community-driven events: Windows Phone Developer Week (Larry Lieberman)
• 2000 WPF Things #917 – Changing Something when an Expander Is Expanded (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1 Preview and ‘Alarm’/’Call’ Applications (Mike Taulty)
• Windows 8.1: Behaviors SDK – Part #1 (Andrea Boschin)
• [Sample Of Sep 28th] How to play music while screen is locked in WP8 and [Sample Of Sep 29th] How to set Timeout for HttpWebRequest in WP8 (Philip Fu)
• Using Converters with Binding to Change Foreground Brush to Accent Brush (Toni Petrina)
• Increasing the app roaming limits (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Replace the Default Server of OwinHost.exe with Nowin in Visual Studio 2013 (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• A quick refresher on x++ and ++x (C# version) (Bill Wagner)
• Cancelling Slow Parallel Loop Iterations (Richard Carr)
• Conditional Statement in C# (Anirudha)
• ReSharper 8.0.2 is Released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Parallel SQL in C# (Nick Haslam)
• Visual Studio 2012 – No exports were found that match the constraint contract name (Shai Raiten)
• C# Creating a Multi Level custom Configuration Section using System.Configuration (Sunil)
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – Checking code dependencies visually (Susan Ibach)
• WorkItem Glass (Zain Naboulsi)
• How can I determine how responsive my application is to input? (Raymond Chen)
• Unity Index (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #941 – Checking to See If Objects Are Disposable (Sean Sexton)
• Kinect for Windows v2 Development Kit program (Zubair Ahmed)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing “As a User” does not make it a user story (Gojko Adzic)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day Nine – Refactoring Basics (James Bender)
• Merge hell and Feature toggle (Fredrik Normen)
• Stupid Question 143-144: Are components(CBD) easier to use than objects(OOP), and what is Component Based Development? (Iris Classon)
• Ignoring Your Test Suite (Jesse Taber)
• Extending Test Studio in the Real World (Jim Holmes)
• Linking Commits to Issues (Martin Woodward)
• The Bumpy Road of Stories – Integration and Behaviour (Matt Davey)
• What’s in a Name? (Patrick Lioi)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Write a PhoneGap 3.0 Plugin for Android (Alec Noller)
• Built-in Barcode Scanning with iOS7 and Xamarin: MonkeyScan! and Android TextToSpeech API with Xamarin: it talks too! (Craig Dunn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 114: Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion (Mark Frauenfelder)
• GeekWire Radio: Kindle Fire HDX vs. Microsoft Surface 2, and more on the iPhone 5S (Todd Bishop)
• The Tablet Show – Migrating from WP7 to WP8 with Michael Crump (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 115: Getting Started with the New Windows Azure Cache Service | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Nick Harris & Chris)
• Yet Another Podcast #109–One ASP.NET with Jon Galloway (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Weekly 330: Chaos For Good (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Stan Lee (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: Azure, Windows 8 Eye Tracking, Kinect, BrowserSwarm and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Video: Live Hangout with Michael Ossou Discussing Web Technologies and AngularJS (Dan Wahlin)
• Friday Videos: Going Native 2013 (Eric Battalio)
• Networking Fundamentals: (01) Understanding Local Area Networking | Networking Fundamentals (Jeff Koch)
• Get Up And Code 21: Research Study Truth (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Defrag: Best drivers, Hide from Alt-Tab, Cloning HDD. | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

 

Database

• #0299 – SQL Server – Myths – Using WITH (NOLOCK) also works on INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements (Nakul Vachhrajani)
• Transactions and SQL Server 2014’s In-Memory OLTP and Migration Analyzer for SQL Server’s In-Memory OLTP (Jonathan Allen)
• SQL Server 2014 – InMemory Tables, Indexes and Stored Procedures (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL – Download FREE Book – Data Access for HighlyScalable Solutions: Using SQL, NoSQL, and Polyglot Persistence and Big Data – Beginning Big Data Series Next Month in 21 Parts (Pinal Dave)
• Building Clustered Indexes on Non-Primary Key Columns in Windows Azure SQL Database (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

SharePoint

• Cloud Business App (LightSwitch SharePoint) development and test environments. (Clemens Reijnen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Intel, Microsoft Also Eyeing Wearable Device Market (Ina Fried)
• The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer (Scott Hanselman)
• The rest of the story: Control-Alt-Delete inventor didn’t expect it to be widely used (Todd Bishop)
• Office 2013 VBA References (MS Downloads)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 28, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 29, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 30, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• 2013 Q3 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition (Raymond Chen)
• Geek Reading September 27, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1211 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – September 27, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (September 27th, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #83 (Mary Lou)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 30, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/27/2013 and Daily News Digest 9/30/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1452 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Digest 32 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Reblog: September 20 to September 26 (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #048 (Pinal Dave)

 

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