Dew Drop – February 10, 2014 (#1719)

Top Links

• What the Heck is Happening to Windows? (Paul Thurrott)
• Checklist: What NOT to do in ASP.NET (Scott Hanselman)
• Entity Framework 6 vs NHibernate 4 (Darius Kucinskas)
• Technology & Friends Episode 304 – Eric Lawrence on Fiddler (David Giard)

 

Web Development

• Use ASP.NET MVC to Architect Device-Driven Website Solutions (Dino Esposito)
• Using Windows Azure Active Directory to Authenticate the Management Libraries (Brady Gaster)
• Kendo UI Web: Remote Views And Separate HTML Files (Basem Emara)
• Choosing Vanilla JavaScript (Anthony Colangelo)
• What are integers in JavaScript? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Reading an EventStore stream using JavaScript (Jef Claes)
• Instrumenting Angular with Zone and Use Zone to Trigger Angular Digest Loop for External Functions (Jeremy Likness)
• JetBrains IDEs – Their Best Feature Is Control-W (Paul Hammant)
• Programming Style–Kendo & jQuery (Jesse Liberty)
• Book Review: Dependency Injection with AngularJS (Mark Rendle)
• The Little JavaScripter, Revisited (Rick Waldron)
• Why is a 32bit Windows Azure WebSite running as 64bit? (Simone Chiaretta)
• The CMS ecosystem and Microsoft (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Adventures in Angular Directives (Ward Bell)
• Finding Elements In The DOM Using querySelector (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Why is DOM-Centric JavaScript Hard to Test? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Draggable Elements That Push Others Out Of Way (Chris Coyier)
• Putting WebForms DataBinding front and centre (Graham Mendick)
• Which Linux Distro for Web Development? (Rey Bango)
• Your API versioning is wrong, which is why I decided to do it 3 different wrong ways (Troy Hunt)
• Angular, Ember, And Backbone: Which JavaScript Framework Is Right For You? (Lauren Orsini)
• Let’s Build a Backbone Based Framework!! (Peter de Croos)
• Now Available through Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer: Azul Zulu OpenJDK Package for Windows (Brian Benz)

 

XAML

• Weathr, a Comprehensive Demonstration of C++ 14, DirectX, and XAML (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,005 – Enabling Deferred Scrolling for Better Performance (Sean Sexton)
• Disabling the XAML Designer (Richard Carr)
• Enhancements to the App download and In-app purchase reports (Bernardo Zamora)
• Implementing a SettingsFlyout (settings pane) in Windows Store Apps 8.1 (Iris Classon)
• The Windows 8.1 Hub Control (Sumit Maitra)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Extension – Error List Manager (ELM2013) – Easily export/save/print/email the VS Error List (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Online Quality Dashboard WIN8 App. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio: Auto-increment Build Number – Part 1/3 and C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (3/n) (Sanjay Sharma)
• Fix for the ‘Could not find test executor’ issue with NUnit, XUnit and Chutzpah when using ReSharper in Visual Studio (Terje Sandstrom)
• Understanding Peak-Finding (Filip Ekberg)
• VirtualLock locks your memory into the working set, even if your threads are blocked (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,029 – How to Define a Constructor in a Generic Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Cloud for the Entire Lifecycle (Jim Holmes)
• Building the Right Thing vs. Building the Thing Right (Laura Klein)
• Story Writing Through Remote Pairing (Matt Davey)
• Code Review Best Practices (Vlad Mihalcea)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Route Directions with iOS7 MapKit and Google Maps API (Mehfuz Hossain)
• iOS Auto Layout with Masonry (Scott McKenzie)
• iOS 7 in-line UIDatePicker – Part 1 (Vasilica Costescu)
• Mobile Apps Are Dead—Protect Your Bragging Rights! (Doug Winfield)
• Objective-C: Variable Property Attributes or Modifiers (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 383 – 2.7.14 (Jon Turi)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 118 (Richard Hay)
• Episode 130: A tour of Microsoft OpenTech with Gianugo Rabellino | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• 096 JSJ The Challenges of Large Single Page JavaScript Applications with Bart Wood and 095 JSJ AngularUI with Dean Sofer (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Robert Kirkman Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 11: Mary Jo Foley (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Tablet Show – Native vs. Hybrid with Shawn Wildermuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: Satya Nadella, Scott Guthrie, VS 2013.2, Tips and Tricks and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 5, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• VLog Episode:002 Negative Conference Comments (on a session) (Iris Classon)
• Get Up And Code 40: Interview With Rami Alhamad From PUSH (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: A Powerful Potpourri (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Our Super Bowl win, Microsoft’s CEO pick, and finding a great TV (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Code to Win! (Chris Koenig)
• Philly Tech Week 2014 to be held April 4 through 12 (Christian Johnson)
• Advanced Developers Conference 2014 (Eric Battalio)
• Live Webinar – dotMemory 4: What’s Inside, February 25th (Robert Demmer)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2014 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Recover deleted SQL Server data and tables with the help of Transaction Log and LSNs (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER – Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to Always on Availability Group and SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Deploying a DACPAC with SQL Server Management Studio and Deploying a DACPAC with SqlPackage (Deborah Kurata)
• Didja know, RavenDB include a proxy server (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Need more DSC Resources? Announcing DSC Resource Kit Wave 2 (John Slack)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Developer’s Reference Guide to Small Basic – The First 5 Chapters (Ed Price)
• Exclusive: First screenshots of OneDrive.com leaked, co-owned folders coming soon (John Hsu)
• Xbox gearing up for Music, Video… and Reading (Kip Kniskern)
• Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts (Mark Mayo)
• Paint.NET 4 gets first beta release, adds commit button, choice of colour scheme (Nick Peers)
• Top 8 Things to Know about Microsoft’s New CEO (Sam Sabri)
• If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014? (Scott Hanselman)
• New Windows 8.1 Update 1 leak reveals boot-to-desktop and UI changes and Windows Phone 8.1 ‘Cortana’ personal assistant will be powered by Foursquare (Tom Warren)
• From the MVPs: Enable Cross-Premises Network Connectivity to Windows Azure with Windows Server 2012 R2 (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2014 and Interesting Finds: February 9, 2014 and Interesting Finds: February 10, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 7, 2014 and Geek Reading February 10, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1295 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – February 7, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #102 (Mary Lou)
• Reading Notes #127 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 10, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/10/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1544 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Links #290 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: January 31 to February 6 (Jason Strate)
• .NET Weekly Digest #49 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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