Dew Drop – October 11, 2013 (#1,643)

Top Links

• Asynchronous Operations with Xamarin (Wallace McClure)
• Leveraging your XAML MVVM Skills in HTML – Handling Click Events (Derik Whittaker)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 13 – More Stub Features (James Bender)
• Web Development Trends: Mobile First, Data-Oriented Development, and Single Page Applications (Dan Wahlin)

 

Web Development

• Revealing Module Pattern in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm and Windows Azure Mobile Services (Maarten Balliauw)
• Determine HTML5 Tag Support in JavaScript (Ryan Morr)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Overview (Sergio Compean)
• Web API, Async and Performance in an ASP.NET MVC application (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Upgrading Orchard CMS from 1.6 to 1.7.1 and HowTo Setup: Orchard CMS Source Enlistment for Local Dev and Automated Git Publishing to Azure (Andrew Connell)
• Animated Media Queries (Chris Coyier)
• How To Set A Page And Tag With A Single Jade Template Block (Derick Bailey)
• Put your controllers on a diet: redux (Jimmy Bogard)

 

XAML

• My XML is Alive! An Intro to XAML (Jeremy Likness)
• 2000 WPF Things #926 – Text Containing Embedded Carriage Returns Wraps Automatically (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – Control – Double-Clicking (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Scribble app in 12 lines of F# (Jon Harrop)
• 2000 C# Things #950 – C# Has a Unified Type System (Sean Sexton)
• Tracepoints (Brad Sullivan)
• In-place upgrade of ESB Toolkit 2.1 to 2.2 (Brian Loesgen)
• Using the Kinect for Winnows SDK v1.8 to add speech recognition to your next web app… (Greg Duncan)
• How do I find out what size the window manager would have chosen for my window? (Raymond Chen)
• The blog post Did you know… How the Configuration Manager works – Part 2 on the MSDN Blogs has possibly gone viral. This is full of win! (Sara Ford)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Revisiting Conway’s law (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Retrospectives for Personal Improvement (Ben Linders)
• Generating and Analyzing Project Data Using Test Studio (Peter Varhol)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Scanning Barcodes with iOS 7 (Objective-C) (Torrey Betts)
• Test Studio for iOS 2.5 Is Live! (Anthony Rinaldi)
• How to create a web app that looks like a iOS 7 native app (Part 2: Behavior) (Thomas Fuchs)
• Talks from Software Architect 2013: Attacking Web Applications and First Steps in iOS Development (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Custom Cordova Plugins with the Icenium Extension for Visual Studio (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Groovy on Grails with Netflix’s Clay McCoy (Scott Hanselman)
• Boagworld – Static Agile (Paul Boag)
• What’s new in Xamarin and iOS7 – webinar (Wally McClure)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Episode 420 w/ Doug Benson (Chris Hardwick)
• 079 JSJ Lo-Dash with John-David Dalton (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Edge Show 78 – Integration of Virtual Machine Manager with Operations Manager in System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (David Tesar, RicksterCDN & Symon Perriman)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 211: In Gold (Gareth Myles)
• ICTV014: Student Apps and Making a Pitch Video | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 192 – 10.10.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 109 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 097: Chromebooks, Nest Protect, and ‘Oliver Twist’ (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• Ten Minutes With…Senthil Kumar (Dirk Strauss)
• First meeting with Chisinau community (Gunnar Peipman)
• The concept of Users Voice (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Database

• Enforce SSIS naming conventions using BI-xPress and SSDT gotcha – Moving a file erases code analysis suppressions (Jamie Thomson)
• Big Data – Buzz Words: Importance of Relational Database in Big Data World – Day 9 of 21 (Pinal Dave)
• Updated SQL Server Data Tools October 2013 (Jill McClenahan)
• How to set up database Continuous Integration and Automated Deployment with Jenkins… over lunch (Alex Yates)

 

Miscellaneous

• 17 Reasons a Shelter Dog Could Be Your Best Friend (Molly Horan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 11, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 10th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 10, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1220 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/10/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1461 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-11 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 11, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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