Dew Drop – September 4, 2014 (#1848)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 1 Ready to Download (Visual Studio Blog)
• ‘Hey Cortana!’ brings passive-listening to Windows Phone this fall for a hands-free experience (Daniel Rubino)
• We told you there’d be #morelumia (Luke)
• Full of features: Lumia Denim Update (Adam Fraser)
• How to Measure Value (Gary O’Brien)

 

Web / Cloud

• How Error Events Affect Piped Streams In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• A Guide to WordPress 4.0 (Barış Ünver)
• Types of ASP.NET MVC Views (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Real-time web functionality using ASP.NET SignalR (Susan Ibach)
• Standard Markdown (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Azure Automation: Reliable, Fault-Tolerant Runbook Execution Using Checkpoints (Chris Sanders)
• Moving Towards a Single Cloud Messaging API (Jake Leichtling & Filip Gorski)
• Standard Flavored Markdown (Jeff Atwood)
• TypeScript Mario (Phillip Trelford)
• Creating AngularJS controller classes with TypeScript (Andrew Davey)
• Hack Your API First – learn how to identify vulnerabilities in today’s internet connected devices with Pluralsight (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: An Introduction to XAML (Sani Yusuf)
• WPF Data Binding – INotifyPropertyChanged (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• All I wanted was to set my shortcuts (Oren Eini)
• Delivering Premium Audio Experiences with Dolby® Digital Plus (John Deutscher)
• VS & TFS 2013 Update 4 CTP 1 is available (Brian Harry)
• Use InvokeProcess Activity in Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 to add Build Summary Information (Gouri Sohoni)
• VS 2013 Update 4 CTP 1 is Live! (Eric Battalio)
• ATBG: Ontogeny, phylogeny and virtual methods (Eric Lippert)
• Application Insights SDK (0.10.0-prerelease) (Joshua Weber)
• 2000 C# Things #1,175 – An Example of an Expression Tree (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do We Need Prescriptive Agile Coaching? (Ben Linders)
• Article: The Life and Times of TDD (Scott Ambler)
• Is Your Architecture Crippling Your Unit Testing? (Dave M. Bush)
• Making a Data-Driven Decision (Buck Woody)
• Minimum Credible Release (MCR) and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) (JD Meier)
• Your First Product (Leon Bambrick)
• Introducing split diffs (Mark Otto)
• Sencha Architect – Team Development in the Real World Part 3 of 3 (Richard G. Milone)
• Partitioning and automating development machines (Wes McClure)

 

Mobile / IoT

• New OneDrive SDK: announcing the Android open file picker (Office Dev Team)
• Patterns Playground (Swift Team)
• How To Update the Firmware on a 1st Generation Intel® Galileo Development Board and Overview of the 2nd Generation Intel® Galileo Board and Enabling WiFi on an Intel® Galileo Board (Jerry Makare)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• What the Tech 225: iPhone 6 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Release Management | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• GoingNative 29: Massive Improvements for Browsing in Large Codebases! | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• Boagworld – Ten web professionals worth your attention (Paul Boag)
• RiYL 069: Wreckless Eric (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Kell Andrews, Author of Deadwood (Chris Urie)
• GeekFest Philly 2014 Coming to Temple University (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• How volunteering during my internship impacted me (Bernard)
• Open Source Game Clones (Alexander Solovyov)
• GeekWire Summit: President Obama’s top geek, U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel, joins the lineup (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• Comparing SQL Server Datatypes, Size and Performance for Storing Numbers (Tim Wiseman)
• SQL SERVER – The Basics of the SSIS Execute SQL Task – Notes from the Field #044 (Pinal Dave)
• How to Start SQL Server in Single User Mode? (Rohit Garg)
• Finding Unanswered StackExchange Questions with SQL (Brent Ozar)
• Azure SQL Database Geo-Restore (Tony Petrossian)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2013 Client Components SDK and SharePoint Online Client Components SDK (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Installing, Configuring and Managing Windows Server Failover Cluster using PowerShell Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Getting POSH-GIT in All Your PowerShell Consoles Using GitHub for Windows (Jeff Yates)

 

Miscellaneous

• Nokia Lumia 730 and 735 ‘selfie’ phones announced by Microsoft at IFA 2014 and Nokia’s new DT-903 ‘smart’ wireless charging plate with Bluetooth is brilliant (Daniel Rubino)
• Folder hierarchy when adding phone shared to app solution (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• The affordable flagship: Lumia 830 (Nishtha)
• Announcing Office 365 deployment benefits for new customers (Office 365 Team)
• Microsoft announces the HD-10, a Miracast receiver with NFC support (Sam Sabri)
• Bing Predicts: NFL Match-Ups (Ted Roduner)
• Microsoft fights Android and Chrome OS with dirt-cheap Windows 8.1 PCs and tablets (Mary Jo Foley)
• Security/hacking got you a little freaked? Moving to Two Factor Auth? Looking for a WP8.x “Google Authenticator App”? Microsoft has got your back… (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, September 3, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Daily News Digest 9/4/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1687 (Chris Alcock)

 

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