Dew Drop – May 29, 2014 (#1786)

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro 2.0 Released! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Xamarin Acquires Visual Studio Division of Clarius Consulting and Announcing Xamarin 3 (Nat Friedman)
• Xamarin.Forms – Write Once, Run Everywhere, AND Look Native? (Scott Hanselman)
• Improved JavaScript Intellisense in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• Exploring Roslyn, part 3: Breaking Changes (Schabse Laks)

 

Web Development

• The Frustratingly Lovable Crazy-making Huggable Ball of Whack That Is Ember.js (Rob Conery)
• HTML5 Template Tags, Data-Binding, and Standards (Basem Emara)
• Arrow Navigation Styles with CSS & SVG (jQuery Rain)
• Microsoft Plans To Bring HTTP/2, Web Audio And JavaScript Promises To The Next Version Of IE (Frederic Lardinois)
• An Introduction to Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser WinJs (Jeremy Likness)
• ASP.NET Moving Parts: IBuilder (Louis DeJardin)
• Compile, Pre, and Post Linking in AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• DOWNLOAD: Free MS Press eBook, “Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight” (Kurt Shintaku)
• Arrow Navigation Styles (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• Windows/Phone 8.1–Returning to the File Open Picker Abstraction (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,082 – Adding CommandBindings to Individual UI Elements (Sean Sexton)
• Using the Windows Phone Emulator for testing apps with geofencing (Sharath Raghavendra, Roaa Sakr & Cristina del Amo Casado)
• Globalization and Localization in WPF – Some thoughts (Brian Mullen)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Working on the Uber Profiler 3.0 (Oren Eini)
• Real time collaboration with VS Anywhere (Brian Harry)
• Isolator 7.5, Extending mscorlib support (Eli Lopian)
• New CodeRush Plugin – Use Extension Method (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,106 – Using the Logical Exclusive OR Operator (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture vs code (Simon Brown)
• Article: Taking Back Agile and Do we Need Managers and Hierarchy in Agile? (Ben Linders)
• Software Craftsmanship (Andy Stopford)
• Converting Feelings to Metrics with a “Safety Check” (Jann Thomas)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin 3 Enterprise Edition Reviewed (Mike Riley)
• Understanding the Android Resource System (Greg Shackles)
• iOS File Association, Preview, and Open In… with Xamarin (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 148 (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Lessons from Code Reviews with Shawn Wildermuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 271 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales from SAPIEN (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 133 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Webinar Recording: Spec BDD with PhpStorm and PhpSpec (Mikhail Vink)
• What The Tech 212: What To Expect At WWDC 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dr. Drew (Chris Harwick)
• 110 JSJ Zones with Brian Ford (Joe Eames, Jamison Dance, Charles Max Wood & AJ O’Neal)
• Ping 209: Surface 3 launch, WP apps, xBox One update, After Hours gaming and more | Ping! (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Game Development Middleware: What is it? Do I need it? | Windows Store Developer Solutions (James Dailey)

 

Community / Events

• Summary and links for fourth “Is TDD Dead” hangout, final will be on June 4th (Martin Fowler)
• Announcing The Visit Philly Beer Garden Series, A Weekly Pop-Up Happy Hour Event Taking Place At An Awesome Beer Garden Every Friday All Summer Long (Kristina Jenkins)
• A blog post landed her a new job (Allison Michels)

 

Database

• Quick Guide to Installing SQL Server 2014 (Dallas Snider)
• Do Lots of Connections Slow Down Your SQL Server? (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages – Notes from the Field #030 (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration (Ian Stirk)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Filtering a collection using comparison operators (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• James Whittaker on the art of making truly killer presentations (Steve Wiens)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 28, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1366 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-29 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1618 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 5/29/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• TechEd North America Highlights for App Developers (Windows Apps Team)

 

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