Dew Drop – June 5, 2014 (#1791)

Top Links

• Visual Studio “14” CTP now available in the Virtual Machine Azure Gallery (Charles Sterling)
• Code Quality and Automated Code Testing and I Don’t Have Time for Unit Testing! (Deborah Kurata)
• Amazon invites customers to ‘amazing’ new device launch (Jacob Kastrenakes) – Phone?
• Automatic optimization of images, CSS and JavaScript (Mads Kristensen)
• Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP (Adam Welch)

 

Web Development

• DHTMLX 4.0 Released with New Look and Faster Performance (dhtmlx Team)
• Book Review: Getting Started with Backbone Marionette (Joseph Zimmerman)
• Learning Path: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (Microsoft Exam 70-480) (Mike Woodring)
• Drupal 8 support in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Mikhail Vink)
• ASP.NET vNext is now in Visual Studio (Morten Anderson)
• JavaScript Tools of the Trade: CodePen.io (Rey Bango)
• QueueBackgroundWorkItem to reliably schedule and run long background processes in ASP.NET (Rick Anderson)
• ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP (Tatworth)
• Inspiration for Inline Anchor Styles (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 StatusBar – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 8.0, Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1–Experiments Accessing SQLite (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,087 – Associating a Key Binding with Multiple Modifier Keys (Sean Sexton)
• Backup and restore your app on Windows Phone 8.1, Part 1: Start screen (Hector Barbera & Sean McKenna)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Access denied user needs label permission in TFS (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 2000 C# Things #1,111 – Converting an Integer to a String in a Different Base (Sean Sexton)
• Boost your Data Layer Performance using Bulk Select with Telerik Data Access (Doroteya Agayna)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Should Developers Help With User Interface Tests? (Antonia Bozhkova)
• Article: The Original Sin of Software Metrics (Chen Ping)
• Test-Driven Development: Three Easy Mistakes (Kevin Rutherford)
• Skill Cloud – Part 4 – A Collateral Management View (Matt Davey)
• A Brief History of Test (Steve Rowe)
• What’s your impact? (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Add Menu Items, and Respond to Them, in Android Activities and How to Use an Android Layout Mockup Utility that Generates Usable XML and Java (B. Clay Shannon)
• Developing Native iOS and Android apps in Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
• Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Part 3 – Best Practices (Jameson Quave)
• Xamarin Redux. Watch This Space… (Jesse Liberty)
• iOS 8: Better Facebook, Twitter App Performance Coming (Vygantas)
• Instantiating Classes by Name in Swift (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Go and DNSimple with Anthony Eden (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 134 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Getting Started with Unit Testing Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Morgan Freeman (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag: Surface Pro 3, Windows 8.1. Update Power Button, Cortana and the Leaf and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• The first Cloud Load Test and Application Insights class next week at QuickLearn (Charles Sterling)

 

Database

• Choosing Between SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Planned and Unplanned Availablity Group Failovers – Notes from the Field #031 (Pinal Dave)
• Join Conditions in Power Query, Part 2: Events-In-Progress, Performance and Query Folding (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• Is PowerShell worth the time? (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox One To Get Backwards Compatibility For Xbox 360 Games In Future Software Update [Report] (Ben Reid)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 4, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1623 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/5/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 14 Jun 2014 (Jax)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-05 (Dan Rigby)

 

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