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Dew Drop – January 3, 2014 (#1694)

Posted on January 3, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Seven Reasons to Back Durandal in 2014 and Durandal: Quick Start (Rob Eisenberg)
New emulators available for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3 (Cliff Simpkins)
What is “duck typing”? (Eric Lippert)
Tech Predictions, 2014 (Ted Neward)

Web Development

ogv.js: An Ogg Theora and Vorbis Video Decoder in JavaScript (Devon Govett)
Getting started with Node.js development in Visual Studio (Dhananjay Kumar)
AngularJS: first impression (Giorgio Sironi)
Is TypeScript Ready for Prime Time? (Don Kiely)
Web Design Trends for 2014 and Why Microsoft is a Big Winner (Chris Love)

XAML

Microsoft RMS SDK 3.0 for Windows Phone 8 and Microsoft RMS SDK 3.0 for Windows Store (MS Downloads)
Windows Phone 8 Blank Project Template for Visual Studio 2013 (Michael Crump)
App Generators: Windows Phone App Studio and Project Siena (Nick Randolph)
2000 WPF Things #979 – Selecting Items in a ListBox Programmatically (Sean Sexton)
More Store Certification Tips (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

Reflecting ref and out Parameter Information (Richard Carr)
Free spaces available at Visual Studio ALM, Test and Project Management Events in January and February (Colin Beales)
January Mobile C# Developer Meetups (James Montemagno)
Conditional Includes with Visual Studio Project Files (Nick Randolph)
Message Context and MassTransit (Dru Sellers)
Weathr, a 3D Weather App now on CodePlex (Eric Battalio)
If the cursor clip rectangle is a global resource, how come I can’t change it with ClipCursor? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,003 – Accessing Underlying Bytes in a String for Different Encodings (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Adding Purpose and Hypotheses to Agile Retrospectives (Ben Linders)
Acceptance Testing With Codeception (Andrew Perkins)
Habits Are More Powerful Than Goals (John Sonmez)
More Enterprise support in GitHub for Mac (Justin Spahr-Summers)
System Under Specification (Matt Davey)
Top 13 Reasons to Love Automated Testing as We Leave 2013 (Peter Varhol)

Other Mobile Platforms

Adding Icons and Splash Screens To Your PhoneGap / Icenium Projects (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Video: What is null and undefined in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
The Alton Browncast – Roger Scott & Carolyn O’Neil (Alton Brown)

Community / Events

TEDxPhiladelphia: “The New Workshop of the World” (Bianca Cevoli)

Database

SQL Server Reporting Services XML Data Source and Data Set (Scott Murray)
SQL Server DMVs that Lie (Kendra Little)
Some More MySQL Tuning (Moshe Kaplan)
MySQL – MySQL Query Optimization and Performance Tuning – Online Video Courses (Pinal Dave)
Modeling Hierarchical Data with RavenDB (Itamar Syn-hershko)
Blog Post: What is LocalDB? (Dinesh Asanka)

PowerShell

Creating website in remote server using PowerShell from .NET application (Manjunath K.)

Miscellaneous

Betrayal (Phil Haack)
Coming Soon: 3D-printed chocolate bars based on your photos (Allie Harcharek)
Mozilla delays Firefox for Windows 8.1 yet again, this time to March 18th (Ayman)
Learn more programming languages, make more money (Mary Branscombe)
Just Because You Can Do Something Doesn’t Mean You Should Do Something (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 2, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1270 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1518 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-03 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: January 3, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows Dev News for Jan 02, 2014 – #0210 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Expert F# 3.0: Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino: 9781430246503: Books

ISBN: 1430246502
ISBN-13: 9781430246503

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Dew Drop – December 27, 2013 (#1691)

Posted on December 27, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Durandal Next Gen Sneak Peek and Herding Code Podcast (Rob Eisenberg)
Setting HTML Styles with Binding in Windows 8 WinJS Apps (Phil Japikse)
How to customize the generated files from the New Scaffolded Item dialog (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)

Web Development

Installing DHTMLX Scheduler and Gantt Chart with Bower or NuGet (dhtmlx Team)
‘this’ in JavaScript vs C# (Anders Abel)
WebStorm 7.0.3 (Ekaterina Prigara)
How to install all web development tools needed for Ghost on Mac (Simone Chiaretta)

XAML

WPF Information Controls – TextBlock Basics (Richard Carr)
Nokia Imaging and Big UI Wiki Competition entry: Advanced Techniques for Big UI (Toni Petrina)

Miscellaneous .NET

Entity Data Modeling with Visual Studio (James Serra)
Reducing the cost of writing to disk (Oren Eini)
Inmeta Visual Studio Extension Gallery – version 2.0 (Jakob Ehn)
More Kinect SDK v2 from the field… (Greg Duncan)
Why is GetWindowLongPtr returning a garbage value on 64-bit Windows? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Strategy Defined (J.D. Meier)
Many Times Simple is Best (Wally McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

PhoneGap or Cordova? Don’t confuse and tell me the differences! (Dhananjay Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

The Nerdist Podcast – Jerry Stahl (Chris Hardwick)
How You Are Wasting Your Time (John Sonmez)

Community / Events

Small Basic Interview – Nonki Takahashi! (Ed Price)

Database

Parallel execution of child SQL Server Integration Services Packages using For Loop Containers (Pavel Pawlowski)
Importing XML documents using SQL Server Integration Services (Scott Murray)
MySQL – How to Change Delimiter in MySQL – Supporting GO Keyword of SQL Server in MySQL (Pinal Dave)
Big Data Basics – Part 1 – Introduction to Big Data (Dattatrey Sindol)
How to Cache Stored Procedure Results (Brent Ozar)
Working With IndexedDB – Part 3 (Raymond Camden)

PowerShell

Holiday Gift – Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit Wave-1 (Narayanan (Nana) Lakshmanan)

Miscellaneous

How to run old but awesome games from the 90s on your new computer with DOSBox (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading December 26, 2013 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1514 (Chris Alcock)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #63 (Jason Strate)
Double Shot #1265 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Introduction to C# Joes 2 Pros eBook: Peter Bako, Rick A. Morelan, Ward Henneberry, Joel Heidal: Kindle Store

ASIN: B004JN0GA8

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Dew Drop – December 10, 2013 (#1680)

Posted on December 10, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

New Durandal Opportunities for Companies, User Groups and Community Organizers (Rob Eisenberg)
Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated (Damien Guard)
Visual Studio 2013.1 RC is Available (Brian Harry)
Unit testing imports in MEF – Loving that lazy interface (Pete O’Hanlon)

Web Development

A Beginner’s List of JavaScript Gotchas (Catalin Red)
ASP.NET Web API 2.1 RC is out – what’s new? (Filip W)
Installing Git, NodeJS, Grunt And PHP For My Impact Game Starter Kits (Jesse Freeman)
I Was Wrong About JavaScript and Responsive Design (John Sonmez)
AbsurdJS or Why I Wrote My Own CSS Preprocessor (Krasimir Tsonev)
Release Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Page 3.1. (Pranav Rastogi)
Re-examining ASP.NET and Helios Performance Tests (Rick Strahl)
Minty: Conveying an API (Rob Conery)
Preserve Disqus Comments with Jekyll (Phil Haack)
Compound Transclusion Prevented In AngularJS 1.2 (Ben Nadel)
Protect Glimpse.axd with your custom runtime policy (Christophe Gijbels)
AngularJS–Part 2, the controller (Gabriel Schenker)
JSON Schema Validation with REST Assured (Johan Haleby)
Have I been pwned? You can now ask the API! (Troy Hunt)

XAML

Windows 8.1, Windows Phone, NFC, Bluetooth and help in building connected app’s. (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #968 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, part V (Sean Sexton)
Decoding custom image formats (accessing image file bits) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
How to check whether Location Service is Disabled in WP8? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Understanding and preventing Multilingual App Toolkit ‘lost translations’ (Joost van Schaik)

Miscellaneous .NET

Visual Studio Tip: Get Back to Where You Once Belonged (Peter Vogel)
Using WinMerge with VS2013 (Rory Primrose)
8 New Things To Check Out in Visual Studio 2013 (Ondrej Balas)
Easier Redis development with scriptcs and ServiceStack.Redis powered C# REPL (Filip W)
“Visually Create Visual Studio Snippets” with the new Snippetizer from DevLabs (Greg Duncan)
EasyNetQ: Replace the Internal DI Container (Mike Hadlow)
Microsoft.SqlServer.Types NuGet Package (Spatial on Azure) (Rowan Miller)
The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS (.NET Fundamentals Team)
Fetch performance of various .NET ORM / Data-access frameworks (Frans Bouma)
Destroying all child processes (and grandchildren) when the parent exits (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #992 – The System.Char Data Type (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

30 Days of TDD – Day 28 – Reader Question #4 (James Bender)
Why You Should Use Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Florian Motlik)
Handoffs are Not a Bad Word (Johanna Rothman)
How can I keep API keys out of source control? (John Sheehan)

Other Mobile Platforms

Make Your Progress Bar Smoother in Android (Antoine Merle)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – The Magic of TFS 2013 with Joel Semeniuk (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 141 – “Use GPS to the Ice Machine” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 010 | Latest news in the cloud from Microsoft, Amazon and Google (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Defrag Tools: #68 – Windows 8.1 – HTTP Request Crash | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

The Next Adventure (G. Andrew Duthie)
Hour of Code: A Computer in Every Classroom (Matt Wallaert)
How to get the most out of a conference (Lukas Ruebbelke)
Code Mastery Boston 2013 (Rockford Lhotka)

Database

SQL SERVER – Working with Business Days in SQL Server – A Different Approach (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Curious about search limits for SharePoint Online? (Sirkku Willie)

PowerShell

Understanding Meta Configuration in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Karol Kaczmarek)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Windows shakeup continues: App store and UX leaders move to Bing team (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading December 9, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1255 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1503 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-10 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: December 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Reading Notes #119 (Frank)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #61 (Jason Strate)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Definitive Guide: Eric A. Meyer: 9780596527334: Books

ISBN: 0596527330
ISBN-13: 9780596527334

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