Dew Drop – September 16, 2014 (#1856)

Links

• Microsoft invites media to meet the next version of Windows (Mary Jo Foley)
• .NET Universe Poster – 2014 (MS Downloads)
• Minecraft to join Microsoft (Jennifer Chen)
• .NET Rocks! – Diving Deep Into Roslyn with Kathleen Dollard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Turning Buffers Into Readable Streams In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Options for SSL in WordPress (Joe Clifton)
• An Introduction to WordPress Global Variables (Praveen Selvasekaran)
• How to host a Scalable and Optimized WordPress for Azure in minutes (Sunitha Muthukrishna)
• AngularJS: One Step at a Time (Michael Crump)
• Authoring Markdown – What, Why, How (Andrew Connell)
• Azure Websites Virtual Network Integration (Chris Compy)
• Off-Canvas Menu Effects (Mary Lou)
• 10 things I learned about rapidly scaling websites with Azure (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Events and Navigation (Sani Yusuf)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,159 – Managing using Directives, part II (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – String Formatting (Richard Carr)
• How to create an Extended Splashscreen for Universal Apps (Marco Siccardi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# 6.0 Features Part 3: Declaration Expressions (K. Scott Allen)
• Project Welcome pages in TFS and VSO (Tarun Arora)
• Internal or public? (Eric Lippert)
• Querying collection properties in Seq 1.5 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• 2000 C# Things #1,183 – How to Correctly Capture a for Loop Variable in a Lambda Expression (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Dynamic Process of Realizing Your Potential (J.D. Meier)
• Projects Where You Can’t Predict an End Date (Johanna Rothman)
• Don’t Focus on Your Strengths (John Sonmez)
• Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Matt Davey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Application wide resources in Xamarin Forms (Corrado Cavalli)
• Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms (Daniel Vaughan)
• APress Deal of the Day 16/September/2014 – Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Game Development (Tatworth)
• How I used Azure Mobile Services in my Unity game (Mickey MacDonald)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hello World Podcast Episode 40: Kathleen Dollard (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ed Helms Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: The One with DevOps Spotlight | The Countdown Show (David Tesar, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• CodeChat 010 – Cameron Lerum and Jan Nelson (Multilingual App Toolkit) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Defrag Tools #106 – Larry Osterman – 30 Years – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, LarryOsterman, Andrew Richards, Golnaz & Chad Beeder)
• Nerds At Play 072: Adventures in Weird (Melisa Snyder)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #210: Intro to CocoaPods and Episode #209: Learning Objective-C – Part 2B (Peter Shearer)

 

Community / Events

• Web Series: Better Know a Xamarin (James Montemagno)
• Join us for Tuesday’s webinar: Onetastic for OneNote (Doug Thomas)
• “I created a demo for Bill Gates” (Michelle Feder)
• K. Scott Allen | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight (Ryan Axford)

 

Database

• Name Parsing for up to Two Different Persons from One Name String with SQL Server T-SQL (Rick Dobson)
• SQL SERVER – Location of Natively Compiled Stored Procedure and Naming Convention (Pinal Dave)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Simplicity (Oren Eini)
• When is fast recovery used? (Paul Randal)
• Broadening storage perspectives (Wes McClure)

 

SharePoint

• eBook deal of the week: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• How the next version of IE, codenamed ‘Spartan,’ might support extensions (Mary Jo Foley)
• Introducing //TODO for companies that are committed to open source (Chris Kelly)
• Cradle to Coder: It’s a Kid Coder Week – Post one, Resource Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• Mojang: Our founders, including Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, will depart and Cortana files found buried deep within Windows 9 preview and Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s Minecraft purchase will help kids learn about science and technology (John Callaham)
• Minecraft Joining Microsoft (Larry Hryb)
• Bing in the Classroom Aims to Spark Learning with Quick Access to Educational Content (Ted Roduner)
• Introducing paste searches and monitoring for “Have I been pwned?” (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 15, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 15, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1410 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 9/16/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #154 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1695 (Chris Alcock)

 

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