Dew Drop – February 13, 2014 (#1722)

Top Links

• Microsoft reportedly considering Android apps as a solution for Windows Phone (Rich Edmonds)
• Microsoft Research – Bing Code Search: C# Code Snippets On Demand (MS Research)
• .NET Rocks! – Cryptocurrency Geek Out! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ATBG: How does a lock work? (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Per request lifetime management for UserManager class in ASP.NET Identity (Suhas Joshi)
• AngularJS in Its Simplest Form (Arian Celina)
• IntelliTrace MVC Navigation (Colin Thomsen)
• WebStorm 8 EAP (build 134.1081): Bower, improved spy-js and AngularJS support and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Planetary.js – “Awesome interactive globes for the web” (Greg Duncan)
• Cloud Design Patterns on Windows Azure (Kris van der Mast)
• Heroku And SSL: Fixing “This site’s security certificate is not trusted!” on Android and other devices (Derick Bailey)
• Glimpse 1.8.3 released – Insights removed (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• An introduction to TypeScript (Peter Cooper)

 

XAML

• Controlling a R.C. Car with Windows Phone and Bluetooth (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Why you should develop Windows Phone apps (Lars Klint)
• Update your NuGet Package Repo with Telerik UI for Windows Phone (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,008 – ComboBox Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Handle projectors when using actual size in your app (David Washington)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Work with TF.exe from Visual Studio Package Manager Console (Mitul Suthar)
• Offloading Work from Your Application with a Queue (Peter Vogel)
• What is this extra thread in my process? (Raymond Chen)
• Minimum NHibernate Code (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,032 – Requiring Generic Type Parameters to Be a Reference or Value Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• User stories should be about behaviour changes (Gojko Adzic)
• Informed TDD – Using Mocks to Allow for True Stepwise Refinement (Ralf Westphal)
• Time series feature design: The wire format (Oren Eini)
• How to work with team project artifacts and choose a process template (Randy Pagels)
• Fast, Cheap, Good Why Not All Three (Michael Brown)
• Maiden Name Modeling: determine the right structure (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Software Leadership #6: Read Every Checkin (Joe Duffy)
• Cost of Delay Due to Technical Debt, Part 4 (Johanna Rothman)
• Create benchmarks and results that have value (Kelly Sommers)
• Navigating your design (Dror Helper)
• Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Telerik UI for iOS – Native and Customizable Controls for Building iOS Apps (Ina Tontcheva)
• How to Build an iOS & Android App in 24 hours with HTML5 and Cordova (Ivan Ross)
• Addressing Mobile Data Security (Part 1) (Nick Harlow)
• Unity Multiplayer Games – A Review (Simon Jackson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 133: Emphatically not recommending Flappy Bird (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Herding Code 187: Brock Allen on ASP.NET Security and Identity (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget HD Podcast 385 – 2.12.14 (Jon Turi)
• Episode 258 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Britt from Microsoft on Service Management Automation (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Bill Buxton and Jeff Han – Part 2 of 4 | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• Chat with Bob Combs about changes to Hyper-V Switch in Windows Server 2012 R2 (RicksterCDN)
• RiYL – Episode 040: Rodney Anonymous (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Interview: Adrian Howard Discusses Lean Startup, Lean UX, and Changing Roles for Teams (Adrian Howard)
• MVPs to Present at the Microsoft Embedded Conference in Naples (MVP Award Program)
• Join us at Google Cloud Platform Live on March 25, 2014 (Scott Knaster)
• Free Public Speaking Workshop For Women (Julie Ann Horvath)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Expanding Your Skills – Notes from the Field #015 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL WHILE – SQL For Programmers (Dave M. Bush)
• Deleting Entities In Windows Azure Table Storage (Josh Lane)
• Google Cloud Platform: Storing Data on Google Cloud Storage (Ted Neward)
• Types of Projects to Consider for Microsoft Power BI (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month Day 16 – Working with many objects (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kodu Game Lab (MS Downloads)
• Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer: ‘We’re eager to start this new era with Microsoft’ (Todd Bishop)
• Would (and should) Microsoft enable Android apps on Windows? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Preview: Podcasts (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 12, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 12, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1298 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 12 Feb 2014 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1547 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-13 (Dan Rigby)

 

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