Dew Drop – December 5, 2013 (#1677)

Top Links

• Introducing “Have I been pwned?” – aggregating accounts across website breaches (Troy Hunt)
• .NET Rocks! – TypeScript in Studio 2013 with Bill Wagner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ATBG: method type inference with multiple interfaces (Eric Lippert)
• When Going Agile, Feast on Feedback (David Starr)

Web Development

• Kendo UI Drag and Scroll (Josh Eastburn)
• Using Compass in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• JavaScript: Taking Off the Training Wheels (Tom Ashworth)
• Charms bar detection (JavaScript) and closing the charms pane (kraigb)
• PhpStorm 7.1 EAP 133.214 (Mikhail Vink)
• SVG Tabs (Using an SVG Shape as Template) and Chrome DevTools for Mobile (Chris Coyier)
• Getting The Real Client IP Address On A Heroku Hosted NodeJS App (Derick Bailey)
• Prevent a User Navigating Away from a Page with Unsaved Changes (Jaco Pretorius)

XAML

• [Sample Of Dec 4th] How to filter data in view model in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Immutable Collections performance (Oren Eini)
• New book: Windows Runtime via C# (Kim Spilker)
• An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 1 : Functional Programming via circuits (Steve Gilham)
• DevExpress – When Only The Best Will Do (Dirk Strauss)
• The TFS Upgrade Guide gets… well… upgraded. v3, the TFS 2013 Upgrade Edition and Direct to Windows Store… The DirectX C++ Game Project Template and Getting Started Guide and WiX’ing in VS 2013. WiX 3.8 adds VS 2013 support, bootstrapper and more and Slicing .NET – NSlice, the Python like Slice for .Net (Greg Duncan)
• What’s the difference between the wParam of the WM_NOTIFY message and the idFrom in the NMHDR structure? (Raymond Chen)
• Getting started with DirectX/C++ Gaming (Susan Ibach)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to exclude code from Code Coverage in Visual Studio unit testing using runsettings (Terje Sandstrom)
• New in CodeRush 13.2: Unit Test Builder (Mark Miller)
• What is Your Branching Model? (Paul Hammant)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Development Lifecycle Management (Brian Harry)
• Prioritizing Development Work using Application Analytics (Carey Payette)
• Composite Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android vs. iOS: Data on Engagement (Alec Noller)
• Multi-view Edit with the Xamarin.Android Designer (James Montemagno)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 123: Kerbal Space Program (Mark Frauenfelder)
• What the Tech 191: LG G2 Review and Amazon Drones (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Christopher Lloyd (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget HD Podcast 377 – 12.3.13 (Jon Turi)
• Defrag: Migration Documentation, Folder Search, Mouse Lag | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• The Vergecast 104 – December 4th, 2013 (Verge Video)

Community / Events

• Cross Platform with Visual Studio 2013 & Xamarin Meetup – Atlanta – December 11 (Wally McClure)
• Participate in Hour of Code, score free training for your students (Dana Gagnon)
• Microsoft Revamps Imagine Cup, Adds Worldwide Semifinals And New Challenges (Frederic Lardinois)
• Should you go to hackathons? (Mary Branscombe)
• Thoughts on Speaker Selection Tactics (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Imagine Cup awards $100,000 for a Windows Phone app that helps hearing-impaired (Athima Chansanchai)
• Webinar: Exploring WebStorm Tool Windows, December, 19th (Ekaterina Prigara)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Finding Frequently Running Query and Elapsed Time – Notes from the Field #005 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL For Programmers – Finding a String (Dave M. Bush)

PowerShell

• PowerShell- Monitoring Multiple Service on a Group of Servers (Prashanth Jayaram)
• How to Deploy and Discover Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Resources (Berhe Abrha)

Miscellaneous

• A New Top Bar for Stack Exchange (David Fullerton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, December 4, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 4, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup- November 2013 (Beth Massi)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-05 (Dan Rigby)

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