Dew Drop – December 19, 2013 (#1687)

Top Links

• Join Durandal. Build the Next Web. (Rob Eisenberg)
• Registry keys to configure Watson and automatically save full dumps locally (Kirill Osenkov)
• Hello Nancy (Filip Ekberg)
• Morning Dew Deal Alert – Packt’s $5 eBook Bonanza is Back #ebookbonanza (Me)

 

Web Development

• The story behind _references.js (Mads Kristensen)
• DevExpress ASP.NET Grid Control Introduces Batch Edit (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 4 (Ariya Hidayat)
• About Variables in CSS and Abstractions in Web Languages (Chris Coyier)
• Create wonderful interactive games for the web: Using webgl and a physics engine (babylon.js & cannon.js) (David Catuhe)
• Video : How to create Objects as literals in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 7.0.3 EAP (Ekaterina Prigara)
• WinJS header font styles for narrow views (WinJS 1.0 to 2.0 migration) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Quick tip: How to set up and debug the Startup Task in a Windows Azure Cloud Service (Magnus Mårtensson)
• YUI 3.14.1 Released (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions (Beth Massi)
• Today in APIs: Amazon Kinesis in Public Beta, and 11 New APIs (Greg Bates)
• IE11 Virtual Machines Now Available on modern.IE (Sandeep Singhal)
• A Simple Implementation of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity (Imran Baloch)
• Put your controllers on a diet: POSTs and commands (Jimmy Bogard)

 

XAML

• Does using the Windows 8.x touch/onscreen keyboard in your WPF desktop sound cool to you? (Greg Duncan)
• [Sample Of Dec 18th] How to show GIF animation in WPF (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #975 – SelectedValue and SelectedValuePath for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Information Controls – ProgressBar (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8.1/8.0 and the ‘Responsive App’ (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 3: Interpreters (Steve Gilham)
• Implementing custom events in Application Insights (Charles Sterling)
• Format your .Net exceptions to see the StackTrace. (Jason Jarrett)
• NCover December Code Coverage Updates (Kerry Meade)
• Essential Studio 2013 Volume 4 Released (Morgan Cartier)
• Code Contracts is the next coding practice you should learn and use (Patrick Smacchia)
• 2000 C# Things #999 – Some Examples of UTF-16 and UTF-8 Encoding (Sean Sexton)
• Optimizing DirectX apps for low latency input and longer battery life (Jeff Piira & Bob Brown)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Changing the Composition of Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• Mini book: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives – A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises (Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders)
• State of Scrum (Matt Davey)
• 10 More Things to Drive Your Scrum Master Crazy (Marc Löffler)
• Voron Performance, the single biggest booster (Oren Eini)
• Why do I spend time on great design? To double my app downloads (Bernardo Zamora)
• Composite Pattern: Handling child node collections (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Enterprise Product Owner’s Challenge: Managing Networks of Backlogs (Nathan Slippen)
• How to configure Team Foundation Server with Release Management (Roopesh Nair)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Platform Updates: New Unity SDK Case Study and Updated iOS Developer Center (Brian Jew)
• Storing Objects in Android (Tony Siciliani)
• Using the Autodivider Feature in jQuery Mobile (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 125: Make Me a Woman (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – On Building Software with Bob Martin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Oracle SOA B2B Integration – Part 3 (Oracle Technology Network)
• IWP70 | Mobile Enterprise Application Platform | Inside Windows Phone (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 216: Longer and Larger (Gareth Myles)
• From 3D Scanner to 3D Printer on Windows 8.1 (GavinGear)
• Defrag: Bad RAID, NAS vs Storage Spaces, IPV6 | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Save the date for the second annual International Women’s Hackathon: April 24 – 27 (Athima Chansanchai)
• 130,000+ TouchDevelop Participants in the Hour of Code (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Geek of the Week: Steven Feldman of Philadelphia’s Nonprofit Technology Resources (Colleen T. Reese)

 

Database

• Improve SQL Server Efficiency by Switching to INSTEAD OF Triggers (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Alerts and How to Use Them – Notes from the Field #007 (Pinal Dave)
• Using LINQPad to query your Mongo Database (Derik Whittaker)
• Insert Multiple Items in One Line with MSSQL 2008 (Jakub Chodounský)
• MariaDB Database Disk Snapshot Backups on Windows (Anders Karlsson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic is FREE!!! (Ed Price)
• Dev Tech That Will be HOT in 2014 (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 7 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, December 18, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading December 18, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1262 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1510 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 19, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/19/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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