Dew Drop – June 9, 2014 (#1793)

Top Links

• Durandal 2.1.0 Released! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 8.1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Basic Comparison of C# and Apple Swift Programming Language Syntax and Basic Comparison of Functions in C# and Apple Swift Programming Language (Chris Pietschmann)
• TWC9: Visual Studio “14” CTP Episode | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Normalizing Less CSS Mixin Arguments For Use In JavaScript Variable Interpolation (Ben Nadel)
• Crossfade.js : jQuery plugin for Crossfading Images (jQuery Rain)
• KendoNg–Part 2–Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Real-Time Chat With Node.js’ Readline & Socket.io (Matt Harzewski)
• The ECMAScript 6 schedule changes (Axel Rauschmayer)
• SPDY coming to Safari, future versions of IE (Billy Hoffman)
• How to Improve SEO for a SPA Using a .NET Back-End? (Diganta Kumar)
• Google Analytics Debugger 2 (Keith Clark)
• Learning Paths for MCSD: Web Applications (Mike Woodring)

 

XAML

• How to connect your Windows Phone 8 & 8.1 app to Yammer (Marco Siccardi)
• XAML: ViewModels, ICommands in Dictionaries (Mike Taulty)
• Rating control for Windows Phone 8.1 Apps (Peter Freeman Foot)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,089 – Adding a Parameter to a Command (Sean Sexton)
• XAML Spy–A Must Have Utility For Windows phone Developers (and Windows Store, Xamarin.Forms) (Zubair Ahmed)
• WPF Selection Controls – RadioButton (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How To Simplify Asynchronous Programming with Await and Async (Peter Vogel)
• Paper notes: A Study and Toolkit for Asynchronous Programming in C# (Jef Claes)
• Final Thoughts on Nuget and Some Initial Impressions on the new KVM (Jeremy D. Miller)
• C++14 STL Features, Fixes, And Breaking Changes In Visual Studio 14 CTP1 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
• Search and Filter in Solution Explorer (Latish Sehgal)
• Get hacking with the new Kinect for Windows (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Heap Allocations Viewer plugin (Matt Ellis)
• 2000 C# Things #1,113 – Addition of Integers Using Twos Complement (Sean Sexton)
• Tricky situation with EF and Include while projecting (Select / SelectMany) (Vincent Grondin)
• Link-time code generation invalidates a lot of classical assumptions about linking (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 1 … Normali[s|z]ed estimations? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Heisenberg Developers (Mike Hadlow)
• Handling State in Automated Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Remote Work Book Recommendations (Daniel Fisher)
• Team Foundation Server on Azure IaaS Guidance (Brian Harry)
• Error importing the result file after a load test run (Charles Sterling)
• Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance (Visual) and Engineer Your Own Luck (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Part 4 – Adding Interactions and Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Part 5 – Async image loading and caching (Mark Petherbridge)
• Fresh Updates to Azure Mobile Services .NET (Henrik F Nielsen)
• Swift Cheat Sheet (Mark Petherbridge)
• Why Swift? (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 321 – Peter Leeson on Organizational Change (David Giard)
• Episode 272 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steve Hall & Alan Sharp-Paul from ScriptRock (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 512: Xbox One System Update and E3 Prep and Phil Spencer on the eve of E3 2014 (Larry Hryb)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 227: G3 IOS8 Mega 7.0 S5 (Gareth Myles)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Cruise (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 213:M Yosemite Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 28: Rachel Appel (Shawn Wildermuth)
• NDC Oslo Videos Are Online (Brian Schroer)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 14 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Get Up And Code 057: Realistic Expectations (John Sonmez)
• Temp Tables vs Table Variables vs Memory Optimized Table Variables [Video] (Kendra Little)
• StarTalk Radio – A Conversation with Seth MacFarlane (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Behind the scenes of the Internet with F5 CEO John McAdam (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin’s First Developer Evangelism Intern (Pierce Boggan)
• Rev up your Startup with BizSpark (Doris Chen)
• .NET Developers Making A Difference (Kerry Meade)

 

Database

• Quick Guide to Upgrading to SQL Server 2014 (Dallas Snider)
• MySQL – Introduction to CONCAT and CONCAT_WS functions and SQL SERVER – How to Recover SQL Database Data Deleted by Accident (Pinal Dave)
• Using DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS When Testing Performance (Ben Snaidero)
• Power BI Security Overview (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• Building Dilbert SharePoint Hosted App with VS2013 & AngularJS (Drasko Popovic)
• Implementing Documents in a SharePoint 2013 Cloud Business App (LightSwitch) (Michael Washington)

 

PowerShell

• Automate Backups using PowerShell (Gregor Suttie)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why not Surface 2? (Joe Wilcox)
• Introducing OneNote Clipper for Chrome and Springpad to OneNote migration tool (OneNote Team)
• Grinding my Gears – Being the coolest server dude/dudette around (Pete O’Hanlon)
• 4 steps to managing technology overload (Ron Schindler)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, June 6, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 6, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1367 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #119 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Morning Brew #1625 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/6/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: May 30 to June 5 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #307 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #65 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Great Content from Our Community (Pierce Boggan)

 

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