Dew Drop – June 17, 2014 (#1799)

Top Links

• Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel (Jason Weber)
• VB Universal App Part 1: Getting Started (Lucian Wischik)
• Visual Studio Online Team Rooms on WP8, iPhone and Android with Xamarin Forms. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Xamarin Forms and Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Real world async/await defects (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Using Isolate Scope In Directives In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• The Only AngularJS Modal Service You’ll Ever Need (Dave Kerr)
• Using PHP Code Sniffer in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Resources to Get You Up to Speed in Node.js (Rey Bango)
• Thinktecture.IdentityManager as a replacement for the ASP.NET WebSite Administration tool (Scott Hanselman)
• Async Attribute and Scripts At The Bottom (Chris Coyier)
• Reordering dynamic module items with action menu (Saad Khan)
• YUI Gallery Deprecation Announcement (Julien Lecomte)
• How to use templates to style the different nodes of the Ignite UI Tree control (Marina Stoyanova)
• New IE Developer Channel gives Web developers, early adopters a sneak peek at what’s in the works (Suzanne Choney)
• Error logging and tracking done right with Raygun.io (Troy Hunt)
• Node v0.10.29 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• SignalR 2 in Silverlight 5 (Mahdi Ataollahi)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,095 – Creating and Using a Custom Command (Sean Sexton)
• Globalization in WPF (Vipul Bhatnagar)
• WPF Selection Controls – Separator (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Extending dynamic LINQ queries with popular expressions (Patrick Dunn)
• Using C++ and COM with WinRT (Christophe Pichaud)
• Download Emojis With Octokit.NET (Phil Haack)
• Enumerating bit strings with a specific number of bits set (binomial coefficients strike again) (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,119 – Scope of Iteration Variable Is Limited to Body of foreach (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Being a Leader (Brendan Enrick)
• Gist Design Update (Leon Gersing)
• Data Driven Quality (Steve Rowe)
• Application Metrics You Should Monitor Constantly (Vassil Petev)
• Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 3 … Prioriti[s|z]ation of ideas, features and stories (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin – Xamarin.Forms Renderer Reference (Kevin Ford)
• Build Custom Controls with the Xamarin Designer for iOS (Mike Bluestein)
• Getting REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) in iOS8 Swift and Terminal (yffaria)
• Amazon Makes Pitch to App Developers Ahead of Rumored Smartphone Launch (Seth Fiegerman)
• Telerik AppManager: The Grand Opening of Your Private App Store (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Agile Metrics with Doc Norton (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 192: Jackson Harper on the CodeReview iOS app (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Scott Koon & Kevin Dente)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 29: Rob Windsor (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sklar Brothers #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #94 – Sysinternals Strings, FindStr, !pde.ssz | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 16 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• A Look At the New Internet Explorer Developer Channel (Geoffrey & Larry Larsen)
• Ping 211: Everything from E3, the World Cup is here, Twitter on Xbox TV, New Skype, and What’s in your cup | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & Heike Ritter)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin’s Google I/O 2014 Party and Don’t Miss the Party! Celebrate Xamarin 3 with Local Developers (Pierce Boggan)
• Building and Maintaining an Open-Source Community: How to Get Developer Attention (Michael Williams)
• Former Philly Geek Awards nominee, DuckDuckGo to be Added as Private Search Alternative on Mac OS X (Christian Johnson)
• Why I dropped out of Computer Science (Alexa Glick)

 

Database

• Sorting a dimension attribute by another dimension attribute in SQL Server Analysis Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• Database – Taking Backup of MySQL and MongoDB on Cloud (Pinal Dave)
• I don’t want to grant permission to all the tables in the database at once. (Kenneth Fisher)
• Using Time-based Partition Keys in #Azure Table Storage (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

PowerShell

• Script Browser & Script Analyzer 1.3 (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of June 9, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 16, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 16, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1373 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1631 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/17/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #88 (Jason Strate)
• Swift Development Magazine (Rob Bazinet)

 

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