Dew Drop – September 2, 2014 (#1846)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – C# 6.0 with Bill Wagner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Notification Patterns in Rx, Part I: Introduction and Notification Patterns in Rx, Part II: Creating a Stream and Notification Patterns in Rx, Part III: Lossless Notifications and Notification Patterns in Rx, Part IV: Unexpected Errors and Notification Patterns in Rx, Part V: Connection Errors (Timothy Klenke)
• Unit Testing with Fakes and Mocks (Steve Smith)
• Optional parameters: maybe not so harmful (Marc Gravell)

 

Web Development

• Dynamically Loading Controllers and Views with AngularJS/$controllerProvider and RequireJS and Learning AngularJS by Example – The Customer Manager Application (Dan Wahlin)
• Bind Your Error Handler Before Your Readable Handler When Using Node.js Streams and Node.js Streams Inherit Error-Handling Behavior From EventEmitter and Error Events Don’t Inherently Stop Streams In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Advantages to Native CSS Variables (Chris Coyier)
• Sample chapter: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3: Access and Secure Data (Kim Spilker)
• PHP 5.6 support in PhpStorm 8 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using AJAX In WordPress (Paul Underwood)
• ASP.NET vNext: Custom Project Loaders and Language Support (Roopesh Shenoy)
• An Introduction to WebDriver Using the JavaScript Bindings (Umar Hansa)
• Creating and Consuming Web APIs in .NET (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Single Page Applications? Bah Humbug! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Multi-Value Visibility Binding with Kendo UI MVVM (Rachel Hagerman)
• Introducing Event Starter Kit (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Preventing function signature mismatch in ES5 and ES6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Styling Chrome Dev Tools (Iris Classon)
• Yahoo Drop the Axe on YUI (João Paulo Marques)
• ZeroMQ #5 : Sending From Multiple Sockets and ZeroMQ #6 : Divide And Conquer (Sacha Barber)

 

XAML

• Using MVVM Light in WPF for Model-View-ViewModel implementation (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Syntax error when using explicitly defaulted/deleted functions in windows phone 8 project (C++11) (Dror Helper)
• Prototype Windows Phone App in SketchFlow (Sanjay Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,147 – Converting from Polar Coordinates to Cartesian Coordinates and #1,148 – Sample Code to Convert from Polar to Cartesian Coordinates and #1,149 – Drawing an Arc in a Custom Shape (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – DataContext (Richard Carr)
• Binding to Multiple Properties in Universal Apps and MSDN Article – Creating a Location Aware app with Geofencing (Tony Champion)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Playing with Roslyn (Oren Eini)
• Using LINQ to Calculate Basic Statistics (Don Kackman)
• Hosting your own Visual Studio Gallery with the Inmeta Visual Studio Gallery (Greg Duncan)
• Cassandra C# Driver: Surprising gotcha with SimpleStatement (Ryan Svihla)
• Using Visual Studio 2013 with TFS and Git repositories on same project (Tiago Salgado)
• Generate List of objects for easier Unit Testing using LINQPad Extension method (Mitul Suthar)
• How to Create a Thumbnail for a File in Windows (Roland Weigelt)
• FParsec Tutorial (Phillip Trelford)
• 2000 C# Things #1,171 – Lambda Expression Internals and #1,172 – Lambda Expressions Often Used with Func and Action and #1,173 – Lambda Expression Can Be Just an Expression (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s new in Agile planning and tracking with TFS 2013 (MSDN)
• Why do I use Leanpub? and Free and open source example software guidebook (Simon Brown)
• Article: What We Do and Don’t Know about Software Development Effort Estimation (Magne Jorgensen)
• The Economics of Unit Testing and Metrics: Good VS Evil (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The UX problem with Agile (Paul Boag)
• The value of navigation (Eric Brechner)
• Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual, Early Access (John Sonmez)
• Why I Don’t Use Leanpub (Jurgen Appelo)
• Aligning our planets with a common cadence and synchronization (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS First, Android Later (or Never) (Alec Noller)
• Create a Weather App on Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Android Development: How to Set Up Your Mobile Device for Testing (Ajitesh Kumar)
• Hybrid Apps in Xamarin?? (Jesse Liberty)
• Mono on Windows IoT Galileo (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Live Video from Raspberry Pi to .NET (Ondrej_Uzovic)
• Mastering Unity 2D Game Development–AI and State machines (Simon Jackson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast – PAX Prime 2014 Podcast (Larry Hyrb)
• Xamarin Introduction on SSW TV (Filip Ekberg)
• Front End Developer Cast – Learning AngularJS: The AngularJS learning curve | Episode 7 (Craig McKeachie)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dowdle Brothers (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #104 – Writing a Debugger Extension Part 8 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• TWC9: Lots of new Azure, VSO Stakeholder love, updated Kinect v2 SDK, “HyperDog?” and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 28 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Cloud Cover 151: Azure Machine Learning with Parmita Mehta | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris)
• SSW TV – How to Use Twitter Bootstrap with Ben Cull | Dev SuperPowers Episode 4 (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: General Astrophysics 101 (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Gillmor Gang: Summertime Blues (Steve Gillmor)
• GeekWire Radio: How to choose your next wireless carrier (Todd Bishop)
• Edge JS Intro Video (Frank LaVigne)

 

Community / Events

• Mobile .NET and Xamarin Meetups for September (Aleks Fonseca)
• The power of embedded developers (Jessica Kerr)
• What does Back to School mean for coders? (Susan Ibach)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials (Ian Stirk)
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Encryption Key (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server column encryption (Enrico)
• SQL SERVER – CTRL + R Shortcut Does Not Work in SSMS and SQL SERVER – How to Know Cardinality of Executed Query? and SQL SERVER – Live Plans for Long Running Queries (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.0–Production dog fooding (Oren Eini)
• CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore (Benjamin Darfler)
• Create Your Own Relationships Between Tables In The Excel Data Model With Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• Setting and searching Environment Variables in PowerShell (Iris Classon)
• New feature in Pester 3.0: Code Coverage metrics (Dave Wyatt)

 

Miscellaneous

• Technical Presentation Tips and Tricks (Jeremy Likness)
• Small Basic – Transparent GraphicsWindow (litdev)
• HERE for Gear: apps inbound for Samsung Tizen (Pino Bonetti)
• webOS port renamed LuneOS, focuses on Nexus 4 and HP TouchPad (Richard Lawler)
• Microsoft just teased Windows 9 by mistake (Tom Warren)
• How secure is Windows Phone 8.1? Very! (Steve Litchfield)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 29, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 29, 2014 and Geek Reading September 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #131 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1405 and Double Shot #1406 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top Reads for July & August (Jaco Pretorius)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1684 and The Morning Brew #1685 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 8/29/2014 and Daily News Digest 9/1/2014 and Daily News Digest 9/2/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #152 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-29 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Reblog: August 22 to August 28 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #318 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Programming Digest #71 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Links of the month (August Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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