Dew Drop – August 14, 2013 (#1,603)

Top Links

• Releasing a Planning Poker Application and multi sprint burn down chart (Charles Sterling)
• Icenium Release 1.7 Available (Jim Cowart)
• Designing and building user interfaces for Windows (Moneta Ho Kushner)
• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Code Map Debugger Integration (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• Overcoming HTML5’s Limitations (Seth Hallem)
• Extract Interface Refactoring for PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Sending Client-To-Client Realtime Messages With Pusher App And ColdFusion (Ben Nadel)
• Icenium LiveSync – Real Time Testing and Debugging (Anthony Abdulla)
• Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6 (Ariya Hidayat)
• Using WebGL to Add 3D Effects and Don’t Swear in Your Stylesheets (Chris Coyier)
• Single Page Apps & Realtime, a Love Story (Chris Missal)
• Reducing Filter and Map Down to Reduce (Elijah Manor)
• Multi-Level Push Menu (Mary Lou)
• New Mobile Services Samples (Miranda Luna)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #884 – Making a StackPanel Scroll More Intelligently (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store dev account: getting rid of it is as hard as signing up (Frans Bouma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Neural Network Back-Propagation Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Visual Studio 2013 – Enhanced Scrollbar (Colin Beales)
• REST Comes to C++ in Visual Studio 2013 (Paul Ballard)
• Telerik’s DevCraft is Visual Studio 2013 Preview Ready (Phil Japikse)
• LightSwitch Data – Fleshing Out Your Application (Dirk Strauss)
• Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) (Neil Mackenzie)
• 2000 C# Things #908 – Handling Unhandled Exceptions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We don’t write patterns – we get out of their way so they can emerge (Cory Foy)
• Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery (Marcus Hammarberg)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Sliding Menu with iOS SlidingMenu Component (Ulas Sancak)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 488: Phil Spencer (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Lauren Graham (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 99: Flynn, Tent, open source PaaSes and more with Jeff Lindsay and Jonathan Rudenberg (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Engadget HD Podcast 362 – 08.08.13 (Joe Pollicino)

 

Community / Events

• Xbox at gamescom (Xbox Wire)
• Dev of the Week: Alex Staveley (Allen Coin)
• Philly Geek Awards Spotlight: Keir Politz & Damon Maulucci, Directors of Detonator (Dan)
• Nicolas Calvi and Johanna Rowe: MVPs Together, Now Husband and Wife (MVP Award Program)
• Zen of PM (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• How to Master SQL Server Index Tuning in One Step (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Database Datafiles and Logfiles – Day 8 of 10 (Pinal Dave)
• Voron’s implementation: Managed memory mapped database–getting to C memory model (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Pro’s Tips For Performance Tuning and T-SQL (Ian Stirk)

 

SharePoint

• Access SkyDrive Pro using the SharePoint 2013 APIs (Yina Arenas & Donovan Follette, Sr.)

 

PowerShell

• Creating PowerShell Modules, the easy way. (Joel Bennett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Create a Dev & Test Environment in Minutes! (Alexandre Brisebois)
• A short developer evangelism handbook update (Chris Heilmann)
• Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 13th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 13, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Double Shot #1179 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1419 and The Morning Brew #1420 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for Aug 13, 2013 – #0183 (Dave Campbell)

 

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