Dew Drop – December 13, 2013 (#1683)

Top Links

• Microsoft (accidently) announces Build 2014 for April 2-4 in San Francisco (Daniel Rubino)
• Windows Azure: New Scheduler Service, Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage, and Monitoring Updates (Scott Guthrie)
• ReSharper 8.1 Goes RTM along with dotCover, dotTrace (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Report: Qualcomm COO in the running for Steve Ballmer’s old job (Blair Hanley Frank)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 2 (Ariya Hidayat)
• New Visual F# Templates for ASP.NET, Web API, MSTest and Nancy Now Available (Don Syme)
• Node-m-r – A Simple CQRS Example using Node.js (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• WebGL With Three.js: Shaders (Maciej Sopyło)
• HTML5stac Enables Composing of Web Apps via APIs (Mark Boyd)
• Windows Azure BizTalk Services: EDI Capabilities (Samar Roy)
• (Pseudo) Source Mapping with LESS (Dan)
• Establishing a Telerik RESTful Reporting Service in under 5 Minutes (Carey Payette)
• AngularJS–Part 4, Accessing server side resources (Gabriel Schenker)
• Ecma forms TC52 for Dart Standardization (Anders Sandholm)
• Understanding the Real-World Performance of your Web Application Across IE11 and Other Browsers (Jatinder Mann)
• Progress Button Styles (Mary Lou)
• Saving my users 3.5MB in downloaded data (Matt Lacey)
• Hunting For And Finding The IIS Express Settings File and Showing Code In A WordPress Blog (Peter Kellner)
• Announcing Public Preview of Read Access Geo Redundant Storage (Steven Martin)
• Micro optimising web content for unexpected, wild success (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• A PhoneGap+Cordova WP7 Retrospective (Jesse Freeman)
• [Sample Of Dec 12th] How to search and highlight keywords in TextBlock control in WPF (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #970 – Avoid Working Directly with Items Collection (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 11 (Brian Harry)
• Convert .NET, your C#VB Converter, LINQ/RegEx expression tester, Encrypt/Decrypt, Base64 encoder and more… (Greg Duncan)
• How much code do you REALLY save with PostSharp? (Gael Fraiteur)
• New book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• The Feature I Almost Skipped (Patrick Lioi)
• How do you intercept taskbar notification balloons? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #994 – Unicode Basics (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• To Do, Doing, Done (J.D. Meier)
• NUnit Collection Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? (Mike Hadlow)
• Stop Telling Stories (Jim Bird)
• Configuring Release Management to work across untrusted and How to debug Release Management components (Roopesh Nair)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Options for Testing Android Applications (Alec Noller)
• Changes to the SecretKeyFactory API in Android 4.4 (Trevor Johns)
• Mobile-Friendly Mapping Options for PhoneGap/Cordova Apps (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – An Internet of Inclusion with Chanelle Henry (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 115: The confessional, PHP BDD and PHP VCR (Michael Kimsal)
• IWP69 | Enterprise Mobile Management | Inside Windows Phone (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Compiler Confidential | GoingNative 2013 (Eric Brumer)
• The Vergecast 105 – Instagram Direct, Nexus TV, and Spotify (Evan Rodgers)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 215: Short and Sweet (Gareth Myles)

 

Database

• The Four Answers To “How Big Is Your SQL Server?” (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints – Review (Koen Verbeeck)
• MySQL – How to Create Stored Procedure (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• New book: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013 (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Featured Article – How to Rotate a Shape Not from the Center (Ed Price)
• Vote to bring Spotify’s free streaming service to Windows Phone (Mark Guim)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 12, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1258 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/13/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1506 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Dev News for Dec 12, 2013 – #0206 (Dave Campbell)

 

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