Dew Drop – September 17, 2014 (#1857)

Top Links

• New Microsoft Message Analyzer Released (Eric Lawrence)
• Gemba in Scrum and Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls (Michael Burns)
• Microsoft OneNote gains Android Wear support plus new iOS 8 and Windows Phone apps (Mark Wilson)
• Working with Azure DocumentDB: SQL & NoSQL Together (Gastón Hillar)

 

Web Development

• Web API Documentation Tools (Terrence Dorsey)
• Buffer.slice() Won’t Error On Out-Of-Bounds Indices In Node.js and EventEmitter Invokes Event Callbacks In The Context Of The EventEmitter Instance In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Creating Checkboxes using Bootstrap and MVC and Using Friendly URLs in Web Forms (Paul Sheriff)
• Introducing Runnable JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Code Snippets (David Haney)
• Three simple steps to use Kendo UI Web in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Sublime – AngularJS – Useful Auto-complete Snippets (Ajitesh Kumar)
• Over 100 ASP.NET Web API samples (Filip W)
• Apple Shows Love for HTML5 with iOS 8 (Ross Gerbasi)
• Creating a Professional WordPress Development Workflow With Vagrant (Zachary Russell)
• Referencing server-generated fields in script (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Docker images for Dart now available (Gary Lewis)
• ECMAScript 6 Modules Go Beyond CommonJS and of AMD (James Chesters)
• Node, Grunt, Bower and Yeoman – A Modern Web Dev’s Toolkit (Juri Strumpflohner)
• Node v0.10.32 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• More Internet Explorer 12 Details Revealed (Vygantas)

 

XAML

• Supercharging your Mobile Line of Business Solutions with SQLite and Offline Data Sync via Universal Apps for Windows (Rob Tiffany)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• APress Deal of the Day 17/September/2014 – Expert F# 3.0 (Tatwoorth)
• Connecting Microsoft Application Insights from “behind the firewall” (Charles Sterling)
• Introducing Couchbase .NET SDK 2.0 Beta! (Don Pinto)
• .NET Sample Code on GitHub (Immo Landwerth)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• To take thy code personally – Yes or No? That is the question… (Allen Conway)
• You Are Using the ORM the Wrong Way (Jan Stenberg)
• Cuttable Scope and How To Think Like a Microsoft Executive (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android One: Bringing Your Apps to the Next Five Billion (Rich Hyndman)
• iOS UI Testing (Daniel Zheng)
• An important announcement for iOS developers using the GooglePlus SDK (Gary Lewis)
• Choosing an Android dev device, or Ugly Hack of the Week (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Google Play Services 6.1 (Android Developers Team)
• Optimizing Your Ext JS Apps for Touch and Tablets (Lee Boonstra)
• Facebook – Introducing improved analytics tools for app developers (Ravi Grover)
• Play Store leak uncovers more Material Design changes (Stephen Schenck)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• A Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup, Carl Hewitt, and Dave Ungar (Charles Torre)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kevin Smith #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• Connectedly 4: Digital Knob (Adam Zeis, Kevin Michaluk, Rene Ritchie & Phil Nickinson)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 045 | Office Client Apps in Office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Amp Hour #216 – Last Minute Decisions – Obdurate Onepercenter Obstacles (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Ping 222: MSN Preview, Siri vs. Cortana, Minecraft hits Xbox One, OneDrive, Apps for Office Workers, E.T cartridges | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• StarTalk SoundBite: What Can We Learn From A Black Hole? (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Speaker Spotlight: Paul Betts (Joseph Hill)
• 5 Questions With Richard Campbell (Tony Verguldi)
• Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18: Sources (Mary Jo Foley)
• Philly developers finalists at IndieCade (Nicole Kline)
• Josh Eastburn | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight (Ryan Axford)

 

Database

• Day 1 – Online and offline (10 days of SSDT) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Resource Locking and Object Execution Statistics Report (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: Cumulative Update – 2 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available ! and Blog Post: Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Indexing backend and What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Indexing enhancements (Oren Eini)
• Does your SQL Smell? The free “119 SQL Code Smells” eBook might help you sniff it out (and fix it) (Greg Duncan)
• “My DocumentDB” – A Simple Web-based DocumentDB Management Tool (Shaun Xu)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office Lens: Convert Hardcopy Docs and Notes into Editable Files on OneDrive (Jason Moore)
• How do you deal with anxiety when Live Coding in Technical Interviews? (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s new Universal Mobile Keyboard works with iOS, Android and Windows devices (Mary Jo Foley)
• “OK Google, take a note—OneNote supports Android Wear” (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 16, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1696 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (9/8-9/14) (Dara Monasch)
• Daily News Digest 9/17/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-17 (Dan Rigby)

 

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