Dew Drop – May 15, 2014 (#1777)

Top Links

• CShell – A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE (Lukas Buhler)
• Just Azure – Helping you navigate and understand Microsoft Azure (cerebrata)
• Write Object-Oriented JavaScript with TypeScript (Rachel Appel)
• Update to Windows Phone 8.1 Preview for Developers (Brandon LeBlanc)

Web Development

• How To Build a Backbone Application with TypeScript, Part 1: Getting Started (Peter Vogel)
• New Preview of Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio (Beth Massi)
• New Getting-Started Resources for Azure Cloud Services and ASP.NET (Rick Anderson)
• Jest + jQuery for testing a vanilla “app” (Stoyan Stefanov)
• Building Reliable Cloud Systems on Microsoft Azure (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Redis Cache (Preview) in Microsoft Azure (Shaun Xu)

XAML

• Get Started with Windows Phone 8.1 App Development (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 8.1 helps make it easier to focus on user needs (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Universal Physics Helper XAML now available (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,073 – Attached Events (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Migrating On Premises TFS to VS Online (Brian Harry)
• F#27 : Asynchronous Workflows (Sacha Barber)
• RyuJIT CTP4 Adds Windows 7 Support (Jeff Martin)
• 2000 C# Things #1,097 – Summary of how Floating Point Numbers Are Stored in .NET (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Second Installment of “Goto Fail, Heartbleed, and Unit Testing Culture” (Martin Fowler)
• The People Factor in Agile Governance (Ben Linders)
• Debugging xUnit tests in Xamarin Studio and Mono Develop using The Debugging Trick™ (Glenn Block)
• Binding a Cloud Load Test to a data source (Charles Sterling)
• Behind the scenes: the Backlog Priority or Stack Rank field (Ewald Hofman)
• Evidence-based Management: Gathering the metrics (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Nested task lists (Matt Todd)

Other Mobile Platforms

• HTPressableButton – an Open Source iOS Component For Creating Great Looking Customizable Animated Buttons (Mark Petherbridge)
• Get More Ratings for your Apps (James Montemagno)
• Building A Video Streaming App: A Review of LeaseWeb’s CDN (Jon Flanders)
• What’s New with Azure Mobile Services for Spring 2014 (Matt Harrington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 146 (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 269 – PowerScripting Podcast – U.S. PowerShell Summit Recap (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 131 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• 108 JSJ AngularJS with Igor Minar (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Jefferies Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• RiYL Episode 053: Marc Maron (Again) (Brian Heater)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 5 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)

Community / Events

• Microsoft brings big data to life at SQL Server 2014 launch (Rich Edmonds)
• Join us at a //Publish/ Event (Larry Lieberman)
• Geek of the Week: Eric Bresler, Director of PhilaMOCA, Founder of Cinedelphia (Mike Covers)

Database

• Change Sort Options on Dimension Attributes in SQL Server Analysis Services (Dallas Snider)
• SQL SERVER – SSIS Look Up Component – Cache Mode – Notes from the Field #028 (Pinal Dave)
• Scaling SQL Server in Azure (Simon Sabin)
• Quick Tips–SQL Prompt Formatting (Steve Jones)

PowerShell

• PowerShell module management as a native feature is here! (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

• How does Microsoft compete in this new world? (Rockford Lhotka)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1356 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading May 14, 2014 and Geek Reading May 15, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1609 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 5/15/2014 (Silverlight Show)

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