Dew Drop – July 14, 2014 (#1813)

Top Links

• Rolling out the Windows Developer Program for IoT (Steve Teixeira)
• A JavaScript survival guide (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Should you write unit tests or integration tests? (Roy Osherove)
• Compatibility (Swift Team)

 

Web Development

• Migrating From ui-if To ng-if In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Writing Unit Tests for Existing JavaScript (Rebecca Murphey)
• Learn AngularJS : Hour 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Building a strongly typed route provider for ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Adopting Fubu conventions (Jimmy Bogard)
• PHP Mess Detector in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Improvements to the F# Web Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• Add an existing Office 365 Azure Active Directory to your Azure Subscription. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Mouse Events in JavaScript and Events in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Playing with WinJS as a cross-platform UI layer? (Mike Taulty)
• Ai->Canvas Plug-In Source Code Released (Mike Swanson)
• Application Security: Where You Want It, When You Need It with Visual Guard (Jeffrey Fritz)
• Guidelines for Creating a RESTful API (Marcello La Rocca)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy July 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,113 – Use of Cultures in Internationalization (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Menu Controls – ContextMenu (Richard Carr)
• Which app should I build? Exploring opportunities in the market (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Message passing, performance (Oren Eini)
• RoslynDom: Structural Interrogation Walk-throughs (Kathleen Dollard)
• If I duplicate a handle, can I keep using the duplicate after closing the original? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,137 – Generic Methods in Non-Generic Classes (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Take Pride in Your Legacy (Code) (Ginny Hendry)
• What I learned from working remotely with cross-cultural teams (Meera Sapra)
• Personal Productivity: Business vs. busyness vs. laziness (Scott Hanselman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Error: InitializeComponent does not exist in the current context (Josh Morales)
• Verified Plugins Marketplace: Your Source for Verified Cordova/PhoneGap Plugins (Rob Lauer)
• Asynchronous Message Passing With Actors in Objective-C (Alberto De Bortoli)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 277 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Pat Richard on PowerShell and Lync (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 518: Mid-Summer Gaming (Larry Hyrb)
• Introducing the “Declaring My Independence” podcast! (Michael J. Eaton)
• SSW TV – Xamarin HackDay (SSW Team)
• Xamarin on Film: @dotnetConf & FlashCast (James Montemagno)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Andy Serkis (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: The Catsup/Lots O’Releases Edition | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Space Probes with Dr. Amy Mainzer (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Community Engagement: Who do you follow? What do you share? (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Database

• Creating a Matrix Infographic in SSRS (Koen Verbeeck)
• MySQL – How INSERT() Function Works for MySQL and SQL SERVER – SSMS: Scheduler Health Report (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Create a custom TeamCity PowerShell MetaRunner to Notify NewRelic that new deployment has occurred (Howard van Rooijen)
• PowerShell – duplicated files in Windows Media Player library (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)
• Introduction to the PoshSec Framework (Ben Ten)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft is looking for beta testers for OneNote (Brad Sams)
• paint.net 4.0.1 is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: June 2nd, 2014 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, July 11, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #124 (Mary Lou)
• The Morning Brew #1650 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 14, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/14/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #148 (Frank)
• Friday Links #312 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #70 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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