Dew Drop – July 18, 2013 (#1,587)

Top Links

• No new C# and VB Language Features in VS 2013 (Mads Torgersen)
• Telerik Updates Its Kendo UI HTML5 Framework With Speed Improvements, Flat UI Theme (Frederic Lardinois)
• HttpClient 2.2 is now stable (Immo Landwerth)
• Windows Phone 8 Samples July Update (Adam Denning)

 

Web Development

• Assorted CSS Animations (Hakim El Hattab)
• Windows Azure SQL Database Automated Backup Frequency is in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Knockout with Prototype and Inheritance (Kevin Logan)
• eddy.js – A Bold Approach (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Detecting JavaScript Libraries and Versions (Ariya Hidayat)
• Functions as Value in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Troubleshooting CSS (Hugo Giraudel)
• How we do MVC – 4 years later (Jimmy Bogard)
• Visual Studio 2012 – Exception in adding new controller to MVC4 project (Michael Sync)
• Drupal Development using PhpStorm (Mikhail Vink)
• JavaScript Is Way Too Slow for What? (Simon St. Laurent)
• Configuration for NewRelic 1.0.0.35 Azure Nuget package (Rory Primrose)
• Creating API Docs from JSON Schema (@richm_21) (John Sheehan)

 

XAML

• Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Application bars, flyouts and other amenities (Andrea Boschin)
• APIMASH: Porting to Windows Phone 8 (Jim O’Neil)
• Keeping Your XAML Apps Responsive (Paul Ballard)
• A Little Bit Of Help Making Your Metro Apps More Metro (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #866 – Displaying a Popup Window (Sean Sexton)
• What’s new in WebView in Windows 8.1 (Sam Spencer)
• Windows 8.1: Using new AppBar and CommandBar controls (Zubair Ahmed)
• Nokia Imaging SDK with Support for Effects, Filters, Smart Camera, Auto Enhance and RAJPEG (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #12: Grab bag wrap-up (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to Hide the UILayer of #Telerik RadRichTextBox? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• RadControls for Windows 8 Q2 2013 SP1 – VS13 and Windows 8.1 ready (Nikolay Atanasov)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• F# Deep Dives – Early Access Program and F# Deep Dives – Chapter 4 – Financial Programming and F# Type Provider for MATLAB – Feedback requested, contributions welcome (Don Syme)
• Anonymous Types (Dave M. Bush)
• Reading too much into String.Split (Karl Seguin)
• By Popular Demand, Control Panel introduces Installing other Versions of Products (Carey Payette)
• Kinect PowerPoint Mapper (James Ashley)
• 2000 C# Things #890 – Common System Exception Types that You Might Throw (Sean Sexton)
• Becoming an Image Ninja with help from Dewald Esterhuizen (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Push Agile, Pull It (JD Meier)
• Procedural Polymorphism (Cory Foy)
• Pair Programming (Greg Young)
• Reimagining ALM (Jaume Jornet)
• A better way than staggered iterations for delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 7 Development: Tutorials to Get You Started (Joey deVilla)
• What is Icenium Really? (Vassil Petev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 103: Last Policeman author Ben Winters and Josh Glenn (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Git Hub Greatness with Phil Haack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 172: Nik Molnar on Running an Open Source Project (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Evolving a Mobile Implementation Strategy (Martin Fowler & Giles Alexander)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Conjuring (Chris Hardwick)
• Lego Mindstorm Demo (Build 2013 Keynote) (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Video: New with Visual Studio 2013: Manage portfolio backlogs to understand the scope of work (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Extending the Microsoft Build Engine | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Engadget HD Podcast 358 – 07.17.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Video: Epics and Adventures (Manya Susoev)

 

Community / Events

• Ask the Bug Guys (Eric Lippert)
• Xamarin’s 2nd Annual Munich DrinkUp (Morgan Forsythe)
• Interview With Elijah Manor (Rey Bango)
• Backed by 350,000 mobile developers, Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile (Nat Friedman)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Auditing and Profiling Database Made Easy with SQL Audit and Comply (Pinal Dave)
• World’s smallest No SQL Database: ACID & Transactions (Oren Eini)
• Article: Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 2 (Seth Proctor)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Identify and switch between installed PowerShell Versions (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Removing background noise in Audacity by differencing stereo channels (Jon Galloway)
• UTF-8 default isn’t in the Windows 8.1 Notepad, either. As expected… (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Using Toothpaste as spackle (Scott Koon)
• Puppet Labs gobbles another company, this time Geppetto-maker Cloudsmith (Taylor Soper)
• License your code (Phil Haack)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 17th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 17, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1162 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1401 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 18, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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