Dew Drop – December 23, 2013 (#1689)

Top Links

• Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-alpha1 and Updating ASP.NET applications from ASP.NET Identity 1.0 to 2.0.0-alpha1 (Pranav Rastogi)
• The Tablet Show – C# Everywhere with Jon Skeet (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Updated license for September 2012 Roslyn preview available (Matt Gertz)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Unit Testing with Visual Studio (Mark Michaelis)
• Using strict mode in the Node.js REPL (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Introduction into SignalR 2.0 & Azure Website Websockets (Robert Muehsig)
• Inbuilt Bindings in Knockout.js: Controlling Text and Appearance (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Function = Var + Return: A Functional Style of JavaScript Programming (Hew Wolff)
• Glimpse ASP.NET 1.7 Released – Cache Tab (Nik Molnar)
• Improving your functional CoffeeScript and JavaScript (Oskar Wickström)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client Push Menu (Michael Washington)
• Investigating Memory Leaks in Azure Web Sites with Visual Studio 2013 (Steve Carroll)
• Strings in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Async, LINQ, and the Future of RxJS (Jonathan Allen)
• Override Meta Tags in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• Intro to Shadow DOM (Agraj Mangal)
• Proper Session/DbContext lifecycle management (Jimmy Bogard)
• Beginning Backbone: My First Book (James Sugrue)

 

XAML

• How to Encode and Save a WriteableBitmap with Windows WinRT and What are you Awaiting for – How to Turn a C/C++ Callback into a C++/Cx WinRT IAsyncAction (Rene Schulte)
• Aviary discontinues development for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Sam Sabri)
• Quickstart guide to becoming an app dev (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• First aid for detecting memory leaks in a Windows Store App (Loek van den Ouweland)
• Windows 8.1, the Hub Control and Visual States (Nick Randolph)
• Linking to your other apps (Peter Foot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Obtaining the Number of Logical Processors (Richard Carr)
• New Features of Visual Studio 2013 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Introducing Reactive Extensions for C++ (Jonathan Allen)
• Asynchronous programming in C++ using resumable functions and await (Raman Sharma)
• Wouldn’t the Recycle Bin sample program have been simpler without COM? (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework and slow bulk INSERTs (Rick Strahl)
• EF 6.1 Alpha 1 Available (Rowan Miller)
• Essential Studio Enterprise 2013 Volume 4 Adds LightSwitch, Localization and New Improvements (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Team Foundation Server Administration Tool 2.3 (TFS 2013) (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Achieve Shared Understanding When Scaling Agile (MIke Cottmeyer)
• Unit Testing AngularJS Controllers, Views, and More: Part Three (Avishek Sen Gupta)
• On object creation and unit tests (Dror Helper)
• Voron Performance, the end is nigh (sequentially) (Oren Eini)
• Creating Useful Naming Conventions: Business Considerations (Peter Vogel)
• Behaviour-Driven Development Tool Jasmine 2.0 Released (Jan Stenberg)
• How Tos for Personal Effectiveness at a Glance and Lists at a Glance (JD Meier)
• Supporting production code: Start with the simple things (Mark Needham)
• Awesome Visual Tool For Working With GIT or HG (Peter Kellner)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• MS Open Tech working with the ANGLE Project community to increase apps’ portability to Windows Devices (Adalberto Foresti)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 251 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Swenson on using PowerShell in the real world (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• 088 JSJ Lazy.js with Daniel Tao (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Adding subtitles to HTML 5 video (Mads Kristensen)
• [Webinar Recording] Exploring WebStorm Tool Windows (Robert Demmer)
• Windows Weekly 341: Hunt the Wumpus (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jon Lovitz and The Nerdist Podcast – Moby (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 115: Flynn updates with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• TWC9: A Very Happy TWC9 | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Get Up And Code 33: Our Thoughts On Caffeine And Sweeteners (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget Podcast 373 – 12.19.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 197 – 12.19.13 (Jon Turi)
• Radio TFS – Last Episode of 2013 (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 116 (Richard Hay)
• GeekWire Radio: Amazon at $400, favorite gadgets of 2013, and the new world of airplane tech etiquette (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Calculating elapsed time from DATETIME (Vishal Harishbhai Gajjar)
• SQL SERVER – What Permissions I have on Database I am Connected to? and SQL SERVER – Learning More About SQL Wait Stats (Pinal Dave)
• Transaction merging, locks, background threads and performance (Oren Eini)
• Databases are growing on me (Jef Claes)

 

PowerShell

• OMG!!! A PowerSHELL within the bash console! (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)
• Integrating TeamCity with Gerrit using PowerShell – Part 1 (Jakob Nilsson-Ehle)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Geek Christmas Quiz 2013 (Mike Hadlow)
• Pointers in C (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls Sets Scythes On Release (Nathan Grayson)
• paint.net 4.0 alpha (build 5105) is now available (Rick Brewster)
• APress Deal of the Day 23/Dec/2013 – GIMP for Absolute Beginners (Tatworth)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 22, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2013 (take 2) (Jason Haley)
• Friday Links #283 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: December 13 to December 19 (Jason Strate)
• .NET Weekly Digest #44 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, December 20, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 22, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #95 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1263 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1511 and The Morning Brew #1512 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Web Weekly Newsletter – Edition 3 and The Web Weekly Newsletter – Edition 4 (Dan Wahlin)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Top 10 Visual Studio Magazine Articles of 2013 (Keith Ward)

 

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