Dew Drop – March 19, 2014 (#1746)

Top Links

• Breaking: SQL Server 2014 RTM in two weeks (Jen McCown)
• Android Wear Developer Preview now available (Chris Hardy)
• Improving High-DPI support for Visual Studio 2013 (Art Leonard)
• Agile is dead? What’s next? (Scott Koon)

 

Web Development

• Getting Started with Node.js for Windows (Basem Emara)
• Font Awesome in ASP.NET MVC WebGrid (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Which Transact-SQL Statements are Supported on Windows Azure SQL Database? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Rich Object Models and Angular.js: Getter Methods (Ben Teese)
• When You Really Need All Of Your NUnit Test In One Class (Dave M. Bush)
• Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET now as a free ebook (Kris van der Mast)
• Modern Javascript Development:The arguments object, overloads and optional parameters (Scott Koon)
• APress Deal of the day for 19/Mar/2014 – Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C# (Tatworth)
• Make Windows 8 Games with Construct 2 (Doris Chen)
• Recommended GitHub Atom Packages for Web Developers (Elijah Manor)
• WebPlatform.org – Your Web, Documented (Isaac Haynes)
• Integrating documents into cloud business apps (Ed Smith)
• Working With FIPS 140 Crypto Standards (K. Scott Allen)
• New Pluralsight course: Web Security and the OWASP Top 10 – “The Big Picture” (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Adding touch support in your application using openFramework on WinRT (Eric Mittelette)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,032 – Show Progress on Windows Taskbar Icon (Sean Sexton)
• How to force a WindowsPhone app to use a specific Theme? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C#: ToString To Report all Properties Even Private Ones Via Reflection (William Wegerson)
• C# Extension Methods Library 2014 Q1 – Release V.1.1.0.0 (Jonathan Magnan)
• Using Grunt to Update the AssemblyInfo.cs version number (Derik Whittaker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,056 – Custom Implicit Conversions between Reference Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Corruption of Agile (Andrew Binstock)
• Microservices: Infrastructure Automation (Martin Fowler)
• NUnit String Assertions (Richard Carr)
• More xUnit tweaks, dynamic test skipping (Oren Eini)
• Design v11 (Chris Coyier)
• An Introduction to Workspaces::Tasks (Chris Maunder)
• Software Gardening: Watering Your Garden and Software Craftsmanship (Craig Berntson)
• Redefining Heroics (Isaac Hogue)
• 10 reasons to treat employees as people not assets (Jack Wallen)
• Visibility and transparency is key to effective teams … taking a closer look at the flight plan status board (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hekaton Research Makes Significant Speed Improvements to SQL Server 2014 | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen & Kaitlin)
• 101 JSJ js-git with Tim Caswell (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Amp Hour #189 – An Interview with Marcus Schappi – Kit Ketch Kenophobia (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Ping 200: The Show 200 Spectacular! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• RiYL Episode 045: Molly Crabapple (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• An implementer’s summary of the SharePoint Conference 2014 (Chris O’Brien)
• Dev of the Week: Henrik Warne (Alec Noller)
• ID@Xbox at GDC (Jeff Rubenstein)
• Quick news: Microsoft Press will launch new site with Pearson on April 1 (Kim Spilker)

 

Database

• SSDT gets some small enhancements for SQL Server 2014 (Jamie Thomson)
• Data Warehousing in SQL Server 2014 RTM (Jonathan Allen)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieve Last Inserted Rows from Table – Question with No Answer (Pinal Dave)
• SQLite Performance and Prepared Statements (Kenny Kerr)
• Finding One Problem Query With Extended Events (Jeremiah Peschka)
• How to determine what causes a particular wait type (Paul Randal)
• Rethinking Biggy (K. Scott Allen)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell MSMQ (Mike Koerner)

 

Miscellaneous

• The State of the IT Industry: 2014 Skills and Salary Survey (Blair Greenwood)
• Why You Aren’t Paid as Much as You Are Worth (and how to get paid more) (John Sonmez)
• Is Microsoft about to buy Xamarin? (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, March 18, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 18, 2014 and Geek Reading March 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1320 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 18 Mar 2014 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 3/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1571 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 19, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Community Update 2014-03-18 – #webdevelopment, #javascript, #dotnet, #aspnet, #testing and #opensource (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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