Dew Drop – January 17, 2014 (#1704)

Top Links

• Windows Azure: Staging Publishing Support for Web Sites, Monitoring Improvements, Hyper-V Recovery Manager GA, and PCI Compliance (Scott Guthrie)
• Identify code smells with Visual Studio Code Metrics (Steve Smith)
• Show me your Visual Studio Extensions (Simone Chiaretta)
• Hanselminutes – Discourse and The Art of Discussion with Jeff Atwood (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• Getting Started with Node.js in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• UPDATE – Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and Visual Studio 2013 Tutorial Series (Erik Reitan)
• CSS Animation Tricks: State Jumping, Negative Delays, Animating Origin, and More (Zach Saucier)
• Using jQuery Templating: An Introduction (Mike Hostetler)
• Keeping jQuery in Check (Pete Hodgson)
• Node.js and the Road Ahead (Timothy J Fontaine)
• Passing Object Collections to Asp.Net Web Api (Tom Glick)
• Ember.js Testing (Toran Billups)
• Dart 1.1 Pushes Performance Even Further (Abel Avram)
• How to Retrieve a Scalar Value from a REST method (B. Clay Shannon)
• Hidden Web Essentials Feature –Check for best practices (Dave Paquette)
• Firefox, Fiddler and HTTPS (Stefano Ricciardi)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #989 – Enabling Live Filtering in a CollectionViewSource (Sean Sexton)
• How to retrieve Free Space details in WP programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Installing TFS 2013 from scratch is easy (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The best of the two worlds: How to use the raw power of C++ to improve performance of your Windows 8/8.1 HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript application (David Catuhe)
• Disabling Registry-System-Redirection on 64bit (Daniel Fisher)
• Book Review: .NET 4.5 Parallel Extensions Cookbook (Peter Vogel)
• 5 Reasons I Prefer JustDecompile: Confessions of a JustDecompile User (Elena Pundjeva)
• Exception Boundaries (James McNellis)
• The curse of the leading zero (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,013 – default Operator Returns Default Values (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: SegregatedDOM (Martin Fowler)
• Introducing the Unit Testing Context Pattern (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Article: Non-functional Requirements in Architectural Decision Making (David Ameller, Claudia Ayala, Jordi Cabot & Xavier Franch)
• Finding The Right Pace (John Sonmez)
• Service Bus Brokered Messaging Overview (Mahesh Pesani)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Lock Screen Music Controls in Xamarin.Android (James Montemagno)
• Introducing the Google Drive Android API (Scott Knaster)
• PhoneGap and WordPress for Building Mobile Applications (Saul Zukauskas)
• Creating a single frame animation using Unity 4.3 2D workflows, the better way (Michael Cummings)
• Four Options for Mobile Form Validation (TJ VanToll)
• Generate Excel Spreadsheets in Native Mobile Apps (Mike Bluestein)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• IWP71 | NoSQL | Inside Windows Phone (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Windows Weekly 345: XPired (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Simon Majumdar (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – V Cards (Chris Hardwick)
• Countdown to TechEd: The One with Keynote Breaking News | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 2, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• More video (Eric Lippert)
• The Vergecast 107 – January 16th, 2013 (Verge Video)
• ng-conf videos available (Kris van der Mast)

Community / Events

• Cloud Load Testing and Application Insights Webinar – January 23rd (Charles Sterling)
• Infragistics’ D3 is Hosting a World IA Day Event at HQ! (Dara Monasch)

Database

• Reduce Time for SQL Server Index Rebuilds and Update Statistics (Norman Chan)
• Create Database in SQL Server With Different Configuration Options (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Preventing Overlapping Ranges in SQL Server (Richard Carr)
• Big Data Search: Setting up (Oren Eini)
• Transact-SQL Named ‘Programming Language of the Year’ for 2013 (David Ramel)

PowerShell

• Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets [3] – Operating System (Vaibhav Chugh)

Miscellaneous

• How To Become A Programmer And Get A Job (John Bubriski)
• Russell “The Professor” Johnson, RIP (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Learning as an indie (Michael Eaton)
• Here are the 12 Best Jobs at Microsoft (Michelle Feder)
• The Xbox One was the best-selling console for December in the United States (Sam Sabri)
• I’m pwned, you’re pwned, we’re all pwned – introducing domain wide searches (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 17, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 7 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 16, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 16, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1280 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 17, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/17/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1528 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-17 (Dan Rigby)

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