Dew Drop – February 24, 2014 (#1729)

Top Links

• Nokia X and X+ announced, runs Android apps and Nokia XL announced, 5-inch display and Android apps in one package and Nokia announces BBM and Photoshop Express for Windows Phone (Sam Sabri)
• Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 (Joe Belfiore)
• Microsoft killed my Pappy (Scott Hanselman)
• VS Online early adopter program extended to May 7, 2014 (Brian Harry)

 

Web Development

• Angular Inside SVG Inside HTML (Paul Hammant)
• Remove unused CSS in your Web Application (Dean Hume)
• Usage monitoring with Application Insights JavaScript SDK Update (Charles Sterling)
• Vagrant Improvements in latest PhpStorm Update (Maarten Balliauw)
• SQLAuthority News – 4 Whitepapers on Windows Azure (Pinal Dave)
• Using CSS Transitions to SlideUp and SlideDown (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend (Shiju)
• Sublime Text Multiple Cursors: Getting OSX out of the Way (Howard Dierking)
• #WindowsAzure Lessons Learned : Be Stateful (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Running the OWIN pipeline in the new .NET Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
• Xbox One controller in Chrome on OSX (Brandon Jones)
• How To Properly Dynamically Load a Store With Data in Sencha ExtJS and In Sencha ExtJS how not to Thrash Precious Memory with Popup Forms (Peter Kellner)
• How to use Handlebars (Sara Vieira)
• ES6Fiddle – jsFiddle for ECMAScript 6 (ES6Fiddle Team)
• Roll Your Own HTML5 Web Components With Vanilla JS (Chris Nelson)

 

XAML

• Writing a Windows Phone 8 Application that uses the Windows Azure Management Libraries for on-the-go Cloud Management (Brady Gaster)
• Editing Visual States in Blend with Render Transform Mode (Andreas Hammar)
• Google maps in WPF with WebBrowser and Google Maps API v3 (apis3445)
• Windows 8 Metro UI For Websites:Toast Notifications (Arpit Jain)
• Verifying your Xaml localization tags (Johan Olsson)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,015 – Typing Text to Select an Item in a ComboBox, Part III (Sean Sexton)
• [Sample Of Feb 23rd] How to operate table storage from Windows Store apps by using Windows Azure Mobile Services (Philip Fu)
• Add a persistent element to every page of your phone apps (Shawn Kendrot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• CodeMaid extension for visual studio (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Obtaining the User’s Domain and User Name (Richard Carr)
• Image Correlation Math Utilities in C# (Bary Nusz)
• Simple.Web F# Project IPathUtility Fix (James D’Angelo)
• [Sample Of Feb 20th] How to use both User Name and Client Certificate as client credentials in WCF (Philip Fu)
• Extending Visual Studio, part 3: Assembly Versioning (Schabse Laks)
• C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (5/n) (Sanjay Sharma)
• New in PostSharp 3.2: Aggregation and Composition Patterns (Gael Fraiteur)
• Visual Basic .NET Sees Popularity Hike (David Ramel)
• Asset Bundling in NancyFx – Part 3 and Asset Bundling in NancyFx – Part 4 (Mike Ward)
• Why C++? (Eric Battalio)
• How can I make sure my program is launched only from my helper program and no other parent? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,039 – Deriving from a Generic Class (Sean Sexton)
• Sample App: Syncfusion and CodeFluent Entities (Marissa K.)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Most software developers are not architects (Simon Brown)
• Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture (Anders Abel)
• Power Hours + Creative Hours = The Productive Artist (JD Meier)
• Strategic DDD in a nutshell (Jef Claes)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• EF6 on Xamarin: Progress (or lack thereof) (Eric Sink)
• Using Portable Class Libraries in iOS and Android Apps (Greg Shackles)
• Cordova 3.4 Embraces Firefox OS (Abel Avram)
• AndroidAnnotations setup in Android Studio (Hannes Gruber)
• Talking to Chromecast from iOS (James Turner)
• Create an Asynchronous URL connection as an NSOperation (Damien DeVille)
• Native vs HTML5 – You’re Asking The Wrong Question (Burke Holland)
• Winning with better maps: new Mobile SDK for Business (Renu Rayasam)
• Constants in Objective C (Vasilica Costescu)
• Special offer for Unity3D Devs Targeting Windows (Michael Cummings)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 306 – David Chappell on Barriers to the Cloud (David Giard)
• MNR 501: More on the Titanfall Beta (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: Helios, Bing Code Search Extension, Azure Symbol Set and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• SSW’s FireBootCamp – Week 2 in review video (Scrum Sprint Reviews) (SSW Team)
• Episode 132: Windows Azure Traffic Manager | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 13: K. Scott Allen (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Get Up And Code 42: Farewell Iris (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• SSW TV – #NoEstimates – Stop lying to yourself and your customers, and stop estimating – Gerard Beckerleg (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Mythbusters (Part 2) (StarTalk Radio)

 

Community / Events

• Coding in the Cloud: Attend a Windows Azure Dev Camp (Bob Familiar)
• Mobile World Congress, Microsoft and Nokia (Jeffrey Meisner)
• New England GiveCamp 2014 (Jim O’Neil)
• Ever wonder how big the .NET and Python communities are? (Michael Kennedy)
• What’s cooking in the ALM Rangers home? (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Database

• Avoid using NOLOCK on SQL Server UPDATE and DELETE statements (Aaron Bertrand)
• Blog Post: Rebuild all indexes on all tables in the SQL Server database (Basit A. Farooq)
• SQL SERVER – Contest Post – Notes from the Field – Learning Performance Tuning and Database Health and SQLAuthority News – Two Whitepapers from AzureCAT Team on SQL Database (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI Error – Provider Microsoft.Mashup.OleDb.1 is not registered and Power BI – Overview of Features End-to-End (Melissa Coates)
• Blog Post: Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL (Mike Davis)

 

SharePoint

• Office 365 SharePoint hybrid – what you DO and DO NOT get (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Texting Yourself Sports Alerts with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Open Specifications Posters v2 released (Think “Wow, that’s allot of spec’s” Posters) (Greg Duncan)
• What Microsoft’s change in leadership means for developers (Paul Ballard)
• paint.net 4.0 beta (build 5168) is now available! (Rick Brewster)
• Windows 8 UX designer on Metro: “It is the antithesis of a power user” (Steven Johns)
• Nokia says its new Android phones will create a ‘gateway to Microsoft’ (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, February 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 23, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1304 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (February 21st, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #104 (Mary Lou)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1554 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Web Weekly – Edition 6 (Dan Wahlin)
• Daily News Digest 2/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #129 (Frank)
• Reblog: February 14 to February 20 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #292 (Mike Ward)
• .NET Weekly Digest #51 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-24 (Dan Rigby)

 

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