Dew Drop – February 21, 2014 (#1728)

Top Links

• Azure: ExpressRoute Dedicated Networking, Web Site Backup Restore, Mobile Services .NET support, Hadoop 2.2, and more (Scott Guthrie)
• C# Code Writing Tips from Eric Lippert: Math is Hard; Let’s Go Shopping! (Eric Lippert)
• New UI and capabilities for Windows Phone App Studio Beta developers (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Using Claims in your Web App is Easier with the new OWIN Security Components (Daniel Roth)

 

Web Development

• Why Don’t You Practice Test First Development? (Dave M. Bush)
• Introducing WinJS TouchControls (David Washington)
• Vagrant Improvements in latest PhpStorm Update (Maarten Balliauw)
• Headroom.js Gives Your Pages Some Room to Breathe (Paul Underwood)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend (Shiju Varghese)
• Edge Show 91 – Windows Azure Pack with Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• TypeScript & Visual Studio 2013: Coming of Age (Peter Vogel)
• Getting a Document or TreeNode from a URL (John Bubriski)
• Chess.com Makes First Move with Awesome Developer Program (Derry Birkett)
• Running the OWIN pipeline in the new .NET Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
• Debugging With the Firefox DevTools (Raymond Camden)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,014 – Typing Text to Select an Item in a ComboBox, Part II (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Detecting Mouse Wheel Movement (Richard Carr)
• Introducing ReSharper 8.2 EAP (Matt)
• Create an Asynchronous URL connection as an NSOperation (Damien DeVille)
• Automatically Embed Copy Local Assemblies with Symbols in MSBuild (Harry Singleton)
• [Sample Of Feb 20th] How to use both User Name and Client Certificate as client credentials in WCF (Philip Fu)
• Diagnosing a Non-Paged Pool Leak with Asynchronous I/O (Sasha Goldshtein)
• C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (5/n) (Sanjay Sharma)
• Asset Bundling in NancyFx – Part 2 (Mike Ward)
• Seven step guide to whipping up your WiX setup (Greg Duncan)
• A Look At NServiceBus Sagas (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 C# Things #1,038 – Type Parameter Constraints on Generic Methods (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Most software developers are not architects (Simon Brown)
• Logging & Production systems (Oren Eini)
• Code reviews and bad habits (Benjamin Pollack)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• A Collection of Useful adb Commands for Android (Alec Noller)
• Native and Managed Plugins for Windows 8 and Apache Cordova (Jesse Freeman)
• Android Studio 0.4.5 breaks existing builds, here’s the fix (Jim Wilson)
• Faster App Testing With Appery.io Tester for iOS and Android (Max Katz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Creating a Mac emulator using JavaScript with James Friend (Scott Hanselman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kit Harington (Chris Hardwick)
• The Alton Browncast – Mike Martin (Alton Brown)
• Boagworld – Forming your digital team (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 350 – OneDrive to Rule Them All (Sam Sabri)
• SSW TV – #NoEstimates – Stop lying to yourself and your customers, and stop estimating – Gerard Beckerleg (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Free ALM Webinars from Northwest Cadence (Charles Sterling)
• Seven Conversations Overheard at DeveloperWeek 2014 (Mark Boyd)
• From Picnik to PicMonkey: How these entrepreneurs rebuilt one of Seattle’s hottest startups (Taylor Soper)

 

Database

• The Evolution of SQL Server Instrumentation (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Statistical Analysis in SQL Server – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• SQLite on Mobile Devices – Feel (Eric Sink)

 

PowerShell

• #Microsoft Windows #PowerShell Networking Guide for #ITPRO #MVPBUZZ (James van den Berg)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft officially rebrands Office Web Apps as ‘Office Online’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• Erlang – Hot Code Loading on Nodes For Dummies (Keith Elder)
• 20 Resources for Teaching Kids How to Program & Code (Séverine Baron)
• Apple has Siri, and Microsoft is about to get Cortana (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1303 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1553 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-21 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 21, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/21/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

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