Dew Drop – September 23, 2014 (#1861)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 2 (And More) Available (John Montgomery)
• New D-Series of Azure VMs with 60% Faster CPUs, More Memory and Local SSD Disks (Scott Guthrie)
• Scrumpkin Pie: Ingredients for a Great Scrum Team (Michael Burns)
• Video: Xamarin Forms – Over 90% Code Re-Use And Access to Native Features (Steven Yi)

 

Web Development

• WebStorm 9 EAP, 138.2406: spy-js code completion, CSS3 enhancements, Scratch files and… JSX (Ekaterina Prigara)
• eBook deal of the week: Windows Azure SQL Database Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Windows Authentication in Asp.Net Web Application (Manjunath K)
• Unit testing AngularJS with Visual Studio, Resharper and TeamCity (Mike Larah)
• A Practical Use of WordPress Global Variables (Praveen Selvasekaran)
• PureScript: A Haskell-like Language that Compiles to JavaScript (Sergio De Simone)
• A WordPress Development Process Using Sass and Compass (Yanko Dimitrov)
• Cassandra Query Patterns: Not using the “in” query for multiple partitions. (Ryan Svihla)
• Getting Orchard content items out of HQL (Bertrand LeRoy)
• A Fundamental Disconnect (Aaron Gustafson)
• New D-Series Virtual Machine Sizes (Kenaz Kwa)
• Announcing the 1.0.0-rc1 of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK (Pranav Rastogi)
• Your Azure website CPU is going nuts and it’s not your fault (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Announcing the WPCentral Developer Program to promote Windows and Windows Phone apps and Joe Belfiore: Microsoft could offer new Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview updates this week (John Callaham)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,164 – Using Animation to Bounce a Control (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What’s New in C# 6.0 (Filip Ekberg)
• Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 CTP2 is available and Team Explorer Everywhere 2013.2 (Update 2) (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 2 Available (Eric Battalio)
• Splitting Tables To Improve Performance: A Designer-Based Solution (Peter Vogel)
• Using AutoMapper: Getting Started (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NavigateTo powered up with help from Windows Search in NavigateToAll (Greg Duncan)
• Receiving a notification any time the selection changes in an Explorer window (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,188 – Lambda Expression Can Capture Instance Data (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Q&A on Kanban in Action (Ben Linders)
• Value of Certifications for Agile Transformation (Savita Pahuja)
• The Caffeinated Coder: Is Caffeine Good or Bad? (John Sonmez)
• APress Deal of the Day 23/September/2014 – Git Recipes (Tatworth)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• ToolbarItems in Xamarin Forms (Corrado Cavalli)
• iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Launch Images for Xamarin (Craig Dunn)
• Free eBook|Learning to Master Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Xamarin (Jennifer Staretorp)
• Android Studio 0.8.11 and Android Gradle 0.13 Released (John Walter)
• iOS 8 Support in Telerik Platform (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 145 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 41: Carl Franklin (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David Arquette (Chris Hardwick)
• CodeChat 011 – Bret Stateham (Internet of Things) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Reactive Extensions RX in Action the movie (Jim Wooley)
• Defrag Tools #107 – Larry Osterman – 30 Years – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, LarryOsterman, Andrew Richards, Golnaz & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Webinar – What’s New in PhpStorm 8: Evolving with You, October 7th and JetBrains & shortcutFoo PhpStorm/WebStorm hotkeys tournament (Mikhail Vink)
• Greener grass (Frans Bouma)

 

Database

• How to use DBCC CHECKPRIMARYFILE to attach several SQL Server databases in seconds (Percy Reyes)
• Extended property support in SSDT (10 days of SSDT – Day 5) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Performance Dashboard Reports – Home Page details (Pinal Dave)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Operations–the nitty gritty details and What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Operations–Optimizations (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Installing, Configuring and Managing Windows Server Failover Cluster using PowerShell Part 4 (Edwin Sarmiento)

 

Miscellaneous

• New USB Type-C connector and cable can also offer DisplayPort support (John Callaham)
• Students and teachers: You may be eligible to get Office for free! (Office Team)
• DuckDuckGo Now Blocked In China (Soulskill)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of September 15, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 22, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #134 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1413 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – September 19, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/23/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-23 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1700 (Chris Alcock)

 

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