Dew Drop – October 22, 2014 (#1882)

Top Links

• Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a Notification Center (Tom Warren)
• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Session Recordings Now Available (Joseph Hill)
• .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) – string interpolation: proposed design changes (Neal Gafter)
• EF7 – What Does “Code First Only” Really Mean (Rowan Miller)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript in the Enterprise – Your Questions Answered (Arthur Kay)
• AngularJS Superluminal-Nudge Promises Substantial Performance Improvements (James Chesters)
• Kendo UI: Displaying a Custom Message when Grid is Empty (Keith Burnell)
• New Article Published about JavaScript for OS X Automation by Example (Michael Crump)
• Compressing the Web (Eric Lawrence)
• RELEASE: Introducing the Yammer Share button (Kurt Shintaku)
• Which Frameworks Should Web Developers Use? (Brady Higginbotham)
• Docker 1.3: Signed Images, Process Injection, Security Options, Mac Shared Directories (Scott Johnston)

 

XAML

• The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps (Lori Lalonde)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,184 – Where Data Templates Are Used, part II (Sean Sexton)
• SensorCore and Lumia: My Experience (Nishtha)
• MVVM Light Toolkit v5.0.2 and Code Framework 4.0.41021.0 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Cloud Load Testing & Error codes (Jimson Chalissery)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello ‘Custom Gesture’ World Part 2 (Mike Taulty)
• Writing Cleaner Code with Reactive Extensions (Peter Vogel)
• Application Insights SDK (0.11.0-prerelease) (Joshua Weber)
• CS-Script Source – Release v3.8.10.0 (CodePlex)
• .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) – nameof spec v4 (Lucian Wischik)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Small Arrays Instead Of Small Dictionaries (Karl Seguin)
• 7 Best Practices for Being a Successful Remote Developer (Stephane Kasriel)
• 5 Ways To Increase Developer Onboarding (Bill Doerrfeld)
• Locking and Unlocking Layers in Photoshop CC 2014 (Julieanne Kost)
• Definition of Ready (Matt Davey)
• Lessons from the Dark Knight (Michael Burns)
• How I combine 3 productivity techniques together (Radenko Zec)
• The learn-lose cycle of learning and Learning inadequacy (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android 5.0 Brings Over 5,000 New APIs (Abel Avram)
• Share Your iOS, Android and Windows Phone Screens on Desktop (Zhiming Xue)
• Offline Sync for Mobile Service – Part 1: Resources (Johan Silfversparre)
• Microsoft Advertising releases enhancements to help promote your apps (Bernardo Zamora)
• A Microsoft ‘mobile wireless device’ passed through the FCC today (Brad Sams)
• Ship That App! (Laura Tallardy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Security of IoT with Troy Hunt (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• [MSCloudShow] Episode 52 is live – 1yr Anniversary Episode, Microsoft Azure News & Listener Question on InfoPath (Andrew Connell)
• The Tech Informist 8: Paul Thurrott (Paul Thurrott)
• WebJobs GA Series Episode 1: WebJobs Tooling with Brady Gaster | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler, Brady Gaster & emiller)
• The Amp Hour #221 – Warming Up To IoT – Tendentious Thermal Tools (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Ping 226 – Ignite conference, Achievements for Halo Master Chief, Tesla and October xBox One Update | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: The last one before we go | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• SSW TV – Tour of the Physical Internet with Grant Holliday (SSW Team)
• MS Dev Show – Getting Rich with Ads with Robert Irving and Simon Jackson (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)

 

Community / Events

• Global day of CodeRetreat, a worldwide day of TDD (Irene De Nicolo)
• #CESlive 2015 is going to be bigger and more amazing than ever! (Derek Kessler)
• Dev of the Week: Ajitesh Kumar (John Walter)
• TRAINING: Office Developer content from the upcoming Office 365 Summit (Dec 11-12) (Kurt Shintaku)
• Gina Trapani’s favorite apps (Mark Frauenfelder)
• MS Open Tech’s First contribution to OpenJDK (Martin Sawicki)
• Remember Your NDA (MVP Award Program)
• Geek Girl Con is an oasis of acceptance (Nicole Dieker)
• Announcing the first batch of speakers for DockerCon Europe (Victor Coisne)

 

Database

• Precision and Scale Impact for SQL Server Data Types (Dallas Snider)
• SQL SERVER – Search Records with Single Quotes – SQL in Sixty Seconds #075 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell DSC Does Exchange! (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Thinnest Ultrabook in the world! Our Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro unboxing (Daniel Rubino)
• Windows 10 Technical Preview update available to download now (John Callaham)
• Reuse your MSDN benefits with your Org ID (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The great thing about regular expression languages is that there are so many to choose from! (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft Lumia will replace the Nokia brand (Tom Warren)
• Career planning: What is your path? (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Launches Music Deals App for Windows, Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott)
• Download this: Custom Cortana ringtones and app notifications for your Windows Phone! (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, October 21, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of October 13, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1424 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (10/14-10/19) (Dara Monasch)
• Daily News Digest 10/22/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1721 (Chris Alcock)

 

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