Dew Drop – October 2, 2013 (#1,636)

Top Links

• Hacking on Puppet in Windows: Running Puppet Commands Against the Source Code (Rob Reynolds)
• New and Renewed MVPs Announced! (MVP Award Program)
• I Can Code THAT! Why Developer Productivity doesn’t have to be hard (Jeff Fritz)
• PaaP: Windows PowerShell as a Platform – Part 1 (Indhu Sivaramakrishnan)
• Kickstarter – AppsAmuck: Over 30 New Online iPhone App Development Lessons (Chris Craft)

 

Web Development

• Web API 2 Routing Attributes, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• Safe integers in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to Improve ergonomy of your JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 Windows 8.1 apps with the new navigation bar control (David Catuhe)
• Understanding Prototype Pattern in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Lets Get Physical [JavaScript] – PhysicsJS (Greg Duncan)
• BrowserSwarm to Automate JavaScript Testing Across Browsers (Jeff Martin)
• Unit Testing Improvements in ASP.NET Web API (Pablo Cibraro)
• Free ebook: Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals (Kim Spilker)
• Free online courses can help you become a pro at Windows Azure (Steve Clarke)
• Visualizing Composer Dependencies with File Watchers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Blending apps and sites with the HTML x-ms-webview (Kevin Hill)
• Quickie: on Google Web Designer (Chris Heilmann)
• Fix and OWIN and Simple.Web (Mark Rendle)

 

XAML

• Using Telerik Cloud-Powered Components in your Windows Phone 8 App (JC Cimetiere)
• 2000 WPF Things #919 – Changing the Border of a TextBox (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft discloses Visual Studio 2013 pricing, rollout plans (Mary Jo Foley)
• MSDN Kinect For Windows Library (including Kinect Web Applications) (Greg Duncan)
• The Multilingual App Toolkit v2.1 has been released! (Michael S. Kaplan)
• 2000 C# Things #943 – Lazy Instantiation, Solution #1 (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Lessons Learned as a Dungeon Master on Roleplaying and Games in Agile Coaching (Ben Linders)
• Enabling Distributed Agile Teams (Tim Wise)
• Download Indigo Studio Prototyping Videos for Offline Viewing (George Abraham)
• Curbing long tail design (Jimmy Bogard)
• Enjoy More Productive and Less Meetings (John Papa)
• On Problem Solving (Kyle Szklenski)
• How to Get Started with the Ignite UI Layout Manager (Marina Stoyanova)
• MockupScreens 10th Anniversary – Licenses 50% off Thursday & Friday (10/03 & 10/04) (Igor Ješe)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Multiple Phonegap Push Notifications in Android’s Status Bar (Gonzalo Ayuso)
• iOS 7 Developer Tutorial-a-palooza: iOS 7 Sampler, a UIMotionEffect Tutorial, 3 UIKit Dynamics Tutorials, 3 Sprite Kit Tutorials, and a Text Kit Tutorial (Joey deVilla)
• Industrial Strength Barcode Scanning (Zack Gramana)
• Announcing Sencha Touch 2.3 – HTML5 for iOS7, Touch Grid, Cordova Support, and More (Gautam Agrawal)
• Learning Xamarin–Spinner Control (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Amp Hour #165 – An Interview with Henry Ott – Forced FCC Filtering (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Verge Mobile Show 064 – October 1st, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Retro Tech Addicts Podcast 04: 1200 Baud Rate (Gareth Myles)
• A Look Behind the Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Get Ready for the 5th Annual Philly Game Jam this November! (Nicole Kline)
• Dev of the Week: Mike McCandless (Allen Coin)
• CDC Alert! This is tour going to be sick (Brian Lagunas)

 

Database

• Big Data – What is Big Data – 3 Vs of Big Data – Volume, Velocity and Variety – Day 2 of 21 (Pinal Dave)
• Stupid me #3 – Building the script component (Koen Verbeeck)

 

PowerShell

• Setting Up a Domain Controller with PowerShell (Bradley Schacht)
• PowerShell TFS 2013 API #1 – Get TfsCollection and TFS Services (Martin Hinshelwood)
• PowerShell – Script to Monitor Disk Space of a Group of servers – HTML Formatted Email Output (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox Live Free Gold Weekend This Weekend and “Destiny” Beta (Larry Hryb)
• Microsoft tops Apple as America’s most inspiring company; Google 7th, Amazon 8th (Taylor Soper)
• The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research (Timothy)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, October 1st (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 1, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1213 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 2, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/2/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1454q (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for Oct 01, 2013 – #0196 (Dave Campbell)
• .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – September 2013 Links (Abhijit Jana)

 

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