Dew Drop – April 2, 2014 (#1756)

Top Links

• Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2013 Available on Microsoft Download Center (Charles Willis)
• Happy 10th Channel 9 and Happy Anniversary Channel 9, From Satya (Larry Larsen)
• .NET Rocks! – Future Javascript with Scott Allen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Getting Started with Project Spark on Xbox One (Michael Cummings)

 

Web Development

• Angular Part 2– Behavior Driven Development (Jesse Liberty)
• Sharper HTML Hybrid Apps with Razor (Craig Dunn)
• How to control Windows Azure with Python (Richard Conway)
• Simple OAuth Server: Implementing a Simple OAuth Server with Katana OAuth Authorization Server Components (Part 1) (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Making checkbox labels clickable via (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building a Node OAuth2 server (Erica)

 

XAML

• Building 2Day for Windows 8: under the hood (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,042 – How FlowDirection Affects a StackPanel (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Brain teasers Part II (Sunny Ahuwanya)
• Controlling the Console Window Size (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio Online Update – Mar 18th (Brian Harry)
• What’s New in Entity Framework 6 (Plus How To Upgrade!) (Peter Vogel)
• Subsequent calls to AcquireToken() (Johan Danforth)
• 2000 C# Things #1,066 – Constraining a Type Parameter on a Generic Interface (Sean Sexton)
• Style Cop 4.7.49.0 now released (Tatworth)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Addressing the Corruption of Agile (Andrew Binstock)
• Beware of Benchmarking Your Way to Mediocrity and Start Your Journey of Innovation and Build a Culture of Great Innovation (JD Meier)
• Automated Web Application Functional Testing (Dave M. Bush)
• Readability of the New Nutrition Label (Anthony)
• Feature Driven Development (FDD) – A Worrying Side Product (Matt Davey)
• Article: eXtreme Programming The Methodology (Sanjeev Raman)
• Dog-fooding Journal #3 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint Journey (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to build an Android app that displays live accelerometer data using a line chart control (Kiril Stanoev)
• iOS – Objective-C – Finding Unique Values in an NSArray (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Telerik Mobile Testing – Version 1.2 Released (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Get User Feedback Data to Improve Your Apps (Dave Isbitski)
• Case Insensitive Autocomplete in OSX (Jaco Pretorius)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 263 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bala Narasimhan from PernixData on FVP and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 125 (Richard Hay)
• What the Tech 206: Microsoft Build 2014: What to Expect (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Adam Carolla #4 (Chris Hardwick)
• Happy Birthday Channel 9 from Mark Russinovich (Larry Larsen & Golnaz)
• TechEd Countdown Show: The One About Evening Events | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• RiYL Episode 047: Box Brown (Brian Heater)
• SSW TV – Developing Software – From a Design Agency Point of View with Robert Beerworth [FireBootCamp] (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Nicolas Frankel (Alec Noller)
• Free 1 Day Unity Training Available in West Region (Doris Chen)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 Report Builder and Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2013 (MS Downloads)
• How much overhead does encryption add to a SQL Server query (Dallas Snider)

 

SharePoint

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 PowerPivot for Microsoft SharePoint® (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• A New Day For Microsoft Press! (Anneham)
• Lego is a tool of Satan, says priest (Chris Matyszczyk)
• Quick news: Microsoft Press is now distributed by Pearson (Kim Spilker)
• Cloud storage with OneDrive for Business now available as a standalone subscription (Office 365 Team)
• Developer – How To Market Yourself as a Software Developer (Pinal Dave)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2014 03.01 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, April 1, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1327 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 2, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/2/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1581 (Chris Alcock)
• Community Update 2014-04-01 – April Fool’s special, getting ready for #durandaljs and some #elasticsearch (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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