Dew Drop – September 24, 2014 (#1862)

Top Links

• iPhone 6 Project For App Prototyping in Microsoft SketchFlow (Sanjay Sharma)
• Unit testing AngularJS with Visual Studio, Resharper and TeamCity (Mike Larah)
• Be Sure With Azure .NET – Azure Table Storage (Part 1) (Max R. McCarty)
• Git Diff Margin v3.0 released (Laurent Kempé)
• Wanna be a cowboy? or maybe a Professional (Windows Platform) Developer? (Mark B. Schramm)

 

Web Development

• Cool Social Buttons jQuery Plugin and jQuery Plugin for Google Drive API and Cropbox.js : jQuery Image Crop Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• Three simple steps to use jQuery UI in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Help me by Improving my JavaScript talk (Peter Seale)
• Querying Orchard fields with HQL (Bertrand LeRoy)
• ECMAScript 6 promises (1/2): foundations (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The value proposition of Hypermedia (Jimmy Bogard)
• APress Deal of the Day 24/Sept/2014 – Practical Ext JS 4 (Tatworth)
• Your Azure website CPU is going nuts and it’s not your fault (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,165 – Layout in Action, part II (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – Custom Value Converters (Richard Carr)
• Debugging live tile issues (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Cortana Integration and Speech Recognition: New Code Samples (Steve White)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Return Types for Methods that Return Collections (Peter Vogel)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: One Shot Delete and Inverse Collections (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,189 – Lambda Expression Can Capture Static Data (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Work item improvements – Sep 23 (Aaron Bjork)
• Article: Technical Architecture in Banking and Gaming (Ben Evans)
• Batching and pipelining linearizable operations in replicated logs (Kelly Sommers)
• Why Clarifying Requirements is Important (Michael Burns)
• A/B Testing in the Telerik Platform with LeanPlum (Paulette Stout)
• The Simplest Form of Secure Coding (Peleus Uhley)
• Tried and Tested (Shalvika)
• Obsessing over details is a sign (Wes McClure)
• Project Unicorn – Part 1. Initial context and an explanation of our “kick-off” event (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Inside Solid: who will build the god platform for the Internet of Things? (Jon Bruner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 284 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Helmick interviews Jon and Hal (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Technology & Friends Episode 336 – Carson, Babker, and Hurley on Joomla (David Giard)
• The Amp Hour #217 – 3D Printed Shark Jumps – Edifying Edison’s Energy (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 31 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• SSW TV – Publishing Your First Mobile Game with Steve Yap (SSW Team)
• StarTalk SoundBite: How Much Are Apes Like Humans? (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Sander Mak (Alec Noller)
• Microsoft to train 1 million women under tech initiative (Deccan Herald)

 

Database

• What Happens When a Computed Column is Persisted in SQL Server? (Aaron Bertrand)
• Extended property support in SSDT (10 days of SSDT – Day 5) and SQL Server Object Explorer (10 days of SSDT – Day 6) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Dashboard: Current Activity Section Reports (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: SQL Server 2014 Sample Databases Now Available (Richard Lee)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Meta discussion (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell and T-SQL Regular Expression Examples for SQL Server (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s new wireless display adapter available for preorder for $59.95 (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 23, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 23, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1414 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1701 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-24 (Dan Rigby)

 

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