Dew Drop – May 2, 2014 (#1768)

Top Links

• JavaScript’s this: how it works, where it can trip you up (Axel Rauschmayer)
• What Developers Need To Know About the Cortana API (Nick B. Martin)
• Lowering in language design, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Happy 50th Birthday, BASIC! (VB Team)

 

Web Development

• Storing Images in Azure Blob Storage in a LightSwitch Application (Beth Massi)
• The Kendo UI Q2 2014 Roadmap Is Out! (Burke Holland)
• Ignite UI + AngularJS: Now in Preview (Craig Shoemaker)
• Reading a complex XML using JQuery (Pavan Kumar Pabothu)
• Open Source Web Technologies Gone Wild! (Don Kiely)
• Node v0.10.27 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• xClassNotDerivedFromElement – Another Non-Informative XAML Parse Error (Derik Whittaker)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,064 – Limiting ViewBox to Scale in Just One Direction (Sean Sexton)
• Launch apps faster with prefetched content (Stelios Anagnostopoulos)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Incorrect hash value when installing Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Heath Stewart)
• F#23 : Generics (Sacha Barber)
• Improving Setup in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Robert Flaming)
• AMQP v1.0 approved as an International Standard (Brian Benz)
• Identifying Specific Reference Type Arrays with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,088 – How 32-Bit Floating Point Numbers Are Stored in .NET, part I (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Where is the complexity? (Simon Brown)
• The scrum board: dead on arrival (Tobias Mayer)
• Professionalism and TDD (Reprise) and Test Induced Design Damage? (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
• Practices for Agile Coaching Conversations (Ben Linders)
• The TDD Divide: Everyone is Right (Cory House)
• Professionalism and TDD in the future (Rob Ashton)
• The Proper Function of QA (Dave M. Bush)
• Money Is Time (John Sonmez)
• Defining Done: When to Crawl, Walk, or Run (Zac Gery)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Managing Errors across platforms with RayGun.io (Scott Hanselman)
• RavenDB Conf Videos: Document Based Messaging with RavenDB 3.0 (Oren Eini)
• Windows Weekly 360: Rattle and Hummus (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Sother Teague (Alton Brown)
• The Changelog 120: Ruby tooling, chruby, ruby-install, and security with Postmodern (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Edge Show 101 – Availability Monitoring with App Insights | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)

 

Database

• How to Change the COLLATION of a SQL Server Column (Ben Snaidero)
• MySQL – How to Create Stored Procedure in MySQL (Pinal Dave)
• Securing MongoDB Access with Username and Password (Tugberk Ugurlu)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1601 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1347 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Community Update 2014-05-01–#edgejs, #durandaljs, #gulp #wp8, and more #aspnet (Maxime Rouiller)
• Top Reads for April (Jaco Pretorius)

 

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