Dew Drop – January 28, 2014 (#1711)

Top Links

• Free ebooks: Now on the Microsoft Virtual Academy site (Kim Spilker)
• Review: Postman Client Makes RESTful API Exploration a Breeze (Janet Wagner)
• Of Orcs and Software Craftsmanship (K. Scott Allen)
• Why isn’t People-Centric UI Design taking off? (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• From the MVPs: Windows Azure cache options (Michael Collier)
• Understanding click binding in Knockout.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Angular and Progressive Saving (John Papa)
• Creating a Todo List using Indexed DB and Angular JS (Ravi Kiran)
• Extending System.Web.Optimization (Dean Hume)
• Client side development just got easier (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Getting a dashboard for local development with the WebJobs SDK (Mike Stall)
• Smoothing out <div> scrolling in Mobile WebKit Browsers (Rick Strahl)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #996 – Turning off UI Virtualization in a ListBox (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual F# Tools 3.1.1 Adds Visual Studio Express 2013 Desktop and Web Versions (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Visual Studio Add-In of the Day – Inline Guid Generator and SharpDevelop 5 goes MIT and Beta 1 too! (Greg Duncan)
• Execute Tests with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Creating multiple Visual Studio “Profiles” with RootSuffixes (Schabse Laks)
• How can I make a callback function a member of my C++ class? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,020 – Removing Methods from a Delegate’s Invocation List (Sean Sexton)
• Generic Concurrent Queue (1/n) (Sanjay Sharma)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Underlying Mechanisms of Team Based Scrum (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Mini book: Agile with Guts – A pragmatic guide to value-driven development (Nicolas Gouy)
• Building a Spaceship in TDD – The Sequel (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How to Make Sure Users Don’t Accidentally Delete (Anthony)
• There Is No Better Indicator of Success Than Quantity (John Sonmez)
• Do we dare to be data-driven? (Marcus Hammarberg)
• Hack failing: cheat (Remy Sharp)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building a User Extension and Integrating It Into Sencha Architect 3 – Part 2 (Steve Sobel)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – DevOps on Azure with Michele Bustamante (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 255 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steve Roberts from Amazon on AWS and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR: Rod Fergusson joins Microsoft (Larry Hyrb)
• Yet Another Podcast #119– ASP.NET & Angular (Jesse Liberty)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 013 | Cloud Security (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Defrag Tools: #75 – Windows 8.1 – FileNotFound Crash | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Stack Exchange for Android is here! (David Fullerton)
• Interview: Netflix’s Reactive Programming Model via Rx (Jafar Husain)

 

Database

• Updated SQL Server Data Tools January 2014 (Jill McClenahan)
• SQL SERVER – Back& Reborn as Premier Back End SaaS Provider (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB and the Fine Art of Data Modelling (Mihalcea_Vlad)
• Azure will save you from unexpected Godzilla attack part 2: Red Gate will save you from yourself (Troy Hunt)
• Google Cloud Platform: Storing Data in Google Cloud Datastore (Ted Neward)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Memory Details GUI Tool (Prashanth Jayaram)
• Powershell in a Month Day 13 – Remote Control (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft rechristens ‘SkyDrive’ as ‘OneDrive’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• Do we need to re-imagine the electronic medical record? (Bill Crounse)
• How to speak tech to non-tech people (Jack Wallen)
• SkyDrive is now OneDrive – will Office Web Apps soon be “Office Online”? (Kip Kniskern)
• How to assess a mystery job (Andy Palmer)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 27 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 27, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1287 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1535 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 28, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/28/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #68 (Jason Strate)
• The Web Weekly – Edition 5 (Dan Wahlin)

 

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