Dew Drop – October 21, 2013 (#1,649)

Top Links

• Windows Azure: Announcing Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 + Some Nice Price Cuts (Scott Guthrie)
• First Prism for Windows 8.1 drop available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• How to start working with EF 6 on VS 2012 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Now that Windows 8.1 is here, what we still don’t know (Kip Kniskern)

 

Web Development

• Tips on How to Minify the DHTMLX Files (dhtmlx Team)
• Kendo UI JSFiddle Starter Template (Josh Eastburn)
• Windows Azure Storage Queues VS Windows Azure Service Bus Queues (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Stylus in WebStorm 7 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Calculating element vertex data from CSS transforms (Keith Clark)
• PHPUnit on Server changes in PhpStorm 7 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Migration to AWS: part 1 (Giorgio Sironi)
• Hijacking ASP.NET Sessions (Ricardo Peres)
• ASP.NET Bundling and Minification Returning File Not Found (404) (Scott Mitchell)
• Backbone 1.1.0 Released, Includes Potential Incompatibility with 1.0 (Brian Rinaldi)
• Flat UI and Forms (Chris Coyier)
• Minimum Viable Reports: A NodeJS Script And console.log (Derick Bailey)
• 18 Essential Bootstrap UI Editors (Grace Smith)
• Writing CoffeeScript tests with angular-seed and Growl for angular-seed test-status notifications (Joe White)
• Browsing to a Simple Web Server on a Mac from Sublime Text (John Papa)
• IE10 and IE11 and Windows 8.1 and __doPostBack and Make a Windows 8.1 Pinned Live Tile for YOUR website in minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• Aura: A Free Theme for Ghost (Tom Kenny)
• Node v0.8.26 (Maintenance) and Node v0.10.21 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Headless 1.0.103 Released (Rory Primrose)

 

XAML

• More on the Windows 8.1 HID WinRT API (Greg Duncan)
• Simple Metro Style Panorama Control for WPF (Sacha Barber)
• CollectionViewSource is crazy useful for binding to filtered Observable Collections on Windows Phone 8 (Scott Hanselman)
• 2000 WPF Things #932 – Making a TextBox Read-Only or Disabled (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – HeaderedContentControl (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8.1 Preview: Multiple Windows (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Async Void, Exceptions and Windows 8.1 (Nigel Sampson)
• Windows 8.1: Location-aware apps – Part #1: What’s new in geolocation (Andrea Boschin)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• EF6 Connection Resiliency for SQL Azure* – When does it actually do it’s thing? (Julie Lerman)
• Running a Process in F# (Cameron Taggart)
• Visual Studio Extensions (Scott Dorman)
• Voice Recognition and Synthesis Using the Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK (Peter O’Hanlon)
• Announcing JustDecompile Q3 2013 (James Bender)
• An event store (Jef Claes)
• MSBuild Extension Pack – October 2013 (Mike Fourie)
• The Promise of Polygot Programming on .Net (Phillip Trelford)
• Announcing the 2013 Q3 JustMock Release–Bigger and Badder Than Ever (Phil Japikse)
• The case of the redirected standard handles that won’t close even though the child process has exited (and a smidge of Microspeak: reduction) (Raymond Chen)
• Reactive Command With Dynamic Predicates (Sacha Barber)
• The blog post How to receive email notifications for work items – #033 on the MSDN Blogs has achieved its 15 minutes of fame. Congratulations! (Sara Ford)
• 2000 C# Things #956 – The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s break the Agile Testing Quadrants (Gojko Adzic)
• Coding through silos (5 tips on sharing code) (Steven Sinofsky)
• Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Win a copy of: Functional Reactive Programming on iOS (Ash Furrow)
• Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary (Lauren Hockenson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 494: Heading out on the road with Area One (Larry Hyrb)
• 080 JSJ – Impact.js with Dominic Szablewski (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Windows Weekly 333: Windows 8.1 Is Here (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Danny McBride and Jody Hill and The Nerdist Podcast – Greg Proops Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 5, Season 4 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• Get Up And Code 024: Weight Loss Chat With Josh Earl From TrackAbout (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget Podcast 365 – 10.17.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 193 – 10.17.13 (Jon Turi)
• GeekWire Radio: The inside story of Amazon, with author Brad Stone (Todd Bishop)
• My appearance on the Home Tech Podcast on everything Mobile (Michael Crump)

 

Community / Events

• SCREENCASTS: What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 – learn over lunch! (Scott Hanselman)
• PostSharp Training Day in London (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• GeekGirlCon photos: Where you can be whatever you want (Emily Shahan)
• I Has the Dumb (or: How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview with Google) (Joey deVilla)
• Interview With Bruce Lawson of Opera (Rey Bango)

 

Database

• Using Views to Expose Encrypted Data in SQL Server (K. Brian Kelley)
• Geek City: SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP (“Hekaton”) Whitepaper for CTP2 (Kalen Delaney)
• Big Data – Data Mining with Hive – What is Hive? – What is HiveQL (HQL)? – Day 15 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Final Verdict on Haswell Ultrabook (Steve Smith)
• Unwrapping Windows 8.1: Bing Smart Search (Derrick Connell)
• Unwrapping Windows 8.1: Bing Apps (Brian MacDonald)
• Microsoft Windows 8.1 – Corporate Policies and Common Sense (Karl Shifflett)
• Microsoft Surface 2: The Tablet World’s Powerful, Odd Duckling (Lance Ulanoff)
• Professional Development – Difference Between Bio, CV and Resume (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Releases a Surface RT 8.0 Recovery Image which helps recover bricked Surface RT devices (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft Surface Pro 2 review (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft is working on a Remote Desktop client for Windows Phone (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 19, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 20, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 18th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 18, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1226 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – October 18, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #86 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 10/18/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1467 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading Notes #112 (Frank)
• Weekly Digest 35 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #051 (Pinal Dave)

 

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