Dew Drop – February 20, 2014 (#1727)

Top Links

• Hello Biggy (Rob Conery)
• “Everybody Lies” (Eric Lawrence)
• Blend for VS2013 Windows Phone SketchFlow Templates (Greg Duncan)
• Cross Platform Development With Xamarin | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Ember.js – reduceComputed and Property Brace Expansion (Paul Cowan)
• Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 – Address Book HTML Sample (Beth Massi)
• Tutorial: Using MongoDB, Windows Communication Foundation, OData, and PowerBI to build a Business Intelligence solution on Windows Azure (Brian Benz)
• What the Kendo UI MVC Server Wrappers Are and Why You Should Be Using Them – Part 1 (James Bender)
• Book Review: Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript (Dustin Marx)
• #WindowsAzure Lessons Learned – Continuous Services Require Continuous Attention (Alexandre Brisebois)
• How I Work Around The require(“../../../../../../../”) Problem In NodeJS (Derick Bailey)
• Creating Theme-Specific Overrides in Ext JS (Lee Boonstra)
• Who wrote that blob? (Mike Stall)
• Distributed Automated Browser Testing with Selenium and BrowserStack (Scott Hanselman)

 

XAML

• How to tame WebBrowser control on Windows Phone 8 (Christian Jacobsen)
• How to build a custom Application Bar for your Windows Phone app (the easy way) (Marco Siccardi)
• [Sample Of Feb 19th] How to list songs and read/write their properties in WP8 (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,013 – Typing Text to Select an Item in a ComboBox (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Script Bundling in NancyFx (Mike Ward)
• Typemock Isolator++ Updated with 64 bit Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Converting AutoMapper to a Portable Class Library (Jimmy Bogard)
• When will the static control automatically delete the image loaded into it, and when is it the responsibility of the application? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,037 – Specifying Type Parameter Constraints for More than One Type Parameter (Sean Sexton)
• Asynchronous Predicates, Actions and Funcs (Shawn Kendrot)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Resources to Train Your Team about Unit Testing (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• How Team Members Learn From Each Other in Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• Article: The Kanban Survivability Agenda (Mike Burrows)
• What does TDD have to do with Star Trek? (Wolfram Kriesing)
• Time series feature design: Querying over large data sets (Oren Eini)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Should I Consider an Open Source or a Commercial UI Library for my Next iOS App? (Michael Crump)
• How to Create the Native Tick Sound on Button Click with PhoneGap (Pieter de Rycke)
• Using the Mobile Emulation Mode in Chrome (Isaac Haynes)
• Awesome Azure Mobile Services (Marc LaFleur)
• Introducing Telerik Mobile Testing (Robert Shoemate)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 134: Minecraft Raspberry Pi (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Umbraco with Benjamin Howarth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 097 JSJ Gulp.js with Eric Schoffstall (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer (Chris Hardwick)
• The new Office: Who Moved My MSI? | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Bill Buxton and Jeff Han – Part 3 of 4 | Microsoft Research Luminaries and Defrag: Compatibility Series Part 1 | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 201: Martin Thompson on Mechanical Sympathy (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Cross-Platform Data Visualization for Mobile with ShinobiControls and Xamarin (Mike Bluestein)
• 2013 Stack Overflow User Survey Results (Alison Sperling)
• Geek of the Week: DJ John Burke (Mary E. Brickthrower)
• 2014: The Year of Craft Beer; A List of Local Events (Michelle Cryder)
• Why did an open source guy pick Microsoft? (Mohamed Mansour)
• Two New Philly User Groups (Andy Schwam)
• Windows Phone DVLUP Global Campaign Lessons Learned (Bill Reiss)
• Windows Azure Training Events– San Francisco Bay Area (Neil Mackenzie)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Finding the Last Backup for All Databases – Notes from the Field #016 (Pinal Dave)
• If You Plan to Publish A SQL Script–Some Suggestions (Andy Warren)
• Finding and Terminating Long-Running Operations in MongoDB (Chris Chang)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why culture trumps everything else in hiring (Aaron Skonnard)
• VLC Media Player for Windows 8.1 Release Imminent (Nazmus Shakib Khandaker)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 18, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 19, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 20, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #1303 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1552 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-20 (Dan Rigby)

 

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