Dew Drop – September 15, 2014 (#1855)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Scaffolding on GitHub (ASP.NET Team)
• Fear Driven Development – FDD (Scott Hanselman)
• TWC9: Win2D, C# 6, Azure Media Services, Rx and Cortana and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• New video leak shows multi-desktop support coming in Windows 9 and New video shows Windows 9 Notification Center on the desktop (Sam Sabri)

 

Web & Cloud

• AngularJS: The Bad Bits (Mircea Moise)
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Views (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• Using D3.js and ASP.NET SignalR for Real-time Data Visualization (Ravi Kiran)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Introduction (Simon Timms)
• HTTP vs HTTPS performance comparison (Dean Hume)
• Speeding up pages with lots of media content items (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Using Azure Storage Emulator Command-Line Tool: WAStorageEmulator.exe (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Making your WebGL code more flexible (David Catuhe)
• DASH Live Streaming with Azure Media Service (Kilroy Hughes)
• Announcing the 0.6.0-beta preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK (Pranav Rastogi)
• Easy Authentication for Web Applications Using Live Connect (Sam Basu)
• ComcastifyJS – Sometimes images just load too damned fast. (The Onion)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 Phone Call – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Apps & Native WinRT Components Not Packaged as an SDK/Nuget Package (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,158 – Managing using Directives, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Consumable Information in WindowsStoreProxy.xml (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Why Windows UI Matters: Part 1 and Why Windows UI Matters: Part 2 (Alexandre Mutel)
• Sharing and exchanging data (XAML) (Windows Dev Center)
• What’s new in handling dates in your application’s editors? (Stefan Stefanov)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Understanding IEnumerable and IQueryable in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Workaround for when Visual Studio Update says it doesn’t apply (Heath Stewart)
• Quick easy steps to grab your build artifacts from Visual Studio Online (John V. Petersen)
• TIP: Lazy Code Snippets in Visual Studio (Jonathan Rozenblit)
• What About EDMX When EF7 Arrives? (Julie Lerman)
• Auto restore Nuget packages with TFS Build the right way and How To Delete a Team Project from Visual Studio Online (Tarun Arora)
• visual-studio-task-runner-extension (Chris Love)
• How (not) to parameterize Serilog events (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• 2000 C# Things #1,182 – Capturing a for Loop Variable in a Lambda Expression (Sean Sexton)
• 11 Productivity Features For Developers in Visual Studio 2013 (Kalyan Bandarupalli)
• EntityFramework Reverse POCO Code First Generator v2.6.3 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Interview: Karl Scotland introduces the Kanban Canvas (Karl Scotland)
• Everyday Unit Testing – New Chapter Released! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Microsoft Is Adopting A More Agile Approach (Savita Pahuja)
• Keep your code DRY (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Hurry up and wait! Tales from the desk of an automation engineer (Matt Wrock)
• The Incremental Architect´s Napkin – #7 – Nest flows to scale functional design (Ralf Westphal)
• The secrets of understanding 3-way merges (Trevor Green)
• Code Coverage: Myth vs Reality (Vicky)
• FAQ – Why do we use the flight analogy for our projects? (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introduction to Android Wear: The Basics (Jessica Thornsby)
• Windows Phone devs, responding to reviews boosts your ratings (Sam Sabri)
• Is Apple Watch out of time? (Joe Wilcox)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 335 – Bill Fink on Kinect for Windows (David Giard)
• Herding Code 196: Matias Niemela on ngAnimate (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente & Scott Koon)
• Yet Another Podcast #132: FalafelCon Roundtable (Jesse Liberty)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 144 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Episode 1: iOS8, VMworld, Airwatch Connect, Secure Email | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
• GeekWire Radio: Apple Watch, iPhone 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and car-sharing at the airport (Todd Bishop)
• Webinar Recording: Get Ready for iOS 8 (Courtney Witmer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Mira Sorvino (Chris Hardwick)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: The One with Country Drinks | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Video : Getting started with the Automapper in C-Sharp (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Episode 153: WebJobs with Pranav Rastogi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris)
• Develop Azure Mobile Services Locally | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Jeff Sanders)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #208: Learning Objective-C – Part 2A (Peter Shearer)
• StarTalk Radio – A Tribute to Joan Rivers (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Gillmor Gang: AppleJacked (Steve Gillmor)

 

Community / Events

• RavenDB Days this week! (Oren Eini)
• .NET In The Know (Kerry Meade)
• Article: Interview with Grady Booch (Mark Collins-Cope)
• James Montemagno | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight and Jeffrey T. Fritz | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight (Ryan Axford)

 

Database

• Prevent Confidential Data at the Application Layer from getting into SQL Server (Tim Smith)
• SQL SERVER – Flushing Transaction Log to Disk for Current Database and SQL SERVER – Beginning In-Memory OLTP with Sample Example (Pinal Dave)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Client side and RavenDB, unrecoverable database and data loss and What is new in RavenDB 3.0: JVM Client API (Oren Eini)
• Data Anonymization (Rinat Abdullin)
• Blog Post: Creation & Deletion of Database Snapshot by SQL Agent Job (Rohit Garg)

 

SharePoint

• Change the Master Page to Site in SharePoint 2013 Online (Kaviya Balasubramanian)

 

PowerShell

• Install, Configure and Manage Windows Server Failover Cluster with PowerShell – Part 3 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Finding the Last Friday (or any weekday) of the Month in PowerShell (Chinh Do)
• Create a BLOB in Azure BLOB Storage using the REST API and Powershell (Jamie Thomson)
• New features introduced in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014 (Jan Egil Ring)

 

Miscellaneous

• Using GitHub for Developer Presentations (Andrew Connell)
• Lineup of Windows books and ebooks (Kim Spilker)
• Playing the “Why is Microsoft buying Mojang (Minecraft)?” game (Kip Kniskern)
• Small Basic – GetSettingsFilePath (litdev)
• Flags in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• What did Windows 3.1 do when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del? (Raymond Chen)
• Infographic: Top 5 programming languages of 2014 (Sonal Amin)
• 5 skills every programmer needs in 2014 (Stacy Warden)
• Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions (Bill Rigby)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, September 12, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 12, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #133 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 9/12/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1694 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: September 5 to September 11 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #320 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #73 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Office 365 news round-up (Jake Zborowski)

 

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