Dew Drop – January 6, 2014 (#1695)

Top Links

• Hooray for Durandal (nextGen) (Ward Bell)
• Supporting Durandal (John Papa)
• On Duck Typing (Glenn Block)
• Duck Typing Is More Than Quackery (Phil Haack)
• A Coder, a Programmer, a Hacker, a Developer, and a Computer Scientist walk into a Venn Diagram (Scott Hanselman)
• Just released Prism for the Windows Runtime on Windows 8.1 (Blaine Wastell)

 

Web Development

• Evaluating JavaScript code via eval() and new Function() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Inheritance in Node.js and Why we need Observable Properties in Knockout.js and Computed Observable in Knockout.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Testing in Node.js (Gabriel Manricks)
• Using WebStorm to maintain a Jekyll site (Hadi Hariri)
• Unit of Work & Repository Framework with ASP.NET MVC 5, Entity Framework 6 & Unity 3 (Quick-Start Video) (Long Le)
• MPEG-DASH Tutorial: Embedding an adaptive streaming video within your HTML5 application (Ross Gardler)
• ASP.NET Identity with the Entity Framework (K. Scott Allen)
• How to update Ghost on Windows Azure (Simone Chiaretta)
• Head First into ASP.NET Web API – A Time Card Service using Media Formatters and KnockoutJs (Suprotim Agarwal)
• What’s Coming in Ember in 2014 (Tom Dale)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update 3 Emulators (MS Downloads)
• For #WPDev, a new set of WP8 Emulators are now available (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Application Testing (Nick Randolph)
• How to detect the Windows Phone theme is Dark or Light (Pavan Pareta)
• 2000 WPF Things #980 – Binding ListBox Selection to Property on Bound Object (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1: Create a PDF Viewer with new PDF API (Andrea Boschin)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Features in Team Build 2013 – TFS 2013 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Book Review: Windows Phone 8 Game Development (Tim Dams)
• Programming The Robot from Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Leon Bambrick)
• Referencing the distribution from .NET code (Manya Susoev)
• Series: Python for .NET Developers Introduction and Part 1: Welcome and lightning-fast Python introduction in Python for .NET Developers Series and Part 2: Visual Studio and IDEs in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
• Server-side event handling with Seq apps (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• 2000 C# Things #1,004 – Converting a String to Uppercase or Lowercase (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Disaster Recovery and Planning (Simon Brown)
• Article: Design Patterns: Magic or Myth? (David Budgen)
• How To Use 3 Wins for the Year to Have Your Best Year Ever (J.D. Meier)
• How to run a design discussion (David Washington)
• Performance Testing with Voron OMG (Oren Eini)
• Best Practices for Designing a Fluent API (Peter Vogel)
• CRUD is Not a Service and Separating Concerns – Part 2: Services (Chris Patterson)
• Command and event semantics (Jef Claes)
• Event Sourcing. Draw it (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Do you want a better work/life balance this 2014? (Laila Lotfi)
• NDepend on a Real Project, Round 1.4: Mutually Dependent Namespaces (Steve Wilkes)
• If You Think Good Development Costs A Lot Of Money…. (Wally McClure)
• Executable Specifications (Matt Davey)
• Semantics, Modules And Testing: Why (And How) I Test Internal Components, Not Private Methods (Derick Bailey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xcode 5 – Tips and tricks (Vasilica Costescu)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video : What is Chained Syntax in Knockout.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Episode 125: Getting strated with Application Insights for Visual Studio Online | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Brian Keller, Charles Sterling, Nick Harris & Chris)
• Windows Weekly 343: Thurrottled (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Brody Stevens (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 143 – “Top Story of 2013: Microsoft Acquires Travis” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Get Up And Code 35: New Year’s Resolutions (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• StarTalk Radio Season 4 Time Capsule: Cosmic Queries (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Tablet Show – Catching Up with Chris Love (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 090 JSJ Users Groups (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)

 

Community / Events

• 2013 or What have I been up to? (Sara Chipps)
• What’s on Microsoft’s conference calendar for 2014 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Live Webinar: Backwards Compatibility in Xamarin.Android Made Easy (James Montemagno)
• How did you learn to code? Help aspiring developers by sharing your experience (Taylor Soper)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services XML Data Source and Data Set (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server – Different ways to check Recovery Model of a database (Vishal Gajjar)
• The concurrency shoot-out: SQL Server versus MongoDB (part 3) (Elton Stoneman)
• Some More MySQL Tuning (Moshe Kaplan)

 

PowerShell

• The Powershell Challenge–Notes and Observations (Steve Jones)
• SQL SERVER – Start Services or Stop Services with PowerShell – Question to Readers? (Pinal Dave)
• Using Event Logs to Diagnose Errors in Desired State Configuration (Inchara Shivalingaiah)

 

Miscellaneous

• How I Evaluate Open-Source Software (Sandro Padin)
• Small Basic Interpreter and Small Basic Parser (Phillip Trelford)
• Bill Gates’ fortune grew by $15.8 billion in 2013 as Microsoft stock surged 35% (Taylor Soper)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 6, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading January 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1519 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 1/6/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #122 (Frank)
• Double Shot #1271 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #97 (Mary Lou)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Friday Links #285 (Mike Ward)
• .NET Weekly Digest #45 (Jakub Chodounský)
• .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips : September – December 2013 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Blog Post: Reblog: December 27 to January 2 (Jason Strate)

 

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