Dew Drop – December 9, 2013 (#1679)

Top Links

• Announcing the Durandal Kickstarter!!! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Three all new Windows 8.1 video tutorials – what’s new in 8.1, keyboard shortcuts, and managing windows (Scott Hanselman)
• A Baker’s Dozen of Dots to Connect (Kathleen Dollard)
• An example of making a BETTER Windows Phone app (Matt Lacey)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 5 Attribute Routing (David Hayden)
• JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 3 (Ariya Hidayat)
• Power of Model Metadata in ASP.NET MVC application (Ashish)
• Custom layouts in the WinJS ListView control (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• JavaScript / jQuery some advanced topics (Arun Mahendrakar)
• MongoDB and its locks (Giorgio Sironi)
• Minty: Refactor 1 – Moving To a Document DB (Rob Conery)
• Bing 3D Maps using WebGL and BabylonJS (Andy Beaulieu)
• Why are there so many array-like objects in the DOM? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Exploring canvas drawing techniques and Animated SVGs (Chris Coyier)
• A Few Other Template Additions and Changes of Interest (Daniel Mohl)
• AngularJS–Part 1, Feedback (Gabriel Schenker)

 

XAML

• Generalizing storage access for Windows Phone and WinRT apps (Gunnar Peipman)
• Why Windows Phone Apps Deserve a Custom URI Scheme (Marco Siccardi)
• Translating Windows Phone Features (Peter Foot)
• 2000 WPF Things #967 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, part IV (Sean Sexton)
• WPF – Create a custom toggle control with touch and binding support with Blend for Visual Studio 2013 (Teresa Dee Burger)
• Windows 8.1: ListViews, GridViews, ListViewItemPresenter, GridViewItemPresenter (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Information Controls – Label (Richard Carr)
• How to do WP8 and resolution dependent images correctly (Ariel Ben Horesh)
• Developers: Check out these tips for integrating SkyDrive into your apps (Jeffrey Meisner)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Open RIA Services 4.3 Alpha NuGet Packages Released (Colin Blair)
• Easier Redis development with scriptcs and ServiceStack.Redis powered C# REPL (Filip W)
• From the MVPs: Introduction to C++ 11 in Visual Studio 2013 (Alon Fliess)
• Creating 2D animated sprites using Unity 4.3 (Michael Cummings)
• The Template Method Pattern in the .NET Framework (Eric Vogel)
• Performance++ with Visual C++ 2013 (Ankit Asthana)
• Transparent Encryption of Properties in .NET, Part 1a: The Bugfixes (Joe Kuemerle)
• Is it wrong to call SHFileOperation from a service? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #991 – Using the Round-Trip Format Specifier (Sean Sexton)
• NDepend on a Real Project, Round 1.1: the Dashboard and a Non-Protected Abstract Class Constructor (Steve Wilkes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Focusing on the Right Things in Your Daily Scrum (Bob Hartman)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 27 – Reader Question #3 (James Bender)
• Continuous Review (con’t) (Paul Hammant)
• Refreshing Schools of testing – A flow chart (Shrini Kulkarni)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Emulators: What Options are Available? (Alec Noller)
• LINQ to Twitter Runs On Xamarin.iOS (Joe Mayo)
• iOS – Unzip and Unrar in Objective-C (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Apple Stores use iBeacons (and so can you!) (Mike Bluestein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 496: Xbox One Launches! (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 339: Technical Foul (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Impromptu Hostful (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Building iOS Apps for Kids with Glenn Howes (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 122: Java on Windows Azure | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• [Video] The Secrets of TempDB (Brent Ozar)
• TWC9: Paxton Caden Keller, DirectX game templates, C++, .NET Fiddle, Viasfora, 0 or 1 and homework… | This Week On Channel 9 (Charles, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Yet Another Podcast #116–Tables Turned: Interviewing Jesse Liberty (Jesse Liberty)
• Get Up And Code 31: Building A Fitness Plan With Jessica Engstrom (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 114 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• An Hour of Code spawns hours of coding (David Humphrey)
• Hackathon tools (Mike Stall)
• MVPs Recap the November 2013 Global Summit (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Colored Status Bar in SQL Server Management Studio (Jakub Chodounský)
• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – How to Allow Only Alphabets in Column – Create Check Constraint to Insert Only Alphabets (Pinal Dave)
• Reactive Programming for Databases (Matt Davey)

 

SharePoint

• New book: Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft SharePoint (Kim Spilker)
• Saving A SharePoint site as a template when the . link is not available under Site Actions (Dov Trietsch)

 

PowerShell

• The Truth About Windows Azure PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft CEO survivor: Maritz is off the island (Mary Jo Foley)
• Two Million+ Passwords Of Twitter, Facebook, Gmail Users Compromised (Ben Reid)
• Bungie will release ‘Destiny’ on September 9th, 2014 (Sean Hollister)
• Xbox One owners warned to avoid ‘backwards compatibility’ prank that bricks consoles (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 7, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 8, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 9, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1502 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading December 7, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (December 6th, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #93 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1254 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 7, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: December 9, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 8 Dec 2013 (Jax)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Friday Links #281 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: November 29 to December 5 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 42 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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