Dew Drop – July 18, 2014 (#1817)

Top Links

• Microsoft’s aiming for flagship Windows Phones, killing Nokia X but selling MixRadio (Daniel Rubino)
• Beyond 12,500 former Nokia employees, who else is Microsoft laying off? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Application Insights SDK (0.9.0) (Crystal Maly)
• Using Custom Controls in Xamarin.Forms on Windows Phone (Nish Anil)

 

Web Development

• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Baseline behavior (Jimmy Bogard)
• Image Sprites made easy with Web Essentials (Josh Eastburn)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,117 – Internationalization II – Obey CurrentCulture for Input (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• CSharp IDisposable Confusion (Dave M. Bush)
• Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Strings (Alexey Totin)
• Make your Debugger feel Pretty, with help from DotNet Pretty your Debugger*Attribute helper (Greg Duncan)
• What does it mean when GetQueuedCompletionStatus return ERROR_SEM_TIMEOUT? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,141 – Reference Equality Used Even when Overload Available for Typed Parameter (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile and the Definition of Quality (JD Meier)
• Open Shell Here – GitHub Tips 4 (Brendan Enrick)
• Copy-paste defects (Eric Lippert)
• The “Just In Time” Theory of User Behavior (Jeff Atwood)
• Why you need to use Bower (Joe Eames)
• Do Teams Gel or Jell? (Johanna Rothman)
• Code Coverage And Your .NET Team (Kerry Meade)
• Article: What Are Self-Organising Teams? (Sigi Kaltenecker & Peter Hundermark)
• Stop Writing Code (Steven Proctor)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Global Resources for Xamarin Forms Apps (Josh Morales)
• Can I Be A Professional Mobile Developer? (iOS / Android) (John Sonmez)
• Porting Your Wear Developer Preview Code to the Latest Support Library (Wayne Piekarski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 007 with Scot Hillier (Office 365 Team)
• Hanselminutes – Learning WebGL and making 3D HTML Games with David Catuhe and Babylon.js (Scott Hanselman)
• XamlBoard | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Windows Weekly 371: Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Superego (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 337: Game Together Stay Together (Chris Brown)
• Edge Show 112 – New Widgets & Dashboards with Operations Manager in System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (Symon Perriman)

 

Community / Events

• Why you should enter the Imagine Cup (Michelle Feder)
• Official Microsoft Twitter Accounts List (Richard Hay)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Free intellisense add-in for SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• Introducing inefficiencies into RavenDB, on purpose (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Auto Rename SQL Server Tables and Their References with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• Live Incident Response with PowerShell (Emin Atac)
• PowerShell DSC Resource Kit Wave 5 Arrives (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Puppet Labs Releases Puppet Enterprise 3.3 and Starts the Puppet Supported Certification Program (Carlos Sanchez)
• Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs in the next year (John Callaham)
• Podcasting with OneNote (William Devereux)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, July 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1386 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1654 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 18, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/18/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-18 (Dan Rigby)

 

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