Dew Drop – August 13, 2014 (#1835)

Top Links

• Introducing CocosSharp (Miguel de Icaza)
• .NET Rocks! – Evolving ASP.NET Web Development with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 RC (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
• Develop ASP.NET vNext applications on a Mac (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Page Parser Filters (Ricardo Peres)
• Node.js in Azure Web Sites and Service Bus – Reading Messages from Cloud-hosted Queues (Bruno Terkaly)
• Learn AngularJS Hour 4: service in AngularJS and making HTTP call using $http and Learn AngularJS Hour 5: All about $scope object (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Case for Object-Oriented JavaScript (Irene Yiu)
• Office 365 APIs using AngularJS standalone websites—samples shipped (Office 365 Team)
• ASP.NET Two-Factor Authentication, Web And Mobile Tooling Improvements (Roopesh Shenoy)
• APress Deal of the Day 13/August/2014 – Pro ASP.NET MVC 4 (Tatworth)
• How Wintellect uses Microsoft Azure (Steve Porter)
• Swapping Out SVG Icons (Chris Coyier)
• Say goodbye to dead links and inconsistent formatting [grunt-check-pages is a simple Grunt task to check various aspects of a web page for correctness] (David Anson)

 

XAML

• Bind a collection of items to the Windows Phone MapControl (Shawn Kendrot)
• Respond to reviews and PayPal payout option available to more Windows Phone developers (Bernardo Zamora)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,134 – Localization XV – Localizing Other Content (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 64-bit SIMD Code from C# (Gastón Hillar)
• Web Essentials extension now available for Visual Studio Express (Isaac Haynes)
• Easier Immutable Objects in C# 6 and VB 12 (Jonathan Allen)
• Keep your eye on the code page: C# edition (warning about DllImport) (Raymond Chen)
• Visual studio color theme gallery (Peter Weissbrod)
• How to Return the Contents of a CSV file as a Generic List (B. Clay Shannon)
• StructureMap 3.1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• 2000 C# Things #1,158 – Events vs. Delegates, part I (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Chronicles (Composite Stories) – Agile Artifacts – Ephemeral v. Enduring Value (Pat Trigonoplos)
• An Appeal to CS Teachers (Dariusz Pasciak)
• 10 Tips to Get You Started with Responsive Design (Jacqueline Thomas)
• Article: Project Inception – How to Use a Single Meeting to Achieve Alignment (James Bayer)
• Success Articles for Work and Life (JD Meier)
• How to elicit cohesive software verification (Wes McClure)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• F# on the Web (Ryan Riley)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 25 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Imagine Cup 2014 Recap | Imagine Cup TV (Jritz, Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Arturo Toledo talks about design principles and design language (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 218: Impossible engines, Virtual body hacks, Surface Pro 3, Revisiting an old friend | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & Joey Snow)
• SSW TV – Octopus Deploy and how to stop deploying like an idiot – Damian Brady | DDD Melbourne (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Code on the Sea – All Aboard The Software Engineering Cruise! (Chris Forte)
• Dev of the Week: Markus Winand (Alec Noller)
• Ben Roscorla joins the ALM Rangers Ruck Masters … Ruck? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Exploring Impostor Syndrome in Technology – SXSW ’15 (Scott Hanselman)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – ​Finding Out What Changed in a Deleted Database – Notes from the Field #041 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenHQ Now Available in the Azure Store (Will Merydith)

 

PowerShell

• Script to drop SQL Server login and all owned objects using PowerShell (Jeffery Yao)
• #PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 2 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• What’s next for Microsoft’s OneNote (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ask yourself these 8 questions before writing a proposal (Alan Ackmann)
• ‘It looks like you just bought the LA Clippers’ (Ross Miller)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 12, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 12, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1672 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 13, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-13 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Links of the month (July Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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