Dew Drop – August 22, 2014 (#1840)

NewsBlur is still having issues, so I apologize if I’m missing any great posts out there. The guy who runs NewsBlur is away on vacation until Sept. 3rd.

Top Links

• PostSharp 3.2 gets RC, renamed PostSharp 4.0 RC (Gael Fraiteur)
• Restore the last visible Hub Section with the DefaultSectionIndex (Shawn Kendrot)
• .NET Rocks! – DotNetRocks Show 1024 Talking About Modern Web Development (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DocumentDB – NoSQL Database As A Service On Azure (Shiju Varghese)

 

Web Development

• jQuery QueryBuilder Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• New Kendo UI Media Player Widget with MVVM (Basem Emara)
• ES6 Notes: Default values of parameters (Dmitry Soshnikov)
• Internet Explorer: Try Improved F12 Developer Tools (Vygantas)

 

XAML

• How to send email from your Windows Phone 8.1 app (Paras Wadehra)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,142 – Setting Attached Property Value from Code (Sean Sexton)
• Privacy link added automatically to settings (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Forget Login Screens! How to Add Single Sign On for Universal Windows Store Apps (Rami Sayar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Kinect for Windows SDK V2: Mixing with some Reactive Extensions (Mike Taulty)
• ImmutableInterlocked (Chris Cavanagh)
• Integrating Mule ESB with .NET Based Rules Engines (Ross Mason)
• ZeroMq #2 : The Socket Types (Sacha Barber)
• C++ Sink Parameter Passing (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,166 – Lambda Expression Syntax (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Plague of Methods and Frameworks (Jurgen Appelo)
• Code Coverage In The Financial Services Industry (Kerry Meade)
• Abstracting functionality (Ralf Westphal)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Postmortems, sans finger-pointing: The OReilly Radar Podcast (Jenn Webb)
• Hanselminutes – Inside RavenDB with Michael Yarichuk (Scott Hanselman)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 012 with Alex Randall on SharePoint workflow (Office 365 Team)
• Fun with the Interns: Santiago Fernandez on LLVM Based Optimizer for MSIL (Beth Massi)
• Introduction To Azure Search | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Atlanta Code Camp 2014! (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Database

• Microsoft NoSQL database and full-text search service previews available on Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
• Force Start a Windows Server Failover Cluster without a Quorum to bring a SQL Server Failover Clustered Instance Online (Edwin Sarmiento)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why We Need to Teach Kids to Code (Abby Fichtner)
• Rumored Miracast dongle may be Microsoft’s answer to Apple TV, Chromecast for Windows Phone (Chuong H. Nguyen)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, August 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 8/21/2014 and Daily News Digest 8/22/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1679 (Chris Alcock)

 

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