Dew Drop – August 13, 2013 (#1,602)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – TypeScript and More with Chris Sells (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Azure: General Availability of SQL Server Always On Support and Notification Hubs, AutoScale Improvements + More (Scott Guthrie)
• Over 400 Virtual Machine Images of open source software stacks in the VM Depot Azure Gallery (Scott Hanselman)
• Obscure WinDbg Commands, Part 1 (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Web Development

• Ember.js – Creating computed properties at runtime (Paul Cowan)
• Windows Azure cross-platform command line improvements – Summer 2013 (Jeff Wilcox)
• JavaScript Data Binding with Knockout.js (Patrick Steele)
• Creating a 3D chart for your Windows 8.1 app using babylon.js (David Catuhe)
• Functionally Similar – Comparing Underscore.js to LINQ (Edward Charbeneau)
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building tags (Jimmy Bogard)
• What’s New In Sencha Desktop Packager 1.2 (Donald Carr)
• MetaFizzy Effect with Sass (Hugo Giraudel)
• LocalSTS Web.config (Mike Koerner)
• Attribute Routes and Hierarchical Routing (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Design Time Data with Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Nick Randolph)
• How to Build a RSS Feed Reader using Windows Phone App Studio? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Dev Center: New for Windows 8.1 (Devon Musgrave)
• Maps App Protocol Activation (and Bing SDK Preview) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• WPF Base Classes – FrameworkElement – Layout (Richard Carr)
• HttpClient, Parsing Content, Awaiting and Showering 🙂 (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# State Machines (Dan)
• Deploying websites with WiX (Rory Primrose)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch – True Power Lies In Simplicity and Extending LightSwitch – Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole (Dirk Strauss)
• Wrong Thread Exception Using Task-Based Extension Methods (Glenn Gailey)
• After 3 Years, Devs are Still Finding Programming Entity Framework 2ed Useful (Julie Lerman)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-483–Programming in C# (Kim Spilker)
• Technical Articles for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (Zain Naboulsi)
• ILNumerics Now Offers Any CPU Support and REPL Visualizations (Jonathan Allen)
• Simple Mocking in C++ (Dror Helper)
• How do I convert a synchronous file handle into an asynchronous one? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #907 – Exceptions Thrown from Main Are Treated as Unhandled Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• Upgrading your LightSwitch projects (Raghuveer Gopalakrishnan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Motivation: Part 2 – Mastery – Take the flow test (Jimmy Larkin)
• Evolving UX with Small Increments (David Starr)
• The Hacker News Generation (Afraid of Hard Work) (John Sonmez)
• Testing Tools for .NET Developers (Jonathan Allen)
• Am I Just Getting Lazy? (M. Meisinger)
• Architecture & Design Guidance, make the machine do your work for you (Oren Eini)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your Mobile Application (ThatsAlok)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 278: Tiberiu Covaci on Debugging ASP.NET Applications (David Giard)
• Agile.FM Podcast: Agile Day NYC and Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Gerard Way (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Hybrid Mobile Apps using Cordova with Bart Read and Kevin Boyle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #104–Pete Brown on Windows 8.1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #51 – Support Diagnostics | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• New Video: Understanding C# Interfaces & Polymorphic Behavior (Dan Wahlin)
• DevExpress Controls for Web and Wndows Store Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 12th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Attending SharePoint Technology Conference & Women in SharePoint Panel (Becky Isserman)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: SQL Code Generators – Day 6 of 10 and SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Database Careers – Day 7 of 10 (Pinal Dave)
• Transaction-SQL Editor (Deborah Kurata)
• Optimizing Scripts for Faster Incremental Deployment (Ali BaderEddin)
• Hello Voron (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint and Enterprise Mobile – Transformational Yet Most Struggle and Don’t Know What To Do… (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• ‘Breaking Bad’ Fans Furious About iTunes Season Pass (Brian Anthony Hernandez)
• 8 Windows Live Writer tips (Jon Galloway)
• Opportunities at Microsoft’s European Development Centers (MS JobsBlog)
• Gartner Recognizes Xamarin as Mobile Visionary (Nat Friedman)
• Larry Ellison says ‘we already know’ Apple is doomed without Steve Jobs (Sean Hollister)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 13, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 08.01 ~ 08.13 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, August 12th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 12, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1177 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 12, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: August 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1418 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-12 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 2 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

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