Dew Drop – November 26, 2014 (#1904)

Top Links

• RavenDB 3.0 RTM! (Oren Eini)
• Open Sourcing and ASP.NET with “The Scotts” (MVP Award Program)
• Android Tips: Hello Toolbar, Goodbye Action Bar (James Montemagno)
• Windows App Studio adds Twitter and Instagram OAuth integration (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

 

Web Development

• Speech Recognition in ASP.NET (Ricardo Peres)
• JavaScript Progress Indicator on Page Scroll (jQuery Rain)
• JavaScript Interview Questions: Event Delegation and This (David Posin)
• The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 1: Relying on $scope (Jeremy Likness)
• WebAPI REST Routing For AngularJS and ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
• Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: User Login (Samantha Zhang)
• The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Taxonomies (Tom McFarlin)
• Exception Handling in an AngularJS Application (Deborah Kurata)
• WebClient and GetWebResponse not firing on Async Requests (Rick Strahl)
• Another sign of the “new” Microsoft. Internet Explorer Web Dev Support moving to Stack Overflow (Greg Duncan)
• 3 Challenges of HTML5 – A SlideShare Presentation (Matthew Jones)
• Azure : Redis Cache (Sacha Barber)
• Class Inheritance in ECMAScript 6 (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Leveraging the Nokia Imaging SDK in Your Windows Phone App (Kiril Stanoev)
• The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps–Speech Recognition (Lori Lalonde)
• Reading and Writing Base64 in the Windows Runtime (Jerry Nixon)
• Create the Ultimate Fan Universal App using Windows AppStudio (Lori Lalonde)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What’s new in C# 6.0? – String Interpolation (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How to debug through .Net source code (B. Conlon)
• Apps for Office: Creating a Content App for Excel (Josh Morales)
• Garbage Collection and .NET Debugging at Build Stuff (Sasha Goldshtein)
• APress Deal of the Day 26/Nov/2014 – Pro WF 4.5 (Tatworth)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Last Look at Smart Unit Test (Preview): Square Peg & Round Hole (Jeremy Clark)
• Different Ways of Scaling Agile (Jim Bird)
• Automated end to end testing at Khan Academy using Gecko (Brian Bondy)
• When to Use Toggle Buttons (Anthony)
• Deploying Transparency and Self Regulating Management to Get Actions Done (Ben Linders)
• Sharing Data Between Bounded Contexts in Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
• Introducing the Azure Automation Script Converter (Joe Levy)
• Chocolatey with Custom Script Extension on Azure VMs (Kundana Palagiri)
• Task Lists are open source (Matt Todd)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS / Linux Cross-Platform C++ Survey (Eric Battalio)
• Android gradient screenshot madness (Peter-Paul Koch)
• Cordova Plugin Roundup (TJ VanToll)
• 5 Steps to Protect Mobile Apps from Attacks (Jared Blake)
• App Development Made Easy (Jessica Skarzynski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #61 – The “What Jay’s Done Wrong” Podcast (Abby T. Miller)
• Modern App Development | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Episode 057 | Catching up on the Latest News from Microsoft, Azure and Office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 40 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez)
• Episode 1: Project Spark | Level Up (Greg Duncan & Soumow)
• CodeChat 020 – Stefan Negritoiu (FreeBusy.io) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• SSW TV – App Harbour using Git Hub with Continuous Deployment with Michael Demarco (SSW Team)
• Azure Podcast Episode 54 – Azure Batch (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Last Nerd Nite of 2014 Offers up Products from 1984 Sears Christmas Catalog, Because Why Not? (Eric Smith)
• Dev of the Week: Max Katz (John Walter)
• [PT] PGGD25 – 25º Portugal Girl Geek Dinner – Lisboa (Sara Silva)

 

Database

• Power Query Now Works With SSAS (Chris Webb)
• Archiving Azure Automation logs to Azure BLOB Storage (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan – Maintenance Cleanup Task not Deleting Files (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• How to Develop a Progressive Mobile SharePoint Solution (DevToolsGuy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft OneNote is a secret weapon for Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping (Brian Fagioli)
• Windows 10 to support FLAC audio format (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• How to survive as the family tech support on Thanksgiving (Greg Shields)
• Classic Star Wars characters come to Minecraft on Xbox consoles (Joseph Keller)
• Holiday gifts for Microsoft Lumia lovers (Rhea)
• Hands On with the Xbox One Controller and Cable for Windows (Richard Hay)
• paint.net 4.0.4 beta build 5442 is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 25, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of November 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 25, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 11/26/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1745 (Chris Alcock)

 

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