Dew Drop – February 20, 2015 (#1959)

Top Links

• Make WPF Hawt Again (Michael Crump)
• Code Sharing Strategies for iOS & Mac (Michael James)
• IFTTT introduces three new apps to automate the world around you (Casey Newton)
• Roslyn Code Gems – Counting Bits (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

• Key Trends in Building Enterprise Applications with HTML5 (Arthur Kay)
• Services in AngularJS simplified with examples (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Create a Photo Gallery with Kendo UI and ASP.NET MVC (Matt Millican)
• Azure Data Services: See how to share a file using Azure File Storage (Part 6) (Adarsha Datta)
• Polylion (Chris Coyier)
• Add a Data Driven Combobox to ExtJS Form (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Compare – The circle of life (a post-mortem) (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 18 (Brian Harry)
• Submitting HDInsight Storm Applications from Visual Studio – Gotcha! (Elton Stoneman)
• Exploring the Windows Forms controls in our new Cashflow Dashboard (DevToolsGuy)
• Proper benchmarking to diagnose and solve a .NET serialization bottleneck (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: ConversationalStories (Martin Fowler)
• Diana Larsen talks about Agile Fluency, Barriers to Agility and the value of Open Space Technology (Shane Hastie)
• Simplicity Principles and Anti-Patterns (Timothy Klenke)
• How to be web content agnostic (and why you should) (Benjie Moss)
• What Should I Do With Free Time At Work? (Douglas Coleman)
• User Story Map (Matt Davey)
• Variations in event-driven architecture (Rachel Roumeliotis)
• Software Development Guidelines to Live By (Tony Sneed)
• Why You Should Use Markdown for Your API Documentation (Peter Gruenbaum)
• The Power of Questions in Artifact Design (Michael Robillard)
• Slack is now available for Windows desktop in beta form (Jonathan Dollison)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Apple Watch – oData and Images (Richard Jones)
• Azure IoT services: Event Hubs (Rob Tiffany)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 034 on the Office client extensibility story with Rolando Jimenez Salgado (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutiae 15 with Richard Campbell – Recorded as a Google Hangout, we talk all things tech (Scott Hanselman)
•  SQL Server Radio Show 16 – SQL Server Horror Stories (Matan Yungman)
• 030 AiA Angular Interns with Rodric Haddad and Anting Shen (John Papa)
• AAWP Insight #129: Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones (Rafe Blandford)
• App Biz Dev Episode 25: AppBoy for All (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Windows Weekly 401: Better Call Aul with Daniel Rubino (Richard Devine)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Talks and Classes (G. Andrew Duthie)
• How to build a female-friendly culture (Aaron Skonnard)
• OneDrive turns One. Thanks for a great year! (Omar Shahine)
• Microsoft Research joins diversity in computing conference (Vanessa Ho)
• Code Hunt: February Challenge is Here! (Kevin Maginn)
• Happy 25th Birthday Photoshop! Let’s Get Mobile! (A.J. Wood)

Database

• Changing SQL Server Collation After Installation (Douglas P. Castilho)
• SQL Server Covering Index Performance (Fikrat Azizov)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Top Offenders in SQL Server 2012 – Notes from the Field #068 (Pinal Dave)
• Exploring Data at Scale with New Capabilities in Application Insights and Metrics Explorer (Andrew Bragdon)
• 9 Ways to Lose Your Data (Brent Ozar)
• RAD – Outlier Detection on Big Data (Chris Colburn)
• Reliable database tests with Respawn (Jimmy Bogard)
• Protect Sensitive Data with SQL Database Dynamic Data Masking (Shaun Xu)

PowerShell

• Powershell Quick Parameters for Scripts (Steve Jones)
• Like vs. Match: Battle of the Powershell operators (Adam Bertram)
•  DSC Local Configuration Manager Refresh Modes in WMF 5.0 (Ravikanth C)
• Drive inventory for clustered SQL Server instances using PowersShell (Johan Bijnens)

Miscellaneous

• The Windows 8 scrap heap: 10 features that didn’t make it to Windows 10 (Ed Bott)
• Forget bloatware, Lenovo is installing adware on new PCs (Harish Jonnalagadda)
• 100GB free OneDrive storage through Bing Rewards is now available for everyone (Harish Jonnalagadda)
• These tablets are ready for Windows 10 (Simon Sage)

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 19, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1476 and Double Shot #1477 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/19/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1804 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 19th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

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