Dew Drop – October 1, 2014 (#1867)

Top Links

• Announcing Windows 10 (Terry Myerson)
• Visualizing Security Information with Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
• The mysteries of BCL time zone data (Jon Skeet)
• Xamarin.Forms: What Developers Make of It and Simplifying Cross-Platform Mobile App Development with Xamarin.Forms (Wallace McClure)

 

Windows 10

• Microsoft christens the next version of Windows as Windows 10 and Microsoft’s Windows 10: What’s new and how to get the preview bits (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 10 Technical Preview to be released Wednesday via Windows Insider Program and Yes, Windows 10 is the next version of Windows Phone (John Callaham)
• Universal Windows apps get better with Windows 10 (Kevin Gallo)
• Microsoft unveils… (wait for it)…. Windows 10 (!!!) (Kip Kniskern)
• Here are the 6 new features inside Windows 10 (Sam Sabri)
• Windows 10: ‘The first step of a whole new generation of Windows’ (Suzanne Choney)
• A closer look at Windows 10 and This is how Cortana works on Windows 10 (Tom Warren)
• Xbox One Is Getting Windows 10, Cross-Platform Games And Apps (Thomas Halleck)
• New experimental console features in Windows “Threshold” (Rafael Rivera)

 

Web Development

• CodeinWP: Turn Your Design into a WordPress Theme (Anthony)
• PHP 5.6 : What’s New (Avinash Zala)
• Article Highlight: Refactoring the ASP.NET MVC Application to the Onion Architecture (Jennifer Staretorp)
• Adding dependencies that don’t implement IDependency to Orchard (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Using the New Sencha Extensions for Microsoft Azure 2.0 (Arthur Kay)
• Creating Web Components with Google Polymer (Basem Emara)
• Be Sure with Azure .NET – Azure Table Storage (Part 2) (Max R. McCarty)
• Markdown Style Guide (Miguel de Icaza)
• Features of ES6 Part 8: Tagged Templates (K. Scott Allen)
• Amazon Releases Official AWS Mobile SDK 2 (Sergio De Simone)
• Azure Web Application Gallery on azure.microsoft.com (Sunitha Muthukrishna)
• The anatomy of a Shellshock attack in the wild (Troy Hunt)
• The Ajax Control Toolkit are now maintained by DevExpress (Xinyang Qiu)

 

XAML

• A WinRT CollectionView class with Filtering and Sorting (Bernardo Castilho)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,170 – Custom Panel, part II (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – Priority Bindings (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Kinect for Windows V2: Hello (Audio) World for the .NET Windows App Developer & Harmonica Player 😉 (Mike Taulty)
• Microsoft OCR Library (Bary Nusz)
• Entity Framework and Enum Flags (Josh Eastburn)
• 2000 C# Things #1,194 – Chaining Iterators Together (Sean Sexton)
• Getting Started with WordProcessing in UI for WinForms Vol.1 (Stefan Stefanov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Basics of Event Sourcing and Some CQRS (Jan Stenberg)
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Michael Burns)
• Better for everyone (Eric Brechner)
• Implementing Domain-Driven Design – Part 2 (Matt Davey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 8: Core Data and Batch Updates (Bart Jacobs)
• Open GL Hello Triangle with Xamarin (Bary Nusz)
• iPhone 6 and 6 Plus LaunchScreen.storyboard for Xamarin (Craig Dunn)
• NUCLiOS IGGaugeView: Place Custom Views at Specific Values (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Determine Device Platform using Kendo UI Mobile (Rachel Hagerman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme (Chris Hardwick)
• Episode 047 | SPTechCon Panel Recap – Office 365, the Cloud, On-premises or Hybrid: Which Road Do You Take? (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Amp Hour #218 – An Interview with Eric VanWyk – Meiotic Mountenance Mooshimeter (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 32 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• ICTV028: Eyenaemia Meets Bill Gates | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Video: Get Started With Optical Character Recognition with the OCR Library for Windows Runtime (Iris Classon)
• Ping 223: CastleStorm, xBox One Comedy Central app, Inbox Personality Rules, MSFT Hardware and Home Automation | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 211: Continuous Delivery on Windows with Rachel Laycock and Max Lincoln (SE-Radio Team)
• StarTalk SoundBite: The Hunt For A Real Medical Tricorder (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 16 – Matthew Podwysocki (Steven Proctor)

 

Community / Events

• Celebrating Women in Computing (Adarsha Datta)
• Dev of the Week: Itamar Haber (Alec Noller)

 

Database

• Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Administration (Ian Stirk)
• Declarative, Model Driven Development (10 days of SSDT – day 9) (Jamie Thomson)
• Five Oracle Myths (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – A Practical Use of Backup Encryption (Pinal Dave)
• Article: Introduction to Red Gate’s SQL Source Control (David Atkinson)
• Beta Version of Big Data Tools Now Available from Syncfusion (Morgan C.)

 

SharePoint

• Install of TFS 2013.3 with SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Update 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic: Did you Know? – Featured Article (Ed Price)
• NimbleSET 2.0: Death to the VLOOKUP! (Leon Bambrick)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 30, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 30, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 10/1/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1706 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Links of the month (September Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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