Dew Drop – June 27, 2014 (#1805)

Top Links

• Learning Xamarin–Extending the App (Jesse Liberty)
• A First Look at the Developer Tools for Android L Preview (Michael Crump)
• Hanselminutes – Windows Phone 8.1, Universal Apps, and the Developer Landscape with Lars Klint (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Customizing your Kendo UI Grid Columns (Rachel Hagerman)
• jQuery UI 1.11.0 (Jörn Zaefferer)
• Leaky Application? Secure HTTP Cookies in ASP.NET (Max R. McCarty)
• Ampersand.js: a New “Non-Frameworky Framework” to Rival Backbone.js (Zef Hemel)
• Draggable Dual-View Slideshow (Mary Lou)
• Debugging Web Performance With Firefox Devtools – Velocity 2014 (Nick Fitzgerald)

 

XAML

• Using Build it Beta to Test and Deploy your Windows Phone Applications (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,103 – Configuring a Splash Screen (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• WCF CORS (plus JSON & REST) – Complete Example (Dan)
• Using shared dictionary during compression (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio “14” Is Changing the C Runtime (Jeff Martin)
• Test-Driven Development with Entity Framework 6 (Peter Vogel)
• 2000 C# Things #1,127 – Where to Find Compiler Warning Numbers (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: ThrownEstimate (Martin Fowler)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google Adds 5,000 APIs to Android (Eric Zeman)
• Go Support for Android is Coming (Alec Noller)
• Android L Developer Preview and Android Studio Beta (Jamal Eason)
• PhoneGap/Cordova File System Questions (Raymond Camden)
• Lights, Camera, Action – 3D in iOS 8 with Scene Kit (Mike Bluestein)
• Getting Started with Swift, For NON-Apple Devs (Adron Hall)
• WebSockets in Windows Store Apps (Jeremy Likness)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 004 Developer Panel Discussion (Office 365 Team)
• Windows Weekly 368: Rogue Rumor Mongers (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – William Shatner (Alton Brown)

 

Community / Events

• 7 Twitter Accounts to Follow for the latest on ASP.NET vNext (Jeffrey Fritz)

 

Database

• SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode (Tim Mitchell)
• SQL Server 2014 – How to add features to existing instance ? (Rohit Garg)
• SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS) KeyColumn vs NameColumn vs ValueColumn (Scott Murray)
• SQL SERVER – Activity Monitor to Identify Blocking – Find Expensive Queries (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode (Tim Mitchell)
• Finding the last successful CHECKDB (Enrico van de Laar)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 3 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Here’s how to make training a part of your summer vacation (Stacy Warden)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, June 26, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 25, 2014 and Geek Reading June 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1639 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-27 (Dan Rigby)

 

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