Dew Drop – August 4, 2014 (#1828)

Top Links

• Xamarin Indie Now $25/Month (Joseph Hill)
• Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Store: Integrating OneDrive into Your Windows Store Apps (Tony Champion)
• Object pooling and thread safety (Jon Skeet)

 

Web Development

• Retrieving Data with Backbone and TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Less CSS, Relative Paths, Nested Quotes, Url() Constructs, And Post-Processing (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript and V8 TurboFan (Ariya Hidayat)
• Final Tips for Best Practices in WordPress Development (Damian Logghe)
• Code Quality Analysis in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• No Need to $Watch AngularJS “Controller As” (Jeremy Likness)
• Integration Testing with FubuMVC and OWIN (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Making Your Kendo UI Pages More Testable (Jim Holmes)
• Extending HTML with AngularJS’s Directives (Maciej Sopyło)
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Routes and History (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• Using ECMAScript 6 today (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Store and Retrieve JSON data from Local storage in Windows Store App (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

XAML

• Preserve the Selected Item of a WPF List Box (Michael L. Perry)
• Windows Phone: Build MVVM Apps with Xamarin and MvvmCross (Thomas LeBrun)
• Book review: Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Geoff Webber-Cross) (Marco Siccardi)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,128 – Localization IX – Localizing Content (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Media Controls – Image (Richard Carr)
• Building Unified Apps for Phone and Tablet (Rob Miles)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Unity: Developing Your First Game with Unity and C# (Adam Tuliper)
• Why I Use Crashlytics – Part 2 (Donn Felker)
• What is up with transparent identifiers? Part two (Eric Lippert)
• C++ Runtime for Sideloaded Windows 8.1 apps (Raman Sharma)
• 2000 C# Things #1,152 – The Action Delegate Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Driving Unit Tests from Cloud Load Test (Charles Sterling)
• Test Attribute #7 – Footprint (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Forms Shared project template error (Paras Wadehra)
• Hold It Right There: Xamarin and Unit Testing and Learning Xamarin: MVVM Light and Xamarin Forms (Jesse Liberty)
• Files and Initialization (Swift Team)
• Using Swift and Sprite Kit for Physics and Particles (Simon Gladman)
• App Mock Up (Sanjay Sharma)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 329 – Sam McClanahan on MakerSpaces and HackerSpaces (David Giard)
• Post Award Ceremony Wrap-Up | Imagine Cup World Finals 2014 (Channel 9)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bert Kreischer (Chris Hardwick)
• Episode 147: Azure Redis Cache with Saurabh Pant and Wade Wegner | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• SSW TV – How to choose the best developer boot camp for you (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live: Big Brains at BAM (Part 3) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers (aka.ms/vsarindex) (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Wrapping Up The Imagine Cup (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Developers As Diverse As Their Code (Kerry Meade)

 

Database

• MySQL – Export the Resultset to CSV file and SQL SERVER – SSMS: Backup and Restore Events Report (Pinal Dave)
• Production analysis and trouble shooting with RavenDB and RavenDB 3.0 Status Update (Oren Eini)
• Can’t We Just Get Along: The Spurious NoSQL Battle (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Miscellaneous

• Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: Hiring or Not (Chris Sells)
• Small Basic – Controls are Shapes (litdev)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading August 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #127 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 8/4/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 4, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1665 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: July 25 to July 31 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #315 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #73 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Coding4Fun July 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)

 

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