Dew Drop – June 6, 2013 (#1,562)

Top Links

• Knockout.js Troubleshooting Strategies (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone (Scott Knaster)
• Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 3 and HttpClient 2.1 available on NuGet (Adam Denning)
• iOS questions from a WPF developer (Josh Smith)

 

Web Development

• PhpStorm 6.0.3 EAP started – build 129.672 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Whoops! PHP Errors for Cool Kids (Filipe Dobreira)
• Persist JavaScript changes on postback (Gregory Gadow)
• Using client certificates on Windows Azure (Gunnar Peipman)
• The race for speed part 3: JavaScript compiler strategies (John Dalziel)
• Obscure WinJS features, part 2: WinJS.Utilities.data, convertToPixels, and other positional methods (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Serialization and injection (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery Deferred and Promises (Sacha Barber)
• Access SQL Azure from a Node.js app deployed to Windows Azure Web Sites (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Setting up and using Bing Translate API Service for Machine Translation (Rick Strahl)
• Managing Dependencies with RequireJS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Unbinding $watch() Listeners In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• ECMAScript Harmony’s arrow functions (Andy E.)
• A Couple of Use Cases for Calc() (Chris Coyier)
• Creating Responsive Mobile Sites and Mobile Apps Using Sitefinity CMS (Suprotim Agarwal)
• AngularJS Abstractions: Services (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• [WinRT] How to get the language code actually used to resolve a resource (Jonathan Antoine)
• 2000 WPF Things #836 – Setting a ContentControl’s Content to a CLR Object (Sean Sexton)
• Developing a Windows Store Business App (Bryan Group)
• WPF Layout Controls – TabControl (Richard Carr)
• INotifyPropertyChanged out of the box (Ivailo Ivanov)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Raven Streams: What to do with the data? (Oren Eini)
• LINQ to Entities oddity with Guid Arrays (Derik Whittaker)
• Reporting or Control Suites – What to use when – Part 1 (Carey Payette)
• Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard (Dirk Strauss)
• GameMaker: Studio for Windows 8 (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 5 – Debugging (Mike Larah)
• When you share an input queue, you have to wait your turn (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #860 – Exceptions Bubble up the Call Stack (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is Scrum? (Cory Foy)
• Data-Driven Tests – Logon and Setup Steps (Steven Vore)
• Inspire a Vision with Skill (JD Meier)
• Move Your Mike (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android, Gradle & IDE Integration (Alex Ruiz)
• Android Development: Your First Steps (Andrey Prikaznov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs Programs JavaScript Functionally (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What the Tech 168: No Camera for You (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jesse Thorn (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget HD Podcast 352 – 06.04.13 (Joe Pollicino)

 

Community / Events

• Evolve iOS Sessions Now Available (Jo Ann Buckner)
• JSConf 2013 – 5 Years of Awesome (Robyn Tippins)
• Rock Out at SenchaCon 2013 (Tracy Pullman)
• Join the Game On Virtual Event (Windows Store Team)
• Coming to America (to do training) (Roy Osherove)
• Geek of the Week: Zenescope Art Director Anthony Spay (David Goodman)

 

Database

• Geek City: SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP (“Hekaton”) Whitepaper (Kalen Delaney)
• SQL Puzzle.. Sorting results without using ORDER BY and Changing a column that is already populated into a column that uses a sequence (Denis Gobo)
• Want to prove something with data? Aggregate it! (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• My thoughts on the SharePoint App Model, Office 365, SharePoint Store and the Business of SharePoint Apps Today (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script to Determine Number of Files in SharePoint 2010 or 2013 Document Libraries (Brian T. Jackett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Eight changes I’d like to see in Windows 8.1 (but probably won’t) (Ed Bott)
• Introduction to Systematic Program Design (Dara Monasch)
• CodePlex learns to talk to other services! (Rick Marron)
• It was Apple’s way or the highway, e-book execs say (Shara Tibken)
• Great programmers are born, not made. (Dave Harrison)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 5 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 5th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 6/6/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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