Dew Drop – June 11, 2014 (#1795)

Top Links

• Easy accelerated 3D Games in a browser with JavaScript and WebGL using Three.js or Babylon.js (Scott Hanselman)
• New Release: Windows App Studio Beta makes it even easier to publish your apps (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• A look at Swift from the outside looking in – Analysis of Apple’s new programming language from a Microsoft perspective (Jason Bock)
• dotPeek 1.2 EAP: Introducing Process Explorer (Daria Dovzhikova)

 

Web Development

• Understanding Variable Scope And Variable Injection In Less CSS (Ben Nadel)
• POCO controllers in ASP.NET vNext (Filip W)
• New and Changed Formatting Options in PhpStorm 8 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• Model Options and Pristine Forms In AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Box releases advanced search API (Patricio Robles)
• Debugging your LightSwitch Application in Microsoft Azure Web Sites (Amr Altahlawi)
• Firefox 30 Available, Firebug 2.0 Released (Soulskill)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers–Bluetooth LE Battery Service (Jimmy Engström)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,091 – Using a CommandTarget to Change the Source of a Routed Command (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Conduct a Git pull request on Visual Studio Online (Andy Lewis)
• Visual Studio Online Update – June 10 and Use of SQL 2014 with TFS 2013 (Brian Harry)
• Dealing Multiple EndPoints of a WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Microsoft Version Number Integer Type (Steve Smith)
• Telerik Data Access – When One Model is Just Not Enough (Kristian Nikolov)
• 2000 C# Things #1,115 – Iterating Through a Collection Using the foreach Statement (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Agile that good or that bad? (Brian Mullen)
• We Should Be Held Accountable (Derek Huether)
• Microspeak: Brownbag (Raymond Chen)
• Simplifying the delivery of software (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using VisualStudio.com’s online git repositories to host your Xamarin project (Venkata Koppaka)
• Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Create a To-Do Application (Shiva Narrthine)
• iOS – Objective-C – Advanced: Creating a Class at Runtime (Stephen Zaharuk)
• The history and future of Swift – Analysis of Apple’s new programming language from an enterprise IT perspective (Lou Miranda)
• Generating Revenue From Your Cocos2d-x Games on Windows Devices (Eric Mittelette)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Xamarin Forms with Chris Hardy (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Major Nelson Podcast – E3 2014 Day 1 (Larry Hyrb)
• SSW TV – Top 3 Features of Xamarin 3 in Under 3 Minutes! and SSW TV – Dev Superpowers Episode #1 – Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC5 (SSW Team)
• The Amp Hour #202 – An Interview With Brandon Harris – Impish Internet Iamatology (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Ping 210: Bing is five, Kinect v2, Computex hardware, Skype translator and Forza Horizon 2! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Antonio Goncalves (Alec Noller)

 

Database

• Connect to SQL Servers in another domain using Windows Authentication (Aaron Bertrand)
• Quickly Pinpoint SQL Server Performance Issues with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (formerly Confio Ignite) (Jeremy Kadlec)
• SQL SERVER – Attach or Detach Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #068 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Adding Azure blob content properties with PowerShell (Iris Classon)
• Blog Post: PowerShell – Perfmon Counters into CSV File – Multiple remote servers (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 10, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 10, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1369 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1627 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-11 (Dan Rigby)

 

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