Dew Drop – January 13, 2014 (#1700)

Top Links

• Mark your calendars: April 2015 is when Windows 9 is expected (Sam Sabri)
• Top Windows Phone app certification failures and how to avoid them (Bernardo Zamora)
• AGENT Smartwatch gets experimental, community driven, Visual Studio 2013 support (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft to share Windows Threshold plans at Build 2014 show: Report (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Web Development

• Testing Which ASCII Characters Break JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Parsing (Ben Nadel)
• Single Line Comments (//) in CSS (Tab Atkins Jr.)
• Ember.js – Creating a Custom #link-to Handlebars Helper (Paul Cowan)
• SOLID JavaScript In A Wobbly World (Wide Web) (Derick Bailey)
• Interception using Decorator and Lazy Loading with AngularJS (Jeremy Likness)
• Data type for HTML canvas ImageData (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Building a Customer Management App Using AngularJS and Laravel (Maciej Sopyło)
• Column Fixing in Ignite UI jQuery Grid (Marina Stoyanova)
• Windows Azure Websites Development Stacks Support (Mark Brown)
• Meet PhpStorm Team at PHPBenelux Antwerp & Visit Workshop by Maarten Balliauw (Mikhail Vink)
• A Simple CRUD Demo with Koa.js and Creating Windows Azure Virtual Machines Using Azure CLI and VM Depot (Shiju Varghese)
• CMAP – DurandalJS Code Samples (Steve Michelotti)
• Workers on a shoestring in Windows Azure Web Sites (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Sharing 3D Scans in WebGL using BabylonJS (Andy Beaulieu)
• Integration testing authenticated Katana applications (Aaron Powell)
• How to apply distortions to a UIImage using OpenGL ES (Mark Petherbridge)

 

XAML

• Visual States in Windows Phone and Windows Applications using MvvmCross (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #985 – Displaying Expandable Groups within a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Information Controls – StatusBar (Richard Carr)
• Using actual size in your Windows 8.1 app (David Washington)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Strings are annoying (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Online setup speed test and guide: Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline (Iris Classon)
• Installing Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Simple.Web F# Project Template Updates (James D’Angelo)
• Change the Release Management Server that your Client connects to (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Part 7: Lambda Expressions in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
• Compiled Zip package for Jace 0.8.4 (Pieter de Rycke)
• 2000 C# Things #1,009 – A String Can Be Null or Empty (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Divide responsibility for defining stories (Gojko Adzic)
• 3 Keys to Peak Performance: Commitment, Completion, and Closure (J.D. Meier)
• Ruck is not another process, it is simply “loose Scrum” … in the context of the ALM Rangers (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Hosting TestController and TestAgents on Azure (Ajay Arora)
• Software Gardening: Software is Not a Building (Craig Berntson)
• How to Make Commitments in the Face of Uncertainty (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Bug-ger Off! Cost of Debugging: $312 Billion (Addie Ben-Yehuda)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• An Android SDK for In-App Bitcoin Transactions (Alec Noller)
• Supporting Dynamic Type for iOS 7 Apps (Nick Hanan)
• Watch LINQ to Twitter On Glass (Joe Mayo)
• Objective-C Guide For Developers: Part 5 (Matteo Manferdini)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 378 – CES Day Three – 1.8.14 (Jon Turi)
• TWC9: Build 2014, Windows Phone 8 1080P, Roslyn, Rubber Ducks and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward)
• Windows Phone Central 165 – #CESLive (Daniel Rubino)
• Exploring the Virtual Machine Depot of Community Images from Microsoft Open Technologies | Windows Azure Friday (Windows Azure)
• Episode 126: Using Sencha With Windows Azure Mobile Services | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Polymorphic Podcast – HTML5 Client-Side Persistence APIs (Craig Shoemaker)
• What the Tech 196: CES 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Changelog 116: Node Black Friday at Walmart with Eran Hammer (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• The Tablet Show – Windows 8.1 Development with Phil Japikse (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 091 JSJ JSON APIs (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Coding in our Backyard – Interview with the Founders of Philly Code Camp (DevToolsGuy)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 1, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• CES 2014: Razer Shows Project Christine PC Concept (GavinGear)
• SSW TV – Windows Phone 8 Development with Microsoft MVP Michael Crump (Adam Stephensen)
• RIYL Episode 035: David Cope (Brian Heater)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Art and Science (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Get Up And Code 36: Competition…Love It Or Hate It? (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)

 

Community / Events

• CodeMash 2014 Software Craftsmanship Precompiler Workshop (Brendan Enrick)
• New LinkedIn Group for Entry Level Developers in Boston Area (Jason Haley)
• Science On Tap Returns To National Mechanics In January With A Discussion On A Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery, Monday, January 13 (Jillian Wilson)

 

Database

• First release of my own personal T-SQL Code Library on github (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.7–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Create Unique Constraint on Table Column on Existing Table and MySQL – Change the Limit of Row Retrieved in MySQL Workbench and SQL SERVER – 7 Essential Tools to Support Core Database Administration – SQL DBA Bundle (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: The DBA That Practices Database Restores (Jason Strate)
• Geek City: A row with no fixed length columns (Kalen Delaney)

 

Miscellaneous

• Coinye responds to Kanye complaint, says currency now based on ‘half-man half-fish hybrid’ (Adi Robertson)
• DuckDuckGo’s Popularity Exploded In 2013 Following The NSA/PRISM Leaks (Greg Kumparak)
• Microsoft Kinect Sensor applications in health and medicine (Bill Crounse)
• Using ImageMagick to write PNGs without embedded create/modify dates (Joe White)
• Developer Evangelists: No End to Career Growth Prospects (Mark Boyd)
• Any Google+ User Can Now Email You Without Knowing Your Gmail ID, Here’s How To Opt Out (Oliver Haslam)
• Sony confirms talks with Microsoft on releasing a Windows Phone (Phone Arena Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 12, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 13, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading January 10, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (January 10th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #98 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1275 and Double Shot #1276 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/13/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #123 (Frank)
• Blog Post: Reblog: January 3 to January 9 (Jason Strate)
• The Morning Brew #1523 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Friday Links #286 (Mike Ward)

 

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