Dew Drop – August 11, 2014 (#1833)

Top Links

• Creating HTML 5 Websites and Cloud Business Apps Using LightSwitch In Visual Studio 2013 (Michael Washington)
• The BobbyTables culture (Jon Skeet)
• Introducing DZone’s Latest Checklist: Unit Testing (Alec Noller)
• Yet Another Podcast #129–Paul Betts (Jesse Liberty)

 

Web Development

• AngularJS and Benefits to the Development Team (Dave Baskin)
• Effect of tabs vs. spaces in HTML files (Mads Kristensen)
• Beginner Concepts: How CSS Selectors Work (Chris Coyier)
• Setting background image of webpage using CSS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Composable Generators in Javascript (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Find, Search, Replace, and Delete in the WordPress Database (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Accessing External APIs Using AngularJS’s Services (Maciej Sopyło)
• Blade Template Engine Support in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Mikhail Vink)
• A simple stereotypical JavaScript-like “debounce” service for F# (Nathan B. Evans)
• Best Buy Launches Recommendations API (Eric Carter)
• Time-controlled Azure WebJobs – Azure as easy as it get‘s (Robert Muehsig)

 

XAML

• OCR in Windows Phone and Windows Store apps (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,133 – Localization XIV – Add Content to Already Localized Application (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Media Controls – MediaElement – Media Events (Richard Carr)
• Universal Windows apps: cross-device compatibility (Adam Fraser)
• Store Tidbits #4: Useful Store URIs (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Introducing Universal Helpers for Windows Store apps (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Convert List to List using ConvertAll in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Bots, Visual Studio and Arduino in “Programming Robotic Systems with Visual Studio” (Greg Duncan)
• Most annoying thing in Visual Studio (Michael Sync)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello (Skeletal) World for the Console Developer 😉 (Mike Taulty)
• Leveraging Interfaces and Extension Methods To Extend Your Classes (Peter Vogel)
• Make Move Constructors No-Throw (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,157 – Contravariance and Generic Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are You Doing Agile Results? (JD Meier)
• Draft Kanban Canvas User Guide (Karl Scotland)
• Test Attribute #9 – Deterministic (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Article: Why Do We Need Self-Organising Teams? (Sigi Kaltenecker & Peter Hundermark)
• Book Review: Version Control With Git (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Migrating from Subversion to Git with svn2git on Windows (the tricky bits explained) (Troy Hunt)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Balloons (Swift Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 330 – Eric Potter on ScriptCS and Arduino (David Giard)
• MNR 519: Post ComicCon Pre-Gamescom (Larry Hyrb)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 139 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• What The Tech 221: Paul Thurrott: World Traveller (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Live at SDCC 2014 with Evangeline Lilly and Michael Rooker (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: Party like it’s 1994, VS 2013.3 RTW, NotepadConf and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• Episode 005 – Josh Twist (Azure API Management) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Episode 148: Azure Files with Andrew Edwards | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• StarTalk Radio – Planet of the Apes (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Amgen and the state of Seattle biotech, with guest Luke Timmerman (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Contest: Favorite Xamarin Studio Feature (Joseph Hill)

 

Database

• Testing SQL Server Query Performance Using Different Levels of Parallelism (Ben Snaidero)
• MySQL GROUP_CONCAT() Has Buggy Interaction With UNION Clauses (Ben Nadel)
• Exception handling in SQL Server and Intersection command in SQL Server and Best practices for Database Programming (Vivek Johari)
• Installing & configuring TeamCity on Windows with MS SQL Server (Elizabeth Andrews)
• Want a headless build server for SSDT without installing Visual Studio? You’re out of luck! (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant V6.0 Released and SQL SERVER – How to Roll Back SQL Server Database Changes and SQL Authority News – Download and Install Adventure Works 2014 Sample Databases (Pinal Dave)
• Comparers, Combiners, Replacers and Splitters in Power Query (Chris Webb)
• 6 Rules of Thumb for MongoDB Schema Design: Part 2 (Francesca Krihely)
• Boothby, a personal database (Leon Bambrick)

 

SharePoint

• Update on the Autohosted Apps Preview Program—part 2 (Office 365 Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Going from computer novice to computer guru, with help from Microsoft Virtual Academy (Suzanne Choney)
• Who (if anyone) will build a 7-inch tablet running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system? (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 8, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 8, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #128 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1396 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 11, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1670 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: August 1 to August 7 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #316 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #74 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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