Dew Drop – July 16, 2014 (#1815)

Top Links

• dotPeek 1.2 Is Released (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Analysis vs code review (Eric Lippert)
• Swift Language Changes in Xcode 6 beta 3 (Swift Team)
• Here is how to find out if Lumia Cyan is available for your phone (Daniel Rubino)

 

Web Development

• PhpStorm 8 EAP 138.1161 (Mikhail Vink)
• Top tools for unit testing in JavaScript (Pam Selle)
• Inheriting box-sizing Probably Slightly Better Best-Practice (Chris Coyier)
• Ghost For the .NET Developer (Greg Arroyo)

 

XAML

• BreadCrumb Design Pattern in WPF (Brian Mullen)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,115 – Internationalization I – Obey CurrentCulture for Output (Sean Sexton)
• Cross-platform behavior for making screenshots in Windows (Phone) 8.1 (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• When a race condition is what you want… (Oren Eini)
• MSBuild support for Schema Compare is available (Emma Yin)
• Programming for High-Res Displays in Windows (Gastón Hillar)
• Switch between open files with File Dropdown List (Latish Sehgal)
• It’s Kinect for Windows v2 Day! (Greg Duncan)
• CodeRush – Feature Spotlight – Convert to Function and New CodeRush Plugin – CR_CorrectReturnType (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,139 – The Problem with Comparisons of Objects in Generic Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pernicious Scrum Anti-Patterns (Dwight Kingdon)
• Article: A Roadmap to Agile Documentation (Ester F. Gonçalves)
• Descriptive Icons – GitHub Tips 2 (Brendan Enrick)
• Tradeoffs in High Performance Software (Aaron Stannard)
• Build Agent: Template vs Provisioning (Ariya Hidayat)
• Validation and the Standing Desk (Hillel Glazer)
• Test Attribute #3 – Speed (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Commitment is the problem (Wes McClure)
• ¿Habla Español? … Testing Unitario con Microsoft® Fakes v1.2 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Microsoft’s Nadella promotes internal sharing of project code by employees (John Callaham)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Learn to Think Like an Android Developer (Reto Meier)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Amazon Fire Apps with Jason and Brian Kriesel (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Community / Events

• Mobile .NET Meetups and Xamarin 3 Celebrations in July (Alexandra Fonseca)
• Devs of the Week: Jeffrey Kim & Trevor Gasdaska (Alec Noller)
• WPC Day 2 – Showcasing our partners (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Database

• Detect and Automatically Kill Low Priority Blocking Sessions in SQL Server (Jeffery Yao)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Login and User – SQL in Sixty Seconds #070 (Pinal Dave)
• Name Parsing for Result Sets with Different Name Formats (Rick Dobson)
• Understanding Analysis Services Relationships using Dimension Usage (Devin Knight)

 

PowerShell

• How to retry commands in PowerShell (Richard Kerslake)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bill Gates’ favorite business book is from 1971 and out of print (Mark Frauenfelder)
• paint.net 4.0.2 is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 15, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1384 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 16, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/16/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1652 (Chris Alcock)

 

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