Dew Drop – August 14, 2014 (#1836)

Top Links

• Pack Xamarin in your Cardboard (Jérémie Laval)
• Announcing general availability of Mobile Services .NET support (Yavor Georgiev)
• Opportunity: Target Windows with your Unity Games. Hands-on training and offers to help you get started (Windows Apps Team)
• .NET Rocks! – Fusion Power Geek Out #2 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Functional GUI Testing and Kendo UI (Antonia Bozhkova)
• CSS-Tricks Chronicle XVIII (Chris Coyier)
• Learn AngularJS Hour 5: All about $scope object (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET Web API 2: Recipes is out! (Filip W)
• Node.js on Azure via Visual Studio and Git (Jon Gallant)
• jQuery UI 1.11.1 (Jörn Zaefferer)
• Tracing, debugging and profiling Node.js with spy-js (Maarten Balliauw)
• JavaScript: A Digital Clock with Johnny-Five (Rick Waldron)
• How to Spatially Enable Customer Care with Bing Maps and Parature (Geoff Innis)
• URL Length Limits (Eric Lawrence)
• Webview iframe events and random app crashes with Webview and iframe (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Auditing Media Assets Lifecycle – Part 3 (Milan Gada)
• Sketcher 2 of 3 (Sacha Barber)
• Features of ES6 Part 3: Default Parameter Values (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Querying the Windows Phone 8.1 map when there are child objects over it (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,135 – Alternatives to Creating a Custom Control and #1,136 – WPF Controls Are Lookless (Sean Sexton)
• Silverlight Support Ending on Chrome (Steve Smith)
• Building an Image Transformation Application for Windows Phone 8 (Vikram Pendse)
• Semantic Zoom (Universal Apps) (Peter Daukintis)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How To Manage Asynchronous Tasks Using the Task Object (Peter Vogel)
• You can’t use WITADMIN on versions older than TFS 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello (Skeletal) World for the .NET Windows 8.1 App Developer (Mike Taulty)
• Running TAP (Phillip Trelford)
• 2000 C# Things #1,159 – Events vs. Delegates, part II and #1,160 – Implementing Events Defined in an Interface (Sean Sexton)
• Packages vNext: Power-up our .NET Builds (Alexandre Mutel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• People Are Not Resources (Johanna Rothman)
• APress Deal of the Day 14/August/2014 – Software Exorcism (Tatworth)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• An Example of Cordova’s Camera PopoverOptions (Raymond Camden)
• 3 Steps to Crafting an Effective Mobile Strategy for Your Enterprise (Aygun Suleymanova)
• Uber is Preparing to Release an API (Eric Zeman)
• MonoGame for Windows 8 tutorial and ton’s of new samples too (Greg Duncan)
• Using Ruby to Program Arduino (Nishant Modak)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast – EA’s Peter Moore at Gamescom 2014 (Larry Hyrb)
• .NET Mobile Services | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 121 JSJ Broccoli.js with Jo Liss (woody2shoes)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sean Bean (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #211- Design Reviews Are Important – Habitual Hype Hebetude (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• SQL Server Radio Show 2 – Death to UDFs (Matan Yungman)
• Boagworld – 10 tips for working with clients (Paul Boag)
• The Top Reasons People Call Bob Ward | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Philly Geek Awards: Meet the 2014 Presenters (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Hats off to Imagine Cup teams tackling electricity consumption issues (Suzanne Choney)
• Verge hack week is coming! (Nilay Patel)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Script to Find First Day of Current Month (Pinal Dave)
• Complex indexing, simplified (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• UserVoice driving improvements to SharePoint API and JSON Light support in REST SharePoint API released (SharePoint Team)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Authenticate Against OAuth – #Azure API Management (Alexandre Brisebois)
• #PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 3 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• OneNote Online co-authoring experience improvements (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 13, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1673 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 14, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-14 (Dan Rigby)

 

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