Dew Drop – September 8, 2014 (#1850)

Top Links

• Checking In with Erik Meijer: Erik Meijer | Checking In with Erik Meijer (Charles Torre)
• Introducing Win2D: GPU accelerated 2D graphics programming in the Windows Runtime (Shawn Hargreaves)
• New handy Visual Studio extensions (Mads Kristensen)
• Introducing Xamarin Forms Behaviors (Corrado Cavalli)

 

Web Development

• Article: Javascript and JQuery – Book Review (Ben Evans)
• Types of ASP.NET MVC Views and Resolving Dependencies in ASP.NET MVC 5 using StructureMap (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Angular Function Declarations, Function Expressions, and Readable Code (John Papa)
• Creating A Mini-CSS Preprocesser For Theme Color Options (Josh Pollock)
• More on pre-compiler directives in JavaScript (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Quick edits with PhpStorm 8: Working with single files without a project & built-in Scratch plugin (Mikhail Vink)
• Understanding and Working with Metadata in WordPress (Rachel McCollin)
• Solving the tyranny of HTTP 403 responses to directory browsing in ASP.NET (Troy Hunt)
• All About File Paths (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Optimizing static websites hosted on IIS (Mads Kristensen)
• ECMAScript 6 modules: the final syntax (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Making the web “just work” with any input: Mouse, Touch, and Pointer Events (Jacob Rossi)
• Simplifying working with Azure Notification Hubs (Piyush Joshi)
• Announcing the 0.5.0-beta preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK (Pranav Rastogi)
• Serializing and De-serializing JSON data Using ServiceStack (Ravi Kiran)
• ZeroMQ #7: A Simple Actor Model (Sacha Barber)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,153 – Handling Custom Dependency Properties that Affect Rendering (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Understanding IEnumerable and IQueryable in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• .NET Going Above & Beyond for Better Code (Kerry Meade)
• 2000 C# Things #1,177 – Lambda Expressions Can Reference Variables Declared Outside of Expression (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture vs code (Simon Brown)
• Interview: Jeff Sutherland on Scrum Beyond IT and his New Book (Jeff Sutherland)
• Anatomy of the Kanban Canvas (Karl Scotland)
• Why Agile Doesn’t Work (L. Charles Andersen)
• Pitfalls of Agile Software Development (Lucas Saldanha)
• The Hidden Cost Of Estimation (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Thoughts on Behaviorism (Peter Saddington)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Wear, moving forward like clockwork (Emily Wood)
• Hybrid Apps in Xamarin?? Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Enhanced and Wearable-Ready Notifications on Android (Kerry Perez Huanca)
• WordPressUniversal – a PCL library for WordPress based C# mobile apps (Marco Siccardi)
• Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity for Windows Jump Start (David Voyles)
• Update your Intel Galileo and your first .NET Console app (Greg Duncan)
• Mono on Windows for Intel Galileo source code (Jeremiah Morrill)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 334 – Adam Grocholski on Azure Command-Line Tools (David Giard)
• Yet Another Podcast #131 – Phil Haack (Jesse Liberty)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 143 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• TWC9: Sara Ford, VS/TFS 2013 Update 4 CTP, Task Runner Explorer, Vagrant and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• AAWP Insight #109: IFA 2014, Lumia 735/830/Denim (Steve Litchfield)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kristin Bauer van Straten (Chris Hardwick)
• Cloud Cover 152: Azure Search with Liam Cavanagh | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris)
• Video DDD Melbourne 2014 Keynote: Burning Passion (Iris Classon)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 209: Josiah Carlson on Redis (SE-Radio Team)
• StarTalk Radio – X-Prize (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.05.14 (Steve Gillmor)

 

Community / Events

• Talking in the Twin Cities code camp in October (Oren Eini)
• Join the Office 365 support webcast: What’s New with Project Online and Project Server 2013 (Office 365 Team)
• Lino Tadros | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight (Ryan Axford)

 

Database

• Using Many-to-Many Relationships in Multidimensional SQL Server Analysis Services (Thomas LeBlanc)
• Auditing Critical Windows Files and Folders for SQL Server (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Basics of Delayed Durability in SQL Server 2014 and SQL SERVER – How to Setup Delayed Durability for SQL Server 2014? and SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Delayed Durability (Pinal Dave)
• Power Pivot / Power Query Read-Only Connection Problems In Excel 2013 – And What To Do About Them (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Three cloud-friendly ways for developers to provision Managed Metadata fields in SharePoint/Office 365 and JavaScript-based provisioning in SharePoint/Office 365 (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• #PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod – the underlying connection was closed (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Miscellaneous

• Scratch jr (Ehud Lamm)
• Designing PureView for Lumia 830 (Adam Fraser)
• 5 tips to help you hire the best software developers (Jack Wallen)
• Meet XiaoIce, Cortana’s Little Sister (Ted Roduner)
• Xamarin at the Top of the Visionary Quadrant in Gartner’s Report (Jo Ann Buckner)
• Is it too late for Windows Phone? (Ed Bott)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, September 5, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 5, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #132 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 9/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #153 (Frank)
• Reblog: August 29 to September 4 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #319 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Programming Digest #72 (Jakub Chodounský)
• The Morning Brew #1689 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-08 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-08 (Dan Rigby)

 

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