Dew Drop – October 14, 2013 (#1,644)

Top Links

• Introducing Windows Phone Preview for Developers (Cliff Simpkins)
• Announcing our third Windows Phone 8 update—plus a new developer preview program (Darren Laybourn)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 5.5 million downloads, VS2013 Virtual Launch, ScriptCS and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Steve Ballmer is right, and I was wrong (Joe Wilcox)

 

Web Development

• SignalR and user identity (authentication and authorization) (Gustavo Armenta Valdez)
• WebStorm and Windows Azure Mobile Services and Creating a GitHub Pull Request from within PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Creating a MVC 5 CRUD Application Using Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• The dict pattern: objects without prototypes are better maps (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Animated Media Queries (Chris Coyier)
• Understanding Web Proxy Configuration (Eric Lawrence)

 

XAML

• Using Windows 8 WinRT APIs in .NET Desktop Applications (Andrei Marukovich)
• My XML is Alive! An Intro to XAML (Jeremy Likness)
• 2000 WPF Things #927 – Limiting the Size of a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Besides tearing your hair out, how you debug why your Windows 8 Modern app isn’t starting? (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Modifying the Console Cursor Appearance (Richard Carr)
• The Adapter Pattern in the .NET Framework (Eric Vogel)
• Conditional Breakpoints (Brad Sullivan)
• AWS .NET SDK v2: the message-pump pattern and AWS .NET SDK v2: setting up queues and topics (Elton Stoneman)
• EF Power Tools Beta 4 Available (Glenn Condron)
• Reference Manager Needs Folder Names (Karl Shifflett)
• Memory management myths: promptness (Jon Harrop)
• The blog post Did you know… How the Configuration Manager works – Part 2 on the MSDN Blogs has possibly gone viral. This is full of win! (Sara Ford)
• 2000 C# Things #951 – Not Every Type Derives from object (Sean Sexton)
• Quickly Create JSON Object from Anonymous Object with Json.NET (Toni Petrina)
• Serilog hits 1.0 (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Certified ScrumMaster Training and Scrum with TFS course (Giles Davies)
• There is no product unless you first ship it! (Chris Pietschmann)
• A lighter, brighter GitHub for Windows (Markus Olsson)
• Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server + Hands On Lab (Paulo Morgado)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 134 – “Beyond the Desktop” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Technology & Friends Episode 287: Terrence Dorsey on Writing About Code (David Giard)
• MNR 492: Hear more about where you can get hands on time with Xbox One (Larry Hyrb)
• Boagworld – Static Agile (Paul Boag)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Offerman Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – Daniel Radcliffe (Chris Hardwick)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 20: Jodon can’t get his hands out of the Coding Jar (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• 079 JSJ Lo-Dash with John-David Dalton (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 4, Season 4 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• Engadget Podcast 364 – 10.12.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 023: Excuses, Excuses, Excuses! (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• 01/20/2013 – Welcome to BDBI Radio (Kevin Goff)
• GeekWire Radio: Zulily, Amazon, GeekGirlCon, Nest Protect, and those gigantic Fox News ‘tablets’ (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• What Is The Worst Thing About Working At Microsoft? (Matt Wallaert)
• Happy 18th Birthday to Franks World (Frank La Vigne)
• A new adventure at Splunk after an amazing 8 years at Microsoft (Glenn Block)

 

Database

• Big Data – Buzz Words: What is NewSQL – Day 10 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit v3.0.6 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• [Hardware Review] It’s been a Haswell Summer… Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review – Part 3 (Greg Duncan)
• Creating a link to a OneNote page on the desktop (John Guin)
• paint.net 4.0 alpha (build 5034) is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Happy Birthday, Windows Phone; Microsoft’s mobile platform celebrates its third year (Rich Edmonds)
• Suffering from the spinning cogs issue on a Nokia Windows Phone? There’s a fix for that (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 13, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 10th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 11th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 11, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (October 11th, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #1221 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #111 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1461 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Weekly Digest 34 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #050 (Pinal Dave)

 

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