Dew Drop – December 15, 2014 (#1915)

Top Links

• Grunt and Gulp Intellisense in Web Essentials 2015 (Mads Kristensen)
• [Announcement] ODataLib 6.9.0 Release (Layla Liu)
• Application Insights: Exception Telemetry (Soubhagya Dash)
• Condition Coverage (Kerry Meade)

 

Web Development

• Replacing ngInclude With Component Directives In AngularJS and Creating A Range-Loop Directive In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Fifty Actions of WordPress – 50 Examples (21 to 30) (Barış Ünver)
• Razor views pre-compilation with ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 (Filip W)
• Using the AngularJS $http Service inside a Kendo UI DataSource – Part 2 (Jonathan Tower)
• The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 4: Hacking the DOM (Jeremy Likness)
• Gulp Launcher Automates Install of Node.js Toolchains (Martin W. Brennan)
• kmon! ASP.NET 5 Where are my changes? (Shayne Boyer)
• Using web api client in synchronous methods and some good async/await resources (Simone Chiaretta)
• Async Fragments: Rediscovering Progressive HTML Rendering with Marko (Patrick Steele-Idem)
• WordPress Universal API and XMLRPC and WordPress on Nuget (Tony Champion)
• Visual Studio and WebStorm: Am I Mad? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition Review (Ricardo Peres)
• Markdown Edit 1.0.2 (Mike Ward)
• Will Your Web App Fail Under Stress? (Noel Rice)
• Status roadmap update: srcset, main element, and date inputs in development (Grant Palin)
• Microsoft To Open Source Cloud Framework Behind Halo 4 Services (Timothy)

 

XAML

• Wpf-Tabcontrol, saving its visual TabItem-States (Alternative) (Mr.PoorEnglish)
• A behavior to deal with UI consequences of full screen and Software Keys in Windows Phone 8.1 (Joost van Schaik)
• WPF Shapes – Rectangle (Richard Carr)
• More travel and Windows Store App Visual Studio error: This app does not support the contract specified or is not installed (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Fluent asynchronous API 6: recursive tail calls (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Introduction to Recursive Descent Parsers with C# and Recursive Descent Parser with C# – Boolean logic expressions (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Entity Developer Review, Part 2 and Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Validation and Lifecycle Interfaces (Ricardo Peres)
• Spinning the wheel: clustering and near misses (Jef Claes)
• Advanced OData Tutorial with Simple.OData.Client (vagifabilov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Agile Harder for Agencies? (Charlie Perrins)
• Article: Open Kanban: The First Agile and Lean Open Source Method for Continuous Improvement (Joseph Hurtado)
• The New Agile- Certifications (Gil Zilberfeld)
• TeamCity 9 project settings versioning in Git (Laurent Kempe)
• Design Considerations: Text on Images (Chris Coyier)
• Thoughts on Working Remotely from Home (Jason Jarrett)
• Create log entries in Release Management (Martin Hinshelwood)
• INVEST: Let’s Make a Long Story, Short (Michael Burns)
• I think therefore I know. (Scott Barnes)
• UX Tools: InVision (Travis Simpson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Debug JNI Android Applications using Visual C++ Cross-Platform Mobile (Ankit Asthana)
• Auto Complete Text View in Xamarin (Anoop Kumar Sharma)
• A Complete Guideline On Embellishing Android Apps with Tween Animations (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Triggers in Xamarin.Forms 1.3 (Jesse Liberty)
• Book Review – Getting Started with Raspberry Pi 2nd Ed (Harry Fairhead)
• What Happened to NSMethodSignature ? (Swift Team)
• Swift from Scratch: Variables and Constants (Bart Jacobs)
• Why using just one ad provider is being foolish (Matt Lacey)
• Powering Hybrid Mobile Apps with Couchbase (Sam Basu)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Indie Dev Podcast – Episode 17 – Illyriad Games (David Voyles)
• MNR 531: The Game Awards and getting ready for the Holiday (Larry Hyrb)
• Webinar Recording and Q&A: What’s New in ReSharper 9 (Daria Dovzhikova)
• MS Dev Show – Real Developer Potpourri with Trish Curry (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Lisa Kudrow and The Nerdist Podcast – Henry Winkler (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 069: The Transformation of Jordan Hornblow (Douglas Coleman)
• TWC9: From Miami, with Minecraft, Flight Simulator X, Candy Crush, bitcoins, oh, and some dev stuff too… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: MythBusters (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: High-tech cooking and practical advice from ChefSteps (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• The Windows 10 Jan. 21 press event will include Microsoft’s future PC gaming plans (John Callaham)
• Winter Bash 2014 (Jon Ericson)
• Being Part of the Tuts+ Community (Sharon Milne)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Download RML Utilities for SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Can Database Primary File Have Any Other Extention Than MDF and SQL SERVER – Reverse String Word By Word – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Commands for SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Mode (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Microsoft Monitoring Agent DSC resource updated to enable AD and management groups configuration (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Surface Pro 3: Six Months Later (Paul Thurrott)
• Satya Nadella read these 5 books during his first year as Microsoft CEO (Todd Bishop)
• MX Player is legit for Windows and Windows Phone, but still early ‘prototype’ (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 12, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #167 (Frank)
• Collective #146 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1445 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1758 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/15/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 8th – 14th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Reblog: December 5 to December 11 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Programming Digest #86 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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