Dew Drop – June 24, 2013 (#1,571)

Top Links

• Array covariance: not just ugly, but slow too (Jon Skeet)
• BUILD 2013 – Microsoft Set to Unveil It’s Reinvention (D’Arcy Lussier)
• TypeScript Succinctly – Free [Name/email-ware] eBook (Greg Duncan)
• Agent Emulator & Bluetooth Device Communications (Mike Hole)

 

Web Development

• And there it is – MvcSiteMapProvider v4 (beta) and Enabling PHP 5.5 on Windows Azure Web Sites using a remote shell and KuduExec (Maarten Balliauw)
• Basic JavaScript: an introduction to the language (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Knockout and JavaScript Tips (John Papa)
• Windows Azure VMs – New "Stopped" VM Options Provide Cost-effective Flexibility for On-Demand Workloads (Keith Mayer)
• PhpStorm 6.0.3 update is available (Mikhail Vink)
• Node.js and Windows Azure: A Love Story (Sasha Goldshtein)
• oGrid is a Pure JavaScript Grid (babydragoner)
• The security futility that is embedding secure login forms within insecure pages (Troy Hunt)
• Five Reasons to Considering Linking in Your HTTP APIs (@mnot) (John Sheehan)
• How Often Do Filters Execute In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 7.5 and F# – A book in the market (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Phone 8 Beta Apps – Few Important Points (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Tips for localizing and monetizing your app for Windows Phone users (Bernardo Zamora)
• TTF Font with Windows Phone 8 and 3D Motion, a Bogus iOS7 Feature, implemented in 50 lines of code on Windows Phone 8 (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #848 – IsDefaulted vs. IsDefault for a Button (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – DispatcherObject (Richard Carr)
• Introducing our one-stop shop for Windows Store app services (Gabriel Valdez M.)
• Run Your WP8 App on Two Emulators Simultaneously (Nico Vermeir)
• Windows Store App Development snack: Compress Your Images! (Robert MacLean)
• Clamping Values (Nigel Sampson)
• Configuring Prism for Windows Store using Unity or Ninject and Displaying About, Settings and other Flyouts using Prism for Windows Store (Andrei Marukovich)
• Windows Dev Center: Redesigned across the board (Devon Musgrave)
• A Much Better Way to Obfuscate Windows Store / Appx Apps (earlz)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Determining the Owner of a File or Folder (Richard Carr)
• Evolution of C# in picture (Zubair Ahmed)
• .NET Memory Profiling in Visual Studio 2013 (Jonathan Allen)
• Issue [ TFS2012.2 ] TF30063 You are not authorized to access (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 2000 C# Things #872 – Code After a throw Statement Is Not Executed (Sean Sexton)
• Of what use is the RDW_INTERNALPAINT flag? (Raymond Chen)
• Playing Around With the AGENT SDK to Create a Custom Watch Face (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban and Team Foundation Server 2012 (Mickey Gousset)
• Stupid Question 199: Do we need to decouple the view from logic (mv* patterns)? (Iris Classon)
• Antifragile Software (K. Scott Allen)
• Team Collaboration (Clemens Reijnen)
• 5 Common User Story Mistakes (Roman Pichler)
• How To Use Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection to Triple Your Productivity (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google I/O 2013 Demo: Android Studio + Cloud Endpoints – Synchronized StopWatch Demo (Brad Abrams)
• Android – ListView tutorial with images and text (Deepak Kapoor)
• Building iOS/C# User Interfaces: Importing, Imperative, Drawing, or Drag and Drop (Jonathan Allen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 100: A.J. Jacobs, extreme self-experimenter (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 271: Shane Boyer on TypeScript (David Giard)
• Herding Code 170: NDC Geekout with Richard Campbell and Rob Conery (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 480: E3 and Xbox One updates (Larry Hyrb)
• SharePoint Pod Show – Reasons to upgrade to SharePoint 2013 with Joel Oleson (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Video: Android Tools Architecture Overview (Manya Susoev)
• Windows Weekly 317: Xbox 180 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Buzz Aldrin (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: Build Hackathon, TypeScript 0.9, WintellectNOW, eBook Bonanza and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Tablet Show – Windows Tablet Media Application by Gill Cleeren at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• New Microsoft DevRadio Episode: World of Warcraft API Starter Kit for Windows Store Apps (Dave Isbitski)
• Yet Another Podcast #100–Jeremy Likness (Jesse Liberty)
• Get Up And Code 007: How To Start Running (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)

 

Community / Events

• Robin’s "So you’re in San Francisco for Build? Stuff to do guide…" (Greg Duncan)
• The buildup to Build (Kip Kniskern)
• I’m Delivering a PowerShell Workshop at Exchange Connections 2013 in Vegas (Mike Pfeiffer)

 

Database

• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Kim Spilker)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #17 : using wildcards with a parameterized query (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – List of All the Samples Database Available to Download for FREE and SQL SERVER – An Efficiency Tool to Compare and Synchronize SQL Server Databases (Pinal Dave)
• A face lift for the RavenDB Management Studio (Oren Eini)
• Moving a database from on-premise to the cloud – Step by Step Walkthrough (Anup SivaDas)

 

SharePoint

• Office 365 new public sites (Gunnar Peipman)

 

PowerShell

• PoshInternals – Multi Desktop Support (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Calling All Schools: Join The Bing For Schools Program! (Matt Wallaert)
• Exclusive: SkyDrive.com to get web-based text file editing features (damaster)
• Small Basic: How to Convert Multi-Line Text into an Array of Lines – Featured Article (Ed Price)
• A Sweet Summer Sysinternals Suite Refresh (Greg Duncan)
• ‘Major’ Microsoft reorg expected by July 1st as Ballmer contemplates single ‘Windows’ division (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 22, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 23, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 24, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 06.01 ~ 06.22 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, June 21st (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 21, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (June 21, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #69 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1147 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five-June 21, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 6/24/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 24, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1383 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reblog: June 14 to June 20 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 19 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #034 (Pinal Dave)
• Weekend reading: Microsoft/Oracle and SkyDrive based code-editor (Jamie Thomson)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #69) (Mark Brown)

 

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