Dew Drop – January 3, 2014 (#1694)

Top Links

• Seven Reasons to Back Durandal in 2014 and Durandal: Quick Start (Rob Eisenberg)
• New emulators available for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3 (Cliff Simpkins)
• What is “duck typing”? (Eric Lippert)
• Tech Predictions, 2014 (Ted Neward)

 

Web Development

• ogv.js: An Ogg Theora and Vorbis Video Decoder in JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Getting started with Node.js development in Visual Studio (Dhananjay Kumar)
• AngularJS: first impression (Giorgio Sironi)
• Is TypeScript Ready for Prime Time? (Don Kiely)
• Web Design Trends for 2014 and Why Microsoft is a Big Winner (Chris Love)

 

XAML

• Microsoft RMS SDK 3.0 for Windows Phone 8 and Microsoft RMS SDK 3.0 for Windows Store (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 8 Blank Project Template for Visual Studio 2013 (Michael Crump)
• App Generators: Windows Phone App Studio and Project Siena (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #979 – Selecting Items in a ListBox Programmatically (Sean Sexton)
• More Store Certification Tips (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reflecting ref and out Parameter Information (Richard Carr)
• Free spaces available at Visual Studio ALM, Test and Project Management Events in January and February (Colin Beales)
• January Mobile C# Developer Meetups (James Montemagno)
• Conditional Includes with Visual Studio Project Files (Nick Randolph)
• Message Context and MassTransit (Dru Sellers)
• Weathr, a 3D Weather App now on CodePlex (Eric Battalio)
• If the cursor clip rectangle is a global resource, how come I can’t change it with ClipCursor? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,003 – Accessing Underlying Bytes in a String for Different Encodings (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Adding Purpose and Hypotheses to Agile Retrospectives (Ben Linders)
• Acceptance Testing With Codeception (Andrew Perkins)
• Habits Are More Powerful Than Goals (John Sonmez)
• More Enterprise support in GitHub for Mac (Justin Spahr-Summers)
• System Under Specification (Matt Davey)
• Top 13 Reasons to Love Automated Testing as We Leave 2013 (Peter Varhol)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Adding Icons and Splash Screens To Your PhoneGap / Icenium Projects (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: What is null and undefined in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Alton Browncast – Roger Scott & Carolyn O’Neil (Alton Brown)

 

Community / Events

• TEDxPhiladelphia: “The New Workshop of the World” (Bianca Cevoli)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services XML Data Source and Data Set (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server DMVs that Lie (Kendra Little)
• Some More MySQL Tuning (Moshe Kaplan)
• MySQL – MySQL Query Optimization and Performance Tuning – Online Video Courses (Pinal Dave)
• Modeling Hierarchical Data with RavenDB (Itamar Syn-hershko)
• Blog Post: What is LocalDB? (Dinesh Asanka)

 

PowerShell

• Creating website in remote server using PowerShell from .NET application (Manjunath K.)

 

Miscellaneous

• Betrayal (Phil Haack)
• Coming Soon: 3D-printed chocolate bars based on your photos (Allie Harcharek)
• Mozilla delays Firefox for Windows 8.1 yet again, this time to March 18th (Ayman)
• Learn more programming languages, make more money (Mary Branscombe)
• Just Because You Can Do Something Doesn’t Mean You Should Do Something (Wally McClure)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 2, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1270 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1518 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-03 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 3, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Dev News for Jan 02, 2014 – #0210 (Dave Campbell)

 

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