Dew Drop – July 24, 2014 (#1821)

Top Links

• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 Available (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
• .NET Rocks! – Fusion Power GeekOut (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hallway Conversations Episode 021 – Using Xamarin for Cross-Platform Development with Jon Dick (Phil Japikse, Stephen Bohlen, Lee Brandt & James Bender)
• Introducing Xamarin – A REST API based HackerNews application that works on iOS, Android and Windows Phone (Filip Ekberg)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript dependencies that work with Brackets, Node and in-browser (Dan)
• Dealing with Node.js and Microsoft SQL Server: Part-2 (Mihail Mateev)
• Review: JavaScript & JQuery by Jon Duckett (Bruce Lawson)
• 3.14 things I didn’t know about CSS and Responsive Images: Use Cases and Documented Code Snippets to Get You Started (Chris Coyier)
• What is React.js? Another Template Library? Like Web Components? A Framework like AngularJS? (Craig McKeachie)
• Simple Soak Testing with Web API (Elton Stoneman)
• Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps (Håkon Wium Lie)
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Data-bound elements (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC 5 application lifecycle (Kris van der Mast)
• Dropbox Launches Two New APIs (Eric Carter)
• Introduction to Webhook: Custom CMS and Website Builder (Kezz Bracey)
• Using Unsigned Integers in OData (Lewis Cheng)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,121 – Localization II – Assigning UIDs to All Localizable Elements (Sean Sexton)
• New Windows Developer Portal and UX Guidelines too (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Lambdas and LINQs (Alexey Totin)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Jumping In… (Mike Taulty)
• A Semantic Version Provider (Peter Kuhn)
• Encrypting Configuration Sections in .NET (Allen Conway)
• When will GetSystemWindowsDirectory return something different from GetWindowsDirectory? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,145 – Using Reflection on Generic Type Parameters (Sean Sexton)
• Mono Performance Team (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Maven release perform tries to do a Get to a workspace sub folder in TFS (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Nurturing a Culture for Continuous Learning (Ben Linders)
• Code Coverage Metrics That Matter (Kerry Meade)
• Refactoring Legacy Code: Part 9 – Analyzing Concerns (Patkos Csaba)
• Downstream cost of feature branching (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Xamarin Forms DependencyService and Azure Mobile Services to Add Authentication to Cross-Platform Apps (Josh Morales)
• Cordova Sample: Reading a Text File (Raymond Camden)
• Learning Xamarin: Adding Photos (Jesse Liberty)
• How to send emails in your iOS Application using: MFMailComposeViewController (Mark Petherbridge)
• Second look at Xamarin.Forms: building OData client (vagifabilov)
• Access Control (Swift Team)
• FREE PDF: Zen and the Art of the Objective-C Craftsmanship (Alberto De Bortoli)
• Getting started with NSNotificationCenter (Nick Hanan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ian Hays: Building a MultiDictionary Collection for .NET (Charles Torre)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 137 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Load Testing | Visual Studio Toolbox (Charles Sterling & Robert Green)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Guillermo del Toro Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• 118 JSJ Web Developer Skills (woody2shoes)
• The Married Gamers Episode 338: 75 Years of Batman (Chris Brown)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Deb Stanish, Verity! Podcaster and Hugo Award Nominee (Alex Greco)
• Agile Practitioners 2015: Call For Papers (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Comic-Con 2014: all the news from geek culture’s biggest event (Jacob Kastrenakes)

 

Database

• SQL Server Transactional Replication Error: Could not find stored procedure sp_MS% and how to recover it by using sp_scriptpublicationcustomprocs (Percy Reyes)
• Creating an administrative install of SSDT update for Visual Studio 2013 (Jill McClenahan)
• RavenDB Replication Topology Visualizer (Oren Eini)
• T-SQL–Converting Seconds to Time (Steve Jones)

 

SharePoint

• Next Steps in using the Breeze JS Library with SharePoint’s REST API (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• How I’ve started loving PowerShell (Fabien Dibot)
• #PSTip Enumerating mapped network drives using WScript.Network (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Technical Interview (Chris Sells)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 23, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 23, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1390 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1658 (Chris Alcock)

 

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