Dew Drop – September 11, 2014 (#1853)

Top Links

• Yep, time to change passwords: 5 million Gmail credentials posted online (Blair Hanley Frank)
• iOS 8 Bigger and Better with Xamarin (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3 (Andrew Zhou)
• Bing Developer Assistant | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Two free video courses: Intro to ASP.NET MVC and Responsive UI with Bootstrap (Jon Galloway)
• Strongly-typed HTML helpers in Orchard shapes (Bertrand LeRoy)
• A chatroom for all! Part 2 – Welcome to Express with Node.js and Azure (Rami Sayar)
• A Journey With Trusted HTML in AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• MVC Extensions from Telerik (Steve Smith)
• Getting Started with Live Streaming Using the Azure Management Portal (Jason Suess)
• The apiphany epiphany: GA’ing Azure API Management (Josh Twist)
• New Microsoft Azure services help developers, IT pros and businesses tap into the cloud (Suzanne Choney)
• Enabling developers, IT Professionals and business leaders to maximize opportunities with cloud (Vibhor Kapoor)

 

XAML

• Roaming Data Between Windows and Windows Phone: Shared Identity (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Behaviors to handle StatusBar and ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 8.1 apps (Marco Minerva)
• Windows Phone 8: Controls and Properties (Sani Yusuf)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,156 – Changing Circular Progress Control to Be Only an Arc (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day 11/September/2014 – Windows 8 Apps Revealed Using XAML and C# (Tatworth)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Overview of C# 6 language enhancements (Bill Wagner)
• What’s new in C# 6, VB 14? VS 14? Think “Developer Productivity versions” (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio’s New API IntelliSense helps to boost your Productivity (Jialiang)
• Automatically strong name signing NuGet packages (Maarten Balliauw)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Criteria and Collections of Non-Entities and NHibernate Pitfalls: Get and Filters and NHibernate Pitfalls: Deletes (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,180 – Lambda Expressions Can Modify Captured Variables (Sean Sexton)
• New book: Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Building Agile Relationships with Customers and End-Users (Ben Linders)
• Interview: Gil Broza on the Human Side of Agile Management (Gil Broza)
• How To Waste Estimations (Gil Zilberfeld)
• So you want your Team to start using Git? – Part 4: Team Workflows (Doug Rathbone)
• Give Designers Tools To Get You What You Need (Chris Coyier)
• “Simply terrible advice” – If the shoe pinches, don’t wear it. (Scott Hanselman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Solving the “type or namespace name ‘Init’ does not exist” issue in Xamarin Forms (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Gathering Requirements with Robert Bogue (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What the Tech 226: iWatched The Apple Event (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Michael Sheen (Chris Hardwick)
• Edge Show 118 – Gene Kim DevOps Interview | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)
• SQL Server Radio Show 4 – Push or Pull? (Matan Yungman)
• RiYL Episode 070: Whitney Matheson (Brian Heater)
• 125 JSJ WebGL with Sean Griffin (woody2shoes)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Oscar Garcia Colon and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Josh Garverick (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Geek of the Week: Chris Thompson, NextFab’s Technical Supervisor (Chris Urie)
• Join GitHub in support of the open Internet (Chris Wanstrath)

 

Database

• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: RavenFS (Oren Eini)
• Identifying large queries using Server Side Traces (Andrew Pruski)
• Split a Query Window in SSMS (Jes Borland)
• Blog Post: SQL – List Primary key and Concatenate composite Keys into a single row separed by comma (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

PowerShell

• Microsoft Azure PowerShell 0.8.8 is available (Aleksandar Nikolic)
• Secure credentials in the Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) extension (PowerShell Team)
• Install NServiceBus as a Service with Powershell (Romiko Derbynew)

 

Miscellaneous

• With the iPhone 6, Apple has become a ‘me, too’ company (Taylor Martin)
• Finding Copies of Images Online (Steve Smith)
• How to maintain programmer’s health (Jakub Chodounský)
• ‘Star Wars’ Death Star clue in latest J.J. Abrams tweet? (Bonnie Burton)
• OneDrive now supports 10 GB files (Jason Moore)
• Is a Watch really what we need? (Kip Kniskern)
• I wrote the original blue screen of death, sort of (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft is killing the Nokia and Windows Phone brands (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, September 10, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, September 11, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 10, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1692 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 9/11/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (9/1-9/7) (Dara Monasch)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-11 (Dan Rigby)

 

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