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Dew Drop – March 3, 2015 (#1966)

Posted on March 3, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Backward compatibility pain (Jon Skeet)
Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Universal App Platform: A ‘superset of WinRT’ (Mary Jo Foley)
Clean Tests: Isolating the Database (Jimmy Bogard)
Responding to Orientation Changes in Xamarin Forms (Jeff Prosise)

Web Development

Shedding The Monolithic Application With AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) And Node.js (Ben Nadel)
Marvin.JsonPatch v0.7 released (Kevin Dockx)
Manipulating HTML Tables – Part 5 (Editing Rows using an ID) (Paul Sheriff)
I wrote a JavaScript study guide (David Voyles)
15 Popular PHP Frameworks For 2015 (Kapil)
#Video Deal/Day: Beginning Programming with JavaScript – $49.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
JSON and JSONP in jQuery – Back to Basics (Suprotim Agarwal)
Understanding Access Tokens in the Azure AD & Office 365 API Authentication Dance (Andrew Connell)
Azure Data Factory Editor: A Light Weight Web Editor (Anand Subbaraj)
Making it easier for Enterprise customers to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 — and Windows 10 (Jatinder Mann & Fred Pullen)
Writing A Simple Slack Bot With Node slack-client (Jeff Yates)
Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements (February Update) (Leon Welicki)
Brackets 1.2 Now Available (Ryan Stewart)

XAML

WPF Brushes – Tiled Drawings (Richard Carr)
Microsoft reveals its Windows 10 universal apps plans to developers at MWC 2015 (John Callaham)
An Introduction To Windows 10 Universal Apps (Kapil Arya)
Windows 10 and the Windows Platform Developer (Mark B. Schramm)

Miscellaneous .NET

The TFS Productivity Pack VS Extension (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: BeckDesignRules (Martin Fowler)
One Example of How to Use an Agile Tool with Balance (Peter Saddington)
Article: Perspectives On Agile Software Testing – Book Review (Savita Pahuja)
Crouching Manager, Hidden Database (Mark Bowytz)
Fixie – A Convention-based .NET Testing Framework (Jason Roberts)
Event-Driven Architecture Pattern Topologies (Matt Davey)
3 Thinking Tools for Minimizing Dependencies Between Products (Mike Cottmeyer)

Other Mobile Platforms

Creating Compound Views on Android (Cindy Potvin)
Google Play services 7.0 – Places Everyone! (Ian Lake)
Epic Games ditches monthly fee for developers who use Unreal Engine 4 (John Callaham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – ASP.NET in 2015 with Mads Kristensen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Nerdist Podcast – Ted Melfi (Chris Hardwick)
Defrag Tools #127 – Internet Explorer F12 Developer Tools – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards)
EntreProgrammers Episode 54 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)

Community / Events

Follow the Rainbow to Xamarin Events! (Jayme Singleton)
Telerik DevCraft Q1 2015 Release – Lots of Awesome and an Awesome Webinar! (Sam Basu)
Microsoft Azure DevCamps in the United States (Zhiming Xue)

Database

How to use a multi valued comma delimited input parameter for an SSRS report (Ghanesh Prasad)
MS SQL, T-SQL, and SQL Server Interview Questions (Ian Stirk)
SQL Server Query Performance After Index Maintenance for Reorganization vs Rebuild Operations (Ben Snaidero)
Make Network Path Visible For SQL Server Backup and Restore from within SSMS (Ahmad Yaseen)
Monitoring Snapshot Isolation with Perfmon in SQL Server (video) (Kendra Little)
SQL Server Data Tools and Data-Tier Application Framework Update for February 2015 (Steven Green)

Miscellaneous

Windows Server 2016 leaks reveal Nano Server, protected VM role plans (Mary Jo Foley)
Stephen Elop on new Lumia phones, super-lightweight universal keyboard, new offering with AT&T (Jennifer Chen)
The Microsoft Surface Hub in all its glory (Richard Devine)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1481 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading Notes #175 (Frank Boucher)
Geek Reading March 2, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1811 (Chris Alcock)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (2/23-3/1) (Dara Monasch)
My weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
Last Week on Channel 9: February 23 – March 1st, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-03 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 2nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin Essentials: Mark Reynolds: 9781783550838: Books

ISBN: 178355083X
ISBN-13: 9781783550838

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Dew Drop – October 2, 2014 (#1868)

Posted on October 2, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

C#: The New and Improved C# 6.0 (Mark Michaelis)
C# 6 Cuts (Phillip Trelford)
Thinking about delayed getters on properties in C#6.0 or after that (Miha Markic)
Announcing Office Sway: reimagine how your ideas come to life (Sway Team)

Windows 10

Microsoft to detail more of its next-generation developer story in November and First preview build of Windows Server Next available to testers on October 1 (Mary Jo Foley)
Windows 10 Technical Preview has some restrictions that may bar a few PC owners from using it and Windows 10 app strategy may be revealed by Microsoft November 12 (John Callaham)
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview (Sara Silva)
Windows 10 gets a fresh command prompt and lots of hotkeys (Scott Hanselman)
Get the Windows 10 Technical Preview by joining the Windows Insider Program (Suzanne Choney)

Web Development

Stack Overflow Adds Live JavaScript to Answers (David Iffland)
Customize the MVC 5 Application Users’ using ASP.Net Identity 2.0 and Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Building a Customer Management App Using AngularJS and Laravel (Maciej Sopyło)
Async Programming: Introduction to Async/Await on ASP.NET (Steven Cleary)
Modern Apps: Use SignalR to Build Modern Apps (Rachel Appel)
I Was Wrong About AngularJS (Swizec Teller)
Adding dependencies that don’t implement IDependency to Orchard and Cleanly getting a WebAPI action URL (Bertrand LeRoy)
Internet Explorer and the Windows 10 Technical Preview (Charles Morris)
New Google APIs Client Libraries for Dart (James Chesters)
Lower your encoding costs with Azure Media Encoder (John Deutscher)
Diagnosing Issues with ModSecurity in Azure Websites (Nazim Lala)
The anatomy of a Shellshock attack in the wild (Troy Hunt)

XAML

Kinect for Windows V2: Hello (Audio) World for the .NET Windows App Developer & Harmonica Player 😉 (Mike Taulty)
Windows Phone 8: Pivot And Panorama (Sani Yusuf)
2000 WPF Things #1,171 – Custom Panel, part III (Sean Sexton)
Pack your Windows App package yourself (Andrej Tozon)
Universal Windows Apps: Reuse Code Assets with Universal Windows Apps (Joel Reyes)

Miscellaneous .NET

Implement Step-by-Step Generic Repository Pattern in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
Unity: Developing Your First Game with Unity and C#, Part 3 (Adam Tuliper)
Test Run: Probit Classification Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Blog Post: CodeSmith Tools Turns 10 This Month – 30% Off Generator! (CodeSmith Tools Team)
ATBG: Better than nothing (Eric Lippert)
Data Points: A Pattern for Sharing Data Across Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts (Julie Lerman)
DirectX Factor: Pixel Shaders and the Reflection of Light (Charles Petzold)
Cutting Edge: Source Code Readability Tips (Dino Esposito)
dotMemory 4.1 is Released: 6+ Reasons to Upgrade (Olga Kosyreva)
You can name your car, and you can name your kernel objects, but there is a qualitative difference between the two (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,195 – Iterator Produces Only as Many Elements as Are Needed (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Modularity and testability (Simon Brown)
Kickstart Agile the Kanban Way (Ben Linders)
The Productivity Killer (Michael Burns)
Finding the bad commit with Git (Hanna Sahle)
Teams 101 and Teams 102 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Other Mobile Platforms

Powerful NoSQL JSON Database Support in Your Hybrid Apps with the Couchbase Lite Verified Cordova Plugin (Steve Forte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Tax and Coders with Steve DelBianco (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Podcast: The Security Influencer’s Channel (Troy Hunt)
.NET Micro Framework | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 048| SPTechCon Panel Recap – I’m a Developer: Why Should I Have to Learn a New Skill Set? and Episode 049| SPTechCon Panel Recap – InfoPath Is a Dead End: What Form Should Your Forms Take? (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Edge Show 121 – Azure Resource Manager | Edge (David Tesar & Simon May)
Boagworld – 10 common mistakes made by clients (Paul Boag)
128 JSJ Famo.us with Steve Newcomb (woody2shoes)

Community / Events

Xamarin Evolve 2014 Speaker Spotlight: Frank Krueger (Joseph Hill)
What’s in store for Developers at .conf2014 (Jon Rooney)
Geek of the Week: Sean Mellody of Mellody Brewing Company (Mary E. Brickthrower)
Charles Petzold Departing (Michael Desmond)
Women: Launch your career at Grace Hopper (Michelle Feder)
Congratulations to All the New and Renewed MVPs (MVP Award Program)
A Growing Azure and Windows Community at PuppetConf (Ross Gardler)

Database

SQL Server In-Memory Tables Impact on Startup and Recovery (Ben Snaidero)
SQL Server AlwaysOn and ILB (Narayan Annamalai)
SQL SERVER – Building Technical Reference Library – Notes from the Field #048 (Pinal Dave)
Why Put Your Database into Source Control? (Grant_Fritchey)
Why don’t they make the optimizer faster? (An essay on nested views) (Jen McCown)
Azure SQL Database Point in Time Restore (Tony Petrossian)

Miscellaneous

Using the commandline to write a book (Leon Bambrick)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 1, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading October 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1418 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1707 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: October 2, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 10/2/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-02 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Pro AngularJS (Expert's Voice in Web Development): Adam Freeman: 9781430264484: Books

ISBN: 1430264489
ISBN-13: 9781430264484

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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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