Dew Drop – May 17, 2013 (#1,549)

Top Links

• Introducing our Learning Portal for Kids (Manya Susoev)
• Building a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js (Jennifer Fong-Adwent)
• Spot the defect: rounding, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Building a Spreadsheet in 20 Minutes with Angular.js (David Graunke)

 

Web Development

• Smashing Magazine – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• HTML5 – It Just Got Real – Slides (Colin Eberhardt)
• Simple JavaScript Testing with QUnit (Leigh Shevchik)
• Red Gate Is Looking For Feedback On Its ASP.NET MVC Web Development Education Website (Paulo Morgado)
• Learn JavaScript Online (Ricky Onsman)
• Game Development Using JavaScript (Shai Raiten)
• APress Deal of the Day 17/May/2013 – Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 (Tatworth)
• AngularJS Abstractions: Scope (K. Scott Allen)
• DOM Clobbering (Gareth Heyes)
• Construct 2 Tip #4: Round Tripping With Event Variables (Jim O’Neil)

 

XAML

• Extending the Windows Phone Pivot (Nico Vermeir)
• 2000 WPF Things #822 – Deciding which TextFormattingMode to Use (Sean Sexton)
• Tips to grow your app revenue through in-app purchase (Bernardo Zamora)
• Thoughts on Monetization #4: In-app purchases (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Can we implement Inheritance in WCF ServiceContract : WCF Interview Series #2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• What is the difference between Reflection and Dynamic in C#? (Shivprasad koirala)
• 2000 C# Things #846 – A Call Stack Keeps Track of Methods that Have Been Called (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Security Part 3 (Simon Cooper)
• New Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial (Steve Danielson)
• Simple But Nice State Machine (Sacha Barber)
• Untangling the confusingly-named WM_UPDATEUISTATE and WM_CHANGEUISTATE messages (Raymond Chen)
• Enabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Professional and HP ALM with Opshub v5.3 (Charles Sterling)
• Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 2 – Getting Started (Mike Larah)
• Introducing new Management Infrastructure (MI) API (Osama Sajid)
• New Windows Dev Center release (Brian Harry)
• NuPattern 1.3.21.0 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Testing Reality is Always My First Test (Bobby Johnson)
• Move over TortoiseGit, welcome SourceTree (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Social Gaming, Location, and More in Google Play Services (Greg Hartrell, Angana Ghosh, Francesco Nerieri & Francis Ma)
• Xamarin platform setup gotchas (Pascal Arnould)
• Apple’s New Objective-C to JavaScript Bridge (Nigel Brooke)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 166: Tomasz Janczuk on Edge.js (Jon Galloway)
• Hanselminutes – Integrating Office and the Open Web with LucidChart’s Brian Pugh (Scott Hanselman)
• Videos: Beautiful Builds, and a Second Look at Unit Testing (Roy Osherove)
• 059 JSJ jQuery Mobile with Todd Parker (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 90 (Richard Hay)
• Countdown to TechEd: All About Foundation Sessions, MS Store and Travel Tips | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• Agile Interview with Elizabeth Harrin (Vesselina Tasheva)
• Free Webinar May 29th: PhpStorm Best Practices – The Perfect Workflow for PHP Developers (Mikhail Vink)
• Xbox Unveiled: Join CNET’s live coverage on Tuesday, May 21 (Josh Lowensohn)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – REPLICATE over 8000 Characters (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDb 2.0 on IIS with Windows Authentication returns a 401 #ravendb (Alexander Zeitler)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Browser Comparison Report Card (Joel Oleson)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell functions to get an xml node, and get and set an xml element’s value, even when the element does not already exist (Daniel Schroeder)
• Automate SQL Server Analysis Services Tasks with PowerShell – Part 2 (Daniel Calbimonte)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: Blame Google for lack of ads in the Windows Phone 8 YouTube app (Mihaita Bamburic)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 207 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 16th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 16, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1358 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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