Dew Drop – November 27, 2013 (#1673)

Top Links

• EF6.0.2 Beta 1 Available on NuGet (Rowan Miller)
• Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code (Cecily Carver)
• Visual Studio 2013 Demo VM available (Brian Harry)
• Windows 8.1 and Caliburn.Micro (Nigel Sampson)

 

Web Development

• Modified ASP.NET 4.5 CPU Throttling (Christy Henriksson)
• Can you answer these 10 basic Knockout Questions? and How to access functionality from various JS files in Node.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using ASP.NET Web API Services in Mobile Apps (Jim Cowart)
• Getting Into Ember.js – Part 5 (Rey Bango)
• Customizing the Table Control: Sortable by Column (Kevin Mehlhaff)
• Keeping The npm Registry Awesome (Charlie Robbins)
• A look at the IE11 Developer Tools (I. Haynes)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #959 – ListBox Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Creating Per-Monitor DPI-Aware Applications Code Sample (Greg Duncan)
• How to launch the Rotation Settings page in WP8 GDR3? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building an Appointment Tracking App by using Telerik’s WP Cloud Components – Part 1 (Michael Crump)
• Choosing the right sensor (Brian Rockwell)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Working with Bindings in WCF 4.5 (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Decimal Values and Trailing Zeroes (Richard Carr)
• Collaborative Commenting with TFS 2013’s Lightweight Code Comments (Mickey Gousset)
• Async API considerations (Oren Eini)
• C# via Java: Primitive types (Simon Cooper)
• Replace Multiple Strings Effectively (Jakub Chodounský)
• Renaming, aliasing or coalescing applications in Application Insights (Charles Sterling)
• Async Assert.Throws for MSTest (Joe Mayo)
• 2000 C# Things #983 – Using a BitArray to Store a Large Collection of Boolean Values (Sean Sexton)
• Creating your own dispatcher thread (Vincent Grondin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing OWIN applications using TestServer (Praburaj Thiagarajan)
• Smashing Book 4: Writing about technical support (Rachel Andrew)
• How to Scale the Product Owner Role (Ben Linders)
• Windows 8.1 Store App Paper Prototyping Templates (Greg Duncan)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• A Flat UI Kit for Android (Alec Noller)
• TouchDevelop: Hour of Code tutorials (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Updating UITableView with a dynamic data source (Nolan O’Brien)
• Using Existing Backend Services in PhoneGap/Cordova Applications (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Anamanaguchi (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 113: Keep npm running with Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• The Verge Mobile Show 070 – November 26th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Steve Guggs at DevIntersection (Larry Larsen)
• Singletons and threads: What you should know (Manya Susoev)
• Web Directions South Presentation: Hack Yourself First (Troy Hunt)
• Microsoft Enlists Pawn Stars To Mock Google’s Chromebooks (Frederic Lardinois)

 

Community / Events

• Presentations I’m doing in Dublin and London Dec 2nd->5th (Scott Guthrie)
• The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Steph & Glen (Eric Smith)
• Adopt a skull to help the Mutter Museum (Maggie Koerth-Baker)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – MySQL – Order Column by Nearest Value for Any Integer (Pinal Dave)
• Filtered Indexes vs. Table Partitioning (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Master Data Services stops working after an upgrade (Koen Verbeeck)

 

PowerShell

• Push and Pull Configuration Modes (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kinect for Windows v2 First Look (James Ashley)
• Around the world: How Microsoft ranked #1 Great Place to Work (Jane Holland)
• How Microsoft is learning to make the new generation of developers happy (Mary Branscombe)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 26, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 26, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1249 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1494 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 27, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/27/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio 2013 Launch Highlights (Jonathan Rozenblit)

 

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