Dew Drop – February 13, 2015 (#1954)

Top Links

• Get a first look at Windows 10 for Phones with Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore (Richard Devine)
•  Announcing the first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones (Gabe Aul)
• New ways to quickly create a Code Map (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• EF6.1.3 Beta 1 Available (Rowan Miller)

 

Web Development

• Exploring $route Resolution In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• ember.js – Data Down, Actions up…The End of Two Way Data Binding Hell. (Paul Cowan)
• 21 points cheat sheet on AngularJS controller and the $scope object (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Overriding filters in ASP.NET MVC 6 (Filip W)
• Web App Architecture: the Spring MVC—AngularJS Stack (Vasco Ferreira)
• PhpStorm 8.0.3 bug fix update is available (Mikhail Vink)
• The Rosetta Stone of Cloud Services: Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services (Paul Ballard)
• jQuery UI 1.11.3 (Scott González)
•  Internet Explorer and Web Components (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Improving Your Site with a Font Loader (Aurelio De Rosa)
• SPDY is Dead. Long Live HTTP/2! (Billy Hoffman)
• How browser developers should seek feedback from Web developers (David Baron)
• High-PPI maps now available in the Bing Maps AJAX Control (Erik Lindeman)
• Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones (Kyle Pflug)
• 50 incredible freebies for web designers, February 2015 (Juan Pablo Sarmiento)
• Overriding Docker DNS servers (Mark Rendle)
• Announcing Sencha Space 1.3 GA (Nick Harlow)
• Exploring ServiceStack: Security, Bundling, Markdown views and Self-Hosting (Ravi Kiran)

 

XAML

• New and improved WPF Diagrams 4.0 (Jason Fauchelle)
•  Windows Store Apps Icon Generator (Pete D.)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Facets of information, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Article: Simplifying F# Type Provider Development (Dave Fancher)
• Conditional Access Operator in C# 6.0 (K. Scott Allen)
•  Build Futures (Chrispat)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Beyond Unit Tests with ConventionTests (Jason Roberts)
• Some Thoughts on Self-Organization in Agile Teams and Can You Mandate Your Agile Transformation? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Long Lived Codebases: Architecture Gardening, Rewrites, and Automated Tests (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Technical Debt (Matt Davey)
• The Rationale Behind Testing (Zee Spencer)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cross platform development with Apache Cordova for VS2013 – a hello world using the camera (Iris Classon)
•  Reporting enhancements for Windows Phone developers (Bernardo Zamora)
• Creating Your First Watch Kit App (Craig Dunn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Atom-Shell for cross platform desktop apps with Paul Betts (Scott Hanselman)
•  029 AiA Angular At Work with Ben Nadel (John Papa)
• TC Droidcast Episode 37: Is Nvidia Planning A GRID Gaming Box? (Darrell Etherington)
• Edge Show 135 Understanding Azure Remote App | Edge (Simon May)

 

Community / Events

• The Road to Windows 10 (Michelle Feder)
• Imagine Cup: Team WalkSafe walked to an Honorable Mention in the Innovation Category! (Rami Sayar)
• First rule of Code Club: Do talk about Code Club (Rob Miles)
• Satya Nadella and Kevin Turner announced as Vision Keynote Speakers at WPC 2015 (Sean Cameron)

 

Database

• SQL Server Date Time Calculation Examples (Jeffrey Yao)
• “OR” and “IN” with SQL Server’s Filtered Indexes (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Warning: Null value is Eliminated by an Aggregate or Other SET Operation (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Workflow #Fails and Workarounds (Greg Galipeau)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Preview: Only these Lumias are eligible for today’s release and  How to install Windows 10 Preview to your Lumia Windows Phone (Daniel Rubino)
• Why clinicians are frustrated with health IT, and what you can do about it. (Bill Crounse)
• Dell is launching a new Chromebook 11 alongside a $299 Windows-based counterpart (Nathan Ingraham)
• New features come to Office Online (Omar Shahine)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 12, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 12th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Double Shot #1474 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/13/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1799 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-13 (Dan Rigby)

 

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