Dew Drop – June 2, 2014 (#1788)

Top Links

• TWC9: Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP 1, Code Map, Code Lens for Git and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• First look at Xamarin.Forms (vagifabilov)
• Sharing Sensor Code in Universal Apps (Bary Nusz)
• Convert a Windows Store App to the Web in Under 10 Minutes (Jeremy Likness)

 

Web Development

• Stop Clicking that Mouse! Event Debounce with Underscore.js (Rachel Hagerman)
• Behold, the Kendo Checkbox (Josh Eastburn)
• Nifty Underscore Tricks: Sorting by multiple properties with Underscore.js (Adam Anderson)
• JavaScript Performance tip using a Closure (Alex Staveley)
• What it really means when people say Everything in JavaScript is an object (Elisabeth Robson)
• Learning Path: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications (Microsoft Exam 70-486) (Mike Woodring)
• A Simple Prompt Modal Dialog for JQuery JavaScript (Peter Kellner)

 

XAML

• How to use the WebAuthenticationBroker in a Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app (Marco Siccardi)
• Windows/Phone 8.1: “More Universal” WinRT Components (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,084 – A KeyBinding Binds a Command to a Key (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Date Controls – DatePicker (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3 CTP1 (VS 2013.3.1 if you wish) (Brian Harry)
• Embedding Node.js in your .NET F# App (Cameron Taggart)
• Writing Flexible Entity Framework Methods with Set and Capturing Results from Stored Procedures with Entity Framework 6 (Peter Vogel)
• Announcing the New Application Insights Alerts Page (Charles Sterling)
• .NET Code Coverage Metrics Review (Kerry Meade)
• WAQS: Math.Round and WAQS: CustomAttribute (Matthieu Mezil)
• Why does GetFileVersionInfo map the whole image into memory instead of just parsing out the pieces it needs? (Raymond Chen)
• NHibernate Session Load vs Get when using Table per Hierarchy. Always use ISession.Get<T> for TPH to work. (Rohit Gupta)
• 2000 C# Things #1,108 – The Bitwise OR Operator (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An architecturally-evident coding style (Simon Brown)
• Functional Patterns in Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
• US Department of Defense (DoD) is Going Agile (Savita Pahuja)
• What fuels your development efforts? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Wookiki – A Windows store app for keeping an eye on builds on VS Online (Brian Harry)
• Not about the UI and the database (Jef Claes)
• Git Gets Better Defaults, Faster (Roopesh Shenoy)
• 7 steps to becoming a better communicator (Stacy Warden)
• What is Quality? (Steve Rowe)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introducing DZone’s 2014 Guide to Mobile Development (Alec Noller)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 399 – 5.30.14 (Jon Turi)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jaime King and The Nerdist Pocast – Anthony Bourdain (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 13 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez)
• Episode 142: Microsoft Research project Orleans simplify development of scalable cloud services | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Nick Harris & Chris)
• Episode 008: Character witnesses (Iris Classon)
• Get Up And Code 056: Angel Fitness Sensor With Eugene Jorov (John Sonmez)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 204: Anil Madhavapeddy on the Mirage Cloud Operating System and the OCaml Language (SE-Radio Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: More Space and Science with Bill Nye (Bill Nye)
• GeekWire Radio: How technology is reshaping the public library (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Diversity and Feedback at GitHub (Chris Wanstrath)
• Philly Beer Week 2014: Our Picks For Fun Beer-Fueled Games And Activities During Philadelphia’s Annual Beer Festival, May 30-June 8 (Kristina Jenkins)
• Geek of the Week: ‘See Jane Fix’ founder Alex McConnehey fixes devices with a personal touch (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• MySQL – Introduction to User Defined Variables and SQL SERVER – Faster SQL Server Databases and Applications – Power and Control with SafePeak Caching Options (Pinal Dave)
• APress Deal of the Day 2/June/2014 – Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (Tatworth)

 

SharePoint

• Exploring SharePoint 2013 Visual Studio Cloud Business Apps (LightSwitch) (Michael Washington)

 

PowerShell

• Pre-Validating Data with PowerShell Before Importing to SQL Server (Tim Smith)
• Office platform developers: Build business solutions with code and open-source project samples (Athima Chansanchai)

 

Miscellaneous

• Surface Pro 3: A brilliant, quirky, nearly flawless laptop replacement (Ed Bott)
• Introducing Files – a file management app for Windows Phone 8.1 (Brandon LeBlanc)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 30, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of May 26, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 30, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #118 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 6/2/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #142 (Frank)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1620 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #64 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Friday Links #306 (Mike Ward)
• Coding4Fun May 2014 Round-up (Greg Duncan)

 

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