Dew Drop – October 24, 2014 (#1884)

Top Links

• Hanselminutes – Selecting the Ultimate Developer Laptop with Damian Edwards (Scott Hanselman)
• Surface division on track to be Microsoft’s next $1 billion business (John Callaham)
• Violating the “smart enum” pattern in C# (Jon Skeet)
• Xamarin Tools: Components, Components, Components! (Wallace McClure)

 

Web Development

• You Cannot Link Attribute Interpolation Multiple Times In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Building an Angular List: Using ng-repeat (David Posin)
• PhpStorm 8.0.2 RC1 139.173 (Mikhail Vink)
• ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0-alpha1 (Pranav Rastogi)
• Be smooth: Optimize Bing Maps in multipage Windows Store apps (JavaScript) (Ricky Brundritt)
• Connect KendoUI AutoComplete to MVC Action (Steve Smith)
• Refactoring Legacy Code – Part 11: The End? (Patkos Csaba)
• Node v0.10.33 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• node-webkit – Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM (Roger Wang)
• Azure Table Storage little gem – InsertOrMerge (Boris Lipschitz)
• TypeScript and the Road to 2.0 (Jonathan Turner)

 

XAML

• Updates to the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store policies (Bernardo Zamora)
• Windows Phone and Mobile Services on ioProgrammo (Marco Minerva)
• Comparing WP7 stats: AdDuplex and Microsoft (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,187 – Using an ItemContainerStyle to Change Items in an ItemsControl (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Display Controls – ListView (Richard Carr)
• Awaiting for that Button click (Slobodan Pavkov)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Developing in F# impressions (Johan Olsson)
• 2000 C# Things #1,211 – C# 6.0 – Adding Implementation for a Primary Constructor (Sean Sexton)
• Using MemoryStream to Wrap Existing Buffers: Gotchas and Tips (Ben M. Watson)
• Producing combinations, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Custom Kinect Control for Drag and Drop, IKinectManipulateableController (Greg Duncan)
• How can I detect programmatically whether the /3GB switch is enabled? (Raymond Chen)
• NuGet – Package Manifests (Jeff Handley)
• Getting Started with .NET Code Coverage (Vicky)
• Visual Studio with ReSharper is high on memory usage (Alex Berezoutsky)
• Kinect With Me Part 1 – Setting Up Your Machine (Sage Franch)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An inspiring Scrom (Scrum) course and the question whether we are dysfunctional? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Using Complexity Measurements to Improve Software Quality (Ben Linders)
• Management Clichés That Work (Steven Sinofsky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• GPS on Android Wear Devices (Wayne Piekarski)
• Use C# to script in Unreal Engine 4 now, courtesy of Xamarin (David Voyles)
• In App Email Simplified with The SendGrid Cordova Plugin (Steve Forte)
• VHD for Multi-Device Hybrid Apps for Visual Studio CTP2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Apache Cordova and WinJS (Josh Rennert)
• Getting Your Apps Ready for Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 (Katherine Kuan)
• Eclipse Development Environment for Intel® Galileo Installation on Windows* (Jerry Makare)
• Mono for Unreal Engine (Miguel de Icaza)
• Using Plugins and Mixins in Your Sencha Apps (Seth Lemmons)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Quckly Generate C# Classes from JSON Responses | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Bret Bentzinger)
• 013 AiA Modern Web and Open Source with Scott Hanselman (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Krysten Ritter (Chris Hardwick)
• Krysta Svore on Quantum Computing | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• SQL Server Radio Show 7 – In-Memory OLTP and Columnstore Indexes (Matan Yungman)

 

Community / Events

• 1st Ever SharePoint MVP Reddit AMA – October 29th, 2014 1pm Eastern (Andrew Connell)
• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donating $100 million to Ebola fight (John Cook)
• Happy Birthday Small Basic!! – The 6th Anniversary (Nonki Takahashi)
• Docker Global Hack Day at TechEd Europe 2014 (Victor Coisne)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Database Stuck in Restoring State (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• What If We Could Weaponize Empathy? (Jeff Atwood)
• Say hello to Microsoft Lumia (Tiina Jaatinen)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 23, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 23, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1722 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/23/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)

 

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