Dew Drop – June 13, 2014 (#1797)

Top Links

• Announcing NativeScript – cross-platform framework for building native mobile applications (Valio Stoychev)
• Developing for Amazon Fire TV devices with Xamarin and MVVM Light (Laurent Bugnion)
• Cheat Sheet for Top Mobile App Controls (Cori Hemmah)
• Are Bad Tests Better Than No Tests? BLEEEEP NO! (Jim Holmes)

 

Web Development

• Knockout.js 3.2 Preview : Components (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Thinking About Strings, Quotes, Tokens, And Tildes In Less CSS (Ben Nadel)
• With jQuery and ASP.NET MVC Almost Radio Buttons (Peter Kellner)
• How To Use Dailymotion API to Leverage Video Search (Marcello La Rocca)
• Is there no better way to upgrade Node and its plugins? (Aaron T. Grogg)
• IIS performance tip: Cache in on consistent casing (Dave Ward)

 

XAML

• Third update for Windows Phone 8.1 Preview for Developers to roll out (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Kinect Cursor WPF Control (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Text-To-Speech – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,093 – Intercepting a Command Before It Executes (Sean Sexton)
• New Memory Usage Tool for WPF and Win32 Applications (Visual Studio Blog)
• WPF Selection Controls – ListBox (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A glance at C# vNext (Florian Rappl)
• Share Breakpoints and Data Tips for better debugging (Latish Sehgal)
• Tip – Override ToString() in Objects (Steve Smith)
• Project Support for Natvis (Adam Welch)
• Best Practices For Keeping NCover Running Smoothly (Kerry Meade)
• 2000 C# Things #1,117 – foreach Requires IEnumerable Implementation (Sean Sexton)
• Can we continue to call FindNextFile() with the same handle that returned an error last time? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Summary for final “Is TDD Dead” hangout (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Is The New Black (Whitney Baker)
• Using Gradle for TFS Build Automation (Ross Gardler)
• What is SpecFlow… (Dave M. Bush)
• Using a Definition of Ready (Ben Linders)
• The effect of Updates (Brian Harry)
• Stand-ups … being effective (Eric Nelson)
• New Environment Verification fails Saying invalid ‘Domain User Name’ using Microsoft Test Manager (Subramanyam)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap 3.5.0 No Longer Supports iOS 5 and Won’t Support WP 7 (Abel Avram)
• Telerik Platform major updates: Native Apps, TypeScript support, WP8 Companion App, Chrome Apps, Push for Windows 8, AppFeedback and AppManager (Hristo Borisov)
• My latest love: Native mobile applications for iOS and Android using JavaScript (Vladimir Enchev)
• Redirecting Mobile Users by Screen Size Instead of Device Type (Basem Emara)
• Getting to know Swift (Sonal Amin)
• On NativeScript for Android (Mihail Slavchev)
• Reusing Code in Ext JS 5 and Sencha Touch Apps to Build a Sencha Space App (Grgur Grisogono)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast – E3 2014 Show: Far Cry 4, Mortal Kombat X and more. (Larry Hyrb)
• Hanselminutes – What it really means to be Junior Developer with Jonathan Barronville (Scott Hanselman)
• (Video) learn Edge.JS part 1 : What is it? and (Video) learn Edge.JS part 2: Get started with Hello World and compression (Iris Classon)
• Windows Weekly 366: An Explosion of Stupidity (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Article: Review and Interview with Dean Hume – Author of Fast ASP.NET Websites (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• dotnetconf 2014 is coming (Kris van der Mast)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 (SP2) RTM Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
• SQL SERVER – How to Get SQL Server Restart Notification? (Pinal Dave)
• Query backup history (Enrico van de Laar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows To Go Can Port Open Source Frameworks to Mac OS (Eric Mittelette)
• The Gotchas of the Amazon Prime Music Service (Richard Hay)
• Fitbit confirms Windows Phone 8.1 app in development (John Callaham)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1371 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, June 12, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1629 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-13 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-13 (Dan Rigby)

 

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