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Dew Drop – December 22, 2014 (#1920)

Top Links

AutoMapper 3.3 feature: open generics (Jimmy Bogard)
Step-by-Step on How to Update Git on Mac (Michael Crump)
TWC9: Last Show of 2014, Orleans, Bing Developer Assistant, VSO news and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
An End-To-End LightSwitch SharePoint Workflow Application (Michael Washington)

Web Development

Building future .NET projects is quite pleasant (Maarten Balliauw)
jQuery Mobile vs Sencha Touch (ExtJS Mobile) (Harsha Bopuri)
Project Tracking Website using AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API (Pravinkumar Dabade)
Kendo: Help, my MVVM template is acting weird! (Adam Anderson)
ECMAScript 6: new OOP features besides classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
Deploying a Kotlin Application to a Docker Container on Azure (Hadi Hariri)

XAML

Windows Phone 8.1, Continuing a Conversation Started with Cortana (Mike Taulty)
WPF Shapes – Polygon (Richard Carr)
Beyond Kinect for Windows v2 – KinectEx and The Walking HeadlessHost – WP 8.1 Feedback Feature and Zombies (Rene Schulte)

Miscellaneous .NET

Git Integration in Visual Studio 2013 (Jeremy Clark)
Entity Framework Pitfalls: String Length Validation (Ricardo Peres)
EF 6.1 Code First Field Lengths – Reminder to self! (Dave Noderer)
Take care when using comma in C++ (Dror Helper)
oData comes of age (Richard Jones)
Gotcha: Entity Framework gets slow in long Iteration Loops (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Article: Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 2 (Michał Bartyzel)
Emotion Cards for Agile Teams (Savita Pahuja)
Developing Leadership Skills by Using a Metaphor of Orchestra Rehearsals (Ben Linders)
Building Mission Critical Systems using Cloud Platform Services (Hanu K.)
Choose Wisely AND Back Out Easily (Jim Holmes)
Sharing Code Coverage Results With NCover Code Central (Kerry Meade)
ROI Is Dead! (Gil Zilberfeld)
What does it take to be a Programmer? (Robert Kim)
Passing the torch (Wes McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

Build Mobile App Services with Google Cloud Tools for Android Studio v1.0 (Chris Sells)
AndroidAnnotations setup in Android Studio (Hannes Gruber)
Elegant Circle Images in Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
Google Play game services ends year with a bang! (Benjamin Frenkel)
Swift from Scratch: Collections and Tuples (Bart Jacobs)
How to run .NET on RaspberryPi with Mono and beakn v0.3 : DIY Lync Status Light with a RaspberryPi, .NET, Mono and MQTT (Jon Gallant)
Get Ready for 64-Bit with Telerik AppBuilder (Rob Lauer)
Azure Mobile Services: How to creating a Dev and Prod environment (Sara Silva)
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 6) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Herding Code 200: io.js, Angular angst, K Scott’s new Band, Kickstarters, Containers and Old School Elite Women Coders (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente & Scott Koon)
Monthly Catch-up: S75 with special co-host Willy-Peter Schaub | Visual Studio ALM Rangers (Wiley P. Schaub & Anisha)
Planning a Front-end JavaScript Application (Session Recording) (Cody Lindley)
MS Dev Show – AngularJS with John Ptacek (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
What The Tech 240: Worst of 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Paul McCartney and The Nerdist Podcast – Jack O’Connell (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog 135: EOY 2014 with Adam and Jerod (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
App Biz Dev Episode 22: Hostile Takeover (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
Episode 164: Azure Diagnostic Improvements with Boris Scholl and Saurabh Bhatia | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
VIDEO – Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta Preview (Larry Hyrb)
EdgeShow 130: Inside the Azure Storage Outage of Nov 18th | Edge (RicksterCDN)
StarTalk Radio Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries: Pseudoscience, now with Elise Andrew of IFLS and Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Partnerships & Possibilities, Episode 4, Season 6: Virtual Teams, Real Challenges (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
Get Up And Code 070: Operation Superhero with Jason Roberts (Douglas Coleman)

Community / Events

2015 Software Craftsmanship Calendar (Brendan Enrick)

Database

SQL SERVER – List the Name of the Months Between Date Ranges – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
Comparison of database systems (Simon Sabin)
Big Changes – What You Need to Know About the Power BI Public Preview (Melissa Coates)
Thoughts On The New Power BI (Chris Webb)

Miscellaneous

Why You Should Design for Open Source (Jina Bolton)
Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review (and Surface Pro 3 Comparison) (Jeremy Likness)
Small SVG is a subset of SVG for Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
Gifts that will get your kids interested in programming (Stacy Warden)
Why Sony’s Breach Matters (Steven Sinofsky)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading December 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Reading Notes #168 (Frank)
Collective #147 (Mary Lou)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1763 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 12/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reblog: December 12 to December 18 (Jason Strate)
Weekly Programming Digest #87 (Jakub Chodounský)
Last Week on Channel 9: December 15th – 21st, 2014 (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework (Expert's Voice in .NET): Andrew Troelsen: 9781430242338: Books

ISBN: 1430242337
ISBN-13: 9781430242338

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Dew Drop – December 19, 2014 (#1919)

Top Links

Vulnerability announced: update your Git clients (Vicent Marti)
Becoming a Social Developer: A Guide for Introverts (Jeremy Clark)
Holiday Contest: Create a Plugin for Xamarin (James Montemagno)
Quick news: Save 40% on top-selling titles (Kim Spilker)

Web Development

Creating Custom Script Tag Directives In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
jQuery Validation with Lightbox and HTML5 Interactive World Map with JavaScript (jQuery Rain)
Hero transitions in AngularJS (Andy Lee)
one-javascript (Axel Rauschmayer)
ng-tutorial Part 1: AngularJS – The Origin (Debashish Paul)
jQuery Mobile vs Sencha Touch (ExtJS Mobile) (Harsha Bopuri)
Part 5: Azure Mobile Service: What you need to know about Backend Server Scripts and Scheduling (Adarsha Datta)
Mario5 with TypeScript (Florian Rappl)
Splunk and Microsoft Azure – Intro and Resource Roundup (Hal Rottenberg)
Introducing user invites for Docker Hub (Justen Stepka)
Everything You Need to Know About Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Part 2) (Max R. McCarty)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop Application Architectures – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Brackets 1.1 and Extract for Brackets 0.6 Now Available (Ryan Stewart)

XAML

Using XAML Image in WPF (Mahesh Chand)

Miscellaneous .NET

Exploring C# 6 (Sunny Ahuwanya)
Ambiguous Classes in C# (B. Conlon)
Giving Your Database Updates Enough Time (Peter Vogel)
Enhance your Scroll Bar (Latish Sehgal)
having fun with type-level numbers using a type-provider (Carsten König)
How to set your App’s Version Number to auto-increment the Build and Revision portions and Display the Version in a Label (B. Clay Shannon)
Improved Welcome/Wiki experience and Git vulnerability with .git\config (Brian Harry)
Headsup: a $5 eBook or Video from Packt Bonanza – Every title, every topic (Arthur Zubarev)
How can I query the location of the taskbar on secondary monitors? (Raymond Chen)
Beyond Kinect for Windows v2 – KinectEx (Rene Schulte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agility and the essence of software architecture (Simon Brown)
BizTalk Server and Agile. Can they live together? (Leonid Ganeline)
Schedule Standups in the Morning (Brendan Enrick)
Building Better Behavior Tests for Mobile Apps (Priyank Gupta)
Developing Leadership Skills by Using a Metaphor of Orchestra Rehearsals (Ben Linders)
Why You Should Design for Open Source (Jina Bolton)
Microsoft Azure and Threat Modeling You Apps (Herve Roggero)
Choose Wisely AND Back Out Easily (Jim Holmes)
Learning Hacks (John Sonmez)
5 years and 1,600 Photoshop and Lightroom Tips, Tricks and Techniques (Julieanne Kost)

Other Mobile Platforms

Making a performant watch face (Hoi Lam)
Announcing General Availability of Mobile Offline Sync (Donna Malayeri)
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 6) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
Introducing Unity Support and a New Guide for Using App Events (Shachar Gershoni)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Watch ReSharper C++ Session from JetBrains Night in London (Daria Dovzhikova)
Strategies for Adopting New Technologies | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Adventures in Angular 021 – Duck Angular with Avishek Sen Gupta (John Papa)
Windows Weekly 393: Crap Patch Fever (Paul Thurrott)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 169 – “Rhino Monkey” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
The Nerdist Podcast – Paul McCartney (Chris Hardwick)
Extending Exchange, Outlook and OWA across platforms and devices with the new app model | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
SQL Server Radio Show 12 – The Other One Mode (Matan Yungman)
DockerCon video: Migrating a large code-base to Docker containers (Victor Coisne)

Community / Events

Microsoft’s former Internet Explorer chief has left the company (Rich McCormick)

Database

Blog Post: SQL Server 2014 – Delayed Transaction Durability (Dinesh Asanka)
Whitespace, Comments, and Forced Parameterization in SQL Server (Kendra Little)
SQL SERVER – Reverse String Word By Word – Part 4 (Pinal Dave)
Thoughts On The New Power BI (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

Holiday gift from Windows PowerShell team – DSC Resource Kit Wave 9 (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

OneDrive will soon support music storage, stream stored music using Xbox app (Brad Sams)
Seattle Seahawks’ QB Russell Wilson says Microsoft Surface tablets help team win (Dave Shanahan)
Xbox One To Get Pandora, Vevo, Popcornflix And More Apps This Week (Greg Kumparak)
Xbox One owners can check out the open beta for Evolve starting Jan. 15 (John Callaham)
Project Online: Opening Projects from Project Center with Firefox (Microsoft Project Support)
Are you working for the next Sony Pictures? Here’s some things to check at work (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading December 18, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1449 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 12/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1762 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for December 19th, 2014 (Dmitry Lyalin)
Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)

The Geek Shelf

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book (Full Color): A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots: Laurens Valk: 8601200651645: Books

ISBN: 1593275323
ISBN-13: 9781593275327

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