June 2013 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – June 14, 2013 (#1,568)

Posted on June 14, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Windows Azure: Major Updates for Mobile Backend Development (Scott Guthrie)
What’s the difference? sizeof and Marshal.SizeOf (Eric Lippert)
OWASP Top 10 2013 Released (Timothy)
Architecture Tools in ReSharper 8 and Inline Parameter Refactoring in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)

Web Development

New Tutorial: Using Apache ZooKeeper on Windows Azure to Manage Solr on Linux Virtual Machines (Brian Benz)
Real World OAuth using ASP.NET MVC (Sumit Maitra)
Google Changes Rankings of Smartphone Search Results (Yoshikiyo Kato & Pierre Far)
Node v0.10.11 (Stable) (node.js Team)
Combining Laravel 4 and Backbone (Conar Welsh)

XAML

2000 WPF Things #842 – The Differences Between Label and TextBlock (Sean Sexton)
Data Storage for Windows Store Apps – a Walkthrough (Georgi Atanasov)
Win8Templates now at 71 – 71 Windows 8 App Design Reference Templates and counting… (Greg Duncan)
Two bits: system colors and the TileUpdater.clear() method (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

Pro Tip – Show File in Solution Explorer with Resharper (Jakub Chodounsky)
NuGet Install Is Broken With F# (Mike Hadlow)
HUY Volume III– Popups, Dirty Visual Collections, and Using Prototypes To Calculate Child Collections (Michael Washington)
2000 C# Things #866 – A catch Block Without Arguments Catches All Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
A big little program: Monitoring Internet Explorer and Explorer windows, part 2: Tracking navigations (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: ConfigurationSynchronization and Bliki: ImmutableServer (Martin Fowler)
Antipattern: Mediating Involvement and Pattern: Reduced Risk Initial Project (Wes McClure)
Build Software with Less Stress (Andy Singleton)
Code Review and it’s Importance (Kunal Chowdhury)
Sticky Navigation Pattern Solves Usability and Design Issues (Marshal Datkowitz)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android Device Manager and SDK Location (Pascal Arnould)
iOS 7 and Seizing an Opportunity (Rob Bazinet)
Using Errorception with PhoneGap (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Deep Fried Bytes Episode 93: Just What is TypeScript with Ben Hoelting (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
iOS 7 Beta vs Windows Phone 8 – The Striking Similarities [VIDEO] (Ben Reid)
Video: Building a Meetup+Bing Maps Mashup for Windows 8 and Video: Exploring the Mashery API’s (Bob Familiar)
063 JSJ Burnout (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
Imagine Cup TV Episode 011: TechEd, Team Pages, Samsung Award, Women’s App Challenge! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 182 – 06.12.13 (Joe Pollicino)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 94 (Richard Hay)
All Evolve session videos now available (Ryan Paul)

Community / Events

THE Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas March 3-6 #SPC14 (Joel Oleson)
Upcoming Speaking events: Aberdeen and Edinburgh (Bill Wagner)
Working at Microsoft (Damien Guard)
Developers at National Day of Civic Hacking Use US Census Bureau API to Create Innovative App and Infographics (Janet Wagner)

Database

More Details on SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Capabilities (David Ramel)
Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence System Architecture – Part 2 (Arshad Ali)
SQL – Quick Start with Explorer Sections of NuoDB – Query NuoDB Database (Pinal Dave)
Virtual SQL Playground Adventure: Introduction (Marlon Ribunal)

SharePoint

Upgrading your app for SharePoint (Miguel Caballero Pinto)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft delivers Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Mary Jo Foley)
Small Basic: How to Debug – Featured Article (Ed Price)
Bungie introduces the world of ‘Destiny’ (Jeff Blagdon)
How to Lock Shapes in Visio 2013. You can lock shapes, but don’t. Use layers instead. (Jon Gallant)
‘Project Spark’: build a game, or don’t, with Microsoft’s incredible new sandbox (Paul Miller)
Response to the Crotchety Olde Geek’s Career Advice for IT Newbies (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
Stop Doing Internet Wrong. (Scott Hanselman)
Microsoft and Best Buy team up to create a ‘Windows Store’ inside 600 retail locations (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 14, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 12th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, June 13th (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading June 13, 2013 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1377 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: June 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework: Andrew Troelsen: 9781430242338: Books

ISBN: 1430242337
ISBN-13: 9781430242338

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Dew Drop – June 13, 2013 (#1,567)

Posted on June 13, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

‘Jony Ive Redesigns Things’ Tumblr Pokes Fun At Apple’s iOS 7 (Allison Reiber)
Creating a Great Mashup using Windows Azure (Brian Hitney)
Windows Phone developers: New code samples await you (Jeffrey Meisner)
Writing .NET in PowerShell and creating TFS Teams (Martin Hinshelwood)

Web Development

Introducing Multi-Factor Authentication on Windows Azure (Craig Kitterman)
How my company uses Windows Azure in development process (Gunnar Peipman)
The Attack of the Light-Rendered or how Lightweight beats Heavyweight with CSS3 and HTML5 (Marin Bratanov)
Reserved keywords in JavaScript (Mathias Bynens)
[Sample Of Jun 12nd] How to consume JSON Web Service Using WinJS.xhr (Philip Fu)
Replacing jQuery.live() with jQuery.on() (Rick Strahl)
DatePicker Range in LightSwitch HTML Client (Xpert360)
Remote HTML5 debugging on Windows Phone with weinre (Charles Morris)
Pure 0.2.0 Released (Tilo)
Wrangling WebRTC: Challenges and Opportunities for Real-Time Communication (Zef Hemel)
IE 10 Specific Styles (Chris Coyier)
Play Cube Slam, a real-time WebRTC video game (Justin Uberti)
Intro to Flask: Signing In and Out (Lalith Polepeddi)
Creative Button Styles (Mary Lou)

XAML

2000 WPF Things #841 – Display Underlines for Access Keys at All Times (Sean Sexton)
Prism for WinRT Applications–Sketchy Explorations (Mike Taulty)
Placeholder product IDs for in-app purchases (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

NuGet Package Restore Issues (Immo Landwerth)
CodeRush 13.1 – Enhancements to the Visual Studio Debugging Experience (Mark Miller)
Using .Net Settings? Hate it when you rev your app and the settings "go away"? Here’s why and how to fix that (cough… "Settings.Upgrade()" cough) (Greg Duncan)
Optimizing C++ Code : Overview (Jim Hogg)
RavenDB GetAll extension method (Jon Canning)
How to Search for File or Folder Programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Using decimals in Ordered Lists (Pankaj Tahiliani)
2000 C# Things #865 – A catch Block Specifies the Type of Exception to Catch (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Visual Evidence of an Agile Release (Peter Callies)
Stand-ups are a crutch (Rob Ashton)
The Power of Code (Steven Vore)

Other Mobile Platforms

Create a MapView in Google Maps for iOS (Wally McClure)
Apple’s iAd Workbench lets smaller developers better target ads in iOS (Erica Ogg)
Android Basic Action Bar Tutorial Series (Juhani Lehtimaki)
iOS6 network activity spinner and CORS (Ryan Seddon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 7) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Authentication Tips and Tricks and Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) APIMASH Starter Kit – Building a Meetup / Bing Maps Windows Store App (G. Andrew Duthie)
Infragistics Controls for XAML Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
What the Tech 169: Xbox vs. PlayStation vs. Apple (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Rick Moranis (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog 93: Sass, Bourbon and Product Design with Phil LaPier (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
Defrag: Connected Accounts, SSD Thrashing, Beer Bot | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

Community / Events

Philly Geek Awards 2013: One Week Left for Nominations (Mikey Il)
SPTechcon Boston 2013 – What are you waiting for? (Joel Oleson)

Database

SQL Server Integration Services package to delete files from a Network or Local path based on date (Basit Farooq)
SQL Server 2012 Query Pagination (Pravinkumar Dabade)
Reviewing HyperLevelDB–Concurrent Writes (Oren Eini)
SQL – Quick Start with Admin Sections of NuoDB – Manage NuoDB Database (Pinal Dave)
SQLCMD – Explicit and Implicit calls – Examples (Prashanth Jayaram)

SharePoint

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 10 – Creating a BI site (Koen Verbeeck)

PowerShell

PowerShell Command Line Introduction (Doug Finke)
Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.0 Released (Heath Stewart)

Miscellaneous

Introduction to Systematic Programming – Week 1 (Dara Monasch)
Xbox One and PS4: two peas in an E3 pod (Scott Stein)
Windows Phone is a life saver for an Anywhere Worker (Janey)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 13, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading June 12, 2013 (Robert Diana)
The Daily Six Pack: June 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 6/12/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Dev News for June 12, 2013 – #0159 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #1376 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The REST API Design Handbook: George Reese, Christian Reilly: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00890OBFI

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Dew Drop – June 12, 2013 (#1,566)

Posted on June 12, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Part 3: Unit testing with Traits and code coverage in Visual Studio 2012 using the TFS Build – and the new NuGet adapter approach (Charles Sterling)
iOS 7 coming to Xamarin (Ryan Paul)
First Look: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (John Sterrett)

Web Development

Benefit of Using Directories in Windows Azure Blob Storage Service (Alexandre Brisebois)
How Does a LightSwitch HTML Client Application Work? (Michael Washington)
Working With Data in Sails.js (Gabriel Manricks)
Functional Programming Patterns in Four Popular Javascript Libraries (Gary Sieling)
Twig support in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
AngularJS Tests With An HTTP Mock (K. Scott Allen)
Why Do We Need Responsive Images? 72% Less Image Weight. (Tim Kadlec)
Introducing Animator 1.5 (Arne Bech & Miroslav Bojic)
Afternoon Tea – 11th June 2013 – Open Source Projects I Like: Glimpse (Chris Alcock)
Practical Azure #20 – SQL Reporting Services (Jim O’Neil)

XAML

Windows Phone 8 Samples Update (Adam Denning)
2000 WPF Things #840 – Access Keys Should Be Unique within A Window (Sean Sexton)
Feature Spotlight: Live Tiles (Ben Thompson)

Miscellaneous .NET

Important WCF Performance Issue + Workaround (Yaron Naveh)
Visual Studio Tip: Write a Property with Just a Name and a DataType (Peter Vogel)
Visualizing KPIs with RadPivotGrid for WinForms (Carey Payette)
An introduction to COM connection points (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #864 – An Example of a finally Block with No catch Block (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Driving SaaS Growth Through The Customer Lifecycle (Joel York)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android – Linear Layout Example (Deepak Kapoor)
PhoneGap Exploration – Realtime Hardware Communication (Andrew Trice)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Stack Exchange Podcast #49 – The One Where We Edited Out The Title Reference (Alex Miller)
Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++, 9 of n | C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++ (Charles Torre & Stephan T. Lavavej)
Defrag Tools: Live – TechEd USA 2013 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
Ping 180: Tech Ed, Xbox One, Windows 8.1, Bing Translator | Ping! (Laura Foy)
Video: Testing AngularJS Services with Dependencies (Manya Susoev)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 93 (Special Edition) (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

Build Apps with APIs – Register Today for Upcoming Webcasts! (G. Andrew Duthie)
F# London Meetup, Thursday: Machine Learning Hands On with F# (Don Syme)
A Q&A With Eric Martin, Drexel University Alum & Contestant on TNT’s 72 Hours (Eric Smith)
TechEd 2013 – Speaker Idol Wrap-up (Jeff Fritz)
AzureAustin is a new user group–meeting June 17 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Smashing Conference 2013: A Community Event That Will Change Everything (Vitaly Friedman)

Database

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014: More than just in-memory OLTP (Mary Jo Foley)
Generating Random Numbers in T-SQL Queries (Richard Carr)
Reviewing HyperLevelDB–Compactions (Oren Eini)
The Accidental DBA (Day 11 of 30): Backups: Backup Storage and Retention (Paul Randal)
SQL – Step by Step Guide to Download and Install NuoDB – Getting Started with NuoDB (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint Mobile Access Solution: SharePlus (Dara Monasch)
Announcement: 11 Keys to Optimizing SharePoint for Field Personnel and Traveling Executives (Joel Oleson)
Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 9 – Installing Reporting Services (Koen Verbeeck)

PowerShell

PowerShell Command Line Introduction (Doug Finke)

Miscellaneous

Beginning Microsoft Small Basic – Review by "Royal Little Lambs" (Ed Price)
Google caught in a lie. (Leon Bambrick)
Learn functional programming with me – Improving our data structure with maps (Rob Ashton)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 11, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 12, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 11th (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading June 11, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1140 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1375 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: June 12, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– May 2013 (+more) (Beth Massi)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 11 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 11 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
Daily News Digest 6/12/2013 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence: Martin Fowler, Pramod J. Sadalage: Kindle Store

ASIN: B0090J3SYW

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