Dew Drop – December 11, 2013 (#1681)

Top Links

• Microsoft Press @ 30: Jeffrey Richter on becoming an author (Carol Vu)
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Separating the man from myth (Mary Jo Foley)
• TypedMVVM Uses TypeScript to Build Windows Store Apps with WinJS (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Building an Appointment Tracking App by using Telerik’s WP Cloud Components – Part 2 (Michael Crump)

 

Web Development

• Why does HTML footer take role=”contentinfo”? (Bruce Lawson)
• ASP.NET December 2013 Security Updates (Levi Broderick)
• Responsive Design and jQuery Mobile (Troy Miles)
• Changes In Transclude() Function Availability In AngularJS 1.2 (Ben Nadel)
• AngularJS–Part 3, Inheritance (Gabriel Schenker)
• JSON Schema Validation with REST Assured (Johan Haleby)
• Syntax-highlighted Markdown Code Blocks in Web Essentials (Schabse Laks)
• Google Cloud Platform: User Management and Google Cloud Platform: Mobile Endpoints (Ted Neward)

 

XAML

• Let it Snow in XAML (Frank La Vigne)
• Enabling no-quota push notifications for company apps on Windows Phone (Adam Denning)
• Passing event arguments from XAML in Windows Store Apps (InputConverter, InputConverterParameter etc.) (Iris Classon)
• 2000 WPF Things #969 – Items Property of ListBox Contains List of Items (Sean Sexton)
• Build for both–introducing WpWinNl (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Configuring Unity to use Visual Studio 2012/2013 (Michael Cummings)
• Visual Commander Brings Back Visual Studio Macros (Jonathan Allen)
• Using the Microsoft C++ REST SDK (Gaston Hillar)
• NDepend customize rule: Avoid defining multiple types in a source file (Daniel Fisher)
• “Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise”: Reloaded! (Devon Musgrave)
• [Sample Of Dec 10th] How to create and sign a cabinet file (Philip Fu)
• 2000 C# Things #993 – Some Examples of Characters (Sean Sexton)
• Implementing a Fluent Interface (Peter Vogel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why developers should care about design (Jason Roberts)
• New Management 3.0 Workout Article: Project Credits (Jurgen Appelo)
• Definition of Done – Acceptance Tests (Matt Davey)
• Why We Refactor (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android ListView: How to Make it Efficient (Alec Noller)
• Make Your Progress Bar Smoother in Android (Antoine Merle)
• Building a User Extension and Integrating It Into Sencha Architect 3 (Part 1) (Aaron Conran)
• An Overview of Mobile Debugging Techniques – Part One (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Dick Costolo (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #175 – An Interview With Andrew Witte – Telistic Timepiece Technomania (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Verge Mobile Show 072 – December 10th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• A Photosynth 2 Overview with David Gedye and The Humanitarian Toolbox (Larry Larsen)
• AppInsights from Scott Guthrie (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Community / Events

• Interview: VersionOne Leaders Talk About Adopting, Applying and Scaling Agile (Ian Culling, Andy Powell & Lee Cunningham)
• Dev of the Week: Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski (Allen Coin)
• Small Basic December 2013 Challenges!!! (Ed Price)
• The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Ray & Melissa (Eric Smith)
• How a fearless design researcher found her fit (Michelle Feder)

 

Database

• Monitor SQL Server Database File Growth with WMI Alerts (Svetlana Golovko)
• The cost of select count(*) from tbl (Oren Eini)
• Keep it Constrained (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Reporting – How to Add Excel and Word Reporting to Your Own Application – An Innovative Approach (Pinal Dave)
• Can I recover from a secondary replica COPY_ONLY full backup? (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• Enable app SideLoading in your non-developer site collection (Anirudh Goel, Thomas Mechelke & Dorrene Brown)

 

Miscellaneous

• Former Windows Chief joins in on #FiveWordTechHorror hashtag and posts Windows related quips (Richard Hay)
• Why Nokia Is Building an Android Phone and Why Microsoft Might Not Kill It (Ina Fried)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 11, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, December 9 and Tuesday, December 10, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 10, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1256 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 11, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/11/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1504 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for Dec 10, 2013 – #0205 (Dave Campbell)

 

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