Dew Drop – December 4, 2013 (#1676)

Top Links

• Microsoft’s ‘Project Spark’ beta arrives on Windows 8.1, lets you create an Xbox One game (Tom Warren)
• Xamarin Studio 4.2 Enhancements (Mike Bluestein)
• Knockout Projections – a plugin for efficient observable array transformations (Steve Sanderson)
• Which Windows Azure Cloud Architecture? PaaS or IaaS ? (Hanu Kommalapati)

 

Web Development

• Binding a TypeScript ViewModel to HTML Using Knockout (Peter Vogel)
• Microsoft Joins Forces with RedGate and Clickberry to Offer Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Jonathan Allen)
• Preserve URL Extensions with Jekyll (Phil Haack)
• Orchard 1.8 and Smart App Banners Module using Infoset (David Hayden)
• Using Node’s Event Module (Andrew Burgess)
• Colorpeek, Part 2: Building Your First Chrome Extension (Chris Coyier)
• SolrCloud: What Happens When ZooKeeper Fails? (Rafał Kuć)
• SEO essentials for web developers: Website structure (Joel Klettke)
• Exploring canvas drawing techniques (Juriy Zaytsev)
• Google Cloud Platform: Deploying with Google App Engine and Google Cloud Platform: Getting Started with Google App Engine (Ted Neward)

 

XAML

• Retrieving, Storing and Displaying Data in Windows Phone Apps (Nick Randolph)
• Save XAML as PNG in a Windows Store App (Loek van den Ouweland)
• 2000 WPF Things #964 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, Part I (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – Panel (Richard Carr)
• Fix for Newtonsoft.Json.dll not being added to Telerik’s WP Cloud Apps (Michael Crump)
• Better alphabetic jumplist formatting and Formatting the page title / application name (Matt Lacey)
• Launching System Features From Windows Store Apps (Peter Foot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 200 C# Video Tutorials? 200 VB? JavaScript? PHP? C++? Python? All that and more on ‘thenewboston’ (Greg Duncan)
• Save Big on PostSharp licenses and Manning Books (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• Validating Code Quality with NDepend and NDepend customize rule: Instance fields should be prefixed with a ‘m_’ and NDepend customizing rule: Static fields should be prefixed with a ‘s_’ (Daniel Fisher)
• Transparent Encryption of Properties in .NET, Part 1: The Foundation (Joe Kuemerle)
• [Sample Of Dec 3rd] How to create a soft keyboard in Windows Forms Application (Philip Fu)
• 2000 C# Things #988 – Using global to Explicitly Refer to a Namespace (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Distributed Agile Teams (Evan Leybourn)
• AWS Migration Patterns (Frank Kelly)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 25 – Reader Question #1 (James Bender)
• Book Review: The Art of Learning (Patrick Kua)
• Fruits of the poisonous tree: Voron performance refactoring (Oren Eini)
• Git for Grown-ups (Emma Jane Westby)
• Boosting UX via Delayed, Non Blocking, Enhancements (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Code Coverage Impacts Your Health(care) (Kerry Meade)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Use RxJava with Android: Managing Async API Calls (Alec Noller)
• How To Make A Game Part 5: Publishing and Marketing Your Game (Jesse Freeman)
• Mocking Services & Data in Mobile Apps (Jim Cowart)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #115–Basem Emara on What’s Coming in Javascript (Jesse Liberty)
• The Amp Hour #174 – Motors And Upgrading Sinclairs – Adapting Apraxiated Automobiles (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Verge Mobile Show 071 – December 3rd, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)

 

Community / Events

• Webinar: Exploring WebStorm Tool Windows, December, 19th (Ekaterina Prigara)
• PowerShell Saturday #007 (Jim Christopher)
• Dev of the Week: German Viscuso (Allen Coin)
• The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Tim & Melissa (Eric Smith)

 

Database

• What’s the [table]diff? Diff’ing SQL Server tables with the Microsoft provided tablediff command line utility (Greg Duncan)
• What’s Coming in SQL Server 2014 [Video] (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Scripting Statistics for Read-Only Database and Making it Permanent (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Using Excel Services for simple BI (No Code) (David Jacobus)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, December 3, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 3, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1252 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1499 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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