Dew Drop – January 2, 2014 (#1693)

Top Links

• Building Large Scale Apps with Angular and Breeze (John Papa)
• Algorithm: Find All Unique Combinations in a List (Kathleen Dollard)
• Congratulations New and Renewed MVPs! – Happy New Year (MVP Award Program)
• Visual Studio Installations: The 15 minutes you will never see again. Don’t do it. Have Chocolatey do it for you. (Matt Wrock)

Web Development

• A new year’s present: introducing Glimpse plugins for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• LINQ in JavaScript, ES6 style, for real this time (Aaron Powell)
• Preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF / XSRF) With AngularJS And ColdFusion (Ben Nadel)
• How to divide complexity in asp.net mvc between views through Partial Views. (Anirudha Gupta)
• ASP.NET Validation Controls. Friend or Foe? (Dave M. Bush)
• So you inherited an ASP.NET Web Forms application (Dave Paquette)
• Getting started with Node.js development in Visual Studio (Dhananjay Kumar)
• AngularJS–Part 8, More choice when testing (Gabriel Schenker)
• Introduction to HTML5 Desktop Apps With Node-Webkit (Maciej Sopyło)
• AngularJS: first impression (Giorgio Sironi)
• Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Review (Ricardo Peres)
• JavaScript Performance Analysis: Keeping the Big Picture (Ariya Hidayat)
• Closures in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• printing-github-markdown (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Automatic Dropdpown Lists for Razor Views. (Brady Kelly)
• Simple.Web and ServiceStack Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• OWIN/Katana in-memory integration testing (Filip W)
• How to import modules from the Python Standard Library (Manya Susoev)
• SVG Drawing Animation (Mary Lou)
• Client Callbacks In Action Part 1: Auto Completing Text Boxes (Ricardo Peres)
• Why do I keep seeing requests for “gen204” in my web logs? Because of foreigners! (Troy Hunt)
• Xbox Music API (Greg Duncan)

XAML

• Real world json parsing in WinRT (Andreas Hammar)
• Windows and Windows Phone app convergence (Nick Randolph)
• Test Drive your windows phone application (Dror Helper)
• 2000 WPF Things #977 – DisplayMemberPath Indicates Property to Use for Displaying Bound Items and #978 – Discovering Whether an Item in a ListBox Is Selected (Sean Sexton)
• [Sample Of Jan 1st] How to access data from SQL Server database in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Versioned Collections (Oren Eini)
• Released LINQ to Twitter v3.0.1 Beta (Joe Mayo)
• Accessing TFS and Visual Studio Online from F# (Cameron Taggart)
• An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 6: Continuations and Monads (Steve Gilham)
• Microsoft Fakes Framework in Visual Studio 2012 (Raj Aththanayake)
• REGARDING THE FUTURE OF C# … (Ultrahead)
• How to paste code in your blog post with Visual Studio Dark Color Theme and KINECT for Windows v2 SDK Deep dive (Zubair Ahmed)
• MassTransit and Interface Contracts (Dru Sellers)
• Humanizer is now a Portable Class Library (Mehdi Khalili)
• How can I get the list of programs the same way that Programs and Features gets it? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,001 – Representing Unicode Surrogate Pairs and #1,002 – Specifying Character Encoding when Writing to a File (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making the Web Secure, One Unit Test at a Time (Gareth Rushgrove)
• How to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions with Agile (Torrey Dye)
• Article: Tracking Schedule Progress in Agile (Yuval Yeret)
• 7 Ways to be a Better Programmer in 2014 (Amy Jollymore)
• You want a revolution (Eric Brechner)
• Behaviour-Driven Development: Value through Collaboration (Jan Stenberg)
• Guide to Surviving Self-Employed Software Development (Marc Grabanski)
• Be About the Users (Wally McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap/Apache Cordova Lifecycle Events (Jim Cowart)
• A Collection of Free iOS 7 GUI Kits and Templates (Mark Petherbridge)
• Double Pointers in Objective-C (Martin Rybak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 127 – Orphan Black (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Jez Humble is Still Delivering Software and .NET Rocks! – Code Generation and Roslyn with Kathleen Dollard in St. Louis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #118 Brian Prince on Azure (Jesse Liberty)
• MNR 498 Our favorite games of 2013 (Larry Hyrb)
• Video: How to create JavaScript Objects using Object.create (Dhananjay Kumar)
• FWTV Holiday Special (Frank LaVigne)
• The Amp Hour #178 – A 2013 Recap – Year-end Yarn Yakking (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• GoingNative 21: Visual C++ Front-End Compiler | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• Defrag Tools: #71 – Message Analyzer – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Paul E. Long & Chad Beeder)
• RIYL Episode 034: Mark Frauenfelder (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

• Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow (Michael T. Richter)
• Hackathons: Proof That Ideas Are Cheap and Implementation Is Expensive (Anthony Rose)

Database

• Blog Post: Using SQL Metadata to Create NULL Handling SSIS Expressions (Audrey Hammonds)
• A New Solution for Monitoring SQL Server (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Top 10 Signs Your SQL Server is Neglected (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server – using newsequentialid() as a function, similar to newid() (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Tools for Proactive DBAs – Central Management Server – Notes from the Field #009 (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: New Years Resolution – Configuring SANs for SQL Server Performance (Elisabeth Buford)
• Article: Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Backup and Security (Mat Keep)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft 2013 year in review: It was (almost) all about ‘Blue’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft’s Surface 2 Shortage Persists, Will Likely Stretch Into The New Year (Alex Wilhelm)
• Marketing Yourself: How to Create a Blog (John Sonmez)
• Save disk space and store your VHDs on an SD card (Matt Wrock)
• NSA has “backdoor access” to iPhones (Rob Beschizza)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2013 12.17 ~ 12.31 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Finds: December 31, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 1, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 31, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1267 and Double Shot #1268 and Double Shot #1269 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 5 MVP Monday Posts of 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 1, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1516 and The Morning Brew #1517 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for Dec 30, 2013 – #0208 and Windows Dev News for Jan 01, 2014 – #0209 (Dave Campbell)
• Top Reads for December (Jaco Pretorius)
• The most interesting science news of 2013 (Maggie Koerth-Baker)

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