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Category: Development
Dew Drop – August 6, 2013 (#1,600)
Top Links
- JavaScript’s “super” Pattern (Derick Bailey)
- Build Google Chrome Extensions in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
- Azure Mobile Services & Portable Class Libraries – Part 1 Authentication (Shayne Boyer)
- RTM’d today: Software Requirements, Third Edition (Carol Vu)
Web Development
- The World’s Simplest HTML5 WYSISYG Inline Editor (Barney Parker)
- CSS-Tricks – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
- Updated Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – Kepler, new Windows Azure SDK, and less is more for deployment options (Brian Benz)
- Babylon.js: Creating a convincing world for your game with custom shaders, height maps and skyboxes (David Catuhe)
- The JavaScript Cheese is Moving: Data-Oriented vs. Control-Oriented Programming (Dan Wahlin)
- Sending Android Push Notifications from PHP to PhoneGap Apps (Gonzalo Ayuso)
- Add Social Sharing Links to your Blog without their widget JavaScript (Scott Hanselman)
- Getting started with Twilio on Google App Engine for PHP (Scott Knaster)
- APress Deal of the Day 6/Aug/2013 – Pro jQuery (Tatworth)
- Continuous Painting Mode in Chrome (Ariya Hidayat)
- Spacing The Bottom of Modules (Chris Coyier)
- Enabling Basic HTTP Auth on Rails (Jaco Pretorius)
XAML
- TextBox Validation Template for Windows Phone (Peter Kuhn)
- Using Existing DLLs in Store Apps (WinRT Components) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- 2000 WPF Things #879 – Positioning a Popup Relative to the Mouse (Sean Sexton)
- APIMASH CNorris Windows 8 VB Starter Kit (Dave Noderer)
- Charming ApplicationModel (Peter Foot)
Miscellaneous .NET
- C++ IDE Performance Improvement in Visual Studio 2013 Preview (Li Shao)
- August DirectX Factor Converted to Windows 8.1 (Charles Petzold)
- Integrate reporting and analyses services with Team Foundation Server 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Why does BitConverter.LittleEndian return false on my x86 machine? (Raymond Chen)
- Searching and Displaying C++ Heap Objects in WinDbg (Sasha Goldshtein)
- 2000 C# Things #903 – Wrapped Exceptions Can Be Several Levels Deep (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Complete Guide On How To Negotiate (J.D. Meier)
- An autoscaling build farm using TeamCity and Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
- Well, I like Team Foundation Server and I like Git, but which is better? (Giles Davies)
- Negotiation Skills for Work and Life (or How To Master the Art of Getting What You Want) (JD Meier)
- Dogfooding Isn’t Just For Posers (Jim Holmes)
- Ten Things You’ll Love About Test Studio (Steven Vore)
Other Mobile Platforms
- help us make TouchDevelop scripts run faster (Nikolai Tillmann)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 125 – “Life Coach for Matt” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- .NET Rocks! – Testing in the Cloud with Chris Riley (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Stack Exchange Podcast #51 – The Return of CodingHorror (Jeff Atwood)
- Yet Another Podcast #103–Scott Hanselman (Jesse Liberty)
- Video Tutorial on Adding and Modifying Covered Processes with NCover (Kerry Meade)
- Defrag Tools: #50 – WPT – Memory Analysis – Heap | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
- Microsoft’s latest episode of "On the Whiteboard" talks about 3D Printing in Windows 8.1 (Michael Archambault)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for August 5th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Here’s the Lowdown on This Month’s Nerd Nite (Chris Cummins)
- Small Basic August Community Challenges!!! (Ed Price)
- Vermont and Boston Code Camp Milestones (Jim O’Neil)
- The Accidental Gamer (MS JobsBlog)
- Greater Cleveland PC Users Group Presents… Cleveland Consumer Camp (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
Database
- SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Data and Information in Businesses – Day 1 of 10 (Pinal Dave)
- The First Things I Look At On A SQL Server – Part 2 (Ian Stirk)
- Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: Transactions & commits (Oren Eini)
- Scripting Reference Data with SQL Server Object Explorer and Creating a Merge Script for your Reference Data (Deborah Kurata)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2013 app hosting models (Gunnar Peipman)
- Why you should use Visual Studio for SharePoint Development (Manas Bhardwaj)
- Overview of SharePoint 2013 Multilingual Features (Benjamin Niaulin)
PowerShell
- New book: Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps (Kim Spilker)
Miscellaneous
- Breaking: Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million (Greg Sandoval)
- Computer Science, What Is It? (John Sonmez)
More Link Collections
- Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: July 2nd, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, August 5th (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading August 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1173 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Maker Geek Roundup 019 for 8/5/2013 (Pete Brown)
- The Morning Brew #1414 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-06 (Dan Rigby)
- The Daily Six Pack: August 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 8/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #44 (Jason Strate)
- East Region Roundup (G. Andrew Duthie)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 0735679665 |
Software Requirements: Karl E Wiegers, Joy Beatty: 9780735679665: Books
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Dew Drop – August 5, 2013 (#1,599)
Top Links
- Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands! (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Syncing Visual Studio 2013 Settings in the Cloud (David Starr)
- The right methodology for your project (Udi Dahan)
- The Rise of the Developer: Why Programmers Are Kings (John K. Waters)
Web Development
- An autoscaling build farm using TeamCity and Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
- Visual Studio – Working With Multiple Windows Azure Subscriptions (Alexandre Brisebois)
- Directories for JavaScript resources (Axel Rauschmayer)
- WebStorm 130.1494; LESS 1.4 and NPM support (Dmitry Jemerov)
- Configuring Windows Azure Diagnostics in Eclipse (Neil Mackenzie)
- Building a YouTube like Media Portal using ASP.NET MVC and Azure Media Services (Sumit Maitra)
- Animation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Clipping Content Using the overflow Property in CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Recursive Menus with AngularJS Templates (Christian Grobmeier)
- AngularJS Step-by-Step: Controllers (Jim Cooper)
- OAuth 2 The Hard Way (Steve Marx)
- Going Live With Node (Raymond Camden)
- Adding the a Bootstrap Pagination to the GridView Adapter (Steve Naughton)
XAML
- Download WP SDK 8.0 Update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- [Sample Of Aug 3rd] Render text on bitmap in Windows Phone 8 (Philip Fu)
- 2000 WPF Things #878 – Options for Positioning a Popup Relative to Another Control (Sean Sexton)
- Idea books for commercial and enterprise app design—with sample code! (Doug Rothaus)
- WPF Base Classes – UIElement – Mouse Events (Richard Carr)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts (Brian Keller)
- SourceGrid – Open Source C# Grid Control (Davide Icardi)
- [Book Review] "Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad" (Greg Duncan)
- Roaming monitor tool for Visual Studio (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- C++ AMP Algorithms Library (Ade Miller)
- New Windows Performance Toolkit (Alois Kraus)
- Fantastic Features Introduced with Telerik Reporting Q2 2013 SP1 (Carey Payette)
- AutoLayout with Xamarin.Mac (Jérémie Laval)
- New book: Microsoft Visual C++/CLI Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
- Integrate reporting and analyses services with Team Foundation Server 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
- It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Open access to the application directory (Raymond Chen)
- 2000 C# Things #902 – Data Available to the Handler of a Wrapped Exception (Sean Sexton)
- ALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store (Willy-P. Schaub)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Architects: Chickens or Pigs in an Agile Development Process? (Richard Seroter)
- Comfort is Overrated. Change is Exciting and Revealing! (Chris Pietschmann)
- Where Bugs Really Go To Die, Your Product Documentation (Ade Miller)
- Machines Are Eating Software Development (Andy Singleton)
- Emotional Intelligence Quotes (JD Meier)
- Avoid Extra Grey Hair! Use Careful Test Design (Jim Holmes)
Other Mobile Platforms
- My First Book Titled "Kendo UI Mobile" is Here! (Sagar Ganatra)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 277: Chris Gardner on Migrating from XNA to Windows 8 Game Development (David Giard)
- MNR 486: Marc Whitten updates us on the progress of Xbox One (Larry Hyrb)
- TWC9: Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET, VS 2012.4, Web Essentials 2013 Preview and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Greg Duncan)
- Windows Weekly 322: Bye-Bye Sky (Paul Thurrott)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Jimmy Carr and The Nerdist Podcast – Michael C. Hall (Chris Hardwick)
- The Tablet Show – Building Nokia Music for Windows 8 with Ben Buttigieg (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- 069 JSJ The Application Cache with Jake Archibald (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
- Ask Iris: How do you find and debug errors/bugs? (Q 225-226) (Iris Classon)
- Engadget Podcast 354 – 08.02.13 (Joe Pollicino)
- Get Up And Code 013: 15 Running Questions (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 100 (Richard Hay)
- GeekWire Radio: Sounders GM Adrian Hanauer on soccer, tech and ‘big’ deals in the works (Todd Bishop)
Community / Events
- Welcome Marcus Hammarberg (Brendan Tompkins)
- Developer Conferences (Phillip Trelford)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Understanding Restrict Access to Restricted_User Database Property and SQLAuthority News – Releasing Author’s 10th Book – SQL Basics Joes 2 Pros: A Getting Started Guide to Administering and Developing SQL Server Databases for Beginners (Pinal Dave)
- Database Projects and Refactoring (Deborah Kurata)
- APress Deal of the Day 5/Aug/2013 – Beginning T-SQL 2012 (Tatworth)
- Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: A thoughtful hiatus (Oren Eini)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Introduction to Systematic Programming – Week 6 (Dara Monasch)
- Why is Microsoft alienating its biggest customers? IT pros want TechNet back (Emily Parkhurst)
- Your Guide to (Finally) Canceling Cable (Eric Larson)
- Intel Haswell First Look (John Papa)
- Free ebooks: A recap (Kim Spilker)
- Google Chromecast – What You Can & Can’t Do… and What Developers Should Do (Nick Landry)
- Microsoft cuts the price of Surface Pro by $100 (Yan Zhu)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 2, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 3, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 5, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 2nd (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading August 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Friday Five-August 2, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
- Pie in the Sky (August 2nd, 2013) (Larry Franks)
- Collective #75 (Mary Lou)
- Double Shot #1172 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1413 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 8/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- Reblog: July 26 to August 1 (Jason Strate)
- Weekly Digest 24 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #040 (Pinal Dave)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #71) (Mark Brown)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 0137081073 |
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series): Robert C. Martin: 9780137081073: Books