Dew Drop – July 1, 2014 (#1806)

Top Links

• Enabling Contributions to the Visual F# IDE Tools (S.Somasegar)
• The Simpsons in CSS (Chris Pattle)
• Getting and building the Entity Framework 7 alpha bits – step by step (Erik EJ)
• Learning Xamarin – Adding Persistence with SQLite and Learning Xamarin: Tinkering with the App (Jesse Liberty)

 

Web Development

• CSS Grid Layout: getting to grips with the Chrome implementation (Rachel Andrew)
• Kendo: Avoiding the ‘set’ Performance Pitfall (Adam Anderson)
• Using Azure Redis Cache As A Persistent Storage For ASP.NET Session State (Shiju Varghese)
• Chrome Dev Editor: A New JavaScript and Dart IDE (Abel Avram)
• How WebStorm Works: Completion for JavaScript Libraries (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Dependency Injection Explained via JavaScript (Jeremy Likness)
• Deb.js: the Tiniest Debugger in the World (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Project Navigation and File Nesting in ASP.NET MVC Projects (Rick Strahl)
• Store Html Canvas To Azure Blog And Back Again (Sacha Barber)
• NuGet Package of the Week: ASP.NET Web API Caching with CacheCow and CacheOutput (Scott Hanselman)
• Ampersand.js: a New “Non-Frameworky Framework” to Rival Backbone.js (Zef Hemel)
• Kendo UI MVVM and the Primitive Type Value (Rachel Hagerman)
• Microsoft Azure Diagnostics Part 2: Basic Configuration of Azure Cloud Service Diagnostics (Michael Collier)
• Simple JavaScript Inheritance (John Resig)
• 5 More Killer Firefox Addons for Designers (Elio Qoshi)
• Microsoft #Azure – Where Should I Start? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK 3.0 Beta Boosts Application Development on the Cloud (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• The `time` Element (Chris Coyier)
• Google’s Dart Programming Language Is Coming To The Server (Frederic Lardinois)
• Using Promises in NodeJS Apps (Ravi Kiran)
• Scaling a standard Azure website to 380k queries per minute of 163M records with loader.io (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Using Vectors in an App Bar (Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8.1) and How to do Segoe UI icons in XAML (Matthias Shapiro)
• How to load a list of a user’s twitter friends/followers in your Windows Phone app and Using BugSense to track errors and events in a Windows Phone app (Marco Siccardi)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,104 – How the Splash Screen Works and #1,105 – Using Application’s Windows Collection to Interact with Other Windows (Sean Sexton)
• Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Sergio Govoni)
• WPF Selection Controls Class Hierarchy and WPF Base Classes – ToggleButton (Richard Carr)
• Showing the Camera Preview in a Universal App – #2520orBust (Bary Nusz)
• Windows 8 GridView Cross-Swipe and Tap (multi-selection + single selection) (Matthias Shapiro)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Easy Way to Change Your Visual Studio Color Scheme (Peter Vogel)
• C# Payment Calculator (Jonathan Wood)
• Fun with compression, now on GitHub (Oren Eini)
• ReSharper for C++ EAP Goes On (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Strong-typed Metadata and Code-first Metadata and Roadmap for RoslynDom, CodeFirst Strong-typed Metadata and ExpansionFirst Templates and RoslynDom and Friends – Just the Facts and Creating Strong-typed Metadata Classes and Public Annotations (Kathleen Dollard)
• It’s Tuples All The Way Down! (Josh Eastburn)
• Roslyn code base – performance lessons (part 2) (Matt Warren)
• Top “Must Know” Frameworks for .NET web developers (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Announcing PostSharp 3.2 Preview 2 (Gael Fraiteur)
• Fun With Process/Thread and IO Priorities (Alois Kraus)
• ILSpy 2.2 release (Daniel Grunwald)
• Generate a Serializable Data Access Layer with Telerik Data Access (Doroteya Agayna)
• Durable log shipping, from Serilog to Seq and Filtering events on arrival at Seq (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• 2000 C# Things #1,128 – Disable a Compile-Time Warning for Entire Project and #1,129 – Generic Dictionary Basics (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: StranglerApplication (Martin Fowler)
• Quote of the week – type systems and unit tests (Bob)
• TDD != Unit Tests (and vise versa) (Dror Helper)
• Group Performance Reviews and Rewards in Agile Teams (Savita Pahuja)
• Are You Practicing Agile Accountability Responsibly? (Tim Wise)
• On Programmers, Deadlines and Agile (Whitney Baker)
• Visualizing Algorithms (Mike Bostock)
• GitHub Saved My Marriage (Phil Haack)
• Finding Team Dignity (Paul Pagel)
• What It Costs When You Don’t Hire (Carol Hacker)
• MultiTasking is a Myth (Jeffrey Fritz)
• Step By Step Path to Becoming a Great Software Developer (John Sonmez)
• The Handover (Trisha Gee)
• Beyond Continuous Integration (Wes McClure)
• New Pluralsight Course on Domain-Driven Design from Steve Smith (Ryan Axford)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Runtime Size Class Changes in iOS 8 (Ben Scheirman)
• Standardized Navigation Principles for Android App Development (Wally McClure)
• Understanding Android Wear (Alex Chitu)
• Supercharge your Amazon Android apps (James Montemagno)
• Dartium Comes To Android (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Oracle Extends Mobile Reach via RESTful APIs (Michael Vizard)
• using xamarin.auth.oauth2authenticator with async/await (Sara Silva)
• Running Swift from the Terminal (Michael Crump)
• Bubble Breaker tutorial in Unity (source code included) and Arkanoid tutorial in Unity (source code included) (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MNR 516: We finally catch up after E3 2014 (Larry Hyrb)
• What The Tech 216: Google I/O Recap (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bugle Fingers and The Nerdist Podcast – Gary Cole (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 036 | Interview with Rob Howard of the Office 365 Developer Platform Team (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Defrag Tools #96 – Writing a Debugger Extension Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Dancing with Symmetry to Harness the Power of Complexity: Subjective Programming in Context | Lang.NEXT 2014 (Dave Ungar)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 18 and Episode 19 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Ping 213: Ping Pints! Massive storage on OneDrive, $650 towards your surface, safer families and some or our favorite apps! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco, RicksterCDN, Simon May & Heike Ritter)
• Episode 145: Load Testing with Chuck Sterling | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• EdgeShow 109 – Chat with Mark Russinovich | Edge (RicksterCDN & Simon May)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 205: Martin Lippert on Eclipse Flux (SE-Radio Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Madame Saturn: A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: How data, technology and Amazon are reshaping children’s television (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Run an F# app, get an F# shirt (Miguel de Icaza)
• App Camp for Girls expanding to Seattle after successful first year in Portland (Blair Hanley Frank)
• Job vacancies surge in Washington state, now taking longer to fill open positions (John Cook)

 

Database

• SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS) KeyColumn vs NameColumn vs ValueColumn (Scott Murray)
• Rename or Change SQL Server Standalone Default Instance (Rohit Garg)
• Introduction to Spinlocks in SQL Server (Aschen Brenner)
• Automate Registering and Maintaining Servers in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (Jeffery Yao)
• SQL Server Video Creating Dynamic SQL Commands (Greg Robidoux)
• MySQL – Add a Column at Particular Ordinal Position in Table and SQL SERVER – Find Blocking Using Blocked Process Threshold and SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Management Studio Reports (Pinal Dave)
• Make BOL your friend (Kenneth Fisher)
• The Curse of Working With A DBA (Grant Fritchey)
• From the Vault: Applied SQL: LIKE ‘whatever’ (Jen McCown)

 

SharePoint

• Bad Request (400) with the SharePoint 2013 / Online REST API? Maybe it’s just the semicolon! (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Finding Unused SQL Server Stored Procedures With PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• #PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 4 (Bartek Bielawski)
• Quick PowerShell Script to Start Splunk (Hal Rottenberg)
• #PSTip How to properly validate GUID parameter (Emin Atac)
• Seeing colors with psake (Heath Stewart)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox One Achievements and More Coming Soon to Xbox.com (Xbox Wire)
• Windows ‘Threshold’: More on Microsoft’s plan to win over Windows 7 users (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Trapper Keeper is back, but it carries tablets instead of homework (Chris Welch)
• Microsoft rumored to be licensing Nokia’s brand name for phones (Harish Jonnalagadda)
• 5 tips to empower your public speaking (Jack Wallen)
• Creating custom data graphics in Visio (Randy Byrd)
• Wait for it…something major is coming to Windows Phone! (Chuong H Nguyen)
• Native folder support coming to Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 Start Screen (Joseph Keller)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, June 27, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of June 23, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 30, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 27, 2014 and Geek Reading June 30, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #122 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1379 and Double Shot #1380 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 6/30/2014 and Daily News Digest 7/1/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #146 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1640 and The Morning Brew #1641 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #90 and Reblog: June 20 to June 26 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #310 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Programming Digest #68 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-30 (Dan Rigby)

 

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