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Dew Drop – September 25, 2014 (#1863)

Posted on September 25, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Please Take the LightSwitch/Cloud Business App Developer Survey! (Dave Kidder)
Diablo 1 receives HD update (Rob Beschizza)
Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug (Troy Hunt)
.NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013 (The .NET Team)
Launch of Xamarin Test Cloud (Nat Friedman)

Web Development

WebForms vs. MVC–The War Is Over (Dave M. Bush)
An HTML5 WYSIWYG Page Designer for Developers (DevToolsGuy)
Work with ASP.NET MVC 5 Areas from different projects (Dhananjay Kumar)
Writing React components in TypeScript (Dan)
Finding shellshock (CVE-2014-6271) with Splunk forwarders (James Brodsky)
A chatroom for all! Part 4 – Building a Chatroom UI with Bootstrap (Rami Sayar)

XAML

New shiny update for the Windows Phone Preview for Developers (Steve Litchfield)
Fix for Windows Phone Store in-app purchase breakage nears, as developers get fed up (Daniel Rubino)
Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 1 – Prism Modules (Nick Polyak)
Windows Phone 8: Working With Media Content (Sani Yusuf)
2000 WPF Things #1,166 – Layout in Action, part III (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Optimizing event processing (Oren Eini)
Using AutoMapper : Getting Started (Dhananjay Kumar)
Custom Gestures, Kinect for Windows v2 and the Visual Gesture Builder (Greg Duncan)
.NET Micro Framework updates the SDK and boosts community engagement (Olivier Bloch)
2000 C# Things #1,190 – A Lambda Expression Can Be Recursive (Sean Sexton)
What is the story of the mysterious DS_RECURSE dialog style? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Book Review: Essential Scrum – Two Scrums Up (Michael Burns)
Migrating Your Enterprise Application to the Cloud – Your Database Isn’t the Problem, Your Data Model Is (Josh Lane)
Identifying your vertical story skeleton (Eric Gunnerson)
Make your user stories better with this one simple trick (Jeremy Jarrell)
Reframing to Reduce Risk (Robert Henson)

Other Mobile Platforms

Free e-Book: Learning to Master Cross-Platform Mobile Development With Xamarin and Falafel2Go and MVVM (Jesse Liberty)
Why the Scroll Event Change in iOS 8 is a Big Deal (TJ VanToll)
Testing the Internet of Things (Ben Linders)
It’s a Unity Game Dev Twofer day (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Contributing to F# with Mårten Rånge (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Data Templates in XAML | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
What the Tech 228: The Pointillize Effect (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Frost (Chris Hardwick)
Gweek 162 – Jason Snell & Joshua Glenn (Mark Frauenfelder)
SQL Server Radio Show 5 – Kevin Kline (Matan Yungman)
Nerds At Play 073: MicroCraft (Melisa Snyder)
Dime Casts.NET Episode #213: Introduction to AFNetworking v2.0 (Peter Shearer)
RiYL Episode 072: John Darnielle (Brian Heater)
127 JSJ Changes in npm-Land with Forrest Norvell, Rebecca Turner, Ben Coe, and Isaac Z. Schlueter (woody2shoes)
The Internet of Things with Intel® Black Belt Software Developer Asaf Shelly (Jerry Makare)

Community / Events

Geek of the Week: Diamond Tooth Taxidermist Beth Beverly (Colleen T. Reese)
Campus Philly’s CollegeFest Returns To The Benjamin Franklin Parkway With Music, Games, Free Museum Admission And More, This Saturday, September 27 (Kristina Jenkins)
How to maximize your Grace Hopper experience (Michelle Feder)

Database

Compare SQL Server Performance of In-Memory vs. Disk Tables (Ben Snaidero)
Cloudant on Azure – another great option for NoSQL developers! (Brian Benz)
Data Tools Operations Window (10 days of SSDT – Day 7) (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – Database Taking Long Time to Create – Notes from the Field #047 (Pinal Dave)
Is it Cheating to Solve A Performance Problem By Adding Memory? (Kendra Little)
Finding a table name from a page ID (Paul Randal)

SharePoint

Cascading Drop Down Lists in SharePoint (Ricardo Peres)

PowerShell

Towards a better console – PSReadline for PowerShell command line editing (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

Puppet Labs Announces the Next-Generation Puppet Server (Carlos Sanchez)
Look, Microsoft Virtual Academy has a new look! (Greg Duncan)
Its update your phone day (Kip Kniskern)
How do I set different wallpapers for each monitor in Windows? (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading September 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1415 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: September 25, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 9/25/2014 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1702 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-25 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

You Have to Fucking Eat: Adam Mansbach, Owen Brozman: 9781617753787: Books

ISBN: 1617753785
ISBN-13: 9781617753787

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Dew Drop – September 15, 2014 (#1855)

Posted on September 15, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

ASP.NET Scaffolding on GitHub (ASP.NET Team)
Fear Driven Development – FDD (Scott Hanselman)
TWC9: Win2D, C# 6, Azure Media Services, Rx and Cortana and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
New video leak shows multi-desktop support coming in Windows 9 and New video shows Windows 9 Notification Center on the desktop (Sam Sabri)

Web & Cloud

AngularJS: The Bad Bits (Mircea Moise)
BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Views (Rahul Rajat Singh)
Using D3.js and ASP.NET SignalR for Real-time Data Visualization (Ravi Kiran)
Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Introduction (Simon Timms)
HTTP vs HTTPS performance comparison (Dean Hume)
Speeding up pages with lots of media content items (Bertrand LeRoy)
Using Azure Storage Emulator Command-Line Tool: WAStorageEmulator.exe (Tugberk Ugurlu)
Making your WebGL code more flexible (David Catuhe)
DASH Live Streaming with Azure Media Service (Kilroy Hughes)
Announcing the 0.6.0-beta preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK (Pranav Rastogi)
Easy Authentication for Web Applications Using Live Connect (Sam Basu)
ComcastifyJS – Sometimes images just load too damned fast. (The Onion)

XAML

Windows Phone 8.1 Phone Call – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows Apps & Native WinRT Components Not Packaged as an SDK/Nuget Package (Mike Taulty)
2000 WPF Things #1,158 – Managing using Directives, part I (Sean Sexton)
Consumable Information in WindowsStoreProxy.xml (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Why Windows UI Matters: Part 1 and Why Windows UI Matters: Part 2 (Alexandre Mutel)
Sharing and exchanging data (XAML) (Windows Dev Center)
What’s new in handling dates in your application’s editors? (Stefan Stefanov)

Miscellaneous .NET

Understanding IEnumerable and IQueryable in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
Workaround for when Visual Studio Update says it doesn’t apply (Heath Stewart)
Quick easy steps to grab your build artifacts from Visual Studio Online (John V. Petersen)
TIP: Lazy Code Snippets in Visual Studio (Jonathan Rozenblit)
What About EDMX When EF7 Arrives? (Julie Lerman)
Auto restore Nuget packages with TFS Build the right way and How To Delete a Team Project from Visual Studio Online (Tarun Arora)
visual-studio-task-runner-extension (Chris Love)
How (not) to parameterize Serilog events (Nicholas Blumhardt)
2000 C# Things #1,182 – Capturing a for Loop Variable in a Lambda Expression (Sean Sexton)
11 Productivity Features For Developers in Visual Studio 2013 (Kalyan Bandarupalli)
EntityFramework Reverse POCO Code First Generator v2.6.3 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Interview: Karl Scotland introduces the Kanban Canvas (Karl Scotland)
Everyday Unit Testing – New Chapter Released! (Gil Zilberfeld)
Microsoft Is Adopting A More Agile Approach (Savita Pahuja)
Keep your code DRY (Dhananjay Kumar)
Hurry up and wait! Tales from the desk of an automation engineer (Matt Wrock)
The Incremental Architect´s Napkin – #7 – Nest flows to scale functional design (Ralf Westphal)
The secrets of understanding 3-way merges (Trevor Green)
Code Coverage: Myth vs Reality (Vicky)
FAQ – Why do we use the flight analogy for our projects? (Willy-P. Schaub)

Other Mobile Platforms

Introduction to Android Wear: The Basics (Jessica Thornsby)
Windows Phone devs, responding to reviews boosts your ratings (Sam Sabri)
Is Apple Watch out of time? (Joe Wilcox)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 335 – Bill Fink on Kinect for Windows (David Giard)
Herding Code 196: Matias Niemela on ngAnimate (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente & Scott Koon)
Yet Another Podcast #132: FalafelCon Roundtable (Jesse Liberty)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 144 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Episode 1: iOS8, VMworld, Airwatch Connect, Secure Email | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
GeekWire Radio: Apple Watch, iPhone 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and car-sharing at the airport (Todd Bishop)
Webinar Recording: Get Ready for iOS 8 (Courtney Witmer)
The Nerdist Podcast – Mira Sorvino (Chris Hardwick)
Countdown to TechEd Europe: The One with Country Drinks | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
Video : Getting started with the Automapper in C-Sharp (Dhananjay Kumar)
Episode 153: WebJobs with Pranav Rastogi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris)
Develop Azure Mobile Services Locally | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Jeff Sanders)
Dime Casts.NET Episode #208: Learning Objective-C – Part 2A (Peter Shearer)
StarTalk Radio – A Tribute to Joan Rivers (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Gillmor Gang: AppleJacked (Steve Gillmor)

Community / Events

RavenDB Days this week! (Oren Eini)
.NET In The Know (Kerry Meade)
Article: Interview with Grady Booch (Mark Collins-Cope)
James Montemagno | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight and Jeffrey T. Fritz | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight (Ryan Axford)

Database

Prevent Confidential Data at the Application Layer from getting into SQL Server (Tim Smith)
SQL SERVER – Flushing Transaction Log to Disk for Current Database and SQL SERVER – Beginning In-Memory OLTP with Sample Example (Pinal Dave)
What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Client side and RavenDB, unrecoverable database and data loss and What is new in RavenDB 3.0: JVM Client API (Oren Eini)
Data Anonymization (Rinat Abdullin)
Blog Post: Creation & Deletion of Database Snapshot by SQL Agent Job (Rohit Garg)

SharePoint

Change the Master Page to Site in SharePoint 2013 Online (Kaviya Balasubramanian)

PowerShell

Install, Configure and Manage Windows Server Failover Cluster with PowerShell – Part 3 (Edwin Sarmiento)
Finding the Last Friday (or any weekday) of the Month in PowerShell (Chinh Do)
Create a BLOB in Azure BLOB Storage using the REST API and Powershell (Jamie Thomson)
New features introduced in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014 (Jan Egil Ring)

Miscellaneous

Using GitHub for Developer Presentations (Andrew Connell)
Lineup of Windows books and ebooks (Kim Spilker)
Playing the “Why is Microsoft buying Mojang (Minecraft)?” game (Kip Kniskern)
Small Basic – GetSettingsFilePath (litdev)
Flags in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
What did Windows 3.1 do when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del? (Raymond Chen)
Infographic: Top 5 programming languages of 2014 (Sonal Amin)
5 skills every programmer needs in 2014 (Stacy Warden)
Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions (Bill Rigby)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, September 12, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading September 12, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Collective #133 (Mary Lou)
Daily News Digest 9/12/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1694 (Chris Alcock)
Reblog: September 5 to September 11 (Jason Strate)
Friday Links #320 (Mike Ward)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-15 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Programming Digest #73 (Jakub Chodounský)
Office 365 news round-up (Jake Zborowski)

The Geek Shelf

Intel Galileo Gen 2 Board Single GALILEO2: Computers & Accessories

ASIN: B00MF753JY

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Dew Drop – May 27, 2014 (#1784)

Posted on May 27, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Memory Analysis: Go to Source in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Multiple Monitor Support for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 (Andrew Chan)
Code Lens for Git in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 (Jean-Marc Prieur)
Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013 (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
Dependent Methods in Kendo: A Practical Example (Jesse Liberty)
Attention, developers! New Windows app training resources now available! (Jeffrey Meisner)

Web Development

Inspecting AngularJS $scope using Firebug and Chrome Developer Tools (Alexander Zeitler)
Checking whether a value is an integer in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
Book Review: Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET and Bootstrap Theme Switcher (Joseph Guadagno)
jQuery UI 1.11.0-beta.2 (Jörn Zaefferer)
PhpStorm gets Bower support (Maarten Balliauw)
5 Excellent and FREE AngularJS Learning Materials for Beginners (Michael Crump)
In JavaScript, ‘true’ == true is false, truthy truth (Peter Kellner)
Find the index of the smallest element in a JavaScript array (Raymond Chen)
JavaScript: Relay Control with Johnny-Five on Node.js (Rick Waldron)
Set Context User Principal for Customized Authentication in SignalR (Shaun Xu)
Defining AngularJS Routing in an ASP.NET MVC application (Sumit Maitra)
Web Performance Optimization is Simple – Can Your Developers Execute? and No Matter How You Look At It Enterprise Mobility is ALL ABOUT THE CLIENT (Chris Love)
litebox : Lightbox/Modal window Plugin (jQuery Rain)
YUI 3.17.2 Release Candidate 1 (Andrew Wooldridge)
SVG `use` with External Source and Ideas Behind Responsive Emails (Chris Coyier)
Set-AzureStorageBlobContent : The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden (Iris Classon)
Enterprise Typescript (Jeremy Likness)
Remote debugging a windows Azure website (Morten Anderson)
Refactoring Legacy Code: Part 5 – Game’s Testable Methods (Patkos Csaba)

XAML

Preview: an ObservableAdapter for Xamarin Android in MVVM Light VNext (Laurent Bugnion)
Windows/Phone 8.1–Frame, Page, NavigationHelper, SuspensionManager (Mike Taulty)
Microsoft announces training resources for Windows Phone developers (Richard Hay)
2000 WPF Things #1,080 – Command Text for Preexisting Commands Is Automatically Localized (Sean Sexton)
App builders: Check out the latest trends in the Windows and Windows Phone stores (Suzanne Choney)
WPF Date Controls – Calendar (Richard Carr)
New Windows app development training resources now available (Larry Lieberman)
WAQS Querying: Math methods (Matthieu Mezil)
Remove Tap/Mouse Down Animations on GridView and ListView for Windows 8.1 (Nick Randolph)
Understanding and resolving app crashes and failures in Windows Store apps, part 2: JSON and tiles (Gretchen Loihle & Andrew Richards)
Going cross-platform with Xamarin–The Windows Phone App (Brynte)

Miscellaneous .NET

First NuGet package for SQLitePCL.raw (Eric Sink)
Becoming SOLID in C# (Abel Avram)
How to Pebble with Windows and Visual Studio and EOLM, End of the Line Markers Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
Book Review: NuGet 2 Essentials and Book Review: Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook (Joseph Guadagno)
Test Plan and Test Suite Customization with TFS2013 Update3 (Manoj Bableshwar)
FSharp.Data.SqlClient: Seamlessly integrating T-SQL and F# in the same code [Guest Post] (Dmitry Sevastianov & Dmitry Morozov)
Managing multiple platforms in Visual Studio (Alexandre Mutel)
Moving Data to the Form in Windows Forms (Peter Vogel)
Update does not apply or is blocked by another condition on your computer (Heath Stewart)
Quick IntelliTrace File Open from App Insights (jhwa)
T4 Basis and Entity Data Model classes and Roslyn basis and How to generate a property from an extension method using Roslyn (Matthieu Mezil)
Why is the debugger telling me I crashed because my DLL was unloaded, when I see it loaded right here happily executing code? (Raymond Chen)
Where is that console.log? (Remy Sharp)
2000 C# Things #1,103 – A Block Defines Both Scope and Declaration Space and #1,104 – Can’t Re-Declare a Variable within a Nested Block (Sean Sexton)
.NET Native Deep Dive: Making Your Library Great and .NET Native Deep Dive: Optimizing with Runtime Directives (Morgan Brown)
Working with Portable Class Libraries and porting TagLib# and Determining Portable Class Library compatibility (Tim Heuer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Waterfall to Agile (JD Meier)
Change Risk Anti-Patterns & Code Complexity (Kerry Meade)
What’s wrong with TDD (Dror Helper)
Take Control of Your Git Repos with DigitalOcean (Rob Conery)
Branding guidelines and logos for OneNote API developers (MS Downloads)
Leaky Libraries: How To Assess The Risk Of Dependencies (Ben Voss)
10 Reasons Why Developers Hate Your API and API Design Should Be About Interactive and Tinkering (Graeme Thickins)
Quote of the week – quality (Bob)
Introducing CommandAllThings (Jason Jarrett)
You Never Really Learn Something Until You Teach It (John Sonmez)
Jenkins CI Integrates With Chef and Puppet to Provide Full Traceability of Deployments (Matthias Marschall)
How to use OneNote 2013 to go paperless (Richard Hay)
Applying Design Values to Programming (Simon St. Laurent)
How to decide? (Wes McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

Another Easy Sample For Notification Pages on Android Wear (Wayne Piekarski)
Review: Learning Objective-C by Developing iPhone Games (Brian Minnaar)
Dynamic Repositioning In Unity (Jesse Freeman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Cloud Patterns with Vishwas Lele (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Technology & Friends Episode 319 – Andrew Brust on Excel BI Tools (David Giard)
Yet Another Podcast Show 125 – Mads Kristensen (Jesse Liberty)
Engadget Podcast 398 – 5.26.14 (Jon Turi)
MNR 511: June Xbox One Update and Geoff Keighley stops by (Larry Hyrb)
Webinar Recording: Developing with Google Glass and Xamarin (Mike Bluestein)
App Hack Monday #7: Xamarin | App Hack Monday (Martin Beeby)
GeekWire Radio: This 15-year-old iPhone stethoscope inventor is just getting started (Todd Bishop)
SSW TV – Visual Studio and Telerik Platform: Mobile App Development Awesomesauce with John Bristowe (SSW Team)
What The Tech 211: No Surface Mini No Problem (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Attell #3 and The Nerdist Podcast – Clark Gregg Returns (Chris Hardwick)
Hello World Podcast Episode 26: Laurent Bugnion (Shawn Wildermuth)
How to Work Around Standard Edition’s Limits [Video] (Brent Ozar)
TWC9: Two Geeks and a Baby | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
The Married Gamers Episode 334: Pink & Deadly Gamers (Chris Brown)
Entreprogrammers Episode 12 and Episode 11 and Episode 10 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
Episode 141: API Management with Vladimir Vinogradsky | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Nick Harris & Chris)
Get Up And Code 055: Staying Active With Troy Hunt (John Sonmez)
Connectedly 1: Welcome! (Kevin Michaluk, Adam Zeis & Rene Ritchie)
Defrag Tools: Live – TechEd 2014 – Paula Januszkiewicz Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Space and Science with Bill Nye (Bill Nye)

Community / Events

F# Summer of Code 2014 (Phillip Trelford)
Last chance to register for Modern Devices and Universal Apps on 5/29! (Michael Cummings)
Falafel Hires Chief Technology Officer Steve Smith (Ryan Axford)
.NET MVPs Doing Great Work Worldwide (Kerry Meade)

Database

SharePoint

Differences Between Power BI and SharePoint BI (Melissa Coates)

PowerShell

Attaching all Databases with Powershell–Finding my MDF files (Steve Jones)

Miscellaneous

EVERYTHING IS FINE PROBABLY – Some thoughts about anxiety (Scott C. Reynolds)
Functional vs Chronological Resume (Travis Scott)
Calculate your WEI (Windows Experience Index) under Windows 8.1 (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 23, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of May 19, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading May 23, 2014 and Geek Reading May 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Collective #117 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1363 and Double Shot #1364 (Mike Gunderloy)
Blog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #85 (Jason Strate)
Daily News Digest 5/26/2014 and Daily News Digest 5/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #141 (Frank)
The Morning Brew #1616 (Chris Alcock)
Friday Links #305 (Mike Ward)
Weekly Programming Digest #63 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-26 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

A Software Engineer Learns HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery: Dane Cameron: 9781493692613: Books

ISBN: 1493692615
ISBN-13: 9781493692613

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