Dew Drop – November 5, 2013 (#1,660)

Top Links

• Windows Azure: Import/Export Hard Drives, VM ACLs, Web Sockets, Remote Debugging, Continuous Delivery, New Relic, Billing Alerts and More (Scott Guthrie)
• Math from scratch, part twelve: Euclid and Bézout (Eric Lippert)
• How To Make A Game Part 1:Picking a Framework (Jesse Freeman)
• EF Tools Open Source (Rowan Miller)

 

Web Development

• Catch Errors in Express.js Application (Alexander Beletsky)
• Which CSS Measurements To Use When and Tinted Images with Multiple Backgrounds (Chris Coyier)
• Let us simplify “Hello World” Node.js Example and EventLoop (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using model property of type IEnumerable for table column headers in ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Report Viewer wrapper for ASP.NET MVC has been released! (Ilya Verbitskiy)
• How to express your data using Ignite UI’s jQuery Linear Gauge control. (Marina Stoyanova)
• Announcing the Preview of Windows Azure Import/Export Service and Several Enhancements for Web and Mobile Solution Scenarios (Steven Martin)
• Remote Debugging a Window Azure Web Site with Visual Studio 2013 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Loading AngularJS Components After Your Application Has Been Bootstrapped (Ben Nadel)
• The Shift: how Orchard painlessly shifted to document storage, and how it’ll affect you (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? (Beth Massi)
• Check out NodeSchool.io (Raymond Camden)
• So, you want to write an HTTP Client (Kevin Burke)
• TypeScript Roundup: New Features, Tools, and a Roadmap (Jonathan Allen)
• Manipulating the zone identifier to specify where a file was download from (Raymond Chen)
• Frameworkless JS – an example (Rob Ashton)
• Why do my Font Awesome icons show up as blank squares? (Scott Hanselman)
• cite and blockquote – reloaded (Steve Faulkner)

 

XAML

• XAML Intellisense (Deborah Kurata)
• XAML Theming – Implicit Styles versus StyleManager (Panayot Cankov)
• WinRT : StyleMVVM Demo App 2 of 2 (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #943 – Turning on Spell Checking within a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Introducing WPF SDK Samples Browser (Vladimir Amiorkov)
• Windows 8 /8.1 ApplicationDataContainers and VB (Ockert Johannes du Preez)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Poor man’s “Data” breakpoints in managed debugging (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2013 Support in ReSharper 8.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• EasyNetQ: Polymorphic Publish and Subscribe (Mike Hadlow)
• [Sample Of Nov 4th] How to set proxy in WebBrowser control (Philip Fu)
• 2000 C# Things #967 – Assigning a Value to a Variable (Sean Sexton)
• .NET/Azure Folks: Learn Reactive Programming (Craig Smitham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What do Scrum teams do during the Release Sprint? (Andrew Fuqua)
• Technical Practices, Systems Thinking, and Culture Matter in Agile Adoption (Ben Linders)
• Article: Scrum Master: Position or Role? (Brian Lawrence)
• 4 Signs That Agile is Declining–The Sequel (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Avoid Premature Standardization (Phil Haack)
• Creating Useful Naming Conventions: Technical Considerations (Peter Vogel)
• Creating a Healthy Project Culture (Johanna Rothman)
• Designing for Any Device (Kevin Richardson)
• Developer? Can’t draw? Learn how to create amazing 2D art, today! (Ryan Lowdermilk)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Seeing Two Geolocation Prompts in a PhoneGap/Cordova Application? (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cucumber Makes BDD Fun with Matt Wynne (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 005 | SharePoint Deployment Options – OnPremises vs. Hosted (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Yet Another Podcast #111–Lance Bullock on Xamarin (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #63 – Windows 8.1 – SDK | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Webcast: How Lean Agile Changes the Product Manager’s Job (Jon Friedman)
• November Mobile C# Developer Meetups (James Montemagno)
• “hackathon-in-a-box.org” is you’re, well, Hackathon in a Box and guide (I know, imagine that!) (Greg Duncan)
• Always Be Coding (Trish Lincoln)
• Canadian Imagine Cup 2014 Announced! (Susan Ibach)
• Agile Testing Days 2013 (Ulrika Malmgren)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Number-Crunching with SQL Server – Exceed the Functionality of Excel (Pinal Dave)
• Principles of Big Data By Jules J Berman, O’Reilly Media Book Review (Arthur Zubarev)

 

SharePoint

• Use the Public Website to make it easier to find internal SharePoint sites (C. Watson)

 

PowerShell

• Clone an Azure VM using Powershell (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• 5 Ways to Stand Out AFTER the Interview (Kane Green)
• So You Want To Quit Your Job (How To Do It) (John Sonmez)
• Nokia Lumia smartwatch concept imagines a colorful future under Microsoft (Verge Staff)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 5, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, November 1, 2013 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, November 4, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 4, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1234 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #114 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1478 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup #75 (Mark Brown)

 

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