Dew Drop – January 27, 2014 (#1710)

Top Links

• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 2 – Attribute Routing with Custom Constraints (Jon Galloway)
• Announcing Reduced Pricing on Storage (Steven Martin)
• Releasing SocialGoal – Reference Web App for ASP.NET MVC 5, EF 6 Code First, AutoMapper, Autofac, TDD and DDD and Demo SPA App for ASP.NET Web API 2 and AngularJS (Shiju Varghese)
• The one thing you should know to get more productive in Visual Studio- Keyboard Mapping (Iris Classon)

 

Web Development

• Managing Web Sites from Web Sites using the Windows Azure Management Libraries for .NET (Brady Gaster)
• Passing Default Parameter Objects in JavaScript (Steve Smith)
• Indexes are Crucial on Windows Azure SQL Database! (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Binary bitwise operators in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Methods for Optimizing AngularJS (Benjamin Ball)
• Getting Started With Node.js and Visual Studio (Bruno Terkaly)
• Testing Web Applications with Selenium, NUnit and .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Resource from Node.js talk (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Modular JavaScript in the Browser with CommonJS Compiler (Dmitry Sheiko)
• Forcing Visual Studio 2013 to Use ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 (Imran Baloch)
• Skipping Multiple var declarations in JavaScript, Bad? (Peter Kellner)
• REST Commander: Parallel Async HTTP Client as a Service (John Sheehan)
• Emberjs – Custom Link-to Refactor (Paul Cowan)
• Twitter Bootstrap Resources (Joe Guadagno)
• WebJobs SDK (Mike Stall)
• Creating a Todo list using Indexed DB and Promise (Ravi Kiran)

 

XAML

• Code your TFS builds in F# instead of XAML (Cameron Taggart)
• 2000 WPF Things #995 – ListBox Uses UI Virtualization by Default (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Information Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)
• More control for app developers in the Windows Store (Keith Senzel)
• Get Children & Grandchildren (Sanjay Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Why In-Place Upgrades? and How are Event Parameters Best Used to Create an Intuitive Custom EventSourceTrace (Kathleen Dollard)
• Execute Tests with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Automate the Install and setup of a Team Foundation 2013 Server with Build services on a Azure VM with Boxstarter (Matt Wrock)
• 2000 C# Things #1,019 – Syntax for Adding Methods to a Delegate’s Invocation List (Sean Sexton)
• Read Only Dictionary in .NET 4.5 (Sumit Maitra)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Day 6 of 7 Days of Agile Results – Friday (Friday Reflection) and Day 7 of 7 Days of Agile Results–Saturday (Have Fun) (JD Meier)
• Underlying Mechanisms of Team Based Scrum (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Mini book: Agile with Guts – A pragmatic guide to value-driven development (Nicolas Gouy)
• Using Cycle Time and Story Points to Improve as a Team (Cory Foy)
• Where Should an Architect Begin? (Cory House)
• Repositories, where did we go wrong? (Jef Claes)
• NCover January Code Coverage Updates (Kerry Meade)
• Do we dare to be data-driven? (Marcus Hammarberg)
• SOLID: Part 3 – Liskov Substitution & Interface Segregation Principles (Patkos Csaba)
• Your Relationship With Your Ideas – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Why Creating Custom Software is Hard / Why Creating Custom Software Costs So Much Money (Wally McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin How-To: Controls for Navigating Between Screens in iOS (Wally McClure)
• Video streaming from an IP camera to an Android phone (Josh Smith)
• Toggle slow animations on your iOS device (Sergey Gavrilyuk)
• Is Android Moving to a Closed Source Model? (Sergio De Simone)
• Check if Active Internet Connection Exists on iOS Device (yffaria)
• Objective-C: Cheat Sheet (Rob Phillips)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 302 – Gary Short on Data Science (David Giard)
• Engadget Podcast 381 – 1.24.14 (Jon Turi)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 117 (Richard Hay)
• Episode 128: Using the Barracuda Web Application Firewall on Windows Azure | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2013 Update 1, ASP.Net MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 all RTW and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• 093 JSJ The New York Times and JavaScript with Eitan Konigsburg, Alastair Coote and Reed Emmons (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Christina Ricci and The Nerdist Podcast – Work It Out (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 10: Michele Leroux Bustamante (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Tablet Show – Tablet App Development with Lino Tadros (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 3, Season 5 (Emmanuelle)
• Get Up And Code 38: Chatting With Scott Hanselman (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget Eurocast 052 – 1.24.14 (Jon Turi)
• Defrag: Encrypting MicroSD for Surface, iSCSI service, Reporting Bugs | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• GeekWire Radio: How tech is reshaping real estate, with Estately’s Galen Ward (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Training on Xamarin Visual Studio Plugin, .NET 4.5 async/await Support, HttpClient, and other New Features (Wally McClure)
• Interview with Brad Green from the AngularJS Team (Dan Wahlin)
• Live and in person (Eric Lippert)
• Interview: Netflix’s Reactive Programming Model via Rx (Jafar Husain)
• Future of Web Design 2014 Ticket Giveaway (Mary Lou)
• SenchaCon 2014 is Coming to the San Francisco Bay Area (Tracy Pullman)
• Upcoming Talks: Chicago .NET (Bill Wagner)

 

Database

• Script Table Data In SQL Server Management Studio (Dirk Strauss)
• SQL SERVER – Rename a Table Name Containing [ or ] in the Name – Identifier in the Table Name and SQL SERVER – Rename a Table Name Containing [ or ] Identifier in the Name – Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Monitoring Your Server at a Glance – A Open Conversation with DBAs (Pinal Dave)
• Azure will save you from unexpected Godzilla attack part 1: SQL Azure export will save you from yourself (Troy Hunt)
• 10 Tips to Improve MongoDB Security (Dharshan Rangegowda)

 

PowerShell

• Monitor a SQL Server Cluster using PowerShell (Ben Snaidero)
• Add/delete and list Remote Event Receivers with PowerShell/CSOM (Chris O’Brien)
• Windows Powershell – Extract Json property values (Yosif Yosifov)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 Update 1: Rumored release target is March 11 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Before you grab that content, think… (John V. Petersen)
• Microsoft Surface best guess: Around 1.5M tablets sold (Todd Bishop)
• Quick FAILs in code questions (Oren Eini)
• AdDuplex: contrary to previous reports, Windows Phone performed well in Q4 2013 (Rich Edmonds)
• Windows Phone Cortana voice assistant shown in brief new video (Phone Arena Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 26, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 27, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 23, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1286 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – January 25, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #100 (Mary Lou)
• The Morning Brew #1534 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 27, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #125 (Frank)
• Daily Links 24 Jan 2014 (Jax)
• Friday Links #288 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: January 17 to January 23 (Jason Strate)
• .NET Weekly Digest #47 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Pie in the Sky (January 24th, 2014) (Larry Franks)

 

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