Dew Drop – September 26, 2013 (#1,632)

Top Links

• How To Manage API Keys in a Windows Phone App (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Immutable collections ready for prime time (Immo Landwerth)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day Eight – Dealing With Defects (James Bender)
• Perception is Reality–The state of OSS in .NET (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Web Development

• Pro ASP.NET Web API Book is Shipped and Available on Amazon (Ali Tugberk Ugurlu)
• jQuery Expand/Collapse Using Head Tags (Dave M. Bush)
• Special syntax for data-win-options strings with WinJS controls (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Built-in Local Terminal in PhpStorm 7 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Bing and Power BI for Office 365 preview (Bing Team)
• The HTML5 Scorecard: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in iOS7 (Michael Mullany)
• Problem/Solution: Error in publishing ASP.NET MVC with MvcBuildViews ON from Visual Studio 2012 (Michael Sync)
• Why to declare JavaScript Variables On Top of Functions and WebAPI with SPA (Single Page JavaScript) Specifically ExtJS and Sencha Touch (Peter Kellner)
• Aiming for a Truly Responsive Web Experience (Dino Esposito)
• What Time Is It? Global Time (Steve Lasker)
• Releases API Preview (Rick Olson)
• KendoUI tips and tricks on Dates in a Grid (Onobai)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #915 – Delaying Generation of Expander Content (Sean Sexton)
• Unirest-RT – Simplified, lightweight HTTP library for Windows 8 RT (Michael Sync)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Tip: Use Ctrl_I for Quick Searches (Peter Vogel)
• Challenge: Spot the bug (Oren Eini)
• Why is My Visual Studio Slow To Start? (Phil Japikse)
• Crypto Obfuscator Evaluation (Anthony Trudeau)
• Kinect for Windows Dev Center (Greg Duncan)
• How can I tell that somebody used the MAKEINTRESOURCE macro to smuggle an integer inside a pointer? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #939 – Not All Objects on Heap Are Promoted to Next GC Generation (Sean Sexton)
• Nest embraces developers, launches API (Katie Fehrenbacher)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Threat of the Stabilization Phase (Gregg Boer)
• Code Reviews Change Over Time (Jim Bird)
• UX Design Libaries and UX Design Library – Investment In Time and Creating a UX Component Library (Matt Davey)
• Measuring Development Trends (Patrick Smacchia)
• Design Improvement: Avoiding Stale Releases (Richard Muscat)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• VirtualBox Android Emulation Works Faster (Alec Noller)
• iOS Fortnightly Tutorial: A Simple Weather App, Part 2 (Joey deVilla)
• Simplifying Persistence with a Document Database (Zack Gramana)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 242 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski and Geoff Dalgas on DSC and Stack Overflow (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Devnology podcast 040 – Commitment (Olav Maassen, Chris Matts & Chris Geary)

 

Community / Events

• An Interview with PhoneGap Refcard Author Raymond Camden (Allen Coin)
• Monday Night Networking at the 2013 PASS Summit (Andy Warren)
• A Coder Interview With Mike Meinz (CodeProject)
• Geek of the Week: Miguel Gomez of VIVA VIDEO! (Dan)
• Free software, services, and support for entrepreneurs and independent developers (David C. Chou)
• Why the red dress? (MS JobsBlog)
• MVPs Present at the 2013 CloudBurst Conference (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• #0298 – SQL Server – complex CHECK constraints (Nakul Vachhrajani)
• Determining who is viewing reports in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Dallas Snider)
• Natively Compiled Tables in SQL Server 2014 (Jonathan Allen)
• SQL SERVER – Select Columns from Stored Procedure Resultset (Pinal Dave)
• AdventureWorks2012 Bug on Azure (Grant Fritchey)
• Red Gate goes SQL Loco for OSS Projects… (Greg Duncan)

 

SharePoint

• Use SharePoint permission management to create various roles in an app for SharePoint (Chenxiao Li, Yu He & Tony Liu)
• SharePointGwe – A lightweight eventreceiver-driven alternative to the windows workflow engine for SharePoint (Pete Weissbrod)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bug guys meets math from scratch (Eric Lippert)
• Run, don’t walk, to learn TouchDevelop with RoboRun (Greg Duncan)
• Finally: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake (Taylor Soper)
• Kindle Fire HDX 7 vs Nexus 7 (2013) vs Apple iPad mini (Phone Arena Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 25, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1450 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for Sep 25, 2013 – #0193 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 8 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

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