Dew Drop – March 6, 2014 (#1737)

Top Links

• Shrink my Program Database (PDB) file (Ankit Asthana)
• How to debug small programs (Eric Lippert)
• Browse the .NET Reference Source | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Incrementally shrinking a large SQL Server data file using PowerShell (Richard Vantrease)

 

Web Development

• Automatically removing unused CSS using Grunt (Dean Hume)
• Underscore: LINQ (almost) for JavaScript (Jesse Liberty)
• Tips for working with JSON APIs in JavaScript (Kyle Rush)
• Convert LINQ to MongoDB queries to JavaScript shell (Michael Kennedy)
• Javascript without the this (Pete Hodgson)
• Perf Test your jQuery Selectors using jsPerf (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Conditional Statements: If, Else, and Switch and For, While, and Do…While Loops in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Simple Azure Web Sites deployment (David Ebbo)
• Binding Complex Objects to an igGrid Column Template (Craig Shoemaker)

 

XAML

• Developing Apps for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.1 Using Windows Phone App Studio (Anindita Basak)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,023 – Displaying a Tooltip that Shows the Value of a Slider (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Text Input Controls – PasswordBox (Richard Carr)
• “Location Intelligence for Windows Store” the free eBook… (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft-Backed F# Language Surges in Popularity (Paul Krill)
• Visual Studio Tip: Delete a Line (Peter Vogel)
• A Windows 8.1 C# Code Snip Sheet, Vol 1… (Greg Duncan)
• F#6 : Tuples (Sacha Barber)
• When should I use exception? (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Introducing C# Pad (Sunny Ahuwanya)
• Instance counting with Autofac (Per-Olof Bondesson)
• 2000 C# Things #1,047 – The Implicit Identity Conversion (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Scrum of Scrums with Agile Teams to Coordinate and Collaborate (Ben Linders)
• Tracking Agile Velocity (George Dinwiddie)
• Faster realization of business value, some thoughts on Models and CodeGen. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Grow Up. Use Queues. (Karl Seguin)
• UX: Disruptive user experiences are industry game changers (Mitch Harpur)
• Advice for the New Tech Lead: The Realities of Distributed Development (Avishek Sen Gupta)
• What does Antifragility mean? (Ralf Westphal)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building an iOS UI using JSON (Lance Bullock)
• Objective-C: Validate e-mail address (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Modern Apps and ALM with David Chappell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget HD Podcast 388 – 3.5.14 (Jon Turi)
• What the Tech 203: Windows Bing Edition (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Crispin Glover (Chris Hardwick)
• 099 JSJ npm, Inc. with Isaac Schlueter, Laurie Voss, and Rod Boothby (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The new Office: Identity, Activation and Data Access with a User-based Office | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• RiYL Episode 043: Doug Gillard (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Phil Le of PhillyCHI (Dustin)
• Craziest Entrepreneur Challenge: Can 3 Devs Make $100 Each In 24 Hours? (2 of 3) and Craziest Entrepreneur Challenge: Can 3 Devs Make $100 Each In 24 Hours? (3 of 3) (John Sonmez)
• Interview With Peter Cooper (Rey Bango)
• Angle Brackets (Rob Eisenberg)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Performance Statistic Collection – Notes from the Field #018 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Session State – Tips & Tricks Series (Greg Galipeau)
• New content for SharePoint developers: Infographics! (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• Create SharePoint 2013 site collection with Powershell (Greg Galipeau)

 

Miscellaneous

• Can you have too much experience on your resume? (Jack Wallen)
• Puppet Enterprise 3.2 Brings Fully Supported Modules (João Miranda)
• Review: A tale of three Lenovo Laptops – X1 Carbon Touch, ThinkPad Yoga, IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, March 5, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 5, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1562 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 6, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/6/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1312 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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