Dew Drop – October 7, 2013 (#1,639)

Top Links

• Learning Xamarin for Android–Taking the Plunge (Jesse Liberty)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2013 Pricing, ScriptCS, Learning Windows 8.1 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nikola Metulev)
• Steve Ballmer Quotes (JD Meier)
• RavenDB 2.5 hidden feature: Index debugging (Oren Eini)

 

Web Development

• Getting Started with NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC- CRUD Operations (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• JavaScript Configuration Object Pattern: JSON Saves the Day (Cory House)
• Functional Programming in PHP (Patkos Csaba)
• APress Deal of the Day 7/Oct/2013 – Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 (Tatworth)
• DZone Refcardz – CSS3 Basics (Jason Cranford Teague)
• Creating a WCF RIA Service for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 and LightSwitch Survey: Handling Complex Business Logic Using WCF RIA Services (Michael Washington)
• Semantic-UI & AngularJS – Basic Registration Form with Validation (Phillip Haydon)
• Extend Glimpse on the fly – scriptcs code execution tab in Glimpse (Filip W)
• Using a Sybase with S#arp Architecture and nHibernate (Raymund Macaalay)
• Load Impact Adds Server-Side Metrics Collection to Cloud-Based Load Testing Tool (Richard Seroter)

 

XAML

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Ebook and Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML – Part 2: Ebook (Silverlight Show)
• Google releases AdMob SDK beta for Windows Phone 8 (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #922 – Mouse Shortcuts Available in a TextBox Control (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1: Behaviors SDK – Part #2 (Andrea Boschin)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Parallel For Loops for any Data Type (Richard Carr)
• LINQ to Twitter Async (Joe Mayo)
• Over-awaiting in C#/VB apps (and EcmaScript 6 eventually) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• var codeReview = TFS.Features.First(feature => feature.IsAwesome); (Mike Parks)
• 5 lesser known F# testing tools & techniques (Phillip Trelford)
• TFS API Part 51 – Adding Test Step & Shared Step (Shai Raiten)
• 2000 C# Things #946 – Specifying Whether Lazy Instantiated Object Should Be Thread-Safe (Sean Sexton)
• Playing With Any vs. Count() greater-than 0 in .Net (Enumerable Extensions) (Tom Hines)
• NDepend v5.0 available (Davide Zordan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum of Scrum – Smells (Matt Davey)
• Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs (Julie Lerman)
• The Recipe of Great Leaders: WHY, HOW, WHAT (JD Meier)
• Coming up with estimates for test work (John Guin)
• AutoFixie (Patrick Lioi)
• Avoiding the Pitfalls of 3rd Party Components in a Large Data Processing Application (Red Gate Software)
• Design Improvement #3: Clearer notifications (Richard Muscat)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How I Set Up My Windows 8 System for Android Development (Joey deVilla)
• Introduction to Android Studio (Paresh Mayani)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 492: Lazlow from GTA V, Ascend: Hand of Kul and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 331: Sewage as a Service (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Adam Scott and The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Hanks Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 3, Season 4 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• Engadget Podcast 363 – 10.04.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 22: Weight Loss With Derick Bailey From Telerik (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Windows Store Weekly: Battle Bears Gold, OpenTable, Songza, Vevo, Particle Art | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• GeekWire Radio: How these digital security pros view the NSA surveillance revelations (Todd Bishop)
• Instrumentation and source control time to act (Cary Millsap & James Murtagh)
• The Tablet Show – iPad Development with Kirby Turner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Webinar Recording: Version Control with PhpStorm and other IntelliJ IDEA-based IDEs (Mikhail Vink)

 

Community / Events

• Live Webinar: Build Your Own Extension in ReSharper 8, Oct. 22 (Robert Demmer)
• Autumn F# Events 2013 (Phillip Trelford)
• Enterprise, Touch This (Karl Shifflett)

 

Database

• Solving SQL Server Scalability Problems (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Big Data – Buzz Words: What is NoSQL – Day 5 of 21 and SQL – Business Intelligence: Derive Data or Information? (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Agent Job High Availability – Availability Groups (Ted Krueger)
• Windows Azure Data Series: SQL Server Fast-Track Data Warehouse (FTDW) (Buck Woody)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – The first kiss with VMware PowerCLI (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)

 

Miscellaneous

• Building a Windows 8 Powered Mini-Arcade Machine (Greg Duncan)
• Presentation Skills Considered Harmful (Kathy Sierra)
• Coding is among the top education trends this school year (Manya Susoev)
• Sorry but the Start Menu is not returning in Windows 8.1 (Richard Hay)
• Seven Learnings Over Seven Years as a Microsoft MVP (Rick G. Garibay)
• My Long-Running, Not-Yet-Complete, Investigation into a New Haswell Ultrabook (Julie Lerman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 5, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 6, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 4th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 4, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #84 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1215 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (October 4th, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• The Morning Brew #1457 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: September 27 to October 3 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 33 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #049 (Pinal Dave)

 

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