Dew Drop – July 30, 2014 (#1825)

Top Links

• Microsoft announces Windows Phone 8.1 Update details, with Cortana coming to new markets (David Chen)
• Visual Studio Tools for Unity 1.9 (Jb Evain)
• Free Online Book – Eloquent JavaScript, 2nd Edition (Marijn Haverbeke)
• NuGet Package of the Week: MarkdownLog makes log files much prettier (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Angular Style Guide (John Papa)
• Writing JavaScript Tests for Asynchronous Events with Deferreds (Kevin Yeh)
• Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure (Rick Anderson)
• Debugging AngularJS In The Console (K. Scott Allen)
• Building Node.js Together (Timothy J. Fontaine)
• Web Forms is not Dead! (Paul Sheriff)
• Towards PhantomJS 2 (Ariya Hidayat)

 

XAML

• Learning Xamarin: Xamarin Forms & MVVM (Jesse Liberty)
• Would you like double cheese with that? Adding Windows tablet goodness to Windows Phone applications (Rob Miles)
• Merging the Code-Base: Combining Existing Windows Store and Phone Apps into Universal Apps (Can Bilgin)
• A Behavior to handle VisualState in Universal apps with MVVM (Marco Minerva)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,125 – Localization VI – Interpreting CSV File That Is Output by LocBaml Tool (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – HeaderedItemsControl (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Building a Release Pipeline with TFS 2012 now includes HOLs for TFS 2013 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• 2000 C# Things #1,149 – Generic Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Office 365 Development Patterns & Practices launched (Office 365 Team)
• Triage of ideas … ∆ process changes (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Hey Developers – is it UI, UX, UI/UX or Something Else? (Allen Conway)
• A Git Branch Changes Nothing (Brendan Enrick)
• Continuous Backlog Refinement (Andrew Fuqua)
• Unreasonable Expectations (Lino Tadros)
• Downstream cost of interfaces (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Learning Xamarin: Deleting From SQLite (Jesse Liberty)
• Discover iOS Device Form Factor using Size Classes in Swift and Simplifying NSJSONSerialization in Swift and A Swift App that Calls JSON Web Services (Josh Smith)
• Fluent Assertions 3.1 for Xamarin (Oren Novotny)
• Be More Social: oAuth, Facebook and Xamarin (Wally McClure)
• Tooling Up for the Marriage of the Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cloud Computing (Ken North)
• Amazon Web Services Mobile SDK Version 2 Brings in Enterprise Features for Better Development (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Ext JS 5 Tablet Support (Grgur Grisogono)
• Computed Properties in Swift (Mark Petherbridge)
• A Better way to Access Swift From the Terminal (Michael Crump)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Modern App Development with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #128: The Legendary Charles Petzold (Jesse Liberty)
• Special Episode – Olivier Bloch (OSCON) | CodeChat (obloch & Jeremy Foster)
• SSW TV – How to go on the Cyber-Offence (before online attackers do) – Troy Hunt | DDD Melbourne (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk SoundBite: Madame Saturn Meets Star Trek (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 13 – Martin J. Logan (Steven Proctor)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Sean Lorenz (Alec Noller)
• Here Come the World Finalists (John Scott Tynes)
• Imagine winning $10,000 to start a business (Michelle Feder)
• Introduction to Office 365 Development: attend this Live webinar Q&A event August 8 (Office 365 Team)

 

Database

• Using rowversion with SQL Server Integration Services to reduce load times (Robert Biddle)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Object and Batch Execution Statistics Reports (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Chef with PowerShell DSC Now Public! (PowerShell Team)
• #PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 2 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Fit Interviews (Chris Sells)
• How to create a file with a . dot prefix in Windows Explorer (Scott Hanselman)
• The Microsoft built Windows Phone era is about to begin – can it save Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
• How do you feel about Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1? (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 29, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1662 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 30, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/30/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-30 (Dan Rigby)

 

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