Dew Drop – December 18, 2014 (#1918)

Top Links

• Maybe I don’t know JavaScript? You don’t know JS – A rather good book series for JS devs (Iris Classon)
• Microsoft’s Windows App Studio and TouchDevelop integrate. Mobile First. Cloud first. (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• A new Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server Features Timeline and Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 17 (Brian Harry)
• .NET Rocks! – MMS and Space Weather Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• FilmRoll : jQuery Carousel Plugin and jQuery Sidebar Plugin and jQuery Personality Quiz Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• Lambda, Javascript Micro-Services on AWS (Anders Janmyr)
• jQuery Adopts Pointer Events (Olivier Bloch)
• Securing the ASP.NET MVC Web.config (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Adding New Items to Your ASP.NET 5 Project with Yeoman Subgenerators (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Beta releases (Yishai G.)
• SSSL (Splunk Secure Sockets Layer) (David Greenwood)
• Versioning in WebAPI using Route Constraints (Elton Stoneman)
• Amazon Updates Maps API, Adds 3D Vectoring and Fluid Movement (Eric Zeman)
• Final Root Cause Analysis and Improvement Areas: Nov 18 Azure Storage Service Interruption (Jason Zander)
• Google Closes Freebase, Launches Knowlege Graph API (Patricio Robles)
• Fixing issue with HTTPClient and ProtocolViolationException: The value of the date string in the header is invalid (Radenko Zec)
• User Info in Identity 2.0 (Saad Khan)
• Node v0.10.34 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Reusing Validation Messages in AngularJS (Deborah Kurata)

 

XAML

• Using XAML GroupBox in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• WPF Shapes – Ellipse (Richard Carr)
• Pricing apps in the Windows App stores (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The curse of the never-ending async method call (Bertrand Le Roy)
• FIX: NuGet, Visual Studio & Office 365 APIs – Unable to find version ‘1.0.22’ of package ‘Microsoft.Azure.ActiveDirectory.GraphClient’ (Andrew Connell)
• How to Clone a Git repository in Visual Studio (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Extracting code from blog posts using F# Part 1 (Kean Walmsley)
• [Announcement] WCF Data Services 5.6.3 RTM Tools Installer Release (Liang Wang)
• Understanding TFS migrations from on-premise to Visual Studio Online (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Magic Strings and Magic Numbers (Dave M. Bush)
• Top 7 2014 Dev Tool Releases You Should Know About (Terrence Dorsey)
• Quick code editing, backlog filtering, and more – Dec 17 (Aaron Bjork)
• MediatR hits 1.0 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Functional Vs Imperative language paradigms (Vidyasagar MSC)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making The Entire Organization Agile (Savita Pahuja)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Working with Xamarin Forms and Navigation (Mike Benkovich)
• My experiences with Xamarin.Forms (Marco Siccardi)
• Build and Run using Cordova CLI (Subhag Oak)
• Sony To Launch Google Glass Competitor Along With An SDK (David Berlind)
• Benefits with C++ in modern apps (Petar Mataic)
• Swift: Type Annotations (Mark Petherbridge)
• App Store Optimization Tricks– Reviews (Mickey MacDonald)
• Five Tips to Build Fast Hybrid Apps (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside Windows Platform | Going from Windows Phone Silverlight to Windows RT XAML | Inside Windows Platform (Larry Lieberman)
• 138 JSJ {Track:js} with Todd Gardner (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Martin Short (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #228 – An Interview with Shahriar from The Signal Path – Quisquous Quivering Quadripole (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Inside the Azure Storage Outage of November 18th (Larry Larsen, Golnaz & RicksterCDN)
• Webinar Recording and Q&A: What’s New in dotTrace 6 (Olga Kosyreva)
• Azure Podcast Episode 57 – Storage Updates (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Agile 2015: Call for Speaker Submissions (Ben Linders)
• December Code Hunt Challenge (Kevin Maginn)
• SenchaCon 2015: Call for Papers is Open (Kristin Brennan)
• Geek of the Week: Jake Vander Ende of Spriteborne (Nicole Kline)

 

Database

• Script out all SQL Server Indexes in a Database using T-SQL (Percy Reyes)
• SQL Server Database Tooling Preview Release for the latest Azure SQL Database Update V12 (preview) (Jing Sun)
• SQL SERVER – Creating the SSIS Catalog – Notes from the Field #058 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint / O365

• Apps for Office: Mail Apps Part 2 – Read Mode Sample (Josh Morales)

 

PowerShell

• Automate Tracking SQL Server Backup Times with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• Here’s how you can easily create custom invoices with PowerShell (Adam Bertram)
• Another Holiday Present From the PowerShell Team – DSC Reskit Wave 9 (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• 10 technologies that made me more productive in 2014 (Ed Bott)
• Holiday Learning List (Dave Paquette)
• Microsoft says there are 450,000 ‘highly active’ Windows 10 preview users (John Callaham)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1448 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1761 (Chris Alcock)

 

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