Dew Drop – January 10, 2014 (#1699)

Top Links

• Announcing: Updated Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts (Charles Sterling)
• Semantic Logging Application Block 1.1 Pre-release (Grigori Melnik)
• Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 posted (Willy-P. Schaub)
• 28 Free eBooks On Game Programming! (Atithya Amaresh)

Web Development

• How to add a CSS arrow to a Kendo DropDownList popup (Adam Anderson)
• PhpStorm 7.1.1 EAP 133.564 (Mikhail Vink)
• Book Review: Async JavaScript (Rick Strahl)
• Creating a Photo Tag Wall With Twilio Picture Messaging & PHP (Roger Stringer)
• Acceptance of Media Source Extensions as W3C Candidate Recommendation will accelerate adoption of dash.js (Ross Gardler)
• Customization Options With ASP.NET Identity (K. Scott Allen)
• Dynamic Data videos on ASP.Net Learn site (Steve Naughton)
• Light Table is open source (Chris Granger)
• Neuron-ESB: Reliable Messaging (Jereme Downs)

XAML

• Do you Blend? Jerry Nixon teaches you how to use, and not be abused by, Blend for Visual Studio 2013 (Greg Duncan)
• Dialogs the MVVM Way (JP van Mackelenbergh)
• Windows8 theme color generator for Silverlight/WPF (Maria Hadzhieva)
• 2000 WPF Things #984 – Grouping Items in a ListBox with a CollectionViewSouorce (Sean Sexton)
• Using DataTriggers to control Storyboard Animations (Derik Whittaker)
• What does Commerce Expansion Adjustment mean to me? (Peter Foot)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2010/2012 Hands-On-Labs / Demo Scripts Upgraded to 2013 (Brian Keller)
• Installing Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• [Sample Of Jan 9th] How to transfer large size file with asynchronous sockets API in .NET (Philip Fu)
• Code Debugging Content in Community (Eric Battalio)
• Part 6: Anonymous Types in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
• Can you dllexport/dllimport an inline function? (Raymond Chen)
• New CodeRush Plugin – Extract Method and Inline literals (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,008 – What Happens When You Forget That Strings Are Immutable (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programming vs. Software Development (Addie Ben-Yehuda)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Book Review: Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments (Fabio Radin)
• iOS 6 & 7 Compatibility Tips (James Montemagno)
• Supporting Dynamic Type for iOS 7 Apps (Nick Hanan)
• Google Play Services 4.1 (Android Developers Blog)
• Amazon launches re-designed portal for developers (Blair Hanley Frank)
• How to Add Files to the “res” Directory (Jim Cowart)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 377 – CES Day Two – 1.8.14 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 198 – CES Edition – 1.8.14 (Jon Turi)
• Coneryminutes #3 – Bartending vs Software (Scott Hanselman)
• Edge Show 86 – Windows Azure Traffic Manager Demos | Edge (David Tesar)
• Video: varycode.com (VaryCode Team)
• Windows Weekly 344: Is There Any Corn? (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Valerie Bertinelli (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Kroll returns again! (Chris Hardwick)
• The Engadget Show: Behind the Scenes at CES 2014 (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

• WPDev Fusion Conference (WPDev Fusion Team)
• .NET Rocks! Roadshow Central Recap (Chris Hardy)
• Take Advantage of Two Great Offers for Hobbyists (Jennifer Wright)
• How this female engineer is breaking the mold (Robyn McLaughlin)
• What He Said – Tim Bray · Software in 2014 (Rob Bazinet)
• Closing Windows: Microsoft and its platforms are nowhere to be found at CES (Tom Warren)

Database

• Search multiple SQL Server Error Logs at the same time (Mike Eastland)
• NoSQL Databases Compared: Differences, Strengths, and Examples (Alec Noller)
• Clean Up SQL Serve Plan Cache (Ian Stirk)
• Dynamic Sorting (Jeremiah Peschka)

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month – Day 8 Objects: data by another name (Steve Jones)
• Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets – Processes (Vaibhav Chugh)

Miscellaneous

• Career Development Tip: Finding Your Niche (Michael K. Campbell)
• Automating typing in screencasts with AppleScript or how to look like a hollywood hacker (Chris Heilmann)
• The Importance Of Finishing What You Started (John Sonmez)
• Nokia kicks off Lumia Black software update with new features, apps (Michael Stroh)
• Extending Small Basic with Function Procedures (Phillip Trelford)
• App Folder for Nokia Lumia phones now available, here’s how it works (Sam Sabri)
• Geek Out Over Workouts (Timaree Schmit)
• The Business of Software Development (Wally McClure)
• The Complete Guide to Windows Phone 8 Update 3 and Lumia Black (Paul Thurrott)
• Updated with Lumia Black? Grab Nokia Beamer and StoryTeller from the Windows Phone Store (Rich Edmonds)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 9 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 9, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 9, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1275 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 10, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/10/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1523 (Chris Alcock)

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