Dew Drop – December 20, 2013 (#1688)

Top Links

• Microsoft’s ‘Project Siena’: A Metro-Style app for creating Windows 8 apps (Mary Jo Foley)
• Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013 (Ala Shiban)
• Coding in the Cloud (Rey Bango)
• Design Resources for Windows Phone and Windows app development (Larry Lieberman)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Unit Testing with Visual Studio (Mark Michaelis)
• Building a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• Unit Testing AngularJS Controllers, Views, and More: Part Three (Avishek Sen Gupta)
• ACL added security for Availability Group Listener in Azure (Ted Krueger)
• Node v0.10.24 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Get Rid Of “locahost:#port#” With NGINX Reverse Proxies (Derick Bailey)
• Accessing your Azure Website content over FTP with FileZilla (Iris Classon)

 

XAML

• Developer Interest In Windows Phone Grows As Microsoft’s Windows 8.x Platform Slips (Alex Wilhelm)
• Compass APIs for Windows Phone (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How to Encode and Save a WriteableBitmap with Windows WinRT (Rene Schulte)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Features of Visual Studio 2013 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• How do I display an RTL string in a notification balloon on an LTR system? (Raymond Chen)
• Customization and configuration in VS ALM (Kathryn E.)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Achieve Shared Understanding When Scaling Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Book Review: Peopleware 3rd edition (Bill Wagner)
• Clojure Kata #1 – Fizz Buzz (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Git Started With Github in Mist (Jim Cowart)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Setting up Android Studio and Eclipse Side-by-Side on Windows 8.1 (Michael Crump)
• Getting Started with Sencha Touch 2: Build a Weather Utility App (Part 3) (Lee Boonstra)
• Privacy Policy for Apps using the Facebook App Promotion Button (Jennifer Marsman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 181: CouchDb, Cloudant, MyCouch and SisoDb with Max Thayer and Daniel Wertheim (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon & Co.)
• Devnology Podcast 43 – Neil Brown (Freek Leemhuis)
• The Vergecast 106 – December 19th, 2013 (Verge Video)
• Webinar Recording: Windows Azure Mobile Services – More Than Cloud Storage (Rich Taylor)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Redundant Indexes Good or Bad – Final Wrap – Part 7 (Pinal Dave)
• How Would You Change Windows Azure SQL Database? (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Workshop – Selecting columns without including a non-aggregate column in the group by clause (Nikos Vaggalis)
• Getting New Power Pivot Features & Other Office 2013 Updates (Melissa Coates)
• MongoDB Facts: Lightning Fast Aggregation (Vlad Mihalcea)
• MariaDB Database Disk Snapshot Backups on Windows (Anders Karlsson)
• SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2012 Insider videos (Paul Randal)
• Schema Compare or Publish [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month – Day 6 The Pipeline (Steve Jones)
• Windows PowerShell Remote Debugging and Windows PowerShell Script Workflow Debugging (Paul Higinbotham)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, December 19, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 19, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1263 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 20, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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