Dew Drop – October 21, 2014 (#1881)

Top Links

• Producing combinations, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Azure’s getting bigger, faster and more open (Jason Zander)
• Roslyn – Open source infrastructure work going forward (Matt Gertz)
• How Microsoft’s expected fitness band fits into its new wearables game plan (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Web Development

• Creating An Optimized Switch Directive For Use With ngRepeat In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Live Edit for Node.js in PhpStorm 8 (Maarten Balliauw)
• A jquery-watch Plug-in for watching CSS styles and Attributes (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC 6: What are KRE, KVM, KPM? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Identity in Orchard Import/Export (Bertrand LeRoy)
• InstantAPI Lets You Build An API In An Instant (Frederic Lardinois)
• Review: Everleap (Kevin Griffin)
• Domain Modeling Around Deletes or “Using Cassandra as a queue even when you know better” (Ryan Svihla)
• AngularJS and ES6 (Mithun Patel)
• Disabling SSL 3 in Azure websites (and why it doesn’t look like you have) (Troy Hunt)
• Help shape Windows 10 with the official Windows UserVoice (Sam Sabri)

 

XAML

• Using Visual Studio 2013 for analyzing memory issues in WPF applications (Andrei Marukovich)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello ‘Custom Gesture’ World for the WPF Developer (Mike Taulty)
• Pausing Video when a Companion Ad is Clicked (Michael Scherotter)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• For the love of OCD, show whitespace in your IDE (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Octokit.Caching (Nigel Sampson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 4 Biggest Reasons Why Software Developers Suck at Estimation and New Book – Soft Skills – The software developer’s life manual (John Sonmez)
• Do we need a Tech Lead? (Patrick Kua)
• Scenarios and Underpants Gnomes (Steve Rowe)
• Modeling exercise: The grocery store’s checkout model (Oren Eini)
• The secret to a great software engineering team… (Jonathan Cogley)
• Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects (Martin Fowler)
• Use Your Blockades to Sustainably Improve (Ben Linders)
• Legacy Code to Testable Code #4: More Accessors! (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• What’s New in Android 5.0 Lollipop (Ankur Kotwal)
• Getting Up to Speed With Xcode 6 (Joyce Echessa)
• Failable Initializers (Swift Team)
• Lollipop: The Most Significant Visual Update Since Ice Cream Sandwich (Kiril Stanoev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – MVVM on the Web with Miguel Castro (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Podcast: Scot Silverstein talks health IT safety risks (Neil Versel)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 149 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Real World IT – The App for That! 101 of SharePoint Apps (part 3 of 5) | Real World IT (Ruth Van Dyke)
• Defrag Tools #111 – Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Using Intel® XDK to Build HTML5 Applications (Lindsay Hart)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 45: Deborah Kurata (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Reubens (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 35 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Video: Learn Software design – Open Closed Principle (Dhananjay Kumar)
• CppCon Videos Available (Eric Battalio)
• Bart De Smet, Jafar Hussain, Matthew Podwysocki: Pragmatic Rx (The Channel 9 Team)

 

Community / Events

• Academy Of Natural Sciences Hosting an Overnight For Adults (Drinking with Dinosaurs!) (David Goodman)
• How To Win The Pitch Video Challenge (Kevin Maginn)
• Tell us your tech horror story for a chance to win! (Lora Beros)
• Get your internship questions answered (Ken Ankrom)

 

Database

• Entity Framework 6 and SQL Server Compact 4.0 – “Proper” private desktop deployment (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Search Records with Single Quotes – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

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

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell and SQL Stored Procedure (Desmond Lee)

 

Miscellaneous

• Create Real Console Mode Program in Small Basic – Featured Thread (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, October 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1423 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading October 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1720 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/21/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #159 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #105 (Jason Strate)

 

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