Dew Drop – November 5, 2014 (#1892)

Top Links

• Xamarin for Students (Joseph Hill)
• Using System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming (Immo Landwerth)

Web Development

• Implementing Controller-As Using A Directive In AngularJS 1.0.8 (Ben Nadel)
• FormBuilder : jQuery plugin for Building Forms (jQuery Rain)
• Modern HTML5 Responsive Youtube Playlist Player (jQuery Rain)
• Notes on draft CSS “alt” property (Bruce Lawson)
• ORTC – A New Protocol for HTML5 Web Apps (Rami Sayar)
• Web API Thoughts 3 of 3 – Extending Web API Documentation and Web API Thoughts 2 of 3 – Working with HTTPS and Web API Thoughts 1 of 3 – Data Streaming (Wonde Tadesse)
• Azure : How to publish a web site from VS2013 to Azure (Sacha Barber)
• ASP.NET MVC 6 on Azure Websites (Gunnar Peipman)
• Node pitfalls 2: lingering responses (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Part 2: Azure Mobile Services: What you need to know to get started with Storage Services (Adarsha Datta)
• Useful Shortcuts and Tips for a Faster Workflow in Sublime Text 3 (Tim Hartmann)
• Getting Started with ASPNET vNext (Steve Smith)

XAML

• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello ‘Custom Gesture’ World Part 3 (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,195 – Making a Window Partially Transparent (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Basics (Richard Carr)
• Windows Store 8.1 apps, Instagram API and Callback URL (Zubair Ahmed)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Exploring Future Tools: Roslyn, Next Generation Open-Source C# Compiler (Andrei Marukovich)
• 2000 C# Things #1,219 – C# 6.0 – Filtering Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• Testing strong names of NuGet-distributed assemblies (Sam Harwell)
• Passing the incorrect object type for a handle, how bad is it? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Succintly: Strategies For Unit Tests (Marc Clifton)
• Moving on from Scrum – Disciplined Agile Delivery (Matt Davey)
• Some Thoughts on Agile Transformation in Big Companies (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Design Principals in Practice: Source Code Formatting (Jason)

Other Mobile Platforms

• 3 Essential Pebble Apps for Android – Part 2 (Adam Anderson)
• Develop an Android Weather App with Material Design (jfrankie)
• Why Lug a Laptop When an iPad Is More Than Enough (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Emulating Palette Swapping In Unity (Jesse Freeman)
• Sending Galileo to Space (jtayeb)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (Example 1) (Rob Tiffany)
• Getting Started with Live Streaming using the Media Services SDK (Mingfei Yan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Top Agile and Scrum Podcasts (Michael Burns)
• Using Bing Maps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• [MSCloudShow] Episode 54 is live – Shot in the JavaScript Theatre of War + Office 365 APIs, tools and SDKs Generally Available Including an iOS SDK (Andrew Connell)
• Cortana Commands and Microsoft Band (Lance McCarthy)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 166 – “Tol-ee-do, Tol-ey-do” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• What the Tech 234: Call of Thurrott (Paul Thurrott)
• CodeChat 017 – Steve Seow (Microsoft <3 Startups) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• RiYL Episode 078: Greg Cartwright (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

• Web Summit 2014 Day One Review (Alex Giamas)
• Dev of the Week: Markus Eisele (John Walter)
• MVP Showcase Winners! (MVP Award Program)
• Save the date for DockerCon 2015 (Victor Coisne)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP: How fast is it? (Percy Reyes)
• Preview for greater SQL Server compatibility coming soon to Azure SQL Database (Eron Kelly)
• SQL SERVER – Using Bitwise And (&) Instead of a Junction Table – Notes from the Field #053 and SQL SERVER – Table Space Allocation Details using DMV (Pinal Dave)
• Red Pill or Blue Pill? Choosing Between SQL & NoSQL (Sam Basu)
• The RavenDB new website (and the beta discount)! (Oren Eini)
• What database schema comparisons can accomplish (Wes McClure)
• Microsoft preps preview of new version of its Azure SQL database-as-a-service (Mary Jo Foley)

PowerShell

• ISE Snippets for DSC Resource functions (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

• Amazon Prime Subscribers Get Unlimited Cloud Storage for Photos (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Band (day 5: rest) (Craig Dunn)
• How to buy an Xbox One for less than $250 (Taylor Soper)
• VLC for Windows Phone gets closer as VideoLAN team gets app to run on Surface 2 (John Callaham)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 5, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1730 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-05 (Dan Rigby)

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