Dew Drop – December 26, 2014 (#1922)

Top Links

• Manage Work Item Tags in Visual Studio (David Starr)
• Scriptcs gets new REPL commands and is now better than ever (Filip W)
• Messaging in Xamarin.Forms and ScrollTo in Xamarin.Forms ListView (Jesse Liberty)
• Getting Started with Robots for kids and children in STEM this holiday season (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Accidentally Defining A Directive Twice In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Displaying a Wait Message on an MVC Page (Paul Sheriff)
• Responsive Web Design Conversion (Dave M. Bush)
• Ember Update Brings Handelbars 2.0, and HTMLBars, a New Templating Library (James Chesters)
• PhpStorm 8.0.3 EAP 139.873 (Mikhail Vink)
• Creating REST Service using ASP.NET Web API – (Project Tracking Website Part II) (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Coding and Registering Your WordPress Widget (Rachel McCollin)
• Functional web synergy with F# and OWIN (Pete Smith)
• Pulp 2.5 Released Including Docker Repository Management (Carlos Sanchez)
• Improving GitHub’s SSL setup (Dirkjan Bussink)
• Fixing the Back Button: A Simple SPA Behavior using Location Hash (Jason Follas)
• Sliding Header Layout (Mary Lou)
• Automating Tasks in Front-end Web Apps Using Gulp (Ravi Kiran)
• REST : A Simple REST framework (Sacha Barber)
• Node v0.10.35 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• Using XAML PasswordBox in WPF and Using XAML ProgressBar in WPF (Mahesh Chand)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Find References and Changes with CodeLens (Latish Sehgal)
• GC ETW events – 2 and GC ETW Events – 3 (Maoni Stephens)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Effective Modern C++ – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Part 7 – Sample Events (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Going from Waterfall to Agile (Gayathri Sekar)
• The Power of Dreams (J.D. Meier)
• The four species of Agile (Dror Helper)
• Over the wire protocol design (Oren Eini)
• Book In The Works: The Leadership Journey (Jim Holmes)
• Blame Yourself First (John Sonmez)
• Article: Lean Project Management Using “Oobeya” (Sandrine Olivencia)
• Why Pair Programming is Hard to Implement (Savita Pahuja)
• Absorb Responsibility (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Declarative event handlers in Xamarin Android (Corrado Cavalli)
• iOS 8: What’s New in SpriteKit, Part 2 (Orlando Pereira)
• Google Play Games Adds New Publishing API (Eric Carter)
• Ionic and Telerik Backend Services: A Healthy Partnership Part 2 (Jen Looper)
• beakn v0.4 – DIY Lync Status Light with Spark Core, WiFi, Batteries, SMD LEDs, On/Off Switch, Ping pong ball and a Cardboard Box (Jon Gallant)
• Mobile Development Platform Performance (Kevin Ford)
• Article: Hello App Inventor: Book Review and Interview (Savita Pahuja)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Simple.Data.2 with Mark Rendle and .NET Rocks! – Databases in Continuous Delivery with Enrico Campidoglio (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 349 – JJ Hammond and Gus Emery on Universal apps (David Giard)
• Herding Code 201: Kenji Obata on Spoon, application virtualization, containers, and flying little airplanes (Jon Galloway, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon & K. Scott Allen)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 027 update from developer marketing team (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Get Involved in Citizen Science with Chandra Clarke (Scott Hanselman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joe Perry (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 241: Best of 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
• 139 JSJ The Mozilla Developer Network with Les Orchard and David Walsh (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• Adventures in Angular 022 – Form Validation with Kent C. Dodds (John Papa)
• The Amp Hour #229 – MightyHohm For The Holidays – Kaiser Keyzer’s Kits (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 44 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Azure Podcast Episode 58 – Stream Analytics (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Boston Code Camp 23 Call for Speakers (Michael Cummings)
• Leaving Microsoft (Mark J. Brown)

 

Database

• Oracle Wait Events (Jeremiah Peschka)
• What is the PREEMPTIVE_DEBUG Wait in SQL Server? (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Decimal is Rounded Up? (Pinal Dave)
• Iterative index tryouts in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Is Microsoft making too many mistakes with SharePoint? (Greg Galipeau)
• Advanced SharePoint Workflows Using HTTP Calls To LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

 

PowerShell

• Using Azure Resource Management REST API in PowerShell (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Learn new software development skills with Microsoft Virtual Academy (Andrei Marukovich)
• How can I let my child use an app that I bought from the Windows Store? (Raymond Chen) – And here’s the process to get a paid app on your child’s Windows Phone.
• Download Official Recovery Images for your Microsoft Surface (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 23, 2014 and Geek Reading December 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1765 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (12/15-12/21) (Dara Monasch)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Five for December 23rd, 2014 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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