Dew Drop – December 17, 2013 (#1685)

Top Links

• Durandal Help Desk Training App Preview (Rob Eisenberg)
• Throwing the Big Switch on Roslyn (Matt Gertz)
• Windows Phone 8.1 includes notification center and Siri-like personal assistant (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft CEO candidate Nadella: Here’s what Ballmer taught me (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Web Development

• Minty: Working The Evented Pattern (Rob Conery)
• Exploring TypeScript: JQuery Parallax Starfield (Bill Wagner)
• Microsoft: Skype runs on Windows Azure; SkyDrive up next (Mary Jo Foley)
• New tutorial for migrating applications with membership and User Profile information from Universal Providers to ASP.NET Identity (.NET Web Development and Tools Blog)
• Learn JavaScript: Part 1 – Create a Starfield (Dave Kerr)
• JavaScript Functions is a Statement or Expression? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• IFileClient – Generalizing storage access in ASP.NET web applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Secure by default with SSL in Windows Azure Web Sites (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Robots.txt Module for Orchard CMS using Infoset (David Hayden)
• What You May Not Know About Z-Index and Line Menu Icon… That Is A Menu (Chris Coyier)
• Studying Go language (golang) (Rinat Abdullin)
• GitHub Pages just got easier (Tobias Ahlin)

 

XAML

• Blend and the Global User Interface font mystery (Laurent Bugnion)
• 2000 WPF Things #973 – Keyboard Shortcuts for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• Long Filenames in Windows 8 (Kenny Kerr)
• VisualStates and the missing Snapped mode made easy in Windows Store Apps (Iris Classon)
• Change in sequence for body.onload event for Windows 8.1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Integrating SemanticZoom with Hub in Windows 8.1 (Houssem Dellai)
• Developing apps that use image scanners in Windows 8.1 (Monica Czarny)
• Building an Appointment Tracking App by using the Telerik WP Cloud Components – Part 3 (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What about F# collections? (Oren Eini)
• Problem Calling POST Service Operations Using the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Client for Windows Store apps (Glenn Gailey)
• TFS Administration Tool 2.3 (aka 2013 Version) Now Available and Bing Code Snippets – C#, JavaScript, HTML and XML code snippets for Bing dev’s and Team Foundation Server 2013 Collaboration Provider for Skype Released… (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – Quick Launch (Where was that option/menu item?) (Susan Ibach)
• PostSharp 3.1 Goes RTM With More Licensing Options (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• Elasticsearch and .Net (Christiaan Baes)
• How much bias is introduced by the remainder technique? (Eric Lippert)
• Disabling the PrtSc key by blocking input (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #997 – UTF-16 Encoding, Part II (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pause to Make a Smarter Next Move (J.D. Meier)
• Visualizing A Git Merge Without A Rebase (Ben Nadel)
• Diversify Your User Experience Career (Cory Lebson)
• The Value of Testing (James Padolsey)
• Generalized Conway’s law (Jérémie Chassaing)
• The Runtime Performance Checklist (Paul Lewis)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• An Introduction to the Android NDK (Alec Noller)
• Batteries in mobile devices (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – GPUs on the Web with Steve Sanderson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Taran Killam (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 142 – “Fail Fast” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Defrag Tools: #69 – Windows 8.1 – XML Load Crash | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 017: New Winners & New Contests | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Lucas Joppa Connecting Environmental and Computer Science (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Getting ready for CES 2014 and The Internet of Stuff (Ed Bott)
• 2014 Grads: Can you imagine your life after college? (Melody Bolton)
• SQL Contest – USD 100 Gift Card and Attractive Discount from Devart (Pinal Dave)
• Easy Ways to Contribute to Open-source Projects (Rey Bango)
• Top Microsoft engineer makes the hardest decision of his life and packs his bags for Google (Seth Brodeur)

 

Database

• Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Administration (Ian Stirk)
• Registered Servers in SQL Server Management Studio (Jakub Chodounský)

 

PowerShell

• Managing Your HDInsight Cluster using PowerShell – Update (Carl Nolan)
• Powershell’s Desired State Configuration Supports Push And Pull Modes (Joao Miranda)
• PowerShell Security Best Practices (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Software Developer Gifts (And Other Tech Geek Gifts) (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: October 14th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 7 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, December 12, 2013 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, December 16, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 16, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1260 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/17/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #62 (Jason Strate)

 

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