Dew Drop – October 15, 2013 (#1,645)

Top Links

• Packt publishing – 50% off to Thursday 17/Oct (Tatworth)
• Deal/Day: Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day! Save 50% on Over 100 Ebooks and Videos by Women Authors (O’Reilly Media)
• Math from scratch, part seven: division and remainder (Eric Lippert)
• Asynchronous Solution Load Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 (Ben Bradley)

 

Web Development

• Interview Questions and Excercises About CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Creating multilingual support using AngularJS (Hallstein Brøtan)
• Weekly Dev Diary Recap: Optimizing HTML5 Game Loading (Jesse Freeman)
• Integration Testing ASP.NET Web API (Amy Palamountain)
• I’m Giving Away a Copy of My Book, Beginning HTML and CSS (Rob Larsen)
• Guide to VS2013 LightSwitch HTML Themes (Xpert360)
• Flat UI and Forms (Jessica Enders)
• Creating an AngularJS CRUD Application Using Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• Leveraging your XAML MVVM Skills in HTML – Changing Binding Context (Derik Whittaker)
• What is JSFiddle? The ultimate guide for the ultimate lightweight tool (Q 249 & 250) (Iris Classon)
• Latest project: a video game in AngularJS (Joe White)

 

XAML

• Xaml: ViewModel Main Page Instantiation and Loading Strategy for Easier Binding. (William Wegerson)
• 2000 WPF Things #928 – TextBox.MinLines Doesn’t Size Properly on Startup (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 8 Update 3 now available for developers (Tom Warren)
• Windows 8.1 (Preview): Flyout, MaxWidth and FlyoutPresenter (Mike Taulty)
• Raising the Bar with Direct3D (Kam VedBrat)
• How to Add Tapped Event to the Textbox in Windows 8 Application. (Pavan Pareta)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How do I – Sort a list of custom class objects in descending order in C#? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Visual Studio 2013 unlocks new ways to speed up load performance (Deborah Pisano)
• Fix in Scope: a New Code Cleanup Experience in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Enable the Features Backlog in TFS 2013 (Andy Schwam)
• Microsoft .NET Portable Library Reference Assemblies 4.6 RC (MS Downloads)
• Data Breakpoints (Brad Sullivan)
• Brian Keller’s 5 reasons for Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)
• Microsoft’s PCL Reference Assemblies (Miguel de Icaza)
• 2000 C# Things #952 – Type Safety (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 14 – “Simple” Does Not Always Mean “Obvious” Pt. 1 (James Bender)
• Leaky Abstractions Are Holding Us Back (John Sonmez)
• Tips to Avoid Brittle UI Tests (Mehdi Khalili)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Quick-Tip: Detecting Smiles Using iOS 7 (Objective-C) (Torrey Betts)
• iOS – Objective-C – Working with Files (Stephen Zaharuk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Disruptive Change with Dan North (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag Tools: #60 – Visual Studio 2013 – JavaScript – Just My Code | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• Video: Twitter API Starter Kit for Windows 8 (Bob Familiar)
• Introducing Web Development and Tooling TV (Mads Kristensen)
• Video – Refactoring and Design Skills for Test Driven Development (Roy Osherove)

 

Community / Events

• Free Webinar on October 16 – MongoDB, Jaspersoft and Windows Azure: Building Open Source Reporting and Analytics in the Cloud (Brian Benz)
• Learn from our female leaders (MS JobsBlog)
• Code Camp 2013 Harrisburg PA (Ray Smith)

 

Database

• Big Data – Role of Cloud Computing in Big Data – Day 11 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Disk Space GUI Tool (Prashanth Jayaram)
• CSI: Re-enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell after you’ve blocked it with your own firewall rule (Scott Hanselman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Getting started with Redis on Windows and a look at performance for logging (Naeem Khedarun)
• Updating Your Utility Belt (Jeff Atwood)
• A Deeper Look at Task Completion (John Psaroudakis & Mujtaba Khambatti)
• How do you measure quality of a service? (Brian Harry)
• Running Windows 8.1 in the Enterprise (Karl Shifflett)
• Free ebook: Introducing Windows 8.1 for IT Professionals (Kim Spilker)
• Review Part 3: Two Months with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: August 26th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, October 14th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 14, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1222 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #85 (Mary Lou)
• The Morning Brew #1462 and The Morning Brew #1463 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/14/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for Oct 14, 2013 – #0199 (Dave Campbell)

 

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