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Dew Drop – April 25, 2014 (#1763)

Top Links

Now, we’re one Microsoft: open letter from Stephen Elop (Tiina Jaatinen)
Microsoft morphs into a hardware giant with Nokia deal completion (Tom Warren)
.NET Native Performance (Xy Ziemba & Andrew Pardoe)
Why CoffeeScript Isn’t the Answer and What I Think CoffeeScript Should Have Been (Jeff Walker)

Web Development

Aborting AJAX Requests Using $http And AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Posting raw JSON to ASP.NET Web API (Darrel Miller)
PhpStorm 8 EAP 136.1768 (Mikhail Vink)
Video Streaming with ASP.NET SignalR and HTML5 (Ricardo Peres)
Canceling $http Requests in AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
Pub/Sub In Node.js Apps Using Azure Service Bus Topics (Shiju Varghese)
Using Octokit.net to authenticate your app with GitHub (Phil Haack)
The interoperability of Web Component polyfills (Axel Rauschmayer)
Exploring the Layout System in Ext JS 5 and Sencha Touch (Ivan Jouikov)

XAML

Silverlight: Where Do We Go From Here? (Jeremy Likness)
Windows Phone 8.1 for developers – App packaging with appx (Andreas Hammar)
Windows Phone 8.1 for developers – Using the Credential Locker (Johan Silfversparre)
[Sample Of Apr 24th] How to Edit XPS file in WPF (Philip Fu)
2000 WPF Things #1059 – Clipping vs. Resizing in a Grid (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Missing NuGet Packages and Visual Studio (Derik Whittaker)
NDepend to analyze F# code (Kurt Schelfthout)
2000 C# Things #1,083 – Using Visual Studio to Verify Little-Endianness (Sean Sexton)
Visual Studio 2013 Installer Projects – Hello World Installer (Tarun Arora)
Throwback Thursday – C++ Iterator of the Week (James Curran)
Microsoft Application Insights: going deep without polluting your source code (Gael Fraiteur)
dotMemory 4.0 out, dotTrace on sale (Olga Kosyreva)
New CodeRush Plugin Template – NewContext (Rory Becker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Estimation for Release Planning (Ben Linders)
Continuous Delivery – More Releases With Less Risk (Steve Smith)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin and MvvmCross on Android (Alexander Persson)
Add Some Sweet Sound to Your App (Mike Bluestein)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Stack Exchange Podcast #57 – We Just Saw This On Florp (Abby T. Miller)
Hanselminutes – Hacking the Creative Mind with Denise Jacobs (Scott Hanselman)
SharePoint Enterprise Search with Agnes Molnar-SharePoint Pod Show Episode 86 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
RavenDB Conf Videos: Diving into Voron (Oren Eini)
IWP74: Thomas Fennel on the Windows Notification Platform | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
Azure SQL Database introduces new service tiers | Windows Azure Storage & SQL Database (Scott Klein)
What the Tech 208: Facebook Behavior and Windows Weekly 359: Microsoft Mobile, Oy! (Paul Thurrott)
The Alton Browncast – Samantha Brown (Alton Brown)
The Nerdist Podcast – Rhys Darby (Chris Hardwick)
The Edge Show #100 milestone. Azure Automation with Joey Levy. | Edge (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Symon Perriman & Simon May)

Community / Events

What Can Men Do? (Jeff Atwood)

PowerShell

Learn Powershell – ExecutionPolicy (Gregor Suttie)
Prompt for a password with a mask using Powershell (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

Reading between Microsoft CEO Nadella’s lines: On courage, subscriptions and unique value (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft completes its acquisition of Nokia (Rich Edmonds)
Review: The Linksys WRT1900AC Dual-Wireless Router is the second coming of the WRT54G (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1342 (Mike Gunderloy)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 24, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading April 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Community Update 2014-04-24 #javascript, #nodejs, #ocktokit, #aspnet, #nuget and whole lot of #elasticsearch (Maxime Rouiller)
The Morning Brew #1596 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: April 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 4/25/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-25 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

iOS 7 By Tutorials: Christine Abernathy, Soheil Moayedi Azarpour, Colin Eberhardt, Charlie Fulton, Matt Galloway, Greg Heo, Matthijs Hollemans, Felipe Laso Marsetti, Jeremy Olson, Pietro Rea, Cesare Rocchi, Marin Todorov, Chris Wagner: 9780989675109: Books

ISBN: 0989675106
ISBN-13: 9780989675109

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Dew Drop – March 10, 2014 (#1739)

Top Links

Reusable async validation for WPF with Prism 4.2 (Brian Noyes)
ECMAScript 6 Features Overview (Luke Hoban)
A close-up look at Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Ed Bott)
The Tablet Show – Building a Cross Platform Mobile App with Greg Shackles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

Node.js Infographic (Frank LaVigne)
Per request tracing in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
Working with Multiple Selection in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
API Versioning in ASP.NET Web API 2.1 (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
Creating Charts using HTML5 and SVG (Mahesh Sabnis)
Event-driven application design with JavaScript (Patrick Mulder)
WCF Web HTTP Service: why and how (Dhananjay Kumar)
Extending Built-in Objects in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Untangle Your JavaScript with Browserify (Brandon Konkle)
Mastering the DOM access (100 lines of JavaScript) (Krasimir Tsonev)
Why In Sencha’s ExtJS or Sencha Touch Source is so Important (Peter Kellner)
A Closer Look at the Identity Client Implementation in SPA Template (Ravi Kiran)

XAML

Astrophotography with Windows Phone Part 1: The Hardware Interface (Joel Ivory Johnson)
Get ready for the ratings and getting going with the Windows Phone Rate My App (Greg Duncan)
Reading and Writing to Excel files using WPF 4.5 (Mahesh Sabnis)
2000 WPF Things #1,025 – Small and Large Changes to the Value of a Slider (Sean Sexton)
Silverlight available in the SDK Samples Browser (Vladimir Amiorkov)
Extending your app theme into the SystemTray (Shawn Kendrot)
High Performance Windows Store Apps (Eric Lippert)

Miscellaneous .NET

A Text-Based Box Generator (Richard Carr)
Team Member IDE in the Cloud, more possibilities… Complete Team (Clemens Reijnen)
Enhancements to Debugging Exceptions with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013 (Nitin Choubey)
Combining F# and Simple.Web to Break SqlEntityConnection (James D’Angelo)
[Sample Of Mar 9th] How to bulk update the hyperlink field for TFS workitems (Philip Fu)
Microsoft Point of Service for .NET v1.14 (POS for .NET) (MS Downloads)
NCover Update March 2014 (Kerry Meade)
Code generation pros and cons and T4 Template (Mehdi Khalili)
Converting from a UTC-based SYSTEMTIME directly to a local-time-based SYSTEMTIME (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,049 – Full List of Implicit Numeric Conversions (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework – My Study Notes (Peter Saddington)
Tests as part of your code (Jef Claes)
Five Hidden Costs of Selenium (Jim Holmes)
Visual design is nothing without UX design (Matt Lacey)

Other Mobile Platforms

How to Handle Memory Management in Android (Alec Noller)
Barcode Scanner Sample, and New Repo for Cordova Examples (Raymond Camden)
Android SDK For Wearables Coming In 2 Weeks, Says Google (Natasha Lomas)
Using Google Fonts in a PhoneGap App and Installing the Best Android Dev Environment: Intellij IDEA and Genymotion Emulator (Troy Miles)
iOS 7 in-line UIDatePicker – Part 2 (Vasilica Costescu)
Windows Phone 8 native and Javascript interop (Alexander Persson)
Experience developing a Windows Phone 8 app with Html5 and Javascript (Alexander Persson)
SQLite on mobile devices – UNIQUE NULL (Eric Sink)
What you test as part of your app and what people perceive as being your app (Matt Lacey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 308 – Nick Landry on Windows Speech SDK (David Giard)
Engadget Podcast 387 – 3.7.14 (Jon Turi)
MNR 502: Xbox One System Update (Larry Hyrb)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 122 (Richard Hay)
How to share your Windows Phone 8 Screen Over the Internet using Nokia Beamer (Michael Crump)
The Alton Browncast – Sparks – Martin Lawrence Galleries, USA (Alton Brown)
Hello World Podcast Episode 15: John Papa (Shawn Wildermuth)
The Nerdist Podcast – Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns Again and The Nerdist Podcast – William Katt (Chris Hardwick)
The Married Gamers Episode 328: Changing Hearts and Minds (Chris Brown)
Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 9, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
Get Up And Code 044: Eric Smith Loses 90 Pounds (John Sonmez)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries with Bill Nye and Astro Mike (Bill Nye)
GeekWire Radio: Filling the gap between college and the working world (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

Database

SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Association Rules Data Mining Example (Dallas Snider)
SqlSmash: A productivity plugin for Sql Server Management Studio (Latish Sehgal)
Example of SQL CLR in SQL Server (Paresh Prajapati)
Handle conversion between time zones in SQL Server – part 2 (Aaron Bertrand)
MySQL – Generating Row Number for Each Row using Variable and MySQL – Reset Row Number for Each Group – Partition By Row Number and MySQL – How to do Natural Join in MySQL? – A Key Difference Between Inner Join and Natural Join (Pinal Dave)
Regular Expressions, Part 3: Business Intelligence Uses (Ondrej Balas)
Conditional logic in Power Query (Chris Webb)
Top 2 Features of Power Query (Melissa Coates)

SharePoint

Office Web Widgets—Experimental (Office Developer Team)

PowerShell

PowerShell, help me to publish my SSRS reports to SharePoint! (Rayis I.)
Compress SharePoint logs using PowerShell (Simon H.)

Miscellaneous

A second (final?) “beta” of the text file importer for OneNote 2013 (John Guin)
Neil Young’s high-fidelity iPod competitor will cost $399 (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading March 7, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1314 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five – March 7, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
Pie in the Sky (March 7th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
Collective #106 (Mary Lou)
The Daily Six Pack: March 10, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 3/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1564 (Chris Alcock)
Friday Links #294 (Mike Ward)
Reblog: February 28 to March 6 (Jason Strate)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-10 (Dan Rigby)
.NET Weekly Digest #53 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja: John Resig, Bear Bibeault: 9781933988696: Books

ISBN: 193398869X
ISBN-13: 9781933988696

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Dew Drop – December 30, 2013 (#1692)

Top Links

C# for Systems Programming (Joe Duffy)
A glimpse into a new general purpose programming language under development at Microsoft (Charles Torre)
Microsoft’s Midori: The M# connection (Mary Jo Foley)
URL rewrite and the www subdomain (Mads Kristensen)

Web Development

JavaScript gains support for SIMD (Axel Rauschmayer)
Minifying your HTML (Dave Paquette)
WebStorm 7.0.3 (Ekaterina Prigara)
AngularJS–Part 6, Templates and AngularJS–Part 7, Getting ready to test (Gabriel Schenker)
PhpStorm 7.1.1 EAP 133.437 (Mikhail Vink)
Creating Custom Application Events in WinJS (Phil Japikse)
Responsive Web Design vs Adaptive Web Design (Chris Love)
What is the DOM? (Chris Coyier)
OWIN/Katana in-memory integration testing (Filip W)
Coding With Koding (Gabriel Manricks)

XAML

Windows Phone : localize your App name (Jonathan Antoine)
Real world json parsing in WinRT (Andreas Hammar)
Comparing Third Party Windows Phone Controls (Lori Lalonde)
[Sample Of Dec 27th] How to add validation to a ListBox in WPF and [Sample Of Dec 29th] How to create a sample music player supporting playlist in Silverlight. (Philip Fu)

Miscellaneous .NET

Async/Await & ‘Does not contain a definition for GetAwaiter’ error (Derik Whittaker)
Is use of default parameters/optional arguments a bad practice in C#? (Q263) (Iris Classon)
Creating DJango Application with Python in Visual Studio (Jalpesh Vadgama)
An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 5: Objects and Exceptions (Steve Gilham)
Kinect v1 vs Kinect v2 – RGB and Depth sensors (András Velvárt)
Brief Q&A on the HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption heap information flag (Raymond Chen)
Back To Basics: COM Interop and No-PIA (Sasha Goldshtein)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scratch folder for a unit test (Alois Kraus)
Making the Web Secure, One Unit Test at a Time (Gareth Rushgrove)
The Power of Annual Reviews for Achieving Your Goals and Realizing Your Potential (J.D. Meier)
Article: Retrospectives Applied as “PROspectives” (Hans-Peter Korn)
Advise the user when something bad may happen but don’t necessarily prevent it. (Matt Lacey)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin Studio 4.2 Introduces Improved Account Management, Project System, Debugging and Bug Fixes (Anand Narayanaswamy)
A PhoneGap Discussion Around Files, API Calls, and Security (Raymond Camden)
New UI Article and Architectural Presentation on PhoneGap (Andrew Trice)
Add UINavigationController to UITabbarController Programatically (Mark Petherbridge)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Engadget Podcast 374 – 12.26.13 (Jon Turi)
Video: How to create JavaScript Objects using Object.create (Dhananjay Kumar)
Inside Microsoft Production Studios | Microspotting (Larry Larsen)
The Nerdist Podcast – Honestly 2013 (Chris Hardwick)
The Tablet Show – Hybrid vs. Native Mobile Apps with Brandon Satrom (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
089 JSJ The Node Security Project with Adam Baldwin (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
People Talking Tech – Denny and the Midnight DBAs (Denny Cherry)
Get Up And Code 34: Breaking Your Running Plateau (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)

Community / Events

Mobile World Congress 2014 (Kip Kniskern)

Database

Top 10 Signs Your SQL Server is Neglected (Kendra Little)
SQL SERVER – MySQL – How to Concat Strings? and SQL SERVER – MySQL – LIMIT and OFFSET – Skip and Return Only Next Few Rows – Paging Solution (Pinal Dave)
Creating Filtered Indexes using SQL Server Management Studio (Richard Carr)
Deleting Duplicate rows using CTE (Vivek Johari)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft applies for trademark on ‘Mod’ (Mary Jo Foley)
How to Hire a Programmer? (by Jeff Atwood) (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
Stay safe — flush your Windows cache to disk with Sysinternals Sync (Mike Williams)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 28, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 29, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 30, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading December 29, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Collective #96 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1265 and Double Shot #1266 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1514 (Chris Alcock)
Friday Links #284 (Mike Ward)
Reblog: December 20 to December 26 (Jason Strate)
The Daily Six Pack: December 30, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Runtime via C# eBook: Jeffrey Richter, Maarten van de Bospoort: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00GWUHQYK

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