Dew Drop – July 21, 2014 (#1818)

Top Links

• Windows Runtime via C# Book and Windows Phone 8.1 (Jeffrey Richter)
• Building assert() in Swift, Part 1: Lazy Evaluation (Swift Team)
• Parenting Tip: Star Wars Audiobooks, Family, and narrator Marc Thompson (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting Started with xUnit for Xamarin (Oren Novotny)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Date Tips (Steve Smith)
• Dealing with Node.js and Microsoft SQL Server–Part 1 (Mihail Mateev)
• The roles of AngularJS and Polymer (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Learn AngularJS: Hour 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Ajax Control Toolkit – JavaScript Runtime Error (Dirk Strauss)
• AngularJS Quick Tip: Counting Watches and AngularJS Debugging and Performance (Jeremy Likness)
• Open complex type step by step with Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0 (Sam Xu)
• 8 ways to improve ASP.NET Web API performance (Radenko Zec)
• Getting Acquainted with #Azure Service Bus Event Hubs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• PerfMatters.Flush now CourtesyFlush (Nik Molnar)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,118 – An Example of Input that Obeys CurrentCulture (Sean Sexton)
• Using Boost Libraries in Windows Store and Phone Applications (Steven Gates)
• New Windows Dev Center site is one-stop shop for developers of apps and games for phone, tablet and PC (Suzanne Choney)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Community TFS Build Manager 2.12.0.14 (Mike Fourie)
• Project Adam and the Future of Programming (Rob Knies)
• Windows Developer Program for IoT now rolling out (Greg Duncan)
• Status of FxCop/Code Analysis! (Michael Sync)
• Using attributes to control destructuring in Serilog (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• 2000 C# Things #1,142 – Using EqualityComparer to Compare Objects in Generic Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Integrative Thinking is the Mark of Exceptional Leaders and Be a Craftsman (J.D. Meier)
• What is Your Minimum Agile Reading List? (Johanna Rothman)
• TDD Resistence (Matt Davey)
• Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Part 1 and Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Part 2 and Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Part 3 (Cori Drew)
• Drag Drop Repo – GitHub Tips 5 (Brendan Enrick)
• Code Coverage != Functional Coverage (Anders Abel)
• Article: Seven Changes to Remove Waste From Your Software Development Process (Cecil Dijoux)
• Capturing the Story (Dan North)
• Why Testing in Women Testers Magazine (Johanna Rothman)
• XP – Software Development Best practices (Matt Davey)
• Article: What Are Self-Organising Teams? (Sigi Kaltenecker & Peter Hundermark)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Loading Indicators and Automatic ViewModel Refresh in Xamarin Forms (Josh Morales)
• Build A Custom Launcher on Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• First Release of Cordova Brackets Extension (Raymond Camden)
• Diagnosing Memory Usage in a Xamarin.Android Application Developed with Visual Studio (Dominic Burford)
• Schedule Regular Updates Using Background Fetch in iPhone App Development (Mehul Rajput)
• My First Xamarin Mobile App (Phillip Trelford)
• Introduction to Android – History (sandeepten910)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 327 – Kevin Hazzard on Technology in Schools (David Giard)
• Episode 278 – PowerScripting Podcast – Karsten Bott from EMC on EMC Storage Integrator (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SSW TV – A Xamarin.Forms Deep Dive (SSW Team)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 206: Ken Collier on Agile Analytics (SE-Radio Team)
• Introducing WebJobs Tooling for Visual Studio with Brady Gaster | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• What the Tech 218: Largest Microsoft Layoffs Ever (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Kinect for Windows v2, Unified Windows Dev Portal, IoT and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Get Up And Code 059: Wholistic Fitness With Coach Steve Ilg (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live! Big Brains at BAM (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: ‘The Amazon Way’ — insights from a former insider (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• 5 Questions With Chris Gomez (Tony Verguldi)
• .NET Developers To Follow (Kerry Meade)
• 10 tech accounts you should be following on Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest (Stacy Warden)

 

Database

• SQL Server Alert for Tempdb Growing Out of Control (Erin Youtzy)
• MySQL – How to Format Date in MySQL with DATE_FORMAT() and SQL SERVER – Activity Reports – Dormant Sessions (Pinal Dave)
• Introducing inefficiencies into RavenDB, on purpose and Map/Reduce visualizer, take II (Oren Eini)
• Blog Post: How to Accelerate SQL Queries and Reporting Across All Your Data (Josh Howard)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Apps using JavaScript Object Model (JSOM) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Creating a SharePoint Server Farm in Azure – Part 2 (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Auto Rename SQL Server Tables and Their References with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• Introducing PSBuild – an improved interface for msbuild.exe in PowerShell (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)

 

Miscellaneous

• Do you miss Homebrew on Windows? Don’t. Use Scoop. (Denis Gladkikh)
• A Gallery of Useful Programming Books (B. Clay Shannon)
• Head of Google interviewing says “results matter, riddles don’t” (Chris Sells)
• What to Expect with the Next Xbox One Update (Jeff Rubenstein)
• Google promises to fix Chrome bug on Windows, causing laptop batteries to drain (Rich Edmonds)
• Amazon’s all-you-can-read Kindle Unlimited is now official at $9.99 per month (Vlad Savov)
• Microsoft launches new training portal to get you started on Windows Phone (Chuong H Nguyen)
• Track Cyan Windows Phone Update Status with this App (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1387 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 9 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, July 18, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 18, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1654 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #125 (Mary Lou)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 21, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/21/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #149 (Frank)
• Blog Post: Reblog: July 11 to July 17 (Jason Strate)
• Reading list (Bruce Lawson)
• The Web Weekly – Edition 9 (Dan Wahlin)
• Friday Links #313 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #71 (Jakub Chodounský)
• 100 Articles to Sharpen Your Mind (JD Meier)
• Office 365 news round-Up (Ed Siegrist)

 

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