Dew Drop – January 27, 2015 (#1941)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2 Released (John Montgomery)
• .NET Rocks! – WPF All Grown Up with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Introducing Aurelia (Rob Eisenberg)
• Announcing PostSharp 4.1 Preview 4: Xamarin Support, and More (Gael Fraiteur)

Web Development

• Defining Post-Route-Change Scroll Behavior Using $location in AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Babylon.js : Building 3D games with JavaScript & HTML5 (jQuery Rain)
• CSS Level 4 Selectors to Watch Out For (Jonathan Cutrell)
• 4 Ways To Declare Your Angular Stuff (Lee Brandt)
• Smithsonian Opens API Access to Design Museum Collection (Eric Carter)
• The ultimate guide to SVG (Ezequiel Bruni)
• Docker Hub Improvements (Ken Cochrane)
• Fifty ways to use your Azure (Susan Ibach)
• Node v0.10.36 (Stable) (node.js Team)

XAML

• Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone Devs – Using the MVVM Pattern (Matteo Pagani)
• Binding To Nullable Enums (Sacha Barber)

Miscellaneous .NET

• The benefits of Visual Studio Online for the Enterprise (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Take Control of Exceptions with a Custom Exception Object (Peter Vogel)
• Custom Entity Framework Code First Convention for Discriminator Values (Ricardo Peres)
• ConcurrentCollections Can Be Prohibitively Expensive (Alois Kraus)
• Customizing item enumeration with IShellItem (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fixing Problems with a (Specific) Fluent API (Jeremy Clark)
• Should I Work On Non-Work Things At Work? (John Sonmez)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Wear & QR Code: Putting Users through the Fast Track (Hoi Lam)
• Azure Mobile Services Quickstart for Visual Studio Cordova (Glenn Gailey)
• Using Google Spreadsheets as a Data Source for Your Android App (Part 2) (Kiril Stanoev)
• iOS 8: How to Build a Simple Action Extension (Lukas Petr)
• JUniversal: A new, Java-based approach to cross-platform mobile apps (Eric Mittelette)
• Mapping runs, rides and fitness data using the Maps API (Jane Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gone Mobile 22: Designing and Consuming Modern APIs with Darrel Miller (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Kroll #4 (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #125 – PerfView – Part 8 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Vance Morrison & Chad Beeder)
• RiYL Episode 090: Jordan Morris (Brian Heater)
• SourceFed on Windows 10 and HoloLens (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• s/JetBrains/Microsoft (Maarten Balliauw)
• Joining Microsoft (Xavier Decoster)
• Introducing Elegant Code Solutions (David Starr)
• QCon London 5 Weeks Away; Top Tracks, Sessions, and Speakers (Nitin Bharti)

Database

• How to find a specific text string in a SQL Server Stored Procedure, Function, View or Trigger (Jeffrey Yao)
• Compare SQL Server Stored Procedure Performance for Table Valued Parameters vs Multiple Variables (Ben Snaidero)
• Deprecated/Discontinued Functionality In SSAS 2014 (Chris Webb)
• eBook Deal of the Week: Microsoft Excel 2013 Building Data Models with PowerPivot (Kim Spilker)
• Migration cookbook now available for the latest Azure SQL Database Update (V12) (Sanjay Nagamangalam)

Miscellaneous

• Hands-on with Windows 10: Installing the latest Technical Preview (Ed Bott)
• Small Basic on Mac (Nonki Takahashi)
• The Basics of 3D Printing in 2014 – from someone with 16 WHOLE HOURS’ experience (Scott Hanselman)
• Fear of public speaking (Seth Godin)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 26, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1463 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1786 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/27/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-27 (Dan Rigby)

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