Dew Drop – May 1, 2014 (#1767)

Top Links

• “It’s just a software issue”- Edge.js brings Node and .NET together on three platforms (Scott Hanselman)
• Get your libraries ready for Windows Phone 8.1 (Immo Landwerth)
• An history of 11 years of XAML stacks (Jeremy Alles)
• C# vNext language design – private protected – FamilyAndAssembly (Paulo Morgado)

 

Web Development

• Why I Prefer AngularJS vs. KnockoutJS (Andrew Connell)
• Improving UI Animation Workflow with Velocity.js (Chris Coyier)
• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part I – The Fundamentals (Dan Wahlin)
• AngularJS & Kendo UI using Angular Kendo with ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API & OData (Long Le)
• Node.js Technology and How to Use It (Natalia Pankova)
• PuppetLabs Announces Deeper Integration with Microsoft Azure (Carlos Sanchez)
• Canonical URLs in IIS without breaking localhost debugging (Dave Ward)

 

XAML

• Troubleshooting Windows Phone 8.1 Screen Projection (Michael Cummings)
• A screen-size independent scroll-into-view pane for Windows Phone and Windows Store apps (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,063 – ViewBox Stretching Options (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Desktop Development Platform Advancements: Notes BUILD 2014 (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio – Why should I remove unused references? (Dean Hume)
• LINQ Aggregate Operator: You Don’t Need It Until You Need It! (Rachel Hagerman)
• The Case Of Slow Visual Studio Startup (Alois Kraus)
• Test Categories for Visual C++ (Ade Miller)
• Identifying Specific Reference Type Arrays with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,087 – Representing Binary Floating Point Numbers Using Scientific Notation (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test Induced Design Damage? (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
• TIL: Arrowhead Anti-Pattern (Jim Holmes)
• Configure MTM 2013 to run automated tests (Raffaele Garofalo)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Quick Tip: Take a ScreenShot at Different Resolutions (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Please Sign Here: Open Source Signature Component (Mike Bluestein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – VB6 to .NET Migration with Francesco Balena (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 190: Rob Ashton on NodeJS vs C#, Clojure and Cooking Constraints (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, Kevin Dente & K. Scott Allen)
• Engadget HD Podcast 396 – 4.30.14 (Jon Turi)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 129 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• RavenDB Conf Videos: RavenDB, CQRS and EventSourcing: easy peasy (Oren Eini)
• Windows Weekly 360: Rattle and Hummus (Paul Thurrott)
• 106 JSJ Protractor with Julie Ralph (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Defrag: Windows To Go License, Setting Windows 8 Modern DPI, VC++ redists, Undocking laptops and more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• SOA and Cloud – Part 3 (Oracle Tech Network)

 

Community / Events

• Exciting Times at Xamarin University! (Bryan Costanich)
• Kick off May with a Mobile C# Meetup (James Montemagno)
• Geek of the Week: Restauranteur and Comic Book Writer Gigio Longo (David Goodman)
• The Gender Wage Gap Is Real, Complicated and a Problem (Bryce Covert)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Synchronize Data Exclusively with T-SQL and SQL SERVER – Good Value for Page Life Expectancy – Notes from the Field #026 (Pinal Dave)
• Displaying Help For A Power Query Function (Chris Webb)
• Shrinking tempdb no longer prohibited (Paul Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Office 365 hybrid and search – presenting results from both on-premises and SharePoint Online sites (Chris O’Brien)
• Deploy A LightSwitch Application To Office 365 / SharePoint Online (Michael Washington)

 

PowerShell

• Learning PowerShell – Using PowerShell Community Extensions (Gregor Suttie)
• Understanding Azure Custom Script Extension (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Making Smart Search Smarter (Bing Relevance Team)
• What is a technical evangelist? (Laura Frias Carrillo)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2014 04.01 ~ 04.30 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading April 30, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1346 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 4/30/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Coding4Fun April 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-01 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1600 (Chris Alcock)
• Community Update 2014-04-30 – #angularjs event bus, #toastr, #webapi, new JSON.NET and more (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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