Dew Drop – February 11, 2014 (#1720)

Top Links

• Bill Gates on his new role at Microsoft: ‘I make sure we pick ambitious scenarios’ (Taylor Soper)
• Nokia’s Android phone: X marks the forked spot? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Use iBeacons in Android with C# (Mike Bluestein)
• Getting Started with SignalR – and not a Chat room in sight! (Samuel Jack)

 

Web Development

• February Updates to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Eclipse – SSL Support, plus new JDKs, Windows Azure configurations and more (Brian Benz)
• Floated Label Pattern with CSS Only (Jonathan Snook)
• HTML Table Pagination using Knockout JS and ASP.NET Web API (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Managing Your Build Tasks With Gulp.js (Rey Bango)
• Test for Support of SVG as img (Chris Coyier)
• Deploying from local git repository to Azure websites (w. video) (Iris Classon)
• Stack Exchange API V2.2 – and the demise of V1.x (Kevin Montrose)
• “The Cloud Never Goes Down”, Azure SLAs and other availability trivia (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• [Sample Of Feb 10th] How to display images from RSS feed in WP8 (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,006 – Scrollbars in a ListBox Appear as Needed (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Improved Object Inspection with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 10 (Brian Harry)
• C# | .NET Extension Methods (Sanjay Sharma)
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – Formatting your code (Susan Ibach)
• Explore the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 in MSDN Magazine (The .NET Team)
• Rx isn’t always the simplest way (James World)
• Execute a file as if it were a program, even though its extension is not EXE (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,030 – Requiring Generic Type Parameters to Derive from a Specified Class (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Starting Your Agile Process Engine (Derek Huether)
• A Return To Scrum (Tom Howlett)
• Time series feature design (Oren Eini)
• Business Architecture Ready For Prime Time (Mike Walker)
• AutoMocking Container (Sacha Barber)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap 3.0+ and Twitter API 1.1, Part 1: User Timelines (Troy Miles)
• Setting up the ADB driver for Kindle Fire devices (Dave Isbitski)
• Mobile Apps Are Dead—Protect Your Bragging Rights! (Doug Winfield)
• The Telerik Platform: Accelerating Your App Development Lifecycle (John Bristowe)
• An app developers guide to patent demand letters (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Neo4j Databases with Tatham Oddie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YUIConf 2013: Ariya Hidayat on Next-Generation JavaScript Language Tooling (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Yet Another Podcast #120 – Breeze Roundtable (Jesse Liberty)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Topher Grace (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 015 | OneDrive is the New SkyDrive, Cloud News and Cloud Storage Wars (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Defrag Tools: #77 – WPT Example – CPU | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder & Trey Nash)
• Ping 195: Satya is the new CEO, Super Bowl Commercial, Education Offers, Foursquare Investment, and the Olympics on Azure | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone App Promotion for Southeast USA (Bill Reiss)
• Nerd Nite at Frankford Hall: Geek Love and the Dog Star (Chris Urie)
• Internship smarts from an Israeli SDET (Ronnie Greenstein)

 

Database

• Enterprise Adoption of NoSQL (Josh Lane)
• Collect SQL Server Performance Counters and Build Reports with SSRS (Brady Upton)
• SQL SERVER – SysTools SQL Recovery Software – An Experiment to Recover Database Corruption (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI for Office 365 Released (Devin Knight)
• Should I learn PowerPivot yet? (Adam Jorgensen)
• Building an SSMS Add-In Using Redgate Ecosystem (Andy Warren)
• Jump to SQL with IntelliTrace (Tim Varcak)
• In-Memory OLTP In Depth (Ian Stirk)
• Using SQLite with Modern C++ (Kenny Kerr)

 

PowerShell

• Deploying a DACPAC with PowerShell (Deborah Kurata)
• PSBuild makes working with MSBuild.exe easier from PowerShell (Mitul Suthar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft moves closer to launching free ‘Office Online’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to know when it’s time to quit (Jack Wallen)
• Questions Job Seekers Should Ask (Carol Hacker)
• Building Your Personal Programmer Brand (John Sonmez)
• Kickstarter – Leto – Projects from the hip (Mike Vegeto)
• Binpress – The Marketplace for Open-Source Projects (Binpress)
• SSH client PuTTY moves into closed beta; available on the Windows Phone Store (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 10, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1296 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (February 7, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 11, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1545 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-11 (Dan Rigby)

 

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