Dew Drop – February 4, 2014 (#1716)

Top Links

• Introducing Microsoft’s new CEO: Satya Nadella (Aimee Riordan)
• Satya Nadella is Microsoft’s new CEO, Gates steps down as Chairman of the Board (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft goes internal for its next CEO with Satya Nadella (Mary Jo Foley)
• Satya Nadella’s full memo to Microsoft staffers: ‘We need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable’ (John Cook)
• Getting Girls Into Programming, One Children’s Book At A Time (Kim-Mai Cutler)

 

Web Development

• Kendo UI Grid: Detail Template Binding (Josh Eastburn)
• Rendering ASP.NET content as PDF (Jimmy Bogard)
• Selenium With Node.js and Mocha: Automated Testing With JavaScript (John Sonmez)
• Identity in Your Own Apps with Windows Azure Active Directory – Part 2 (Martina Grom)
• AngularJS meets Marvel Comics (Nicolas Frankel)
• Azure Blobs with Node.js and Express and Using Node.js To ETL Mongo Documents for Azure Table Storage (K. Scott Allen)
• Book Review: Learn Python the Hard Way (Mike Driscoll)
• Extend Native DOM Elements Using Web Components (Basem Emara)
• Access apps General Availability (Matt Evans)
• Microsoft gives Access Store apps the general-availability green light (Mary Jo Foley)
• Emberjs – arrayComputed (Paul Cowan)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy February 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Building Charming Apps for Windows and Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,001 – Setting an Alternating Background Color in an ItemsControl (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1: Easily send your notifications to tiles, toasts and badges (Andrea Boschin)
• Charming Display (Peter Foot)
• Disable WebView Scrolling in Windows Store Apps (Farhan Ghumra)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Past, Present, and Future of C# (Blair Greenwood)
• How to debug Django applications with pdb, PyCharm, and Visual Studio (Den Gladkikh)
• Released LINQ to Twitter v3.0.2 (Joe Mayo)
• EasyNetQ: A Layered API (Mike Hadlow)
• C# among more popular programming languages for 2014 (Sam Sabri)
• Localized video gems for Visual Studio 2013 … get the popcorn! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• New open source Portable Class Library for SQLite (Olivier Bloch)
• How can I make a WNDPROC or DLGPROC a member of my C++ class? (Raymond Chen)
• Awaitable Console Application (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 C# Things #1,025 – Converting between enum Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• You Shouldn’t Unit Test (But You Have To) (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• Control of Error for Self-Organizing Teams (Cory Foy)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 7: how to use UIGravityBehavior tutorial (Mark Petherbridge)
• How to Build an Android Twitter Search API 1.1 App (Troy Miles)
• Google Play Services 4.2 (Android Developer Team)
• Announcing Sencha Space (Nick Harlow)
• Ready to cast: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK (Scott Knaster)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kinect 2 and More with Tim Huckaby (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag Tools: #76 – Escalation Engineer | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Countdown to Teched: The One We Finish the Things Not to Miss in Houston Trilogy | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin)

 

Community / Events

• February Mobile C# Developer Meetups (James Montemagno)
• [Live Webinar] Node.js Development Workflow in WebStorm, February 20th (Robert Demmer)
• An Interview on How I Got Started in Programming for WP and Windows 8 (Michael Crump)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2014 Developers Training Kit Sample Databases (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact 4.0 (4) – Restoring full EF Tools support in Visual Studio 2013 (Erik EJ)
• RavenDB’s Hidden Features (Itamar Syn-hershko)
• Renaming The Reporting Services TempDB Database (Andy Warren)
• Here’s how Bell was hacked – SQL injection blow-by-blow (Troy Hunt)

 

SharePoint

• Windows Phone Enterprise Apps for Sharepoint (Mayur Tendulkar)

 

PowerShell

• Tooling with PowerShell: Keep it simple (Jim Christopher)
• Blog Post: PowerShell Script for SQL Server 2012/2008 Cluster/StandAlone unattended Install and uninstall (Vinoth Nm)

 

Miscellaneous

• Rise and Fall of Programming Languages – 2013 Summary (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• OneNote Tip: Making tables from pasted text (John Guin)
• Behind the Microsoft Super Bowl Commercial – inspiration for Imagine Cup? (Susan Ibach)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 4, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 3, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 3, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1292 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/4/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1540 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 4, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #69 (Jason Strate)
• Top Reads for January (Jaco Pretorius)

 

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