February 2014 – Page 2 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 25, 2014 (#1730)

Posted on February 25, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

A new look for .NET Reference Source (Alok Shriram)
Exploring the new .Net Reference Source Code and Dissecting the new .Net Reference Source Browser (Schabse Laks)
Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source (Scott Hanselman)
Nokia X – HERE for C# developers with Xamarin (Chris Hardy)

Web Development

Customizing the MVC Views of the Falafel Dashboard Widgets for Sitefinity (Josh Morales)
AngularJS IndexedDB Demo (Raymond Camden)
Float Labels with CSS (Chris Coyier)
Simple Delete Confirmation in ASP.NET MVC (Dave Paquette)
[Webinar Recording] Node.js Development Workflow (Ekaterina Prigara)
Symfony 2: The Basics (Andrew Perkins)

XAML

Tutorials: How to Build and Port Unity Games to Windows Store and Windows Phone? (Doris Chen)
Notification Hubs Plus Mobile Services for Sending Windows Phone Notifications from a .NET Backend Service (Glenn Gailey)
2000 WPF Things #1,016 – Displaying a Collection of Items in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
Get creative with Nokia Imaging SDK 1.1 (Luke)
Swapped a ListBox for a LongListSelector and now the items don’t show? (Matt Lacey)

Miscellaneous .NET

Deploying Static Content to Azure Storage with Visual Studio Online Build (Nathan Totten)
Code in the Cloud Using Visual Studio Online (Rachel Appel)
Bing Code Search In Visual Studio 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Exploring F# through modeling #2 (Per Ökvist)
F# For Beginners Series and F# 1 : Hello World (Sacha Barber)
Troubleshooting WCF Services during Runtime with WMI (Ido Flatow)
Understanding Sorting (Filip Ekberg)
Logging the contents of every message box dialog via automation (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,040 – Deriving from a Constructed Type (Sean Sexton)
Should I await on Task.FromResult Method Calls? (Tugberk Ugurlu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Budget instead of estimating (Gojko Adzic)
Agile Testing with Visual Studio 2012 (Gouri Sohoni)
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – A Review (Peter Saddington)
Don’t sell me agile, solve my problem (Tim Wise)
Test Driven Specifications (Dave M. Bush)
Time series feature design: Replication (Oren Eini)
Special Report: State of Testing 2013 (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
Metrics that matter with evidence-based management (Martin Hinshelwood)
Understanding Risk in Your Project Portfolio (Mike Cottmeyer)

Other Mobile Platforms

Voice Throwing with Python and Android (Mike Riley)
Cordova 3.4.0 Released (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Stack Exchange Podcast #55 – Don’t Call It A Comeback (Abby T. Miller)
.NET Rocks! – Enterprise SharePoint with Hilton Giesenow (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 120 (Richard Hay)
How to browse the .NET Reference Source | .NET Framework (Immo Landwerth & Alok Shriram)
The Nerdist Podcast – St. Vincent (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 017 | News, Migration and the future of InfoPath (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Defrag Tools: #79 – Microsoft Consulting Services | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder & STEVETH)
Ping 197: Breaking records for nonprofits, Officially OneDrive, Nokia Treasure Tag, New Bing Apps, and ZOMBIES! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

Community / Events

Agile 2014 Keynote Speakers Announced (Shane Hastie)
The Garage: Microsoft’s “Central Park” (Aimee Riordan)
Blog Post: PASS Summit 2014 – Call for Speakers (Colin Stasiuk)
4 reasons to join Microsoft right now (Richard Fulford)

Database

MySQL – Profiler : A Simple and Convenient Tool for Profiling SQL Queries (Pinal Dave)
Allocation in Power Query (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

PowerShell – Export SQL Data to Excel with Powershell (Prashanth Jayaram)
Example with Speech API: How to use .Net and COM objects in PowerShell & reference assemblies (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous

Simultaneously capturing video from two (or more) web cams with Microsoft Expression Encoder (Zubair Ahmed)
App-pocalypse Now (Jeff Atwood)
Why We Need More Complex Programming Languages (Yes, You Heard Me Right!) (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 24, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1305 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1555 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 2/25/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-25 (Dan Rigby)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #72 (Jason Strate)

The Geek Shelf

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter): Susan Weinschenk: 9780321767530: Books

ISBN: 0321767535
ISBN-13: 9780321767530

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Dew Drop – February 24, 2014 (#1729)

Posted on February 24, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Nokia X and X+ announced, runs Android apps and Nokia XL announced, 5-inch display and Android apps in one package and Nokia announces BBM and Photoshop Express for Windows Phone (Sam Sabri)
Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 (Joe Belfiore)
Microsoft killed my Pappy (Scott Hanselman)
VS Online early adopter program extended to May 7, 2014 (Brian Harry)

Web Development

Angular Inside SVG Inside HTML (Paul Hammant)
Remove unused CSS in your Web Application (Dean Hume)
Usage monitoring with Application Insights JavaScript SDK Update (Charles Sterling)
Vagrant Improvements in latest PhpStorm Update (Maarten Balliauw)
SQLAuthority News – 4 Whitepapers on Windows Azure (Pinal Dave)
Using CSS Transitions to SlideUp and SlideDown (Rick Strahl)
Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend (Shiju)
Sublime Text Multiple Cursors: Getting OSX out of the Way (Howard Dierking)
#WindowsAzure Lessons Learned : Be Stateful (Alexandre Brisebois)
Running the OWIN pipeline in the new .NET Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
Xbox One controller in Chrome on OSX (Brandon Jones)
How To Properly Dynamically Load a Store With Data in Sencha ExtJS and In Sencha ExtJS how not to Thrash Precious Memory with Popup Forms (Peter Kellner)
How to use Handlebars (Sara Vieira)
ES6Fiddle – jsFiddle for ECMAScript 6 (ES6Fiddle Team)
Roll Your Own HTML5 Web Components With Vanilla JS (Chris Nelson)

XAML

Writing a Windows Phone 8 Application that uses the Windows Azure Management Libraries for on-the-go Cloud Management (Brady Gaster)
Editing Visual States in Blend with Render Transform Mode (Andreas Hammar)
Google maps in WPF with WebBrowser and Google Maps API v3 (apis3445)
Windows 8 Metro UI For Websites:Toast Notifications (Arpit Jain)
Verifying your Xaml localization tags (Johan Olsson)
2000 WPF Things #1,015 – Typing Text to Select an Item in a ComboBox, Part III (Sean Sexton)
[Sample Of Feb 23rd] How to operate table storage from Windows Store apps by using Windows Azure Mobile Services (Philip Fu)
Add a persistent element to every page of your phone apps (Shawn Kendrot)

Miscellaneous .NET

CodeMaid extension for visual studio (Jalpesh Vadgama)
Obtaining the User’s Domain and User Name (Richard Carr)
Image Correlation Math Utilities in C# (Bary Nusz)
Simple.Web F# Project IPathUtility Fix (James D’Angelo)
[Sample Of Feb 20th] How to use both User Name and Client Certificate as client credentials in WCF (Philip Fu)
Extending Visual Studio, part 3: Assembly Versioning (Schabse Laks)
C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (5/n) (Sanjay Sharma)
New in PostSharp 3.2: Aggregation and Composition Patterns (Gael Fraiteur)
Visual Basic .NET Sees Popularity Hike (David Ramel)
Asset Bundling in NancyFx – Part 3 and Asset Bundling in NancyFx – Part 4 (Mike Ward)
Why C++? (Eric Battalio)
How can I make sure my program is launched only from my helper program and no other parent? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,039 – Deriving from a Generic Class (Sean Sexton)
Sample App: Syncfusion and CodeFluent Entities (Marissa K.)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Most software developers are not architects (Simon Brown)
Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture (Anders Abel)
Power Hours + Creative Hours = The Productive Artist (JD Meier)
Strategic DDD in a nutshell (Jef Claes)

Other Mobile Platforms

EF6 on Xamarin: Progress (or lack thereof) (Eric Sink)
Using Portable Class Libraries in iOS and Android Apps (Greg Shackles)
Cordova 3.4 Embraces Firefox OS (Abel Avram)
AndroidAnnotations setup in Android Studio (Hannes Gruber)
Talking to Chromecast from iOS (James Turner)
Create an Asynchronous URL connection as an NSOperation (Damien DeVille)
Native vs HTML5 – You’re Asking The Wrong Question (Burke Holland)
Winning with better maps: new Mobile SDK for Business (Renu Rayasam)
Constants in Objective C (Vasilica Costescu)
Special offer for Unity3D Devs Targeting Windows (Michael Cummings)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 306 – David Chappell on Barriers to the Cloud (David Giard)
MNR 501: More on the Titanfall Beta (Larry Hyrb)
TWC9: Helios, Bing Code Search Extension, Azure Symbol Set and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
SSW’s FireBootCamp – Week 2 in review video (Scrum Sprint Reviews) (SSW Team)
Episode 132: Windows Azure Traffic Manager | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
Hello World Podcast Episode 13: K. Scott Allen (Shawn Wildermuth)
Get Up And Code 42: Farewell Iris (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
SSW TV – #NoEstimates – Stop lying to yourself and your customers, and stop estimating – Gerard Beckerleg (SSW Team)
StarTalk Radio – Mythbusters (Part 2) (StarTalk Radio)

Community / Events

Coding in the Cloud: Attend a Windows Azure Dev Camp (Bob Familiar)
Mobile World Congress, Microsoft and Nokia (Jeffrey Meisner)
New England GiveCamp 2014 (Jim O’Neil)
Ever wonder how big the .NET and Python communities are? (Michael Kennedy)
What’s cooking in the ALM Rangers home? (Willy-P. Schaub)

Database

Avoid using NOLOCK on SQL Server UPDATE and DELETE statements (Aaron Bertrand)
Blog Post: Rebuild all indexes on all tables in the SQL Server database (Basit A. Farooq)
SQL SERVER – Contest Post – Notes from the Field – Learning Performance Tuning and Database Health and SQLAuthority News – Two Whitepapers from AzureCAT Team on SQL Database (Pinal Dave)
Power BI Error – Provider Microsoft.Mashup.OleDb.1 is not registered and Power BI – Overview of Features End-to-End (Melissa Coates)
Blog Post: Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL (Mike Davis)

SharePoint

Office 365 SharePoint hybrid – what you DO and DO NOT get (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

Texting Yourself Sports Alerts with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Open Specifications Posters v2 released (Think “Wow, that’s allot of spec’s” Posters) (Greg Duncan)
What Microsoft’s change in leadership means for developers (Paul Ballard)
paint.net 4.0 beta (build 5168) is now available! (Rick Brewster)
Windows 8 UX designer on Metro: “It is the antithesis of a power user” (Steven Johns)
Nokia says its new Android phones will create a ‘gateway to Microsoft’ (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, February 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 23, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1304 (Mike Gunderloy)
Pie in the Sky (February 21st, 2014) (Larry Franks)
Collective #104 (Mary Lou)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1554 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: February 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
The Web Weekly – Edition 6 (Dan Wahlin)
Daily News Digest 2/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #129 (Frank)
Reblog: February 14 to February 20 (Jason Strate)
Friday Links #292 (Mike Ward)
.NET Weekly Digest #51 (Jakub Chodounský)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-24 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience: Rex Hartson, Pardha Pyla: 9780123852410: Books

ISBN: 0123852412
ISBN-13: 9780123852410

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Dew Drop – February 21, 2014 (#1728)

Posted on February 21, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Azure: ExpressRoute Dedicated Networking, Web Site Backup Restore, Mobile Services .NET support, Hadoop 2.2, and more (Scott Guthrie)
C# Code Writing Tips from Eric Lippert: Math is Hard; Let’s Go Shopping! (Eric Lippert)
New UI and capabilities for Windows Phone App Studio Beta developers (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
Using Claims in your Web App is Easier with the new OWIN Security Components (Daniel Roth)

Web Development

Why Don’t You Practice Test First Development? (Dave M. Bush)
Introducing WinJS TouchControls (David Washington)
Vagrant Improvements in latest PhpStorm Update (Maarten Balliauw)
Headroom.js Gives Your Pages Some Room to Breathe (Paul Underwood)
Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend (Shiju Varghese)
Edge Show 91 – Windows Azure Pack with Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (Symon Perriman)
TypeScript & Visual Studio 2013: Coming of Age (Peter Vogel)
Getting a Document or TreeNode from a URL (John Bubriski)
Chess.com Makes First Move with Awesome Developer Program (Derry Birkett)
Running the OWIN pipeline in the new .NET Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
Debugging With the Firefox DevTools (Raymond Camden)

XAML

2000 WPF Things #1,014 – Typing Text to Select an Item in a ComboBox, Part II (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Detecting Mouse Wheel Movement (Richard Carr)
Introducing ReSharper 8.2 EAP (Matt)
Create an Asynchronous URL connection as an NSOperation (Damien DeVille)
Automatically Embed Copy Local Assemblies with Symbols in MSBuild (Harry Singleton)
[Sample Of Feb 20th] How to use both User Name and Client Certificate as client credentials in WCF (Philip Fu)
Diagnosing a Non-Paged Pool Leak with Asynchronous I/O (Sasha Goldshtein)
C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (5/n) (Sanjay Sharma)
Asset Bundling in NancyFx – Part 2 (Mike Ward)
Seven step guide to whipping up your WiX setup (Greg Duncan)
A Look At NServiceBus Sagas (Sacha Barber)
2000 C# Things #1,038 – Type Parameter Constraints on Generic Methods (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Most software developers are not architects (Simon Brown)
Logging & Production systems (Oren Eini)
Code reviews and bad habits (Benjamin Pollack)

Other Mobile Platforms

A Collection of Useful adb Commands for Android (Alec Noller)
Native and Managed Plugins for Windows 8 and Apache Cordova (Jesse Freeman)
Android Studio 0.4.5 breaks existing builds, here’s the fix (Jim Wilson)
Faster App Testing With Appery.io Tester for iOS and Android (Max Katz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes – Creating a Mac emulator using JavaScript with James Friend (Scott Hanselman)
The Nerdist Podcast – Kit Harington (Chris Hardwick)
The Alton Browncast – Mike Martin (Alton Brown)
Boagworld – Forming your digital team (Paul Boag)
Windows Weekly 350 – OneDrive to Rule Them All (Sam Sabri)
SSW TV – #NoEstimates – Stop lying to yourself and your customers, and stop estimating – Gerard Beckerleg (SSW Team)

Community / Events

Free ALM Webinars from Northwest Cadence (Charles Sterling)
Seven Conversations Overheard at DeveloperWeek 2014 (Mark Boyd)
From Picnik to PicMonkey: How these entrepreneurs rebuilt one of Seattle’s hottest startups (Taylor Soper)

Database

The Evolution of SQL Server Instrumentation (Kendra Little)
SQL SERVER – Statistical Analysis in SQL Server – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
SQLite on Mobile Devices – Feel (Eric Sink)

PowerShell

#Microsoft Windows #PowerShell Networking Guide for #ITPRO #MVPBUZZ (James van den Berg)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft officially rebrands Office Web Apps as ‘Office Online’ (Mary Jo Foley)
Erlang – Hot Code Loading on Nodes For Dummies (Keith Elder)
20 Resources for Teaching Kids How to Program & Code (Séverine Baron)
Apple has Siri, and Microsoft is about to get Cortana (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1303 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1553 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-21 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: February 21, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 2/21/2014 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Steve Krug: 9780321965516: Books

ISBN: 0321965515
ISBN-13: 9780321965516

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