Dew Drop – January 15, 2014 (#1702)

Top Links

• Register now for Build 2014 (Kevin Gallo)
• [Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, Only ] WintellectNOW celebrates 200th Video with 20 free videos, no strings attached! (Greg Duncan) – Today!
• A tale of two puzzles (Jon Skeet)
• Plan for Prism for .NET 4.5.1 (Blaine Wastell)

 

Web Development

• Angular and Backbone Live on Pluralsight (Rob Conery)
• Vintage JavaScript begone (Sam Saffron)
• JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 5 (Cover Flow Effect) (Ariya Hidayat)
• How to upload file in Node.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 8 EAP Starts Now (Ekaterina Prigara)
• AngularJS–Part 9, Values and constants (Gabriel Schenker)
• JavaScript Animation That Works (Part 1 of 4) (Steven Riche)
• Download Modern.ie Virtual Machine Score Free Pizza (Chris Love)
• Behind the notification service of “Have I been pwned?” (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• A Simple Approach to Remove QueryStrings from NavigationContext on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
• Prism for Windows 8.1 Store Apps Available (Mike Taulty)
• [Sample Of Jan 14th] How to define and access shared resources in WPF Class Library (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #987 – CollectionViewSource Updates on Refresh or Change to Collection (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1: The Windows Search API (Andrea Boschin)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The cost of working with strings (Oren Eini)
• Parsing Big Records with Json.NET (David Cox)
• Picking and Choosing Features in Your Language (Peter Vogel)
• Kinect for Windows C++ Samples (Eric Battalio)
• Porting existing .NET apps to Four Mobile Platforms with PCL (Nish Anil)
• How do I hit the Win+PrintScreen hotkey if my tablet doesn’t have a PrtSc key? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,011 – TryParse Indicates Whether a Parse Operation Will Succeed (Sean Sexton)
• Layered Architecture Sample for .NET – Leave Sample – January 2014 (for .NET 4.5.1) (CodePlex)
• Scaffolding ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer-based-models (Youngjune)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making Agile Work on Large, Complex Projects (Bob Hardister)
• Why Does Agile Fail – Lack Of Agile Experience (Dylan Smith)
• 10 Tips for Better Story Estimation (Jann Thomas)
• Announcing The Lego Flow Game (Karl Scotland)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Lets Get Push Notifications Working In PhoneGap And iOS (Burke Holland)
• Xamarin: How to Set Up an Android Device for Debugging (Marco Siccardi)
• iOS 7: Hello World Tutorial (Nick Petrov)
• Analyzing the impact of when the user is prompted to leave a review (Matt Lacey)
• Best ways to monetize your app (Lars Klint)
• Objective-C: Check if NSString is empty and Objective-C: @synthesize vs @dynamic (yffaria)
• An Overview of Mobile Debugging Techniques – Part Two (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Retro Tech Addicts Podcast 09: Back to 1993… (Gareth Myles)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Neal Brennan (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #180 – An Interview with Dave Taylor – Multi-talented Meter Maker (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• 30th anniversary videos: Father-daughter authors Steve Lambert and Joan Lambert, part 2 (Kim Spilker)
• Videos from JetBrains .NET Tools Evening in Prague (Robert Demmer)
• Scott Hanselman Unplugged in Sydney – Open Q&A on Microsoft and Azure (Scott Hanselman)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alan Morais (Willy-P. Schaub)
• I’m Presenting and a Keynote Speaker for SPTechCon in San Francisco, April 2014 (Andrew Connell)
• Microsoft’s Build 2014 and (re)building developer trust (Mary Jo Foley)
• Dev of the Week: Troy Miles (Allen Coin)
• Day 1. How to organize an event day by day: our JS CodeRetreat (Irene)
• Build 2014: This should be a doozy! (Kip Kniskern)
• Your Invited to the Texas Association of Enterprise Architects January Meeting (Mike Walker)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Survive on Free Tools for Month – “View dependencies” returning all results – The ApexSQL Search tool (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB Schema Design: How to Think Non-Relational (Rajaraman Raghuraman)
• Introduction To Rowversion (Timothy Klenke)

 

SharePoint

• Deprecation of Custom Code in Sandboxed Solutions (Brian Jones)

 

PowerShell

• Use Powershell to Send Email Notification for SQL Server Cluster Failover (Ben Snaidero)

 

Miscellaneous

• Appeals court strikes down Net Neutrality rules (Blair Hanley Frank)
• Amazon is building a secret ‘breakthrough’ device in Apple’s backyard (Emily Parkhurst)
• Visual Basic 6.0: A giant more powerful than ever (ISpliter)
• It’s official: Winamp (and Shoutcast) saved via Radionomy purchase (John Callaham)
• Microsoft: At a Threshold, or a precipice? (Kip Kniskern)
• if() (Mark Rendle)
• Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful (Scott Hanselman)
• Available now: DNG color profiles for Adobe Lightroom (Tiina Jaatinen)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 7 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 14, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 14, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1278 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1526 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 15, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/15/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

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