Dew Drop – October 25, 2013 (#1,653)

Top Links

• Family vNext (David Starr)
• Moving WPF Applications From Visual Studio 2010 to 2013 – Some Gotchas and Solutions (Karl Shifflett)
• WinRT : StyleMVVM Best Of Breed MVVM Framework (IMHO) (Sacha Barber)
• Five Levels of Code Generation (Kathleen Dollard)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Mobile 1.4.0 RC1 released (Jasper de Groot)
• PhpStorm 7 Web Toolkit Series – Stylus and Compass Support (Maarten Balliauw)
• Real-Time Reporting with SignalR, Kendo UI DataViz, and Icenium Part 2 (Rob Lauer)
• Node.Js : As A WebSocket Relay And Possible Filter (Sacha Barber)
• New SPA Resource Center on JasonHaley.com (Jason Haley)
• Enhanced Rich Editing Experiences in IE11 (Jianfeng Lin & Ben Peters)
• Throttling Input in AngularJs Applications using UnderscoreJs Debounce (Jeremy Likness)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy for Visual Studio release (Koen Zwikstra)
• Visualize Your Windows Store Geospatial Data with RadMap for Windows 8 XAML (Manol Donev)
• 2000 WPF Things #936 – TextBox Properties that Reflect Currently Selected Text (Sean Sexton)
• From the MVPs: “Getting started with Coded UI Testing for your Windows 8.1 Store Apps” (Kim Spilker)
• Callisto Update for Windows 8.1 and Callisto Migration Tip: Use Windows 8.1 SettingsFlyout and Callisto Migration Tip: Use CharacterEllipsis and Callisto Migration Tip: Use PlaceholderText in Windows 8.1 and Callisto Migration Tip: Flyouts (Tim Heuer)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to use XDT in NuGet – Examples and Facts (Dan Liu)
• Visual Studio 2013: Options Dialog (Deborah Kurata)
• Accelerating Matrix Multiplication in C++ (Jerzy S. Respondek)
• "Learning to Program in Visual Basic and.NET Gadgeteer" (Greg Duncan)
• When should I use the FIND_FIRST_EX_LARGE_FETCH flag to FindFirstFileEx? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #960 – Conventions for Naming Classes (Sean Sexton)
• Analytics: a turnkey solution for development teams (Vassil Petev)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Top 10 TDD Resources: TDD Checklist Expansion Pack (Allen Coin)
• Reading large codebases (Oren Eini)
• The 5 Big Benefits of Automated Deployment (Chris Smith)
• A Brief History Of Continuous Integration (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Stay in sync with GitHub for Windows (Markus Olsson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Integrate With Line of Business Apps Using KidoZen (Zack Gramana)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Configuring Vanity URLs for use with Windows Azure Websites (Planky)
• Radio TFS – TFS 2013 is HERE (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
• The Uninitialized Show 5: Designing and creating your own PCBs (Pete Brown & G. Andrew Duthie)
• IWP65 | Localization Made Easy with Multilingual App Tookit | Inside Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• Welcome to the Newest Podcast on the Microsoft Cloud! (Andrew Connell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Lucky Pen (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 099 – October 24th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Defrag: Explorer Hang, 8.1 upgrades, Optimal Battery Conditioning | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

 

Community / Events

• Ten Minutes With…Ahna Hendrix (Dirk Strauss)
• Gill Cleeren’s webinar "Latest & greatest in Windows 8.1 for devs" rescheduled to October 30th! (Silverlight Show)
• How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview with Google: The Thrilling Conclusion! (Joey deVilla)
• University grads & students: What’s your Microsoft IQ? (Chris Sorensen)
• In the Mind of an Introverted Speaker… (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Live From HTML5DevConf (TJ VanToll)

 

Database

• Microsoft releases SQL Server 2014 CTP2 (James Serra)
• SQL Server Filtered Indexes (Richard Carr)
• Architecture Reasons for Putting BLOBs in the Database (Brian Kelley)
• Frequently Asked Questions About TempDB (Brent Ozar)
• Big Data – How to become a Data Scientist and Learn Data Science? – Day 19 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• AT&T removed Qi wireless charging in the Lumia 1520 to make room for PMA (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1471 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for Oct 24, 2013 – #0203 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/25/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 24th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 24, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1229 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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