Dew Drop – November 21, 2013 (#1670)

Top Links

• Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• Curah! – Curate the web and share what you know (S.Somasegar)
• Coverity analysis and FXCOP and ATBG: non-nullable reference types (Eric Lippert)
• Hello Minty and Minty: The First Steps and Minty: Defining the Model (Rob Conery)

 

Web Development

• Ember.js Components, Wrapping Content and Context (Paul Cowan)
• HTML5 Video: Transcoding with Node.js and AWS (Brad Carleton)
• Ember.js Basics – Project Structure and Ember.js From the Ground Up Series (Brent Schooley)
• Setting up Visual Studio 2013 for Knockoutjs Development and Create your First MVVM based JavaScript App in two simple steps using Knockoutjs (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Syntax highlighting of PHP inside JavaScript (and other languages) (Maarten Balliauw)
• WebGL With Three.js: Basics (Maciej Sopyło)
• ASP.NET MVC 5 Authentication Filters (Raj Aththanayake)
• Frameworkless JS – What jQuery did right (Rob Ashton)
• Creating A LightSwitch HTML Screen Extension (Michael Washington)
• Orchard CMS 1.7.2 Released! and Orchard CMS Shift to Document Storage and Module Development (David Hayden)
• Solr Presentation Assets, and a Note on DisMax Searching (Raymond Camden)
• Why Responsive Images Is So Hard (Chris Coyier)
• How to use MongoDB with SSL (Daniel Bartl)
• Link: An Introduction to DOM Events (Smashing Magazine) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

XAML

• XAML : Binding To Nullable Enums With Friendly Names (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #954 – Store Confidential Data Only Within SecureString Instances and #955 – Getting Data Out of a SecureString (Sean Sexton)
• Developers: New XAML flexibility, DirectX improvements now in Windows 8.1 (Suzanne Choney)
• What’s new for XAML and DirectX interop in Windows 8.1 (Jesse Bishop)
• Network API cheat sheets available now in the download center (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Exiting a Program with an Error Code (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio Rename Refactor Helper for Visual Studio 2013 (Eric Battalio)
• PCL Projects and Visual Studio 2013 Support (Joseph Hill)
• NCover 4.5 10x Faster, Smaller Database, Supports Visual Studio 2013 and NCover Bolt – Visual Studio Code Coverage & Test Runner (Kerry Meade)
• Visual Studio 2013 Survey (Visual Studio Team)
• When To Build Fluent Interfaces for Re-Use and Clarity (Peter Vogel)
• HealthVault SDK 2.0 (MS Downloads)
• How much data can you put on VSOnline? (Brian Harry)
• Discovering .NET Open Source: up-for-grabs.net (Keith Dahlby)
• Complexity extension is now compatible with VS 2013 (Elisha)
• 2000 C# Things #978 – Use a SecureString Object to Store Confidential Text Data and #979 – Store Confidential Data Only Within SecureString Instances (Sean Sexton)
• How do I get the path to the default user’s profile? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 23 – Mocking… FROM THE FUTURE! (James Bender)
• Adding Unit Tests (John Guin)
• Healthcare.gov – A Great Example of Failing… without Agile and Leadership is Stewardship (Peter Saddington)
• Collection Asserts with NUnit (Jakub Chodounský)
• Source Control is your new DR (Paul Hammant)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Different iOS Progress Types Using IGProgressView (Xcode & Xamarin.iOS) (Torrey Betts)
• Base64 encoding in iOS 7 (Josh Smith)
• Two Helpful Screen Share Utilities for Mobile Devices (Jim Cowart)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 121: The Return of Ape Lad (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – XKCD Geekout with Randall Munroe (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Amp Hour #172 – CAD courses and cross platform creation – Printing Propaedeutic Patterns (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Oliver Stone (Chris Hardwick)
• The Future of Affective Computing | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• Defrag: Windows 8.1 Upgrades, Overheating, Keeping Safe Online | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• 7 podcasts every techie needs to hear (Stacy Warden)
• GoingNative 20: “Rename” Refactoring for Visual C++ (??!!) | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)

 

Community / Events

• Jumpstart training for cloud app developers to be offered before SharePoint Conference (Suzanne Choney)
• Dev of the Week: Vlad Mihalcea (Allen Coin)
• Introducing the Developer Awwward (Bryan Saftler)
• Join our Octostudy! (Chrissie Brodigan)
• Geek of the Week: Colby Damon from BalletX (Eric Smith)
• Announcing contest winners + TouchDevelop v3.2: Interactive Tutorials (Nikolai Tillmann)
• WiT Wednesday #4 – Reaching Out to Younger Girls (Sarah)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to export data from SQL Server to Excel or any other Format? and SQL SERVER – vCPUs – How Many Are Too Many CPU for SQL Server Virtualization ? – Notes from the Field #003 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB: The Road to Release (Oren Eini)
• What You Can (and Can’t) Do With Indexed Views (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

SharePoint

• Two new SharePoint 2013 Workflow Articles on MSDN – Debugging & Workflow CSOM (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month – Day 3 – Commands (Steve Jones)
• Resource Designer Tool – A walkthrough writing a DSC resource (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Waze gets directions, finds a new home on Windows Phone and Instagram beta arrives today for Windows Phone (App is now available!) (Daniel Rubino)
• With Instagram and Vine, is Windows Phone ‘turning a corner’? (Tom Warren)
• AOL Shuttering Winamp Music Software After 15 Memorable Years (Adario Strange)
• Microsoft Store Black Friday 2013 deals (Chris Welch)
• Xbox One: Work on the latest and greatest games (MS JobsBlog)
• I’m Scroogled no sir you’re Scroogled and you’re scroogled. (Scott Barnes)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 20, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 19, 2013 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, November 20, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 20, 2013 and Geek Reading November 21, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1245 and Double Shot #1246 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1489 and The Morning Brew #1490 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-11-20 and Windows App Developer Links – 2013-11-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 20, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: November 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/20/2013 and Daily News Digest 11/21/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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