Dew Drop – December 6, 2013 (#1678)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 0.9.5 (Jonathan Turner)
• Software Craftsmanship 2014 Anti-Patterns Calendar (Steve Smith)
• The MS Open Tech Hub releases Rx 2.2 (Brian Benz)
• Download C# Smorgasbord Chapter 1 For Free! (Filip Ekberg)

 

Web Development

• Detecting Caps Lock with JavaScript (Jason Gaylord)
• Orchard CMS – ASP.NET MVC 5 Web API 2 and Razor 3 (David Hayden)
• JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 3 (Ariya Hidayat)
• Either.js (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• CSS is for developers (Lea Verou)
• Obtaining a Certificate for use with Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) (Mark Brown)
• Minty: Razing the Pyramid of Pain (Rob Conery)
• Glimpse: What’s the current status? (Björn Holdt)
• AngularJS–Part 1 (Gabriel Schenker)
• 10 Examples of What API Developers are Working on Right Now (Mark Boyd)
• Kickstarting Your Rails Education (Rey Bango)
• Invoking Angular JS Filters from Controller (Ravi Kiran)
• Working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage – the story of “Have I been pwned?” (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Data Validation in Windows Phone 8 (Nico Vermeir)
• Translating Windows Phone Features (Peter Foot)
• 2000 WPF Things #966 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1: Accounts, Settings, Authentication, Azure Mobile Services (Mike Taulty)
• Splash screens and interstitial ads (Matt Lacey)
• Beta apps no longer expire, plus an update for the Dev Center app (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Node Tools for Visual Studio (Frank La Vigne)
• Linking Breakpoints in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Immutable collections performance, take II (Oren Eini)
• How to open web page in internal browser of Visual Studio (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• NDepend customize rule: Quick summary of methods to refactor and NDepend customize rule: Types too big (Daniel Fisher)
• Visual C++ in 2013 and Beyond – Q&A (Eric Battalio)
• 2000 C# Things #990 – Converting Hexadecimal Strings to Numeric Data (Sean Sexton)
• Sorrow and Elation – Why Reflection Isn’t Always Your Friend (Doug Rathbone)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum: What’s in it for me, the Developer? (Anders Abel)
• How Not To Break Under Pressure (J.D. Meier)
• Continuous Review (Paul Hammant)
• Configuring Performance Counters to Run Over Time (Steve Smith)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Butter Knife: A View “Injection” Library for Android and PhoneGap 3.2.0 Released (Alec Noller)
• Develop for Google Glass with Xamarin.Android (Chris Hardy)
• Releasing TouchDevelop for Android: a companion app to receive notifications (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Moore’s Law and the Hybrid Mobile Application (Steve Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• FWTV Goes to Entrepreneur Expo 2013 (Frank La Vigne)
• The Power Of Batching (John Sonmez)
• Engadget Podcast 371 – 12.4.13 (Jon Turi)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 199: Michael Stonebraker (SE-Radio Team)
• Edge Show 84 – Java Application Performance Monitoring with Operations Manager in System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (Symon Perriman)

 

Community / Events

• Become an Influential Agile Leader, Toronto and Edinburgh (Johanna Rothman)
• Make your passion for gaming a career (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Wrap on Series of Temporary Statistics (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB and its locks (Giorgio Sironi)
• Power Query Preview November Update (James Serra)
• Database Administrators are Plumbers (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Customer Specific Database Deployments (Jon)
• Getting Started with a Career in BI (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell in SharePoint 2013 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Using CSOM in PowerShell scripts with Office 365 and Using SharePoint Online and MSOL/WAAD cmdlets in PowerShell with Office 365 (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Statement by Bill and Melinda Gates on the Death of President Nelson Mandela (Bill & Melinda Gates)
• Bing Maps Preview Arrives on Windows 8.1 (Bing Maps Team)
• Rad Gate Post… Get your Red Gate Post here… (Greg Duncan)
• Really useful Excel keyboard shortcuts (Jamie Thomson)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, December 5, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1501 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/6/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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