Dew Drop – December 26, 2013 (#1690)

Top Links

• Herding Code 182: Durandal Kickstarter with Rob Eisenberg (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon & Co.)
• .NET Rocks! – C# and Roslyn with Mads Torgersen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Have you been pwned? Now you can be automatically told when you are! (Troy Hunt)
• Managing Client-Side Objects Using TypeScript: It’s a Breeze (Peter Vogel)

 

Web Development

• Understanding Font Rules in CSS (Jason Gaylord)
• ParallelJS: data parallelism for JavaScript and ECMAScript 6: the new array methods find() and findIndex() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Extracting Tables from PDFs in Javascript with PDF.js (Gary Sieling)
• Managing the Asynchronous Nature of Node.js (Maciej Sopyło)
• Javascript Gains While HTML5 Stalls (Michael Vizard)
• Unit Testing Asynchronous Web API Action Methods Using MS Test (Ravi Kiran)
• HTTP Basics for REST-Based App Development (Patrick Steele)
• Get Started With GitHub Pages (Anna Debenham)

 

XAML

• Visual Studio 2013 and Blend design-time exception debugging (Johan Silfversparre)
• 2000 WPF Things #976 – SelectedItem Binding on an ItemsControl is Two-Way (Sean Sexton)
• The AutoRotatingGridView: Provides GridView (Landscape) and ListView (Portrait) functionality in one control. and Maintaining proportional scroll position (Francis Cheung)
• How to set no. of columns in Telerik’s RadDiagramToolbox? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2013: The Year of Unification (Todd Brix)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Performance counters sucks (Oren Eini)
• What purpose does the backward pipe serve in F#? (Q262) (Iris Classon)
• Fix for VS2013 Not Showing Databases in SQL Server Object Explorer (Julie Lerman)
• NSlice v. 1.1 (Jakub Niemyjski)
• Creating custom tasks on a jump list (Raymond Chen)
• Redirecting Assembly Loads at Runtime (Schabse Laks)
• 2000 C# Things #1,000 – UTF-8 and ASCII (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Limiting Holiday WIP with Personal Kanban (Derek Huether)
• Transaction merging, locks, background threads and performance and The cost of random writes (Oren Eini)
• Professionalism – It Matters (Wally McClure)
• A little Continuous Integration Dictionary (Iris Classon)
• Snow’s new server feature! Runs up a testing website for you. (Phillip Haydon)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 6 Ways to Increase Productivity with Xcode (Alec Noller)
• Unity Game Templates for the absolute beginners from Petri Wilhelmsen (Greg Duncan)
• Cross Window Communication With Cordova’s InAppBrowser (TJ VanToll)
• New Docs for Your Holiday Hacks (Nina V.)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 126 – The Real Fifth Beatle (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 252 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Ashley and Dmitry Petrashev from Dell on Mobile IT and PowerGui (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 116 – Foundation 5, DotNetFiddle and more (Michael Kimsal)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kathryn Hahn (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #177 – Discussing Innovation and the Future with Mike Ossmann – Fiesty Festivus Futurology (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Defrag: Encryption, Backups, Distance Support | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Defrag Tools: #70 – Windows 8.1 – Interop Crash | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• Sword and Laser Podcast 156: Wrapping Up Dragons! (Veronica Belmont & Tom Merritt)
• Video : How to create Objects using new operator in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Community / Events

• Merry xmas from Michele B. and I – a new podcast about working in the tech industry (Iris Classon)

 

Database

• SQL Server Report Server Investigations (Merrick Chaffer)
• SQL SERVER – Overall SQL Server Performance – Not Just Query Performance – Notes from the Field #008 and SQL SERVER – Roundup Post – Notes from the Field – Year 2013 – Performance Tuning and Database Health and SQL – A Career in Database Forensics (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL: Tuning shared_buffers and wal_buffers (Robert Haas)
• Big Data Basics – Part 1 – Introduction to Big Data (Dattatrey Sindol)
• How to Cache Stored Procedure Results (Brent Ozar)

 

PowerShell

• Automatically resuming Windows PowerShell Workflow jobs at logon (Manikyam Bavandla)

 

Miscellaneous

• A case for my MacBook Pro: Snugg wallet case review (Damien Guard)
• Marketing Yourself: Why You Need a Blog (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 24, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 25, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 23, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1264 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #121 (Frank)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 24, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1512 and The Morning Brew #1513 (Chris Alcock)

 

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