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Dew Drop – February 20, 2015 (#1959)

Top Links

Make WPF Hawt Again (Michael Crump)
Code Sharing Strategies for iOS & Mac (Michael James)
IFTTT introduces three new apps to automate the world around you (Casey Newton)
Roslyn Code Gems – Counting Bits (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

Key Trends in Building Enterprise Applications with HTML5 (Arthur Kay)
Services in AngularJS simplified with examples (Dhananjay Kumar)
Create a Photo Gallery with Kendo UI and ASP.NET MVC (Matt Millican)
Azure Data Services: See how to share a file using Azure File Storage (Part 6) (Adarsha Datta)
Polylion (Chris Coyier)
Add a Data Driven Combobox to ExtJS Form (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous .NET

Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Compare – The circle of life (a post-mortem) (Oren Eini)
Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 18 (Brian Harry)
Submitting HDInsight Storm Applications from Visual Studio – Gotcha! (Elton Stoneman)
Exploring the Windows Forms controls in our new Cashflow Dashboard (DevToolsGuy)
Proper benchmarking to diagnose and solve a .NET serialization bottleneck (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Retreaded: ConversationalStories (Martin Fowler)
Diana Larsen talks about Agile Fluency, Barriers to Agility and the value of Open Space Technology (Shane Hastie)
Simplicity Principles and Anti-Patterns (Timothy Klenke)
How to be web content agnostic (and why you should) (Benjie Moss)
What Should I Do With Free Time At Work? (Douglas Coleman)
User Story Map (Matt Davey)
Variations in event-driven architecture (Rachel Roumeliotis)
Software Development Guidelines to Live By (Tony Sneed)
Why You Should Use Markdown for Your API Documentation (Peter Gruenbaum)
The Power of Questions in Artifact Design (Michael Robillard)
Slack is now available for Windows desktop in beta form (Jonathan Dollison)

Other Mobile Platforms

Apple Watch – oData and Images (Richard Jones)
Azure IoT services: Event Hubs (Rob Tiffany)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 034 on the Office client extensibility story with Rolando Jimenez Salgado (Jeremy Thake)
Hanselminutiae 15 with Richard Campbell – Recorded as a Google Hangout, we talk all things tech (Scott Hanselman)
SQL Server Radio Show 16 – SQL Server Horror Stories (Matan Yungman)
030 AiA Angular Interns with Rodric Haddad and Anting Shen (John Papa)
AAWP Insight #129: Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones (Rafe Blandford)
App Biz Dev Episode 25: AppBoy for All (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
Windows Weekly 401: Better Call Aul with Daniel Rubino (Richard Devine)

Community / Events

Upcoming Talks and Classes (G. Andrew Duthie)
How to build a female-friendly culture (Aaron Skonnard)
OneDrive turns One. Thanks for a great year! (Omar Shahine)
Microsoft Research joins diversity in computing conference (Vanessa Ho)
Code Hunt: February Challenge is Here! (Kevin Maginn)
Happy 25th Birthday Photoshop! Let’s Get Mobile! (A.J. Wood)

Database

Changing SQL Server Collation After Installation (Douglas P. Castilho)
SQL Server Covering Index Performance (Fikrat Azizov)
SQL SERVER – Finding Top Offenders in SQL Server 2012 – Notes from the Field #068 (Pinal Dave)
Exploring Data at Scale with New Capabilities in Application Insights and Metrics Explorer (Andrew Bragdon)
9 Ways to Lose Your Data (Brent Ozar)
RAD – Outlier Detection on Big Data (Chris Colburn)
Reliable database tests with Respawn (Jimmy Bogard)
Protect Sensitive Data with SQL Database Dynamic Data Masking (Shaun Xu)

PowerShell

Powershell Quick Parameters for Scripts (Steve Jones)
Like vs. Match: Battle of the Powershell operators (Adam Bertram)
DSC Local Configuration Manager Refresh Modes in WMF 5.0 (Ravikanth C)
Drive inventory for clustered SQL Server instances using PowersShell (Johan Bijnens)

Miscellaneous

The Windows 8 scrap heap: 10 features that didn’t make it to Windows 10 (Ed Bott)
Forget bloatware, Lenovo is installing adware on new PCs (Harish Jonnalagadda)
100GB free OneDrive storage through Bing Rewards is now available for everyone (Harish Jonnalagadda)
These tablets are ready for Windows 10 (Simon Sage)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading February 19, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1476 and Double Shot #1477 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 2/19/2015 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1804 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-20 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 19th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers): Bruce A. Tate: 9781934356593: Books

ISBN: 193435659X
ISBN-13: 9781934356593

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Dew Drop – January 26, 2015 (#1940)

Top Links

Building C#/ASP.NET Apps on a Mac With vNext (Jeremy Morgan)
A new library to display animated GIFs in XAML apps (Thomas Levesque)
Creating a Task Application for iOS using Swift (Michael Crump)
Separating Concerns in Methods (Jeremy Clark)

Web Development

Providing State-Transformation Triggers Using $location In AngularJS and $route Must Be Injected In Order To Enable The $routeChangeSuccess Event In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Adding Azure Active Directory Configuration Code and Assemblies into an AngularJS/ASP.NET MVC Application and Adding Azure Active Directory and OWIN Code into an AngularJS/ASP.NET MVC Application to Handle User Authentication (Dan Wahlin)
Kendo ObservableObject subclasses: prototype vs init (Adam Anderson)
Cache Busting via Gulp.js (Cory House)
Declare that function! But, how? (Julian M. Bucknall)
Using Grunt.js to Merge and Minify JavaScript files in an ASP.NET MVC Application (Mahesh Sabnis)
Fun with ASP.NET 5, Linux & Docker (Mark Rendle)
JavaScript and the living ECMAScript Standard (Andrea Giammarchi)
ASP.NET Identity 2.1 implementation for MySQL (Radenko Zec)
Node.js and TypeScript Modules: Internal, External… Shake it All About (Steve Wilkes)
DOM: element constructors and DOM: custom elements (Anne van Kesteren)
Automatic deployment of multiple repositories to Azure (Bertrand Le Roy)
Respond to different formats in Rails controller (Jakub Chodounský)
es6-destructuring (Axel Rauschmayer)
The ultimate guide to SVG (Ezequiel Bruni)
Symbols in ES6 (K. Scott Allen)
AngularJS’ Internals In Depth (Nicolas Bevacqua)
The danger of the ‘Just Use WebKit’ mindset and Microsoft’s Project Spartan and speculating Internet Explorer’s future (Aaron Powell)

XAML

Xamarin.Forms, Windows Phone, Azure Active Directory and iOS (Nick Randolph)
WinRT Background Task Processes (Peter Freeman Foot)
WPF Shapes – Path – Polyline Segments (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

TPL Dataflow by Example code samples for LINQPad (Howard van Rooijen)
Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java (Paul Mooney)
Internet of Things: What about C# there? (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
Visual Studio Time Saver–the layout you want when you want it (Susan Ibach)
New and improved diff lists (Koen Zwikstra)
Entity Framework Pitfalls: Mapping Discriminator Columns (Ricardo Peres)
Simplifying Events in .NET (John L. Vidal)
.NET API Review Part 2 (Jonathan Allen)
Why Analytics? (Merav Davidson)
Helper functions to make shell bind contexts slightly more manageable (Raymond Chen)
Implementing std::tuple From The Ground Up – Part 3: Constructing Tuples (Sasha Goldshtein)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern and Design Patterns: The Strategy Pattern and Design Patterns: The Simple Factory Pattern (Avinash Zala)
Using the “Worse is Better” Concept with Agile and Lean and Feedback Cycles in Scrum and The State of Testing in 2015 (Ben Linders)
Attention is the Currency of Leadership (Charlie Kindel)
Don’t Share Code Between Microservices (Jan Stenberg)
Integrating NCover Pre-Instrumentation Into Your Build Process (Kerry Meade)
The Beauty (And The Beast) Of Code Generators (Lee Brandt)
Most Important Tip To Be Productive At Work (Mahesh Chand)
The Star Wars Death Star – from a Tester’s Perspective (Michael Mak)
5 Top Tools That Every Scrum Master Should Know About (Luis Gonçalves)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin build server is too old? (Corrado Cavalli)
Redefining Everything with the Swift REPL (Swift Team)
Swift from Scratch: Closures (Bart Jacobs)
Now Available in Dev Center: Windows Download Badges in More Languages (Bernardo Zamora)
Debugging Azure Active Directory Authentication with Azure Mobile Service .NET Backend When Running Locally (Nick Randolph)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 351: Jeff Fritz on ASP.NET 5 (David Giard)
MNR 533: The Audio track from our G+ Hangout on Xbox on Windows 10 and HoloLens (Larry Hyrb)
The Nerdist Podcast – Jason Lee and Sam Trammell (Chris Hardwick)
MS Dev Show – DevOps with Steven Murawski (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
The Changelog 138: Rocket, App Container Spec, and CoreOS with Alex Polvi (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Get Up And Code 75: A Pirate’s Life For Daryl (Douglas Coleman)
TWC9: Windows 10: The Next Chapter Episode | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
Episode 166: Azure Data Factory with Anand Subbaraj | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live! Water World (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Video: A Better Way to Reindex (Jen McCown)

Community / Events

Xamarin MVPs Expand with More Awesome! (Joseph Hill)
A Formal SuperSite Intro from Me, Jason Snell (Jason Snell)
15 habits of an ineffective networker: What not to do at your next event (Mónica Guzmán)
IT Pros: Trade Your Tech Support Stories for a Surface Pro 3 (Azure Team)

Database

Common Issues After Upgrading to SSRS 2014 and the BIDS Helper Tool (Scott Murray)
Introduction to Mainframe Data Storage for SSIS Developers (Daniel Farina)
SQL SERVER – How to Bind Resource Governor for InMemory Enabled Databases? and Interview Question of the Week #004 – List All Columns and Their Data Type for a View (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Install and Configure SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 SP1 and 2014 in SharePoint Integrated Mode Part 1 (Edwin Sarmiento)

PowerShell

Get Total Line Counts for all SQL Server Source Objects Using PowerShell (Jeffrey Yao)
The Wonderful World of PowerShell Filtering and Globbing (Lee Holmes)
Get SSH public key fingerprint with PowerShell (Mike Koerner)
Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Assigning IP addresses to VM Adapters (Final Part) (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

Xbox on Windows TP2 Release – Feature Summary (Xbox Wire)
Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 January preview for desktops (Mary Jo Foley)
Hiring for VS Online and Team Foundation Server (Brian Harry)
Here’s how to enable the Spartan Edge rendering engine for IE11 in Windows 10 (Daniel Rubino)
Small Basic on Mac (Nonki Takahashi)
Could Microsoft’s HoloLens Be The Real Deal? (Paul Tassi)

More Link Collections

Reading Notes #170 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #152 (Pedro Botelho)
Geek Reading January 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Daily News Digest 1/26/2015 (Silverlight Show)
Last Week on Channel 9: January 19th – January 25th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1785 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-23 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-01-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-01-26 (Dan Rigby)
Friday Links #339 (Mike Ward)
Weekly Programming Digest #91 (Jakub Chodounský)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 23rd, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 26th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Adaptive Code via C#: Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles (Developer Reference): Gary McLean Hall: 9780735683204: Books

ISBN: 0735683204
ISBN-13: 9780735683204

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Dew Drop – July 28, 2014 (#1823)

Top Links

Implementing truly timed Windows Phone app trials with Azure Mobile Services (Shawn Kendrot)
Angularjs + TypeScript – setting up a basic application with Visual Studio 2013 (Joost van Schaik)
Learn the Basics of Color Theory to Know What Looks Good (Mihir Patkar)
A step by step guide to developing Visual Studio item templates using SideWaffle (Richard Kerslake)

Web Development

[Sample Of July 25] How to change the content type of Windows Azure blob storage (Bo Song)
GitHub’s CSS (Chris Coyier)
Guide to Responsive-Friendly CSS Columns (Katy Decorah)
Using AngularJS to Extend Your Code Quality (Jeremy Likness)
Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building larger primitives (Jimmy Bogard)
Writing Node.js Addons (Maciej Sopyło)
ASP.NET MVC 6: New HttpContext (Gunnar Peipman)
So what’s the different between Responsive Web Design, Adaptive Web Design and RESS? (Aaron T. Grogg)
Dispatched and direct method calls in ECMAScript 5 and 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
Using Grunt-TSD w/ Node (Derik Whittaker)
Syncfusion JS components compatibility with Twitter Bootstrap (Syncfusion JavaScript Team)
No further development on Simple.Web (Mark Rendle)
Why Javascript Developers Should Get Excited About Object.observe() (Lauren Orsini)

XAML

2000 WPF Things #1,123 – Localization IV – Download and Build the LocBaml Tool (Sean Sexton)
WPF Base Classes – MenuBase (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

7 reasons C++ devs will love the VS 14 CTP (Nish Sivakumar)
How do I obtain the computer manufacturer’s name from C++? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,147 – Why Generics Don’t Support Covariance (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

BDDfy V4 (Mehdi Khalili)
Test Attribute #6 – Maintenance (Gil Zilberfeld)

Other Mobile Platforms

F# Native App Development on iOS and Android (Sergio De Simone)
Introducing DZone’s 2014 Guide to Internet of Things (Alec Noller)
Swift Variables and Constants (Mark Petherbridge)
Windows for IoT, First Impressions (Valter Minute)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Herding Code 194: Hadi Hariri on Kotlin, Nitra, and Developing In A Decade (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Scott Koon & Kevin Dente)
Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 008 with Brian Jones (Office 365 Team)
SSW TV – Introduction to iBeacons with Xamarin – Rod Howarth (SSW Team)
Episode 146: Azure Tooling in Visual Studio with Boris Scholl and Catherine Wang | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
TWC9: New Unified Tech Event, CH9 WP8 & 360 App’s, Node.js for Visual Studio and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
The Nerdist Podcast – Eli Roth (Chris Hardwick)
StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live: Big Brains at BAM (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community / Events

Boston Area Geek Dinner: Tuesday July 29, 2014 (Jason Haley)
Build Your First F# Mobile App Contest Winners (Aleks Fonseca)
Announcing the 2nd Web European Conference, next Spring, in Italy (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

Microsoft Encourages Oracle Migrations to SQL Server 2014 (David Ramel)
MySQL – UDF – Validate Integer Function and SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Transaction Reports (Pinal Dave)
Small touches: Complex text in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

From the MVPs: Why SharePoint on Azure? (Tom Resing)

PowerShell

Managing NuGet Packages with StudioShell (Jim Christopher)
#PSTip Show friendly GPO names with Get-ADOrganizationalUnit (Jaap Brasser)

Miscellaneous

Six clicks: Microsoft Word tricks to make you an instant expert (Ed Bott)
Small Basic Game Programming – Separation Between Data And Procedure (Nonki Takahashi)

More Link Collections

Collective #126 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1391 (Mike Gunderloy)
Geek Reading July 25, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1660 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: July 28, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 7/28/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #150 (Frank)
Reblog: July 18 to July 24 (Jason Strate)
Friday Links #314 (Mike Ward)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-28 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Programming Digest #72 (Jakub Chodounský)

The Geek Shelf

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests: Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce: 9780321503626: Books

ISBN: 0321503627
ISBN-13: 9780321503626

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