Dew Drop – October 3, 2013 (#1,637)

Top Links

• How to learn a new programming language (Eric Lippert)
• Calling Web Services with TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Resources to Get You Up to Speed in AngularJS (Rey Bango)
• Visual Studio Start Page: Through the ages (Tony Goodhew)

Web Development

• How to Improve ergonomy of your JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 Windows 8.1 apps with the new navigation bar control (David Catuhe)
• Running JavaScript tests with Karma in WebStorm 7 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• New Filter Overrides feature in ASP.NET MVC 5 and ASP.NET Web API 2 (Imran Baloch)
• Canceling an async operation in WinJS (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP 131.235 (Mikhail Vink)
• Use IIS Application Initialization for keeping ASP.NET Apps alive (Rick Strahl)
• Building Full Stack Forms with jQuery Mobile and Everlive (TJ VanToll)
• YUI 3.13.0 Release Candidate 1 (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Fundamentals of Python – Working with Strings! (Week 4) (Dara Monasch)
• Hover: Bringing a Classic PC Game to the Web with Internet Explorer and Modern Web Standards (Roger Capriotti)

XAML

• XAML Spy for Visual Studio [beta] (Koen Zwikstra)
• Sharing XAudio2 Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Apps (Charles Petzold)
• 2000 WPF Things #920 – TextBox Sizes to Fit Its Content (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – Control – Fonts (Richard Carr)
• [Sample Of Oct 2nd] Load Isolated Storage’s Image and display in WP8 (Philip Fu)
• Using NFC (Near Field Communication) from Windows* 8 Applications (Xavier Hallade)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using WCF Data Services 5.6.0 with Entity Framework 6+ (OData Team)
• Getting Started with Unity – A Review (Simon Jackson)
• 2000 C# Things #944 – Lazy Instantiation, Solution #2 (Sean Sexton)
• CSharp Enum (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Lessons Learned as a Dungeon Master on Roleplaying and Games in Agile Coaching (Ben Linders)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 11 – What’s the Deal with “Mocking?” (James Bender)
• The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2 Released (Patrick Kua)
• 5 Tips for Achieving Continuous Delivery (Justin Caldicott)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Snapshotting Views in iOS 7 (Mike Bluestein)
• Porting existing .NET apps to Android (Nish)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mob Programming with the MobProgramming Team (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tenacious D Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget HD Podcast 369 – 10.02.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Radio TFS – Lots of New Toys (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)

Community / Events

• The RavenDB Experts Network (Oren Eini)
• Do you miss MIX? Join us at AngleBrackets 2.0 in Vegas (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Big Data – Evolution of Big Data – Day 3 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Furloughed Federal Programmer? Five Ways to Keep Busy During the Downtime. (James Turner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 3, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 2nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1214 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 3, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/2/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–September 2013 (Beth Massi)
• The Morning Brew #1455 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Links of the month (September Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

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