universal apps – Page 18 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 28, 2015 (#1942)

Top Links

Licensing changes – User acceptance testing and Agile planning (Brian Harry)
Netflix’s Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards (Philip Fisher-Ogden)
Master these 6 tech skills to stay relevant in 2015 (Aaron Skonnard)
Why Surface Hub is more interesting than HoloLens (Mike Elgan)
The Developer’s Guide to the New .NET (Michael Crump)

Web Development

Back to Top Button using CSS and jQuery (jQuery Rain)
Everything old is new again [crc-hash is a Node.js Crypto Hash implementation for the CRC algorithm] (David Anson)
ASP.NET Web API vs Azure Mobile Services (David Voyles)
AngularJS vs. Backbone.js vs Ember.js (DevToolsGuy)
Working with composer.json in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
Microsoft confirms Windows 10’s ‘Spartan’ browser to get extensions (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft’s Spartan browser uses the Chrome UA string (David Voyles)
In Case You Missed It (Eric Lawrence)
Updates for the F12 developer tools in the Windows 10 January Technical Preview (Ruben Rios)
Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu (John Atten)
Vivaldi – New Web Browser in Tech Preview Looks a Lot Like Opera (Rod Trent)
Weighing SVG Animation Techniques (with Benchmarks) (Sarah Drasner)
Azure WebJobs are awesome and you should start using them right now! (Troy Hunt)

Miscellaneous .NET

Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Memory Comparisons, Digging into the IL (Oren Eini)
Microsoft Puts Orleans Code On GitHub (Kay Ewbank)
VS Online Basic license expanded – Jan 27 (Aaron Bjork)
Rx Challenge (Bnaya Eshet)
Implementing std::tuple from the Ground Up – Part 4: Getting Tuple Elements (Sasha Goldshtein)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Adoption with the Agile Fluency Model (Ben Linders)
How Office Delve is Changing the Way My Team Works Together (Chris Bortlik)
Adopting a Performance Focus With Software Development (Mitchel Sellers)

Other Mobile Platforms

Improvements in Xamarin.Forms 1.3 (Eric Sink)
MS Open Tech releases Cordova plugin for Office 365 Outlook Services (Eric Mittelette)
Unity Launches Analytics on iOS and Android (Matt McComb)
How I Built an iOS & Android App in a Week (TJ VanToll)
Exception Handling in Swift (Colin Eberhardt)
Why You Should Avoid Using Modal Windows on Mobile (Anthony)
10 Excellent Platforms for Building Mobile Apps (Jack Dawson)
Unified API Migration Example with the Dutch Spelling App (Michael James)
Handling MobileServiceConflictException with Azure Mobile Service with Offline Sync (Nick Randolph)
Why you should always set an end date on your advertising campaign and What developers should take from the monthly AdDuplex reports (Matt Lacey)
Developers: Now you can show your app’s rating in Microsoft ads (Vanessa Ho)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Mobile First with Chris Love (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 065 | Interview with Andrew Clark of the Hackathon ChicagosNext (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Entreprogrammers Episode 49.1 and Episode 49.2 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
Quick Tour and Review of Office 365 | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
Eric Horvitz on the new era of Artificial Intelligence | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
Ping 233: Dropbox App, Brain Box, Windows 10 (Freaking Holograms!!!) | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
First look at the new Power BI Preview (Michael Tejedor & Jeremy Chapman)
SSW TV – How to market yourself as a developer | John Sonmez (SSW Team)

Community / Events

Pluralsight Acquires Code School (Sue Gee)
Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Dave Voyles on the State of Startups in Philadelphia (David Voyles)
Dev of the Week: Michael Minella (John Walter)
January Code Hunt Winners (Kevin Maginn)

Database

SQL Server Auditing (Ricardo Peres)
SQL Server Integration Services REPLACENULL Function (Koen Verbeeck)
SQL SERVER – How to Know Backup History of Current Database? (Pinal Dave)
Troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Storage with Message Analyzer (Perry Skountrianos)
Performance Tips for Azure DocumentDB – Part 2 (Stephen Baron)

Miscellaneous

How to Get Hired at Microsoft as a student (David Voyles)
HOWTO: Export data collected from your Microsoft Band (Kurt Shintaku)
A course on writing code well. (Wes Higbee)
Targeted Jobs for Stack Overflow (Will Cole)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 27, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1464 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 1/28/2015 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1787 (Chris Alcock)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/19-1/25) (Dara Monasch)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-28 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 27th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Pro AngularJS (Expert's Voice in Web Development): Adam Freeman: 9781430264484: Books

ISBN: 1430264489
ISBN-13: 9781430264484

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Dew Drop – January 15, 2015 (#1934)

Top Links

Web API Design Jumpstart (Jeremy Likness)
Configure a Build.vNext Agent (Martin Hinshelwood)
New Xamarin Profiler Preview (Nina V.)
Using Azure Automation to run VMs during office hours only (Richard Kerslake)

Web Development

One-Time Data Bindings For Object Literal Expressions In AngularJS 1.3 (Ben Nadel)
Auto-Hide Sticky Header with JavaScript & CSS3 (jQuery Rain)
Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker (Ahmet Alp Balkan)
Angular is for applications, not javascript. (Alex Kessinger)
Using angularJs, nodejs, git, bower in corporate environments (Simona A.)
PhpStorm 8.0.3 EAP 139.1069 (Mikhail Vink)
The problem with Angular (Peter-Paul Koch)
Swapping Items in an Array (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
My small contribution to ASP .NET 5 (Kevin Logan)
es6-set-operations (Axel Rauschmayer)
DockerCon EU: Introducing Docker Machine (Ben Firshman)
Building a Better Web: A Brief History of Web Development (Mobile Man)

XAML

Using XAML TreeView in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
How to open and close Flyouts in Universal apps using MVVM (Marco Minerva)
Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone Devs — The First Project (Matteo Pagani)
WPF Shapes – Path – Path Geometry (Richard Carr)
Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.9 Released (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous .NET

Trigger Visual Studio Release Management vNext from TeamCity (Jakob Ehn)
TFS Build vNext – A Preview (Jakob Ehn)
Blend Path interfering with C# Project Builds (Rick Strahl)
Entity Framework Context Abstraction (Chris Eargle)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Long and Short of It (Mark Bowytz)
Test First via Test Implementations of Core Functionality Interfaces (B. Clay Shannon)
Putting People First to Increase Motivation and Performance (Ben Linders)
RefM – A Microservice Case Study (Bob Familiar)
Microsoft Offers Virtual Academy for API Design Training (Eric Carter)
Partial commits in GitHub for Windows (Brendan Forster)

Other Mobile Platforms

App Store Optimization Tricks – Icons (Mickey MacDonald)
The secret of mobile app/game success (Matt Lacey)
Offline & Online, so easy with oData (Richard Jones)
Getting Started with NativeScript (Sebastian Witalec)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Working on your Career with John Sonmez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Ep 18, Livid Interactive, of the Indie Dev Podcast is out (David Voyles)
The Amp Hour #232 – Impedance Matching with Davidson and Vandenbout – Presbytes Pushing Portfoliios (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Developers and DevOps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
142 JSJ Share.js with Joseph Gentle (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
Video: Easing Functions in CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
What the Tech 243: 4K Readiness (Paul Thurrott)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 171 – “BenThePCGuy Does CES 2015” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Entreprogrammers Episode 47.1 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
Defrag: Hide a Drive, Password Protect Outlook Folder, Windows Audio Tips and more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan, Larry Larsen & Golnaz)
SQL Unplugged Episode 1 | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)
Azure Podcast Episode 60 – Media Services at Scale (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Microsoft details where you can livestream next week’s Windows 10 event (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)

Database

Making SQL Server metadata queries easier with these new Views (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER – The Easy Functions of SQL Server – Notes from the Field #062 (Pinal Dave)
Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Routing (Oren Eini)
Azure Data Services: SQL in the Cloud (Part 2) (Adarsha Datta)
Announcing SQL Parameterization in DocumentDB (John Macintyre)
Book Review – Beginning T-SQL (3rd Edition) (Ian Stirk)
Setting a schema for the database in Azure Mobile Services (Mike Benkovich)

SharePoint

Configure Blocked Files in SharePoint 2010 (Manpreet Singh)

PowerShell

PowerShell OneGet: Gist-As-A-Package (Doug Finke)

Miscellaneous

Be your own Santa (Anastasia Komarova)
All the Microsoft Band help and how-to videos you’ll ever need in one place! (Richard Devine)
Have your customers been pwned? Would you like to know? (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 14, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Daily News Digest 1/15/2015 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1778 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) (9780553805444): George R.R. Martin, Elio Garcia, Linda Antonsson: Books

ISBN: 0553805444
ISBN-13: 9780553805444

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Dew Drop – December 29, 2014 (#1923)

Top Links

More Plugins for Xamarin: Vibrate, Device Info, Connectivity, & Battery (James Montemagno)
Task and Await: Consuming Awaitable Methods (Jeremy Clark)
The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 5: Failing to Test (Jeremy Likness)
Handling Device add/remove in Universal Apps (MIDI in this case) (Pete Brown)

Web Development

Compiling Transcluded Content in AngularJS Directives and Passing $q Defer Methods Around As Naked Function References In AngularJS and Injecting Sibling Nodes During The Compilation Phase Of AngularJS Directives (Ben Nadel)
How to create a Container in Azure Storage from MVC application (Dhananjay Kumar)
Route Resolve and Controller Activate in AngularJS (John Papa)
Deploying ASP.NET MVC Web Site on Windows Azure (Mahesh Sabnis)
Implementing RoleManager in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Markus Pope)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Constructing Your WordPress Widget and Building the Form for Your WordPress Widget (Rachel McCollin)
Book Review : AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints (Sampath Lokuge)
Using the Strategy Pattern to Reduce Complexity in Your JavaScript (Sean Biefeld)
Building, signing and deploying click-once and Azure web sites without Visual Studio installed (Matt Wrock)
Using Bower with Visual Studio 2013 (Dave Paquette)
Kendo Editor with a Disabled Binding in MVVM (Rachel Hagerman)
Symbols in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)

XAML

WPF TabControl Focus Behavior with Invisible Tabs (MVVM) (HeWillem)
Create the Ultimate Fan Universal App using Windows AppStudio – Part 2 1/2 (Lori Lalonde)

Miscellaneous .NET

Nuget Packages – solution level versus project level (Gregor Suttie)
SemanticMerge and C# (Josue Yeray Julian Ferreiro)
What’s new in C# 6.0? – Expression-bodied function (Kunal Chowdhury)
Roslyn based Simulated Multiple Inheritance Usage Patterns (Part 1) (Nick Polyak)
Microsoft Unity Succinctly (Ricardo Peres)
Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

TDD as the crack cocaine of software (Jef Claes)
Don’t API All The Things … The Downside of Public APIs (Michael Mahemoff)
Accidental vs Deliberate Context (Jessica Kerr)
Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction (Steve Wilkes)

Other Mobile Platforms

How to Make a Custom Camera in Android (Ravi Sharma)
TouchDevelop to Arduino (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

MS Dev Show – What You Need to Know about the Internet of Things (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
Windows Weekly 394: Best Moments of 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Sam Raimi (Chris Hardwick)
Get Up And Code 071: Geek Fitness with B.J. Keeton (Douglas Coleman)
StarTalk Radio – Season 5 Time Capsule (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community / Events

Experiences and Good Practices from Hackathons (Ben Linders)
Should we have a Small Basic International Summit? (Ed Price)

Database

Backing up your SQL Server to Amazon’s Cloud in Three Easy Steps (John Grover)

SharePoint

AngularJS Posting To SharePoint Newsfeed Using Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

Miscellaneous

A Peek at this Holiday’s Top Tech Sellers at Amazon.com (Paul Thurrott)
Learn to Program with Scratch (Lucy Black)
Featured Article: The Small Basic Environment (IDE) (Ed Price)
How to use npm global without sudo on OSX (John Papa)
My first 24 hours with Microsoft Band (Richard Hay)
MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language (Soulskill)

More Link Collections

Collective #148 (Mary Lou)
Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2014 (Michael Burns)
Double Shot #1450 (Mike Gunderloy)
Geek Reading December 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Last Week on Channel 9: December 22nd – 28th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
Must follow “Daily Links” for .NET Developers (Abhijit Jana)
The Morning Brew #1766 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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