Dew Drop – January 24, 2014 (#1709)

Top Links

• Auto History Extension in Visual Studio 2013 (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
• Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact (3)–Getting started with the SQL Server Compact 3.5 provider (and Merge Replication) (Erik EJ)
• Hanselminutes – Learning Code The Hard Way with Zed Shaw (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows 8.1 Store Apps, Prism and Visual Studio Templates (Mike Taulty)

 

Web Development

• Resource from Node.js talk (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MS Open Tech enhances Open Source PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Doug Mahugh)
• Modular JavaScript in the Browser with CommonJS Compiler (Dmitry Sheiko)
• 10+ Handy and Reusable jQuery Code Snippets (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Emberjs – Custom Link-to Refactor (Paul Cowan)
• Single Page Refresh for Client Side Data Server Side (Chris Coyier)
• Validation and Exception Handling: From the UI to the Backend (Patkos Csaba)
• Neuron ESB and RabbitMQ (Steve Harclerode)
• Node v0.10.25 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Keen.io vs Telerik Analytics (Eqatec): You Should Be Using Both (Derick Bailey)

 

XAML

• Passing errors to WinRT objects (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio–Part 2 (Lori Lalonde)
• 2000 WPF Things #994 – Viewing the Visual Tree from within Visual Studio (Sean Sexton)
• My first experience developing for Windows Phone (Christian Hissibini)
• Get Children & Grandchildren (Sanjay Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• .NET NuGet Library Security Updates (Bill Wagner)
• Examining stack traces of objects using Visual Studio 2013 (Eric Battalio)
• How do I – Filter values in two lists of custom classes using Linq (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Friendly URLs with Visual Studio 2013 (Jeff Krebsbach)
• Introducing Trace Logging (AppHarbor Team)
• Empty EventArgs (Jakub Chodounský)
• Eliminate Import Statements from Your Code in Visual Basic (Peter Vogel)
• 2000 C# Things #1,018 – Delegate Invocation Syntax (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Day 6 of 7 Days of Agile Results – Friday (Friday Reflection) (JD Meier)
• Lean Software Architecture: Focus On the Pain – Part 3 of 3 (Cory House)
• One assert to rule them all (Dror Helper)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Augmented Reality for Android Application Development (Glauco Márdano)
• Is Android Moving to a Closed Source Model? (Sergio De Simone)
• Check if Active Internet Connection Exists on iOS Device (yffaria)
• Implementing the Amazon In-App Purchasing API in your HTML5 web apps (Dave Isbitski)
• Introducing App Insights 2.0 Beta (Daniel Tomko)
• Objective-C: Cheat Sheet (Rob Phillips)
• Developing for Google Glass with Sencha Touch (Ross Gerbasi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 218: Best In Class, honestly! (Gareth Myles)
• Auto History Extension | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Mark Wilson-Thomas)
• Windows Weekly 346: Halfway to Metro (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Philip Preston (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Christina Ricci (Chris Hardwick)
• Edge Show 88 – Server Management with Configuration Manager in System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Symon Perriman & Simon May)
• The Lab of Things (Larry Larsen)
• RiYL Episode 036: Joe Garden (Brian Heater)
• The Vergecast 108 – January 23rd, 2014 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• Nokia schedules February press event as Android rumors persist (Tom Warren)
• Nokia Windows Phone Developer Day (Michael Cummings)
• A Change in Leadership for Node.js (Brian Rinaldi)
• Infragistics User Group Contest 2014 (Brian Lagunas)
• Github seeking volunteers to translate their how-to videos with Amara (Cory Doctorow)
• Microsoft and developer trust (or lack thereof) (Frans Bouma)

 

Database

• SQL Server Management Studio – Changing Default Data Type In Table Designer (Dirk Strauss)
• 10 MySQL Settings to Tune After Installation (Peter Zaitsev)
• SQL SERVER – Query Plan Analysis of Pivot and Unpivot with Profiler of dbForge Studio for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding how ISNUMERIC function works (Madhivanan)
• 10 Tips to Improve MongoDB Security (Dharshan Rangegowda)
• Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review (Koen Verbeeck)

 

Miscellaneous

• Vim All The Things (Latish Sehgal)
• Stack Exchange Creative Commons data now hosted by the Internet Archive (David Fullerton)
• Do You Suffer From Fear of Failure? (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 24, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading January 23, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/23/2014 and Daily News Digest 1/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1533 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-24 (Dan Rigby)
• 14 Tips and Tricks on Kinect for Windows SDK (Abhijit Jana)
• Double Shot #1285 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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