Dew Drop – May 12, 2014 (#1774)

Top Links

• Hybrid App Starter Kit (Mike Bluestein)
• Windows/Phone 8.1 and XAML Apps–Making It Easier for MVVM Developers? (Mike Taulty)
• How does dependency detection work in Knockout.js? (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Video of First “Is TDD Dead” hangout on YouTube (Martin Fowler)

 

Web Development

• Watching Object Literal Expressions In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Head First JavaScript Programming Book Review (David Hayden)
• Dependent Methods (calculated fields) – a hidden goody in Kendo UI (Noel Rice)
• Day #1: Learn ASP.NET MVC 5- Adding Controller (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part 2 – Isolate Scope (Dan Wahlin)
• CSS diffs #2 (Stoyan Stefanov)
• GitHub Data In Your Website (Phil Haack)
• Efficiently Streaming Large HTTP Responses With HttpClient (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Cloud Storage, Identity, and Web Application Platform (Ariya Hidayat)
• Redis on Windows: Getting Started (Don Glover)

 

XAML

• MVVM Light Fundamentals, a Pluralsight course (Laurent Bugnion)
• Using Universal Share Projects for Windows Phone Silverlight 8.0 and 8.1 Upgrade Path (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,070 – Event Sequence for Keyboard Focus Events (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – TextBoxBase – Undo and Redo (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A simple and efficient INI File Reader in C# (Bruce Greene)
• Debugging, Profiling, IntelliTrace in VS2013 Update 2 and Tech Ed (Daniel Moth)
• Using OneNote API to count degustated beers (Gunnar Peipman)
• F#26 : Reactive Programming (Sacha Barber)
• c#|.NET Query String in Uri (Sanjay Sharma)
• How to NLog (2.1) with VisualStudio 2013 (Noctis)
• A X86/ARM Emulator with source (Greg Duncan)
• Missing EF Feature Workarounds: Encapsulated collections (Jimmy Bogard)
• XML Visualizer v.2 (Lars Hove Christiansen)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Deleting Orphans (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,094 – Positive and Negative Infinity (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Governance for Agile Projects (Ben Linders)
• Think Critically by Asking Why, What Else, and What If (J.D. Meier)
• Developer Delayed Development (Paul Hammant)
• When to Mock and Framework Bound[2] and Framework Whipped (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
• Just Enough Up-front Design (Abel Avram)
• Change the visibility of your Gists (Chad Humphries)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Studio 0.5.8 Released (Alec Noller)
• Integrating Social Media in your iOS Applications (Petros Demetrakopoulos)
• Binding to a UITableView from a ReactiveCocoa ViewModel (Colin Eberhardt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 317 – Rockford Developers on Building a Tech Community (David Giard)
• Engadget Podcast 396 – 5.9.14 (Jon Turi)
• RavenDB Conf Videos: Lap around the new HTML5 Raven Studio (Oren Eini)
• TWC9: .NET 4.5.2 Framework Released, Social Developers, QuickVB and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jennifer Morrison (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast – Episode 24: Fritz Onion (Shawn Wildermuth)
• TechEd Countdown Show: The One When We First Arrive | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• The Mobile Tech Addicts Show 11-05-14 (Gareth Myles)
• (Video/audio) Stupid Questions 274-277: What is event sourcing, aggregate roots and event bus? (Iris Classon)
• TechEd 101: An Introduction to TechEd (repeats on May 11 at 4:00pm) | TechEd North America 2014 (Joey Snow, Richard Campbell & Rick Claus)
• Get Up And Code 053: Getting Back Up (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – Reporting on Science (Part 1) (Miles O’Brien, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Chuck Nice)
• GeekWire Radio: The story of Leafly, and the market for marijuana-related startups (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Humanitarian Toolbox (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Webinar: Simplify Your Design Process with Indigo Screenparts (Jessica Skarzynski)
• Live Webinar: High-Performance Computing with C++, May 29th (Robert Demmer)

 

Database

• Introduction to the SQL Server Analysis Services Neural Network Data Mining Algorithm (Dallas Snider)
• Implement a transaction with memory optimized tables in SQL Server 2014 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• MySQL – Grouping by Multiple Columns to Single Column as A String and SQL SERVER – SELECT INTO with FileGroup or Partitionis Not Possible and SQL SERVER – What is Incremental Statistics? – Performance improvements in SQL Server 2014 – Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
• More Thoughts On The New Power BI Features (Chris Webb)
• Lest I forget… Wipe a database but retain schema (Eric Nelson)

 

PowerShell

• Extract and convert all Excel worksheets into CSV files using PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft patents reveal smartwatch features (Phone Arena Team)
• Apple hires Nokia’s Lumia photography lead (Sam Byford)
• Windows Phone 8.1 lifecycle support starts June 24th (Sam Sabri)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #115 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1353 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 9, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of May 5, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 5/10/2014 and Daily News Digest 5/12/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1606 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: May 2 to May 8 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #303 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Programming Digest #61 (Jakub Chodounsky)

 

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