Dew Drop – December 27, 2013 (#1691)

Top Links

• Durandal Next Gen Sneak Peek and Herding Code Podcast (Rob Eisenberg)
• Setting HTML Styles with Binding in Windows 8 WinJS Apps (Phil Japikse)
• How to customize the generated files from the New Scaffolded Item dialog (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)

 

Web Development

• Installing DHTMLX Scheduler and Gantt Chart with Bower or NuGet (dhtmlx Team)
• ‘this’ in JavaScript vs C# (Anders Abel)
• WebStorm 7.0.3 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• How to install all web development tools needed for Ghost on Mac (Simone Chiaretta)

 

XAML

• WPF Information Controls – TextBlock Basics (Richard Carr)
• Nokia Imaging and Big UI Wiki Competition entry: Advanced Techniques for Big UI (Toni Petrina)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Entity Data Modeling with Visual Studio (James Serra)
• Reducing the cost of writing to disk (Oren Eini)
• Inmeta Visual Studio Extension Gallery – version 2.0 (Jakob Ehn)
• More Kinect SDK v2 from the field… (Greg Duncan)
• Why is GetWindowLongPtr returning a garbage value on 64-bit Windows? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strategy Defined (J.D. Meier)
• Many Times Simple is Best (Wally McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap or Cordova? Don’t confuse and tell me the differences! (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Jerry Stahl (Chris Hardwick)
• How You Are Wasting Your Time (John Sonmez)

 

Community / Events

• Small Basic Interview – Nonki Takahashi! (Ed Price)

 

Database

• Parallel execution of child SQL Server Integration Services Packages using For Loop Containers (Pavel Pawlowski)
• Importing XML documents using SQL Server Integration Services (Scott Murray)
• MySQL – How to Change Delimiter in MySQL – Supporting GO Keyword of SQL Server in MySQL (Pinal Dave)
• Big Data Basics – Part 1 – Introduction to Big Data (Dattatrey Sindol)
• How to Cache Stored Procedure Results (Brent Ozar)
• Working With IndexedDB – Part 3 (Raymond Camden)

 

PowerShell

• Holiday Gift – Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit Wave-1 (Narayanan (Nana) Lakshmanan)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to run old but awesome games from the 90s on your new computer with DOSBox (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 26, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1514 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #63 (Jason Strate)
• Double Shot #1265 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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