Dew Drop – April 25, 2014 (#1763)

Top Links

• Now, we’re one Microsoft: open letter from Stephen Elop (Tiina Jaatinen)
• Microsoft morphs into a hardware giant with Nokia deal completion (Tom Warren)
• .NET Native Performance (Xy Ziemba & Andrew Pardoe)
• Why CoffeeScript Isn’t the Answer and What I Think CoffeeScript Should Have Been (Jeff Walker)

 

Web Development

• Aborting AJAX Requests Using $http And AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Posting raw JSON to ASP.NET Web API (Darrel Miller)
• PhpStorm 8 EAP 136.1768 (Mikhail Vink)
• Video Streaming with ASP.NET SignalR and HTML5 (Ricardo Peres)
• Canceling $http Requests in AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Pub/Sub In Node.js Apps Using Azure Service Bus Topics (Shiju Varghese)
• Using Octokit.net to authenticate your app with GitHub (Phil Haack)
• The interoperability of Web Component polyfills (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Exploring the Layout System in Ext JS 5 and Sencha Touch (Ivan Jouikov)

 

XAML

• Silverlight: Where Do We Go From Here? (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows Phone 8.1 for developers – App packaging with appx (Andreas Hammar)
• Windows Phone 8.1 for developers – Using the Credential Locker (Johan Silfversparre)
• [Sample Of Apr 24th] How to Edit XPS file in WPF (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #1059 – Clipping vs. Resizing in a Grid (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Missing NuGet Packages and Visual Studio (Derik Whittaker)
• NDepend to analyze F# code (Kurt Schelfthout)
• 2000 C# Things #1,083 – Using Visual Studio to Verify Little-Endianness (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio 2013 Installer Projects – Hello World Installer (Tarun Arora)
• Throwback Thursday – C++ Iterator of the Week (James Curran)
• Microsoft Application Insights: going deep without polluting your source code (Gael Fraiteur)
• dotMemory 4.0 out, dotTrace on sale (Olga Kosyreva)
• New CodeRush Plugin Template – NewContext (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Estimation for Release Planning (Ben Linders)
• Continuous Delivery – More Releases With Less Risk (Steve Smith)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin and MvvmCross on Android (Alexander Persson)
• Add Some Sweet Sound to Your App (Mike Bluestein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #57 – We Just Saw This On Florp (Abby T. Miller)
• Hanselminutes – Hacking the Creative Mind with Denise Jacobs (Scott Hanselman)
• SharePoint Enterprise Search with Agnes Molnar-SharePoint Pod Show Episode 86 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• RavenDB Conf Videos: Diving into Voron (Oren Eini)
• IWP74: Thomas Fennel on the Windows Notification Platform | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Azure SQL Database introduces new service tiers | Windows Azure Storage & SQL Database (Scott Klein)
• What the Tech 208: Facebook Behavior and Windows Weekly 359: Microsoft Mobile, Oy! (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Samantha Brown (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rhys Darby (Chris Hardwick)
• The Edge Show #100 milestone. Azure Automation with Joey Levy. | Edge (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Symon Perriman & Simon May)

 

Community / Events

• What Can Men Do? (Jeff Atwood)

 

PowerShell

• Learn Powershell – ExecutionPolicy (Gregor Suttie)
• Prompt for a password with a mask using Powershell (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Reading between Microsoft CEO Nadella’s lines: On courage, subscriptions and unique value (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft completes its acquisition of Nokia (Rich Edmonds)
• Review: The Linksys WRT1900AC Dual-Wireless Router is the second coming of the WRT54G (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1342 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 24, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading April 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Community Update 2014-04-24 #javascript, #nodejs, #ocktokit, #aspnet, #nuget and whole lot of #elasticsearch (Maxime Rouiller)
• The Morning Brew #1596 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/25/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-25 (Dan Rigby)

 

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