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Dew Drop – February 4, 2014 (#1716)

Posted on February 4, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing Microsoft’s new CEO: Satya Nadella (Aimee Riordan)
Satya Nadella is Microsoft’s new CEO, Gates steps down as Chairman of the Board (Kip Kniskern)
Microsoft goes internal for its next CEO with Satya Nadella (Mary Jo Foley)
Satya Nadella’s full memo to Microsoft staffers: ‘We need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable’ (John Cook)
Getting Girls Into Programming, One Children’s Book At A Time (Kim-Mai Cutler)

Web Development

Kendo UI Grid: Detail Template Binding (Josh Eastburn)
Rendering ASP.NET content as PDF (Jimmy Bogard)
Selenium With Node.js and Mocha: Automated Testing With JavaScript (John Sonmez)
Identity in Your Own Apps with Windows Azure Active Directory – Part 2 (Martina Grom)
AngularJS meets Marvel Comics (Nicolas Frankel)
Azure Blobs with Node.js and Express and Using Node.js To ETL Mongo Documents for Azure Table Storage (K. Scott Allen)
Book Review: Learn Python the Hard Way (Mike Driscoll)
Extend Native DOM Elements Using Web Components (Basem Emara)
Access apps General Availability (Matt Evans)
Microsoft gives Access Store apps the general-availability green light (Mary Jo Foley)
Emberjs – arrayComputed (Paul Cowan)

XAML

XAML Spy February 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
Building Charming Apps for Windows and Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
2000 WPF Things #1,001 – Setting an Alternating Background Color in an ItemsControl (Sean Sexton)
Windows 8.1: Easily send your notifications to tiles, toasts and badges (Andrea Boschin)
Charming Display (Peter Foot)
Disable WebView Scrolling in Windows Store Apps (Farhan Ghumra)

Miscellaneous .NET

The Past, Present, and Future of C# (Blair Greenwood)
How to debug Django applications with pdb, PyCharm, and Visual Studio (Den Gladkikh)
Released LINQ to Twitter v3.0.2 (Joe Mayo)
EasyNetQ: A Layered API (Mike Hadlow)
C# among more popular programming languages for 2014 (Sam Sabri)
Localized video gems for Visual Studio 2013 … get the popcorn! (Willy-P. Schaub)
New open source Portable Class Library for SQLite (Olivier Bloch)
How can I make a WNDPROC or DLGPROC a member of my C++ class? (Raymond Chen)
Awaitable Console Application (Sacha Barber)
2000 C# Things #1,025 – Converting between enum Types (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

You Shouldn’t Unit Test (But You Have To) (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
Control of Error for Self-Organizing Teams (Cory Foy)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS 7: how to use UIGravityBehavior tutorial (Mark Petherbridge)
How to Build an Android Twitter Search API 1.1 App (Troy Miles)
Google Play Services 4.2 (Android Developer Team)
Announcing Sencha Space (Nick Harlow)
Ready to cast: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK (Scott Knaster)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kinect 2 and More with Tim Huckaby (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Defrag Tools: #76 – Escalation Engineer | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Countdown to Teched: The One We Finish the Things Not to Miss in Houston Trilogy | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin)

Community / Events

February Mobile C# Developer Meetups (James Montemagno)
[Live Webinar] Node.js Development Workflow in WebStorm, February 20th (Robert Demmer)
An Interview on How I Got Started in Programming for WP and Windows 8 (Michael Crump)

Database

SQL Server 2014 Developers Training Kit Sample Databases (MS Downloads)
Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact 4.0 (4) – Restoring full EF Tools support in Visual Studio 2013 (Erik EJ)
RavenDB’s Hidden Features (Itamar Syn-hershko)
Renaming The Reporting Services TempDB Database (Andy Warren)
Here’s how Bell was hacked – SQL injection blow-by-blow (Troy Hunt)

SharePoint

Windows Phone Enterprise Apps for Sharepoint (Mayur Tendulkar)

PowerShell

Tooling with PowerShell: Keep it simple (Jim Christopher)
Blog Post: PowerShell Script for SQL Server 2012/2008 Cluster/StandAlone unattended Install and uninstall (Vinoth Nm)

Miscellaneous

Rise and Fall of Programming Languages – 2013 Summary (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
OneNote Tip: Making tables from pasted text (John Guin)
Behind the Microsoft Super Bowl Commercial – inspiration for Imagine Cup? (Susan Ibach)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 4, 2014 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 3, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 3, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1292 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 2/4/2014 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1540 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-04 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: February 4, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #69 (Jason Strate)
Top Reads for January (Jaco Pretorius)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series): Bill Wagner: 9780321658708: Books

ISBN: 0321658701
ISBN-13: 9780321658708

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Dew Drop – December 13, 2013 (#1683)

Posted on December 13, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Microsoft (accidently) announces Build 2014 for April 2-4 in San Francisco (Daniel Rubino)
Windows Azure: New Scheduler Service, Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage, and Monitoring Updates (Scott Guthrie)
ReSharper 8.1 Goes RTM along with dotCover, dotTrace (Jura Gorohovsky)
Report: Qualcomm COO in the running for Steve Ballmer’s old job (Blair Hanley Frank)

Web Development

JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 2 (Ariya Hidayat)
New Visual F# Templates for ASP.NET, Web API, MSTest and Nancy Now Available (Don Syme)
Node-m-r – A Simple CQRS Example using Node.js (Jan Van Ryswyck)
WebGL With Three.js: Shaders (Maciej Sopyło)
HTML5stac Enables Composing of Web Apps via APIs (Mark Boyd)
Windows Azure BizTalk Services: EDI Capabilities (Samar Roy)
(Pseudo) Source Mapping with LESS (Dan)
Establishing a Telerik RESTful Reporting Service in under 5 Minutes (Carey Payette)
AngularJS–Part 4, Accessing server side resources (Gabriel Schenker)
Ecma forms TC52 for Dart Standardization (Anders Sandholm)
Understanding the Real-World Performance of your Web Application Across IE11 and Other Browsers (Jatinder Mann)
Progress Button Styles (Mary Lou)
Saving my users 3.5MB in downloaded data (Matt Lacey)
Hunting For And Finding The IIS Express Settings File and Showing Code In A WordPress Blog (Peter Kellner)
Announcing Public Preview of Read Access Geo Redundant Storage (Steven Martin)
Micro optimising web content for unexpected, wild success (Troy Hunt)

XAML

A PhoneGap+Cordova WP7 Retrospective (Jesse Freeman)
[Sample Of Dec 12th] How to search and highlight keywords in TextBlock control in WPF (Philip Fu)
2000 WPF Things #970 – Avoid Working Directly with Items Collection (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 11 (Brian Harry)
Convert .NET, your C#VB Converter, LINQ/RegEx expression tester, Encrypt/Decrypt, Base64 encoder and more… (Greg Duncan)
How much code do you REALLY save with PostSharp? (Gael Fraiteur)
New book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
The Feature I Almost Skipped (Patrick Lioi)
How do you intercept taskbar notification balloons? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #994 – Unicode Basics (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

To Do, Doing, Done (J.D. Meier)
NUnit Collection Assertions (Richard Carr)
Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? (Mike Hadlow)
Stop Telling Stories (Jim Bird)
Configuring Release Management to work across untrusted and How to debug Release Management components (Roopesh Nair)

Other Mobile Platforms

Options for Testing Android Applications (Alec Noller)
Changes to the SecretKeyFactory API in Android 4.4 (Trevor Johns)
Mobile-Friendly Mapping Options for PhoneGap/Cordova Apps (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes – An Internet of Inclusion with Chanelle Henry (Scott Hanselman)
Web Dev Radio Episode 115: The confessional, PHP BDD and PHP VCR (Michael Kimsal)
IWP69 | Enterprise Mobile Management | Inside Windows Phone (Matthijs Hoekstra)
Compiler Confidential | GoingNative 2013 (Eric Brumer)
The Vergecast 105 – Instagram Direct, Nexus TV, and Spotify (Evan Rodgers)
Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 215: Short and Sweet (Gareth Myles)

Database

The Four Answers To “How Big Is Your SQL Server?” (Brent Ozar)
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints – Review (Koen Verbeeck)
MySQL – How to Create Stored Procedure (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

New book: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013 (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

Small Basic Featured Article – How to Rotate a Shape Not from the Center (Ed Price)
Vote to bring Spotify’s free streaming service to Windows Phone (Mark Guim)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 12, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading December 12, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1258 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 12/13/2013 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1506 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-13 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: December 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows Dev News for Dec 12, 2013 – #0206 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

C# Design Pattern Essentials eBook: Tony Bevis: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00B9J7RUC

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Dew Drop – November 13, 2013 (#1666)

Posted on November 13, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

NuGet 2.7.2 (CodePlex)
Math from scratch, part thirteen: multiplicative inverses (Eric Lippert)
One ASP.NET – Welcome to the Web Development Buffet! (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
What’s New in Graphics and Game Development in Visual Studio 2013 (Michael B. McLaughlin)

Web Development

HTML5 Resource of the Day Round-up (Brent Schooley)
HTML Imports and Multi-Line Padded Text (Chris Coyier)
JavaScript (ES 5) Hack for Clean Multi-line Strings (Eli Bendersky)
Setting the Prototype Constructor in JavaScript (John Papa)
A CSS Book for Beginners (Louis Lazaris)
Configuring Service Bus 1.1 on Windows Azure Private Cloud (Prabhakar G.)
Leveraging your XAML MVVM Skills in HTML – Changing UI Apperances (Derik Whittaker)
Why Sass? (Dan Cederholm)
Glimpse 1.8.0 released – Async Support (Anthony van der Hoorn)
Office Store development – the new “Apps for Office” model (Jennifer Marsman)
screen.width is useless (Peter-Paul Koch)
Open attachments with your web app directly from Gmail (Scott Knaster)
Images using Data URI scheme (Sunil)
Node v0.10.22 (Stable) (node.js Team)
IE11 Automatically Makes Over 40% of the Web More Secure While Making Sure Sites Continue to Work (Hasnat Naveed & Ritika Kapadia)

XAML

Hello Windows 8.1: what’s new in the update for developers: Part 3: More WinRT improvements (Gill Cleeren)
2000 WPF Things #949 – Add a Custom Dictionary for Spell Checking in a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone Tips and Tricks – How to Implement Gestures: Movember Me (Susan Ibach)
Databinding with the Windows 8.1 Hub control (Nick Randolph)
Adapting Your App for 1080p Screen, Nokia Create Mini Mission (Toni Petrina)

Miscellaneous .NET

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Review (Mike Riley)
Visual Studio / Team Explorer 2013 no longer requires IE10 and there’s an updated TFS install download available too and Wax poetic with this new WiX Setup Project Editor, called, you guessed it, Wax (Greg Duncan)
Introduction to Visual Studio Online Editor (Kjell-Åke Gafvelin)
New in PostSharp 3.1: Solution-Level Aspects and PostSharp Configuration Files (Gael Fraiteur)
Dynamically loading Assemblies to reduce Runtime Dependencies (Rick Strahl)
2000 C# Things #973 – Format Items in Composite Format Strings Can Be in Any Order (Sean Sexton)
Paint.NET PSD Plugin 2.4.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

A Better Syntax For Unit Tests (Andrew Binstock)
Test Cases with NUnit (Jakub Chodounský)
Announcing Sencha Architect 3.0 (Gil Gordon)
My Old Code is Atrocious (Swizec Teller)

Other Mobile Platforms

Now You Can Get Bootstrap for Android Apps (Alec Noller)
Android ListView Optimizations Part 2: Displaying Images in Lists (Antoine Merle)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 120: Cartoonist Peter Bagge (Mark Frauenfelder)
Episode 248 – PowerScripting Podcast – Tommy Patterson from Microsoft on PowerShell and Azure (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The Nerdist Podcast – Gillian Jacobs (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 007 | Pros and Cons of Office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Taste of Premier: An Inside Look at the New Devices and Services Strategy at Microsoft (ChrisCaldwell & Lex Thomas)
The Amp Hour #171 – An Interview with Forrest Mims – Snell Solisequious Scientist (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Mikey & Allie (Eric Smith)
How to ignore Self Signed Certificate errors in Windows Store apps (8.1) | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Jeff Sanders)
Ping 193: Surface 2 Tips, Unified developer registration, Xbox One highlights, Windows 8.1 features | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

Community / Events

Seattle area event: A hands-on introduction to machine learning with F# (F# Team)
Dev of the Week: Mark Needham (Allen Coin)
The Speaker Maturity Model (Hadi Hariri)
Announcing Xamarin University (Nat Friedman)
Free JetBrains .NET Tools Evening in Prague, December 18th (Robert Demmer)

Database

SQL SERVER – Backup SQL databases to Box or SkyDrive (Pinal Dave)
More thoughts about compression & storage (Oren Eini)
First Class Database Deployment and Delivery (Richard Muscat)
Inside SQL Server Pro Magazine November 2013 (Ian Stirk)

Miscellaneous

How I Became the Editor of WIRED (for One Issue) (Bill Gates)
Microsoft does away with stack ranking (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 13, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading November 12, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1240 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Value of Big Data is Discovered via Analytics – Big Data Travel Reading (Matt Davey)
The Morning Brew #1484 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-13 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: November 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 11/13/2013 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Steve Krug: 9780321965516: Books

ISBN: 0321965515
ISBN-13: 9780321965516

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