Dew Drop – August 5, 2013 (#1,599)

Top Links

• Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Syncing Visual Studio 2013 Settings in the Cloud (David Starr)
• The right methodology for your project (Udi Dahan)
• The Rise of the Developer: Why Programmers Are Kings (John K. Waters)

 

Web Development

• An autoscaling build farm using TeamCity and Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Visual Studio – Working With Multiple Windows Azure Subscriptions (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Directories for JavaScript resources (Axel Rauschmayer)
• WebStorm 130.1494; LESS 1.4 and NPM support (Dmitry Jemerov)
• Configuring Windows Azure Diagnostics in Eclipse (Neil Mackenzie)
• Building a YouTube like Media Portal using ASP.NET MVC and Azure Media Services (Sumit Maitra)
• Animation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Clipping Content Using the overflow Property in CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Recursive Menus with AngularJS Templates (Christian Grobmeier)
• AngularJS Step-by-Step: Controllers (Jim Cooper)
• OAuth 2 The Hard Way (Steve Marx)
• Going Live With Node (Raymond Camden)
• Adding the a Bootstrap Pagination to the GridView Adapter (Steve Naughton)

 

XAML

• Download WP SDK 8.0 Update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• [Sample Of Aug 3rd] Render text on bitmap in Windows Phone 8 (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #878 – Options for Positioning a Popup Relative to Another Control (Sean Sexton)
• Idea books for commercial and enterprise app design—with sample code! (Doug Rothaus)
• WPF Base Classes – UIElement – Mouse Events (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts (Brian Keller)
• SourceGrid – Open Source C# Grid Control (Davide Icardi)
• [Book Review] "Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad" (Greg Duncan)
• Roaming monitor tool for Visual Studio (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• C++ AMP Algorithms Library (Ade Miller)
• New Windows Performance Toolkit (Alois Kraus)
• Fantastic Features Introduced with Telerik Reporting Q2 2013 SP1 (Carey Payette)
• AutoLayout with Xamarin.Mac (Jérémie Laval)
• New book: Microsoft Visual C++/CLI Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Integrate reporting and analyses services with Team Foundation Server 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Open access to the application directory (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #902 – Data Available to the Handler of a Wrapped Exception (Sean Sexton)
• ALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Architects: Chickens or Pigs in an Agile Development Process? (Richard Seroter)
• Comfort is Overrated. Change is Exciting and Revealing! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Where Bugs Really Go To Die, Your Product Documentation (Ade Miller)
• Machines Are Eating Software Development (Andy Singleton)
• Emotional Intelligence Quotes (JD Meier)
• Avoid Extra Grey Hair! Use Careful Test Design (Jim Holmes)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• My First Book Titled "Kendo UI Mobile" is Here! (Sagar Ganatra)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 277: Chris Gardner on Migrating from XNA to Windows 8 Game Development (David Giard)
• MNR 486: Marc Whitten updates us on the progress of Xbox One (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET, VS 2012.4, Web Essentials 2013 Preview and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Weekly 322: Bye-Bye Sky (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jimmy Carr and The Nerdist Podcast – Michael C. Hall (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Building Nokia Music for Windows 8 with Ben Buttigieg (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 069 JSJ The Application Cache with Jake Archibald (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Ask Iris: How do you find and debug errors/bugs? (Q 225-226) (Iris Classon)
• Engadget Podcast 354 – 08.02.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 013: 15 Running Questions (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 100 (Richard Hay)
• GeekWire Radio: Sounders GM Adrian Hanauer on soccer, tech and ‘big’ deals in the works (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Welcome Marcus Hammarberg (Brendan Tompkins)
• Developer Conferences (Phillip Trelford)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Understanding Restrict Access to Restricted_User Database Property and SQLAuthority News – Releasing Author’s 10th Book – SQL Basics Joes 2 Pros: A Getting Started Guide to Administering and Developing SQL Server Databases for Beginners (Pinal Dave)
• Database Projects and Refactoring (Deborah Kurata)
• APress Deal of the Day 5/Aug/2013 – Beginning T-SQL 2012 (Tatworth)
• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: A thoughtful hiatus (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Designing and Architecting Solutions (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introduction to Systematic Programming – Week 6 (Dara Monasch)
• Why is Microsoft alienating its biggest customers? IT pros want TechNet back (Emily Parkhurst)
• Your Guide to (Finally) Canceling Cable (Eric Larson)
• Intel Haswell First Look (John Papa)
• Free ebooks: A recap (Kim Spilker)
• Google Chromecast – What You Can & Can’t Do… and What Developers Should Do (Nick Landry)
• Microsoft cuts the price of Surface Pro by $100 (Yan Zhu)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 3, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 5, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 2nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Friday Five-August 2, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (August 2nd, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #75 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1172 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1413 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 8/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: July 26 to August 1 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 24 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #040 (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #71) (Mark Brown)

 

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