Dew Drop – February 28, 2014 (#1733)

Top Links

• RyuJIT CTP2: Getting Ready for Prime-time (Mani Ramaswamy)
• New JSON editor features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 (Anh Phan)
• Baby Steps with Xamarin–Part 3 (Mike Taulty)
• SemanticMerge – The diff and merge tool that understands C# and Java (SemanticMerge)

 

Web Development

• Using GruntJS to Bundle and Minify JavaScript and CSS (Chris Love)
• JavaScript Shortcuts (Kevin Babcock)
• JavaScript String: substring, substr, slice (Ariya Hidayat)
• Kendo UI Q1 2014 Beta Available Now! (Brandon Satrom)
• Windows Azure Evolves Features (Bryan Group)
• TypeScript 1.0 RC announced (Bill Wagner)
• Chrome 34: Responsive Images and Unprefixed Web Audio (Raymond Toy)
• Check Out Atom, Github’s New Development Editor (Rey Bango)
• Some Basic Azure Table Storage Abstractions (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,019 – Constraining a Slider to Integer Values (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Validating email addresses in .NET – Handy Tip (Dean Hume)
• Entity Framework projections to Immutable Types (IEnumerable vs IQueryable) (Dan)
• Research30 Most Popular 3rd-Party Controls for .NET Applications (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Top Cheat Sheets for Developers (DevToolsGuy)
• Reducing NServiceBus Saga load (Jimmy Bogard)
• Seq “Log Query of the Day” #1 – Text (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Source Indexing FSharp.Compiler.Service on AppVeyor (Cameron Taggart)
• What does the SEE_MASK_UNICODE flag in ShellExecuteEx actually do? (Raymond Chen)
• The CodeRush Community Plugin Site and New CodeRush Plugin – Introduce Local (All Arguments) and New CodeRush Plugin Template – NewAction (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,043 – Deriving from a Self-Referencing Constructed Type, part II (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Choosing Metrics for Agile Practice (Ian Mitchell)
• 24 cloud design patterns and 10 related guidance topics, one eBook – “Cloud Design Patterns” (PDF, ePub) (Greg Duncan)
• Are You Agile When You’re Going Fast? (Jurgen Appelo)
• First meaningful activity. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Time series feature design: The Consensus has dRafted a decision (Oren Eini)
• A Spectrum of Trust (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
• Releasing Update 3 for Indigo Studio (v2) (George Abraham)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Setting Up Cordova (PhoneGap) for Development on Windows Machines (John Ptacek)
• How to Make Android Development Less Frustrating (Alec Noller)
• Telerik Mobile Testing – Android Case Study (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Removing Obsolete “Cordova-based (pre 2.0)” Template from Xcode (Troy Miles)
• Getting Started With Kendo UI Mobile in AppBuilder (Jim Cowart)
• Creating a custom column for the IGGridView (ObjectiveC) (Darrell Kress)
• NSString – Objective-C Class Reference (Nick Hanan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 387 – 2.27.14 (Jon Turi)
• Hanselminutes – Getting Started with JavaScript Unit Testing with Jasmine and Rushaine McBean (Scott Hanselman)
• Front-End Developer Cast Episode 1 | Backbone.js and Marionette.js w/ Derick Bailey (Craig McKeachie)
• Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore and Nick Parker discuss Windows and Windows Phone (FULL) (Microsoft News Center)
• SSW TV – JavaScript for C# Devs with Tatham Oddie [Part 1] and JavaScript for C# Devs with Tatham Oddie [Part 2] (SSW Team)
• Windows Weekly 351: I’m Just Typing Words (Paul Thurrott)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 8, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• GoingNative 23: Introducing Shared Mutex in C++14 | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• Defrag: Compatibility Series Part 2 | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Xbox One Hosting Event at SXSW and on Twitch March 10; Over 6,000 Titanfall Launch Celebrations Planned Worldwide (Xbox Wire)
• Join us at Game Developers Conference 2014! (Greg Hartrell)
• 10 Years of Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft Case Studies – Humanitarian Toolbox (Microsoft)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – 28 Links for Learning SQL Wait Stats from Beginning (Pinal Dave)
• Add Column Descriptions in SQL Server (Timothy Klenke)
• Big Data Basics – Part 4 – Introduction to HDFS (Dattatrey Sindol)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – SSRS Inventory – Automatic – Excel File – EMAIL (Prashanth Jayaram)
• Introducing TfsManager Some PowerShell cmdlets to work with Tfs (Mitul Suthar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Awesome Netflix/Fitbit Hack Detects When You’ve Fallen Asleep, Auto-Pauses Your Movie (Greg Kumparak)
• Deal/Day: Celebrate Raspberry Pi’s Birthday + Save 50% on Ebooks and Videos (Includes 5 *new* ebooks!) (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2014 02.01 ~ 02.28 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #1558 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 27, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 27, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1308 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 28, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-02-28 (Dan Rigby)

 

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