Dew Drop – November 6, 2013 (#1661)

Top Links

• Making Web Development Wonderful Again with Web Essentials (Schabse Laks)
• Plan for Prism for Windows 8.1 (Blaine Wastell)
• What does Collaborative Remote Software Development feel like? (Tom Howlett)
• Announcing Unity for ID@Xbox Developers (Michael Cummings)

 

Web Development

• Snazz Up Your MVC Apps with Twitter Bootstrap: A Get-Started Guide (Ondrej Balas)
• Loading AngularJS Components With RequireJS After Application Bootstrap (Ben Nadel)
• Doing It Right: How Microsoft Made the Right Bets on Azure (Andrew Binstock)
• Using a Custom JsonConverter to fix bad JSON results (Michael Cummings)
• Transformer Tabs (Chris Coyier)
• TypeScript Roundup: New Features, Tools, and a Roadmap (Jonathan Allen)
• Animated SVG Icons with Snap.svg (Mary Lou)
• Orientationchange and resize events on mobile (Peter-Paul Koch)

 

XAML

• Hello Windows 8.1: what’s new in the update for developers: Part 2: XAML and WinRT improvements (Gill Cleeren)
• Microsoft welcomes Marmalade developers to Windows Phone (JC Cimetiere)
• XAML Theming – Implicit Styles versus StyleManager (Panayot Cankov)
• 2000 WPF Things #944 – Entering Special Characters into a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Managing your app on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 (Ian LeGrow)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013 Avoid Copying Blank Lines (Dirk Strauss)
• Calling RgPublish from TFS (Justin Caldicott)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-485: Advanced Windows Store App Development using C# (Kim Spilker)
• EasyNetQ: Changes to Conventions With Version 0.18 (Mike Hadlow)
• Free E-Book – Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 (Tatworth)
• New .Net Authentication in 4.5.1 (Kevin Logan)
• Part 2: Overcoming Windows 8.1’s Deprecation of GetVersionEx and GetVersion APIs (Ehsan A. Samani)
• “The Provider encountered an unknown error” when creating new users in EF DbMigrationsConfiguration.Seed method (Michael Sync)
• Modern Garbage Collection in Theory and Practice (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #968 – Reading a Value from a Variable (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Practices, Systems Thinking, and Culture Matter in Agile Adoption (Ben Linders)
• Article: Scrum Master: Position or Role? (Brian Lawrence)
• Top ScrumMaster + Scrum Product Owner Questions from Training – FAQ (Peter Saddington)
• 3 Prerequisites for Effective Sprint Planning in an Agile Environment (Tarun)
• Why Voron has a Write Ahead Journal, not a Write Ahead Log (Oren Eini)
• Offline First! (Alex)
• Teamcity Tip: Building all pull requests and updating the status to Github (Michael Sync)
• 1st Class Database Deployments with Deployment Manager (Andrew Denty)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Remote Debugging Android Devices With jsHybugger (Jim Cowart)
• Shake, Rattle and Roll: Dolby Sound on Android Devices (Ted Neward)
• Xcode and Asset Catalogs: Love Em or Leave Em? (John Blanco)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 119: How much is your reputation worth? (Mark Frauenfelder)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Hiddleston (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #170 – What defines an engineer? – Job Judging Jeremiad (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Verge Mobile Show 067 – November 5th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 15: All Around Seattle | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz, Kaitlin & John Scott Tynes)
• Ping 192: Super cool hires, meet Xbox ONE, Hover returns, Bing kills it | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Countdown to TechEd: The One Where EarlyBird OPENS! | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events For November 5th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio 2013 UK Launch at NDC London, 3rd December 2013 (Mike Taulty)
• 2013 Developer Salary Survey (Andrew Binstock)
• Dev of the Week: Claus Ibsen (Allen Coin)
• Upcoming Windows Development Events in Michigan (Jennifer Marsman)
• Nokia DVLUP Day – Nov. 16th (Jim O’Neil)
• Xamarin’s Headed South: Come to our Atlanta Drink Up (Morgan Forsythe)
• Seeking Input on PowerShell Summit Sessions (John Slack)
• Join the party to celebrate the first year of ‘Halo 4’ (Suzanne Choney)

 

Database

• Introduction to Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) for SSIS (Koen Verbeeck)
• Big Data – ClustrixDB – Extreme Scale SQL Database with Real-time Analytics, Releases Software Download – NewSQL (Pinal Dave)
• Automated Job Activation with Mirroring and Availability Groups (Ted Krueger)

 

PowerShell

• Understanding CONFIGURATION keyword in Desired State Configuration (Joe Zhou)

 

Miscellaneous

• AT&T Nokia Lumia 1520: $199 on contract, $549 off; ships November 15th (Daniel Rubino)
• Microsoft narrows its CEO shortlist, says Reuters (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 6, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 5, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1235 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1479 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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