January 2014 – Page 7 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 8, 2014 (#1697)

Top Links

Last Chance to Back Durandal (Rob Eisenberg)
Visual Studio Survey: How do you develop for multiple form factors? (Jessica Rich)
Switch easily between VirtualBox and Hyper-V with a BCDEdit boot Entry in Windows 8.1 (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

Minty: Wrapping It Up (Rob Conery)
Keep Overflow Content Scrolling Unresponsive Until Clicked Using jQuery (Ben Nadel)
TypeScript: A New Language for .NET and JavaScript Developers (Rachel Appel)
Intro to AngularDart: The Best Angular Yet (Victor Savkin)
jQuery Mobile Themes suitable for LightSwitch HTML Apps and LightSwitch Screen Template – Tablet List and Details and LightSwitch Screen Template – Mobile List and Details (Xpert360)
ECMAScript 6: merging objects via Object.assign() (Axel Rauschmayer)
Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics (Justin Palmer)
Ember Components: A Deep Dive (Chad Hietala)
When To Use The Button Element (Chris Coyier)
Improving our SSL setup (Dirkjan Bussink)
Client Callbacks in Action Part 2 : Self-filling Drop Down List (Ricardo Peres)
Shape Hover Effect with SVG (Mary Lou)

XAML

Boosting Reviews of your Windows Phone Application using the MarketplaceReviewTask Launcher (Nick Randolph)
How to make TextBox Scrollable and Navigate to end of TextBox scrolling in Windows Phone (Pavan Pareta)
Windows Phone Natives – How to Leverage Native Code on Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
2000 WPF Things #982 – Executing Code When Selected Items in a ListBox Change (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Teaching: Learn to expose CRUD Operations as WCF Services (Dhananjay Kumar)
Using LINQ to Twitter with F# (Joe Mayo)
BCL vs F#: lists (Jon Harrop)
Which version control system should I use in Team Foundation Server 2013: TFVC and GIT Comparison (Zain Naboulsi)
[Sample Of Jan 7th] How to detect arguments of another running process by using WMI (Philip Fu)
Application Analytics – Exposing the Benefits of Tracking Feature Usage (Carey Payette)
Code Debugging Topics on MSDN (Eric Battalio)
Part 4: foreach and IEnumerable in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
CSLA 4 version 4.5.500 released (Rockford Lhotka)
2000 C# Things #1,006 – Getting the Length of a String (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: BranchByAbstraction (Martin Fowler)
Unit Testing 101: How to Start? (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
5 Great Blogs for UX and UI Inspiration (Gradient Girl)
Now available: Stand In (UI prototyping straight from Photoshop) (John Nack)

Other Mobile Platforms

Samsung new Android UI looks a lot like Microsoft’s modern UI (John Callaham)
How to manage the keyboard for a UITextField (Vasilica Costescu)
Creating Single Frame animations using Unity 4.3 (Michael Cummings)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Webinar Recording: Backwards Compatibility in Xamarin.Android Made Easy (Rich Taylor)
The Nerdist Podcast – Dance of the Jedi (Chris Hardwick)
The Amp Hour #179 – Greg Charvat Returns With A Book! – Laboratory Literature Laureate (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

Community / Events

Seattle user group, Feb 13: F# on iOS with Xamarin Studio and Mac (Don Syme)
January 27-31 is Windows Azure Week! (Devon Musgrave)
Mobile Web HTML5 Training with jQuery Mobile – January 28, 2014 (Wally McClure)
Reminder: Orlando Code Camp on March 22, 2014 (Andy Warren)
The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Matt & Stephanie (Eric Smith)
How to run a tech conference (Joseph Eames)

Database

SQL SERVER – How to Survive on Free Tools for Month – Enjoy Refactoring – ApexSQL Refactor (Pinal Dave)
AliaSQL – the new name in automated database change management (Jeffrey Palermo)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2013 Provider Hosted Apps with Javascript – JSOM and Cross Domain Calls (Greg Galipeau)

PowerShell

Powershell in a Month – Day 7 Adding Commands (Steve Jones)

Miscellaneous

The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2013 (Andrew Binstock)
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (Andrew Terranova)
Resume-writing tips to land your dream job (Colleen Canney)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 8, 2014 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading January 7, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1273 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1520 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: January 8, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 1/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup- December 2013 (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Good Parts: Douglas Crockford: 9780596517748: Books

ISBN: 0596517742
ISBN-13: 9780596517748

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Dew Drop – January 7, 2014 (#1696)

Top Links

New release – Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces) (Ross Gardler)
Check out and back Durandal (Nigel Sampson)
.NET Rocks! – Applied ScriptCS with Block, Rusbatch and Ralph (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
New C# Yellow Book Available – and on Kindle (Rob Miles)

Web Development

Keep Overflow Content Scrolling Unresponsive Until Clicked Using jQuery (Ben Nadel)
Consuming Telerik REST Service Reports in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Carey Payette)
Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) and Intermediate Certificates (Mark Brown)
Unit Testing AngularJS Controllers, Views, and More: Part Four (Avishek Sen Gupta)
Using ObjectDataSource with ASP.NET ListView for Entity Framework 6 (Ming Man Chan)
JavaScript JSON Date Parsing and real Dates (Rick Strahl)
Experimenting with Forms and AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
Koa.js : Next Generation Web Framework for Building Node.js Apps Without Callback Hell (Shiju Varghese)
Implementing custom password policy using ASP.NET Identity (suhasbj)
Sublime Text: subl command under windows command line (Denis Gladkikh)
Writing Robust Web Applications – The Lost Art of Exception Handling (Alan Skorkin)
LightSwitch Screen Template – Auto-Tile Menu and LightSwitch Screen Template – Browse Data Tabs and LightSwitch Screen Template – Tablet List and Details and LightSwitch Screen Template – Mobile List and Details (Xpert360)
Choosing a JavaScript MVC Framework (Craig McKeachie)

XAML

XAML Spy January 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
Test Driven Development for Windows Phone Applications (Dror Helper)
Meet the new generation of app developers – courtesy of Windows Phone App Studio Beta (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
Simplest way to Encrypt and Decrypt of data in Windows Phone apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
[Sample Of Jan 6th] How to add a loading screen to your Windows Phone Application (Philip Fu)
2000 WPF Things #981 – Including a CheckBox with Each Item in a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
Windows Store In App Purchase ArgumentException when calling LoadListingInformationAsync (Nick Randolph)
WPF Information Controls – TextBlock Inlines (Richard Carr)
Build a Scrollable Form in Windows Phone (Pavan Pareta)

Miscellaneous .NET

Azure EntityAdapter with unsupported table types and Using the EntityAdapter for Azure Table Storage (Rory Primrose)
Errors Activating the ALM Virtual Machines (Brian Keller)
Part 3: A single, common base-type in Python for .NET Developers Series and Part 4: foreach and IEnumerable in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
Hosting a .NET DLL as an Out-Of-Process COM Server (EXE) (Sasha Goldshtein)
2000 C# Things #1,005 – Replacing a Substring with a New Substring (Sean Sexton)
ReplaySubject performance improvements (Lee Campbell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

What Problems Are Executives Trying To Solve With Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)
The Challenge of Going First (Peter Saddington)
10 more things a Scrum Master can do to drive the team crazy (Marc Löffler)
But does it quack like a duck? (Phil Haack)
Introducing FubuDocs for “Living Documentation” (Jeremy D. Miller)
How To Be A Better Software Developer This Year (John Sonmez)
The time when we did Lean backwards (Marcus Hammarberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

Apache Cordova 3.3 and Remote Debugging for Android (Raymond Camden)
Enable USB-Debugging with Nexus 5 for Android Studio (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Herding Code 183: Semantic Merge with Pablo Santos (Jon Galloway & Co.)
Engadget Podcast 375 – 1.2.14 (Jon Turi)
Episode 253 – PowerScripting Podcast – Talking PowerShell with Jeff Truman (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
Video: Optional Parameters in JavaScript Functions (Dhananjay Kumar)
The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Norton (Chris Hardwick)
Defrag Tools: #72 – Message Analyzer – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Paul E. Long & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

Xamarin is throwing a San Diego Drink Up! (Morgan Forsythe)
Philly Codefest Coming to Drexel University (Bianca Cevoli)
Facebook & Microsoft Hackathon (Steve Guggenheimer)
Jeff Sandquist’s looking for a few good people to work at Twitter: Developer advocates, partner engineers, dev marketing people, and operations analysts (Joey deVilla)
Upcoming Events (Gil Zilberfeld)
How to Prepare for a Hackathon (Troy Miles)

Database

MySQL – Locate the Configuration File – my.ini or my.cnf on Windows Platform (Pinal Dave)
Voron & the FreeDB dataset (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

Extending the SP2013/Office 365 search hover panel (e.g. adding “post to my feed” functionality) (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

PowerShell – Find OS architecture (32 bit or 64 bit) of local or remote machines Using Powershell (Prashanth Jayaram)
Ways to open PowerShell- keyboard only, no installs, no scripts (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous

Windows 8 tablets get “tough” for healthcare (Bill Crounse)
Small Basic Compiler (Phillip Trelford)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 7, 2014 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for 2013 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 6, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Double Shot #1272 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-07 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: January 7, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 1/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65 (Jason Strate)

The Geek Shelf

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja: John Resig, Bear Bibeault: 9781933988696: Books

ISBN: 193398869X
ISBN-13: 9781933988696

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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)

The Geek Shelf

F# for Scientists: Jon Harrop, Don Syme: 9780470242117: Books

ISBN: 0470242116
ISBN-13: 9780470242117

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