Dew Drop – July 11, 2014 (#1812)

Top Links

• Release Candidate for Katana 3 and the ASP.NET Security Components (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Xamarin Forms: Web Viewer (Jesse Liberty)
• Updates to RoslynDom 1.0.9 Alpha (Kathleen Dollard)
• StarTalk Radio – Talking Science Ficton with Stewie (Seth Macfarlane) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Web Development

• Building a strongly typed route provider for ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Angular ng-grid Quick Tip (Deborah Kurata)
• Orchard 1.8.1 Released and Website Upgrades (David Hayden)
• Inspiration for Custom Select Elements (Mary Lou)
• JSON: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Tim Murphy)
• Designing Responsive Applications with Ext JS (Phil Guerrant)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Async event loops in C# (Oren Eini)
• Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Boxing and Collections (Alexey Totin)
• Adding an Overload is a Breaking Change (Anders Abel)
• Using the REFIID/void** pattern for returning COM objects for future-proofing and to avoid problems with dependencies (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,136 – Overloading a Generic Method (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio “14” CTP2 Adds ASP.NET and IDE Features (Jeff Martin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Defining “Done” (Dave M. Bush)
• Introducing a simpler, faster GitHub for Mac (Alan J. Rogers)
• Knowing if You Are Building the Right Product (Ben Linders)
• Rational behavior and the Gilded Rose kata… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Design Sprints for Developers (Gary Lewis)
• Fitting In With Corporate Culture (John Sonmez)
• Test Attributes #1: Validity (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Creating efficacious policies with incentives (Wes McClure)
• Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 5 … Which visuali[s|z]ation catches your eye? (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Proof of Concept Cordova integration with Brackets (Raymond Camden)
• Top 10 Tips for Optimizing Your Android Apps for Fire Phone (Dave Isbitski)
• New Cross-Platform Tools for Game Developers (Ben Frenkel)
• Native vs. Hybrid: Which Side Are You On? (DevToolsGuy)
• Swift REPL (Ricky Yim)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 006 with Thorsten Hans (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Exploring the Bionic Pancreas with Dr. Steven Jon Russell, MD, PhD (Scott Hanselman)
• SSW TV – Xamarin HackDay (SSW Team)
• Yet Another Podcast Show 126–Mike Bluestein from Xamarin (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Weekly 370: Office 365 SKU-A-Palooza (Paul Thurrott)
• The Married Gamers Episode 336: Friendship is Magic (Chris Brown)
• Nerds At Play 069: The Naked Episode (Melisa Snyder)
• Edge Show 111: Azure AD Premium SaaS Apps, App Proxy and Reports | Edge (RicksterCDN & Simon May)

 

Community / Events

• MediaFire Launches Developer Zone (Eric Carter)
• PhillyEcoCamp Hackathon Leads to City Improvement (Juliana Reyes)

 

Database

• Several Methods to collect SQL Server Stored Procedure Execution History (Svetlana Golovko)
• Creating a Matrix Infographic in SSRS (Koen Verbeeck)
• How to Interact with a PivotTable in Power BI for Office 365 (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Quick objects using ConvertFrom-Csv (Bartek Bielawski)
• Introduction to PoshSec (Matt Johnson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft CEO Nadella: ‘We will reinvent productivity’ and Decoding the hidden messages in Satya Nadella’s letter to Microsoft employees (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tell us what you think about OneNote! (Omeed Chandra)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, July 10, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Daily News Digest 7/11/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1649 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-11 (Dan Rigby)

 

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