Dew Drop – June 16, 2014 (#1798)

Top Links

• Windows Live Writer going Open Source? (Richard Hay)
• .NET Native Deep Dive: Debugging into Interop Code (Yi Zhang)
• Enhancing the Hanselman Xamarin App to have Podcasts (Venkata Koppaka)
• Learning Xamarin: Forms and XAML (Jesse Liberty)

 

Web Development

• Thinking About Strings, Quotes, Tokens, And Tildes In Less CSS (Ben Nadel)
• Live Kitten Juggling with ASP.NET MVC (Bil Simser)
• How to load views from database in MVC (Saad Khan)
• How to get notifications from a Windows Azure website (Ugo Lattanzi)
• WordPress Gains a JSON REST API Plugin and Netflix Closing Public API Later this Year (Patricio Robles)
• jQuery Bootstrap Auto-Hiding Navbar (jQuery Rain)
• Single Page ToDo Application With Backbone.js (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Implementing State Management in ASP.NET – Back to Basics (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• My latest love: Native mobile applications for iOS and Android using JavaScript (Vladimir Enchev)
• Best Adobe Brackets IDE Extensions (Basem Emara)
• Multiple return values in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

XAML

• Cet MicroWPF – WPF for Netduino (Plus) 2 and the FTDI FT800 Eve (Greg Duncan)
• New Book: Pro Windows 8.1 Development with XAML and C# (Jon Galloway)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Text-To-Speech – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) – Part 2 – IDisposable (Rehan Saeed)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,094 – Disabling Editing Operations in a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Adapting app content to the user’s location (Gilles Peigné)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Replace Macros in Word Document .docx (Ben Adler)
• Compiler Switch Deprecation/Removal Changes in Visual Studio “14” (Nada Mohamed)
• Fixing up Visual Studio’s gitignore , using IFix (Terje Sandstrom)
• Color output in build and debug windows (Latish Sehgal)
• Best Practices For Keeping NCover Running Smoothly (Kerry Meade)
• Code first commands for Entity Framework (Morten Anderson)
• 2000 C# Things #1,118 – foreach Works with Iterator Returned by yield (Sean Sexton)
• Micro-benchmarking .NET Native and RyuJit (Alexandre Mutel)
• Cosmos (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) – Release 108477 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation Design Pattern (Chris Pietschmann)
• Unit Testing Checklist: Keep Your Tests Useful and Avoid Big Mistakes (Jean-baptiste Rieu)
• Simplifiers Versus Optimizers (J.D. Meier)
• Don’t Shrink Wrap Bananas: Avoiding Clutter with Design Patterns (Matt Butcher)
• Writing Sound Business Requirements (User Stories) (Jason Gaylord)
• Where to host private Git repositories? (Denis Gladkikh)
• Org Structure, Software Architecture, and Cross-functional Teams (Bob Hartman)
• Are customers a bag of sand? (Brian Harry)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap 3.5.0 No Longer Supports iOS 5 and Won’t Support WP 7 (Abel Avram)
• Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Part 6 – Interaction with multiple views (Jameson Quave)
• Swift Case Study: Histograms (Josh Smith)
• Welcome Swift, I’ve Been Waiting For You and Setup Swift REPL and Access from the Command Line (Rob Bazinet)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 273 – PowerScripting Podcast – The Scripting Games Team Winners (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Myq Kaplan (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 058: Streamlining Your Workout (John Sonmez)
• Episode 143: What’s new in Azure SDK 2.3 with Dan Fernandez | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: COSMOS with Steven Soter (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Gillmor Gang Live 06.14.14 (Steve Gillmor)
• GeekWire Radio: Amazon music, Lively shutdown, and the new world of tech design (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Article: Review and Interview with Dean Hume – Author of Fast ASP.NET Websites (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• MVA: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC – Free Live Training – June 23 (Jon Galloway)
• I Joined Clear Measure (Brendan Enrick)
• Microsoft shows what happened behind the curtain at its Xbox E3 2014 events (John Callaham)

 

Database

• Running SQL Server Databases in the Amazon Cloud (Part 1) (Sadequl Hussain)
• Facebook Announces Apollo, a New NoSQL Database for On-line Low Latency Storage (Charles Humble)
• SSAS Multidimensional Formula Engine Caching and Locale-Dependent Properties (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Schema Compare Tool – ApexSQL Diff (Pinal Dave)
• APress Deal of the Day 16/Jun/2014 – SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns (Tatworth)
• Query backup history (Enrico van de Laar)
• Script, store and transfer data using XML, XQuery and clipboard (SQL Code Guard)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Tools – v0.8.0 – Now with REPL! (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Comparing the Xbox One and Sony PS4 APIs (Muhammad Fahad Arif)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #120 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1372 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading June 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1630 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/16/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #144 (Frank)
• Reblog: June 6 to June 12 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #308 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #66 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Kickstart your Xamarin adventure with these links (Johan Silfversparre)

 

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