Dew Drop – June 24, 2014 (#1802)

Top Links

• Wolfram Programming Cloud Is Live! (Stephen Wolfram)
• Announced today: Nokia Imaging SDK 1.2 and Lumia SensorCore SDK (Windows Apps Team)
• TDD isn’t the problem (Wes McClure)
• Using Custom Controls in Xamarin.Forms on Android (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• AngularJS’s Controller As and the vm Variable (John Papa)
• Performing CRUD Operations on MongoDB in Node.js Application Using mongodb Driver (Ravi Kiran)
• Enhanced Chrome Emulation Tools (Elijah Manor)
• Passwords in IE11 (Amy Adams)
• Wolfram Programming Cloud – Thoughts (Matt Davey)
• PerfMatters.Flush Goes 1.0! (Nik Molnar)
• From the ground up: Building the Microsoft Azure Preview Portal (Vishal R Joshi)

 

XAML

• Page transitions and animations in Windows Phone Runtime (Shawn Kendrot)
• Microsoft reportedly releasing Windows Phone 8.1 today (Manish Singh)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,100 – OnExplicitShutdown Shutdown Mode (Sean Sexton)
• Microsoft wants to know what APIs are needed to build better apps (Chuong H Nguyen)
• Why was this or that API placed in this or that namespace? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Nokia Imaging SDK 1.2 released, Lumia SensorCore SDK out of private beta (Joseph Keller)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Dynamic Parameters in C# Cmdlets (Ben Ten)
• Open Solutions quickly using Windows Jumplist (Latish Sehgal)
• Guest Blog by Alessandro Federici: Validation with PostSharp (Alessandro Federici)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: XML Mappings (Ricardo Peres)
• Building Office Inspired Apps with Infragistics Ultimate (Jason Beres)
• Adding a sound to the Alt+Tab window (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,124 – Iterate through Jagged Array with Nested foreach (Sean Sexton)
• O’Reilly Half-Price Offer of the Day 24/June/2014 – Programming Entity Framework: DbContext (Tatworth)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Software Teams, a Basketball Analogy (Tim Barcz)
• TDD Isn’t The Problem. TDD Douchebags Are. (Wally McClure)
• 2014 Buyer’s Guide: Select the Best Testing Tool for Your Project (Antonia Bozhkova)
• Quote of the week – object oriented vs. functional programming (Bob)
• Greg Young: Scheduling For Things to Happen In The Future (Jan Stenberg)
• Don’t Overwhelm Yourself Trying to Learn Too Much (John Sonmez)
• Perceived vs. Objective Quality (Steve Rowe)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Learning Xamarin and Storyboards and Custom Cells (Jesse Liberty)
• Improving a platform: Nokia X2 (Adam Fraser)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Wearables in the Enterprise with Stephen Forte (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 30: Ted Neward (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Greg Behrendt (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #95 – Scheduled Tasks | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 17 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)

 

Community / Events

• Register now: Unity game developer porting lab for Windows and Windows Phone (Sonal Pardeshi)
• Magenic Named Best Place to Work (Again) (Dave Sauer)
• Atlanta Splunk User Group meets this Thursday (Hal Rottenberg)
• Exclusive Interview: Microsoft’s Jay Schmelzer (Jessica Skarzynski)
• .NET Developers Who Bring The Full Stack (Kerry Meade)
• What to expect at I/O’14 – Develop (Louis Gray)
• Imagine Cup – Meet the Apps For Office Challenge Finalists! (John Scott Tynes)

 

Database

• Introduction to Latches in SQL Server (Aschen Brenner)
• SQL Server Database Ownership: survey results & recommendations (Andreas Wolter)
• Different Approaches to Correct SQL Server Parameter Sniffing (Daniel Farina)
• Hidden Evils of Scalar Functions in SQL Server [Video] (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Backup to Azure Blob using SQL Server 2014 Management Studio (Pinal Dave)
• From the Vault: TRY, CATCH, and Transactions (Jen McCown)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Build your Azure VM Environment (Devin Knight)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bono: Apple is ‘like a religious cult’ (Chris Matyszczyk)
• Microsoft Press [Older] eBook Shelf (Greg Duncan)
• Massive increase to OneDrive storage plans: 15 GB free for everyone, 1 TB for Office 365 subscribers (Omar Shahine)
• Always accessible family shopping lists with OneNote (Nicholas Kerr)
• Exploring cross-browser math equations using MathML or LaTeX with MathJax (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of June 16, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 23, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 23, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #145 (Frank)
• Double Shot #1376 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 6/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1636 (Chris Alcock)

 

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