Dew Drop – July 28, 2014 (#1823)

Top Links

• Implementing truly timed Windows Phone app trials with Azure Mobile Services (Shawn Kendrot)
• Angularjs + TypeScript – setting up a basic application with Visual Studio 2013 (Joost van Schaik)
• Learn the Basics of Color Theory to Know What Looks Good (Mihir Patkar)
• A step by step guide to developing Visual Studio item templates using SideWaffle (Richard Kerslake)

 

Web Development

• [Sample Of July 25] How to change the content type of Windows Azure blob storage (Bo Song)
• GitHub’s CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Guide to Responsive-Friendly CSS Columns (Katy Decorah)
• Using AngularJS to Extend Your Code Quality (Jeremy Likness)
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building larger primitives (Jimmy Bogard)
• Writing Node.js Addons (Maciej Sopyło)
• ASP.NET MVC 6: New HttpContext (Gunnar Peipman)
• So what’s the different between Responsive Web Design, Adaptive Web Design and RESS? (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Dispatched and direct method calls in ECMAScript 5 and 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using Grunt-TSD w/ Node (Derik Whittaker)
• Syncfusion JS components compatibility with Twitter Bootstrap (Syncfusion JavaScript Team)
• No further development on Simple.Web (Mark Rendle)
• Why Javascript Developers Should Get Excited About Object.observe() (Lauren Orsini)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,123 – Localization IV – Download and Build the LocBaml Tool (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – MenuBase (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 7 reasons C++ devs will love the VS 14 CTP (Nish Sivakumar)
• How do I obtain the computer manufacturer’s name from C++? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,147 – Why Generics Don’t Support Covariance (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BDDfy V4 (Mehdi Khalili)
• Test Attribute #6 – Maintenance (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• F# Native App Development on iOS and Android (Sergio De Simone)
• Introducing DZone’s 2014 Guide to Internet of Things (Alec Noller)
• Swift Variables and Constants (Mark Petherbridge)
• Windows for IoT, First Impressions (Valter Minute)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 194: Hadi Hariri on Kotlin, Nitra, and Developing In A Decade (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Scott Koon & Kevin Dente)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 008 with Brian Jones (Office 365 Team)
• SSW TV – Introduction to iBeacons with Xamarin – Rod Howarth (SSW Team)
• Episode 146: Azure Tooling in Visual Studio with Boris Scholl and Catherine Wang | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• TWC9: New Unified Tech Event, CH9 WP8 & 360 App’s, Node.js for Visual Studio and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Eli Roth (Chris Hardwick)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live: Big Brains at BAM (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Boston Area Geek Dinner: Tuesday July 29, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Build Your First F# Mobile App Contest Winners (Aleks Fonseca)
• Announcing the 2nd Web European Conference, next Spring, in Italy (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Database

• Microsoft Encourages Oracle Migrations to SQL Server 2014 (David Ramel)
• MySQL – UDF – Validate Integer Function and SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Transaction Reports (Pinal Dave)
• Small touches: Complex text in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• From the MVPs: Why SharePoint on Azure? (Tom Resing)

 

PowerShell

• Managing NuGet Packages with StudioShell (Jim Christopher)
• #PSTip Show friendly GPO names with Get-ADOrganizationalUnit (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Six clicks: Microsoft Word tricks to make you an instant expert (Ed Bott)
• Small Basic Game Programming – Separation Between Data And Procedure (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #126 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1391 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading July 25, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1660 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 28, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/28/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #150 (Frank)
• Reblog: July 18 to July 24 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #314 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #72 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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