Dew Drop – August 23, 2013 (#1,610)

Top Links

• Steve Ballmer to retire as Microsoft CEO (Vlad Savov)
• Week of PostSharp, Day 5 – Maintaining legacy apps (Gael Fraiteur)
• Improved Package Restore and Portable Compression is now stable (Immo Landwerth)
• Compare Durandal to Angular, Not Knockout to Angular (John Papa)

 

Web Development

• Above-The-Fold CSS (Chris Coyier)
• ▶ Adding an audio play indicator to your page’s tab with a few lines of Javascript (Jon Galloway)
• Vagrant Support in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy (Rob Conery)
• Custom Fonts for All Browsers with Font Face (Jakub Chodounský)
• Bootstrap 3 Has a New Look and More Components (Abel Avram)
• The big change in Bootstrap 3 that no one’s talking about (Dave Ward)
• Web Publishing a simpler way to exclude files/folders from being published (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Keep Your Privates Private! (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

XAML

• Developers: check out new resources for writing code across Windows and Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)
• 2000 WPF Things #891 – Changing the Border of a GroupBox (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1 Store Apps and Visual Studio 2013 Preview (#1 of Many, Many, Many) (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Base Classes – FrameworkElement – Visibility (Richard Carr)
• SkyDrive Sync on Windows Phone – Basic Harness (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Showing Progress, Changing State (Christian Nagel)
• Reading PDF files in Windows 8.1 Store Apps (Sumit Maitra)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Memory Mapped Files, File I/O & Performance (Oren Eini)
• How do I – Play the TNG Red Alert (or any audio file for that matter) in my WinForms C# app (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Visual Studio Spell Checker – Dot Your I’s And Cross Your T’s (Dirk Strauss)
• Updated InstallShield Coming to VS2012 and ’13 (Jeff Martin)
• Entity Framework, Private Constructors and Private Setters (Julie Lerman)
• Do you know about Reference Counter in #VisualStudio 2013? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 C# Things #915 – An Exception Can Cross Assembly Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
• Entity Framework 6 beta – Customizing Code First Conventions (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Rules for Formulating Outcomes (J.D. Meier)
• Responsive Web Design and Ignite UI (Abhishek Narain)
• Parasoft Service Virtualization – Create Intelligent Test Environments (Dirk Strauss)
• Model to answer your questions rather than modelling reality (Mark Needham)
• Let New Relic know about your Deployments with TeamCity and PowerShell (Doug Rathbone)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Offline Techniques & Sencha Touch (Ivan Jouikov)
• Objective-C Guide For Developers: Part 2 (Matteo Manferdini)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Creating Calca – A symbolic calculator with markdown for iOS and more (Scott Hanselman)
• Introduction to SQL Server Failover Clusters (video) (Kendra Little)
• The Changelog 101: npm origins and Node.js with Isaac Schlueter (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Edge Show 72 – Windows Azure Auto Scale | Edge (David Tesar)
• The Vergecast 090 – August 22th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Demo: 3D Printing Support in Windows 8.1 (Gavin Gear)
• Defrag: Hanging MSI, PC Not Shutting Down, Shared Computers | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 103 (Richard Hay)
• Webinar Recording: Enterprise Mobile App Success with Salesforce and Xamarin (Rich Taylor)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Webinars – Best Practices in Database Deployment (Andrew Denty)
• Join #SPYam ‘s #YamJam with Mark Kashman, Senior Product Manager for SharePoint at Microsoft (Joel Oleson)
• Congrats to Rudy Huyn for passing the 3 million download mark in the Windows Phone Store (Sam Sabri)
• At Unite, enjoy expert Windows and Windows Phone help in porting your games (JC Cimetiere)
• Upload Outreach Program (Larry Hryb)
• JetBrains .NET Tools Tour in Sweden (Robert Demmer)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 RTM CU9 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Joining Tables – SQL in Sixty Seconds #058 (Pinal Dave)
• The Stages of Performance Tuning (Kendra Little)
• Article: Database Versioning and Delivery with Upgrade Scripts (Konrad Lukasik)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introduction to Systematic Programming – Locals & Abstraction (Week 7) (Dara Monasch)
• Ben Affleck is the next Batman (Dieter Bohn)
• Google Chromecast Review – The race is on to wirelessly throw video to your TV (Scott Hanselman)
• steven @ a16z (Steven Sinofsky)
• Windows Phone is the number two OS in Latin America (Phone Arena Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 23, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #1186 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, August 22nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 22, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/23/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1427 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-23 (Dan Rigby)

 

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