Dew Drop – August 21, 2014 (#1839)

Lighter version of the Dew Drop today. Most of my feeds are not updating in NewsBlur today. Hopefully, things will be back on track tomorrow.

Top Links

• NHibernate 4.0 released! (Oren Eini)
• Announcing RTM of Katana 3 (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Five Cross Platform Pillars (Miguel de Icaza)
• Xamarin.Forms with Zumero (Eric Sink)
• Multi Device Hybrid Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Rollerblade : jQuery plugin for Interactive 360º image rotator (jQuery Rain)
• CSS Guidelines (Chris Coyier)
• JavaScript Performance Tweaks (Dave M. Bush)
• Simple inheritance with JavaScript (David Catuhe)
• JavaScript Postfix Completion (Hadi Hariri)
• Fix “addthis_config not defined” when using async AddThis (Dave Ward)
• Web Application Template Push Notifications (Peter Daukintis)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Platform Overview (Sani Yusuf)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,141 – Attached Properties Allow Customization of Existing Controls (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual F# Tools 3.1.2 (MS Downloads)
• Using Environment Variables in Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Calling All Hobbyists (Graham High)
• “Localization for .NET Succinctly” (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #1,165 – Lambda Expression Basics (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Need To Review The Agile Manifesto (Derwyn Harris)
• Everyday Unit Testing: New Version! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Using SemanticMerge to fix Git merge conflicts (Alice Waddicor)
• Migrating source from Perforce to Git on VSO (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Ionic and Cordova’s DeviceReady: My Solution (Raymond Camden)
• Three Tricks in Xamarin Studio (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 376: Take Back Your Roubles and What the Tech 223: Android on a Stick (Paul Thurrott)
• Garage Series Under the Hood: Continually Safeguarding your Data in the Office 365 Service (Jeremy Chapman)
• RiYL Episode 067: Dave Wakeling (Brian Heater)
• 122 JSJ Socket.IO with Guillermo Rauch (woody2shoes)
• Boagworld – 10 ways to improve your mobile experience (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Gardner Dozois, Sci-Fi Editor (Chris Urie)
• Fifth Annual Philadelphia Honey Festival Coming In September (David Goodman)

 

Database

• Accessing OLE and COM Objects from SQL Server using OLE Automation Stored Procedures (Derek Colley)
• SQL SERVER – Backing Up and Recovering the Tail End of a Transaction Log – Notes from the Field #042 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Skype is About to Get a Lot Less Annoying (Paul Thurrott)
• Steve Ballmer to teach at Stanford University this fall, USC in the Spring (Hammad Saleem)
• Report claims Windows 9-Threshold will be officially revealed September 30 (John Callaham)
• 7 tips that’ll help you get a job at Microsoft (Emma Knights)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1402 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1678 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 8/21/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

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