Dew Drop – September 12, 2014 (#1854)

Top Links

• Azure: SQL Databases, API Management, Media Services, Websites, Role Based Access Control and More (Scott Guthrie)
• Announcing the Windows Dev Center Partner Program (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Quickstart: Adding a Flyout (XAML) (Windows Dev Center)
• Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs whitepaper (Gregg Boer)

 

Web Development

• Refactoring the ASP.NET MVC Application to the Onion Architecture (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Adding to the Body Class in WordPress (Joe Clifton)
• FreedReadR: RSS Reader Created With AngularJS (Newton Saber)
• Modern Web Best Practice: Build Tools (Aaron Bushnell)
• Install Cypher Highlighting into Sublime Text 3 (Chris Skardon)
• badapi.net just got badder (Elton Stoneman)
• Paper Effect Google Maps (Sacha Barber)
• Features Of ES6 Part 6: Destructuring (K. Scott Allen)
• Internet Explorer 12 Features & Details Leak (Vygantas)
• Json.NET 6.0 Release 5 (CodePlex)

 

.NET

• C# vNext (6.0) Overview (Filip Ekberg)
• TFS upgrade guide revision and the new process guidance paper landed safely (Willy-P. Schaub)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,157 – Overridden Default Property Values Appear in Property Pane (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – Fallback Values (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate and the Specification Pattern (Ricardo Peres)
• Deriving from a fluent class (Bertrand LeRoy)
• 2000 C# Things #1,181 – Instantiating an Object within a Lambda Expression (Sean Sexton)
• Enhance your Application Availability Monitoring with VS 2013 Web Test Plugins (Gustavo R. Lima)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Interview: Karl Scotland introduces the Kanban Canvas (Karl Scotland)
• MindManager 15: A Great Tool for Increasing Your Productivity (Chance Brown)
• Optimizing The Development Process With Sencha Cmd 5 (Don Griffin)
• Ten at Ten Meetings (JD Meier)
• Praise for Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello’s new book on architecting applications (Kim Spilker)
• People are productive in different ways (Scott Koon)
• Reaction to Proposed Software Testing Standard (Shane Hastie)
• Code Coverage: Myth vs Reality (Vicky)
• 5 Things The Best Managers Do And Don’t Do (Victor Lipman)

 

Mobile Development

• Amazon Mobile Ad Network Adds iOS Support Giving Developers Increased Reach and Monetization Opportunities (Dave Isbitski)
• Enterprise Distribution of Windows Phone Applications (Nick Randolph)
• Responding to app reviews: benefits and guidelines (Bernardo Zamora)
• Doing Form Validation Right In Mobile Applications (Burke Holland)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 015 with Andrew Salamatov on Apps for Office in Outlook (Office 365 Team)
• Hanselminutiae 14 with Richard Campbell – Apple iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Announcements (Scott Hanselman)
• Adventures in Angular 007 AiA HabitRPG (John Papa)
• Windows Weekly 379: Snarknado (Paul Thurrott)
• Defrag: Matter and Form 3D scanning, System File Checker, LUA Buglight and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Boagworld – 10 ways to make your forms a pleasure to use (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• New Project webcast series starts September 16: creating a workflow using SharePoint Designer (Project Team)
• Microsoft takes its developer outreach beyond the traditional hackathon (Mary Jo Foley)
• Dan Wahlin | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight (Ryan Axford)

 

Database

• Prevent Confidential Data at the Application Layer from getting into SQL Server (Tim Smith)
• Great new Microsoft KB article: Recommended SQL Server Updates and Trace Flags (Brent Ozar)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Client side and RavenDB, unrecoverable database and data loss (Oren Eini)
• Azure SQL Database introduces new near real-time performance metrics (Tony Petrossian)
• DocumentDB vs Azure SQL vs Azure Table (Herve Roggero)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kindergarten coders: Code.org launches open source Code Studio to boost kids’ learning of computer science (Blair Hanley Frank)
• Windows 9: More about virtual desktops and that pesky Charms bar (Brad Sams)
• Display bezel allegedly reveals Microsoft branding for a Lumia phone (Daniel Rubino)
• Small Basic 1.0 Known Issues – Do we have them all? (Ed Price)
• Microsoft dropping “Nokia” brand? Not news, sorry (Kip Kniskern)
• Understanding network neutrality (Mike Loukides)
• NFL picks: Microsoft Bing beat Vegas last week — here are its Week 2 predictions (Taylor Soper)
• Do Windows Phone users need to become as haughty as Apple fans to win the battle? (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 9/12/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1693 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-12 (Dan Rigby)

 

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