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Dew Drop – March 25, 2014 (#1750)

Posted on March 25, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Project Siena Beta 2: Enabling business users to create apps connected to enterprise services, web and social (S.Somasegar)
New Breeze Angular Service (John Papa)
NuGet Package of the Week: Canopy Web Testing Framework with F# (Scott Hanselman)
sn.exe cheat sheet (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

Surprise! JavaScript Guard Clauses (Howard Dierking)
Add Stunning Image Sliders to Your ASP.NET Apps in Seconds (Antonio Stoilkov)
Chart.js – A JavaScript Library For Easy Graphs For Designers & Developers (Hirvesh Munogee)
ASP.NET Upload Panel (Ricardo Peres)
Dynamic Routes with AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
Choose Your Own Adventure with Node.js View Engines (Shawn Wildermuth)
Notes on accessibility of Web Components (Bruce Lawson)
Sublime is Sublime 9 (Greg Young)

XAML

Using Grunt to update WMAppManifest.xml version number (Windows Phone Manifest) (Derik Whittaker)
2000 WPF Things #1,036 – Date Formats in the DatePicker Control (Sean Sexton)
Working with the MapView control in the ArcGIS Runtime (Shawn Kendrot)
How does WAQS optimize client – server data transfer? 5/5 and WAQS UI features 1/4 (Matthieu Mezil)

Miscellaneous .NET

My poor little blameless Voron (Oren Eini)
[Book Review Preview] Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook (Greg Duncan)
APress Deal of the Day – 25/Mar/2014 – Pro .NET Performance Optimize Your C# Applications (Tatworth)
Creating a self-contained test suite for WCF services using Microsoft Visual Studio Coded UI (Uma Malleshwari)
What Every Developer Must Know About Fast Garbage Collection (+ more) (Alois Kraus)
CodeFluent Entities – A Tool For Developers by Developers (Dirk Strauss)
Seq “Log Query of the Day” #2 – Properties (Nicholas Blumhardt)
2000 C# Things #1,060 – Explicit Conversions between Nullable Types (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: EnterpriseApplication and Microservices: Evolutionary Design (Martin Fowler)
Throw user stories away after they are delivered (Gojko Adzic)
Introduction to Business Capability Modeling (Doug Brophy)
SOLID Principles (Matt Davey)
UI | UX By & For Dev : User Focus (Sanjay Sharma)

Other Mobile Platforms

Storing Data with NSUserDefaults (Nick Hanan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Release Management with Michael Learned (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Phone Central 167 (Sam Sabri)
The AngularJS JumpStart Video Training Course Has Been Released! (Dan Wahlin)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 022 | Show Co-Host Chris Johnson Goes Back to Microsoft (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Defrag Tools: #83 – Performance Counters – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Ping 201: Leslie Lamport gets a Turing; OneNote Free and Everywhere; Sniping Zombies; Office Lens App; Age of Ascent | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
Windows 9 Concept Video (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

Party with Xamarin & .NET at Build! (Joseph Hill)
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Paul Laberge and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Soung Bae and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Calvin Clark (Willy-P. Schaub)
TEDxPhiladelphia 2014: TEDx Adventures and Webcast Viewing Parties (Bianca)
Join In TEDxPhiladelphia With Tours, Free Live Streaming And Public Viewing Parties At Locations Across The City, Friday, March 28 (Kristina Jenkins)
Titans of Tech: Who inspires you? (Manya Susoev)
Upcoming US DPE Public Sector Online Events and Upcoming US DPE National Events (MS Public Sector Team)

Database

Implementing SQL Server Transaction Retry Logic for failed transactions (Daniel Farina)
The case for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (vs. Standard) edition (Jen McCown)
MySQL – How to Connect to MySQL Server on Command Prompt (Pinal Dave)
10 Tips: How to Run MongoDB at Scale (Alec Noller)
Blog Post: Looking for Power BI Dataviz Inspiration? There’s something in the Power BI Gallery for you! (Jen Stirrup)

PowerShell

Get Real Time Quotes using PowerShell (George B.)
A Step by Step Guide to Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell Remoting (Howard van Rooijen)
#PSTip How to remove the “Folders” group from my computer in Windows 8 (Shay Levy)

Miscellaneous

Splunk on Windows, Clustering and IPv6 (Adrian Hall)
Updates Released for Redis on Windows (Claudio Caldato)
How-To schools you on SysInternals, “Using SysInternals Tools Like a Pro” and Image Resizer for Windows Explorer (Right-Click… Resize Picture…) (Greg Duncan)
Set keyboard layouts available on logon screen in Windows 8.1 (Jakub Jareš)
Why You Are “Stuck” In Your Career (John Sonmez)
Why leaving a startup is smart (Sanaz Jabbari)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading March 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1324 (Mike Gunderloy)
Community Update 2014-03-24–Follow-up on #sublime, #nodejs articles, #angularjs, #dotnet, #aspnet and package management (Maxime Rouiller)
The Daily Six Pack: March 25, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
The Morning Brew #1575 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-25 (Dan Rigby)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #76 (Jason Strate)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics: Jennifer Niederst Robbins: 9781449319274: Books

ISBN: 1449319270
ISBN-13: 9781449319274

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Dew Drop – March 14, 2014 (#1743)

Posted on March 14, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Blend for HTML Behaviors and Actions (Greg Smith)
AppBuilder March Release: A Full CLI, Windows Phone 8 Support, Sublime Text Integration, and More (TJ VanToll)
Hanselminutes – Creating the Plex Software Ecosystem with Elan Feingold (Scott Hanselman)
Microsoft’s Tech Advisor Bill Gates is talking about tech (again) and Six clicks: What we think we know about Windows 9 (Mary Jo Foley)

Web Development

Cookbook for ASP.NET MVC and Angular.js Web Apps (Dave Baskin)
Five Reasons ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Node.js (Josh Lane)
The Truth About False in JavaScript (Basem Emara)
Getting started with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0 (Javier Calvarro Nelson)
Develop Responsive Web Experiences with ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC – Session Wrap Up and Resources (Jeff Fritz)
Avoiding duplicity in Razor with helpers (Jakub Chodounsky)
Same Origin Policy Part 0: Origins (Eric Lawrence)
Four Awesome IIS 8.5 New Features (Pravinkumar Dabade)
The World’s Greatest Azure Demo (Troy Hunt)
Back to Basics: Assert your assumptions and diff your source code (Scott Hanselman)

XAML

Detect and remove Emojis from Text on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
2000 WPF Things #1,029 – Simple ProgressBar Example (Sean Sexton)
Scaling with a PathIcon (Nigel Sampson)
The Windows 8 Store is now open to openFrameworks applications (Adalberto Foresti)
Corona SDK coming to Windows devices thanks to open source ANGLE project (Olivier Bloch)
Build apps that connect with People and Calendar, Part 2: Appointments (Zainab Hakim)

Miscellaneous .NET

Things to think of when using Team Member IDE on Azure, networks. (Clemens Reijnen)
F#9 : Option types (Sacha Barber)
Why does the Directory.GetFiles method sometimes ignore *.html files when I ask for *.htm? (Raymond Chen)
Sho for IronPython 2.6 (MS Research)
Getting started with the ArcGIS Runtime (beta) Mapping SDK for .NET and Building a map app with the ArcGIS Runtime Map (Shawn Kendrot)
Defining Conversions for Visual Basic Classes (Peter Vogel)
Using Git for .NET development part 3 – branching and pushing your changes (Alice Waddicor)
How does WAQS optimizes client – server data transfer 1/6 (Matthieu Mezil)
2000 C# Things #1,053 – Implicit Conversion from Type dynamic (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Design Your Agile Project, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
What to do with UX Findings and Recommendations (Jim Ross)

Other Mobile Platforms

Using Application Insights for Windows Phone 8.0 Direct3D C++ Apps (Rahul Bagaria)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Webinar Recording: Xamarin and SAP Mobile Platform for Mobile Enterprise Success (Rich Taylor)
Windows Weekly 353: Made Ya Look! (Paul Thurrott)
The Alton Browncast – Kevin Brauch (Alton Brown)
TechEd Countdown Special: The One with the Party Announcement | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
Office Dev Tools for VS2013 – Improvements in Working with Large Data Sources (Bilal Waheed, Chris Rummel, Nate Amundson & Rohit Agrawal)
The Vergecast 115 – March 13th, 2014 (Verge Video)

Community / Events

MVPs, Trending Topics, Live Webcasts at the MVP ComCamp (MVP Award Program)

Database

SQL SERVER – Error – Resolution – Could not allocate space for object in database because the filegroup is full (Pinal Dave)
Using WMI alerts to import SQL Server Default Trace events (Svetlana Golovko)

Miscellaneous

The benefits of hiring remote workers (Adam Bertram)
Google slashes Google Drive storage pricing, offers 1TB for $9.99 (Chris Welch)
Is Xbox Reader on the way? (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading March 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1567 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1317 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: March 14, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-14 (Dan Rigby)
Windows Dev News for March 13, 2014 – #0213 (Dave Campbell)
Community Update 2014-03-13 – #WebDevelopment, #dotnet, #cqrs, #azure and lots more (Maxime Rouiller)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)): Kenneth S. Rubin: 9780137043293: Books

ISBN: 0137043295
ISBN-13: 9780137043293

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Dew Drop – February 18, 2014 (#1725)

Posted on February 18, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing Bing Code Search for C# (Ala Shiban)
Windows 9 – replacing it with a triumvirate of products (Scott Barnes)
Technical Debt of Using Code Behind (Deborah Kurata)
A Minimalist WebAPI 2 Visual Studio Project (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

The Lo-Dash on Underscore.js and Strings (Basem Emara)
Running JavaScript at Specified Times: Timed JavaScript (Arpit Jain)
Posting Code Blocks on a WordPress Site (Chris Coyier)
JavaScript Promises: A Journey To The “Promise Land” (Derick Bailey)
Getting started with OData v4 in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
4 Tips to Make Your ASP.NET Project Mobile-Ready (Jeff Fritz)
Identity in Your Own Apps with Windows Azure Active Directory – Part 3 (Martina Grom)
[Sample Of Feb 17th] How to share data between Javascript files in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)
Consuming ASP.NET Web API OData Batch Update From JavaScript (Ravi Kiran)
Thoughts On JavaScript Generators (K. Scott Allen)
Creating LightSwitch HTML Reports using ComponentOne Active Reports (Michael Washington)
7+ Years of Twitter on ProgrammableWeb (Adam DuVander)
Pro Single Page Application Development (Gil Fink)
Evergreen Browsers (Rob Eisenberg)
Preventing Code Injection (Bill Morefield)

XAML

Windows Phone Application Testing with Build it Beta (Nick Randolph)
2000 WPF Things #1,011 – ComboBox Data Binding Basics, Part III (Sean Sexton)
Windows Store Apps: Better user experience when launching files in target applications with LauncherOptions (Iris Classon)
Review of Windows 8.1 Developer Training: Geek Edition Jump Start (Tatworth)

Miscellaneous .NET

Who said building Visual Studio Extensions was hard? (Doug Rathbone)
Incorporating TraceSource and Other Techniques with EventSource (Kathleen Dollard)
Visual Studio 2013 + SlowCheetah error (Michael Sync)
Bing Code Search arrives (Athima Chansanchai)
Calculating Document Distance (Filip Ekberg)
StructureMap 3 is gonna tell you what’s wrong and where it hurts (Jeremy D. Miller)
Writing automation to wait for a window to be created (and dismiss it) (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,035 – Summary of Type Parameter Constraints (Sean Sexton)
Embedded Assembly Loading with support for Symbols and Portable Class Libraries in C# (Harry Singleton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Time series feature design: User interface (Oren Eini)
UX: Users are on a mission. Help them, but stay out of the way. (Mitch Harpur)
Mobile Application Testing w/ no Cell Signal (Derik Whittaker)
My Secret To Ridiculous Productivity. (I’m Using It Now) (John Sonmez)
Architecting for the Cloud (Dustin Whittle)

Other Mobile Platforms

Now in the Xamarin Marketplace: Falafel Bridge for TestComplete (Ryan Axford)
Android–Supporting Multiple Devices Part 1 (Roger O’Dell)
SQLite on Mobile Devices – Architecture (Eric Sink)
Building Services That Work in All Apps. No Silos. (TJ VanToll)
Chrome-Apps on Mobile Devices: A Good Idea? (Wolfram Rittmeyer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Python on .NET with Michael Kennedy (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 119 (Richard Hay)
Testing Bing Code Search Visual Studio Extension (with video) (Iris Classon)
Defrag Tools: #78 – WPT Example – Disk | Defrag Tools (Jason E, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Ping 196: Robocop and Search with Bing, AMA Bill Gates, FAA, Nokia Icon and Wearable Skirt | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

Community / Events

Article: Author Q&A – The Lean Mindset by Tom and Mary Poppendieck (Ben Linders)
Meet 5 Dynamic Women (Michelle Feder)
February Classes from Girl Develop It Philly (Sarah Galbraith)

Database

Why Your Slow SQL Server Doesn’t Need a SQL Consultant (or Does It?) (Brent Ozar)
MongoDB and MySQL – Comparing Scalability, Data Distribution & Query Model – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
Obtaining the Current Database Name (Richard Carr)
How to Use Relational Databases and SQL to Understand MongoDB (Alec Noller)

PowerShell

Get SQL Server SPN information for all servers using PowerShell (Brian P. O’Dwyer)

Miscellaneous

Universal Forwarders and the Splunk App for Active Directory (Adrian Hall)
OneNote Tip: Empty the notebook recycle bin to save space (John Guin)
Book Review: Survival of the Nicest (samzenpus)
Windows Phone 8.1 Swype-like keyboard demonstrated on video (Tom Warren)
Is Windows Phone 8.1 too little, too late? (Sam Sabri)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1550 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1301 (Mike Gunderloy)
.NET Weekly Digest #50 (Jakub Chodounský)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #71 (Jason Strate)

The Geek Shelf

Amazon.com : 4D Cityscape Game of Thrones: Westeros Puzzle : Jigsaw Puzzles : Toys & Games

ASIN: B00DLX51HK

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