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Dew Drop – December 19, 2013 (#1687)

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Dew Drop – December 18, 2013 (#1686)

Web Development

Learn JavaScript: Part 1 – Create a Starfield (Dave Kerr)
JavaScript Functions is a Statement or Expression? (Dhananjay Kumar)
Using Django, Python, and MySQL on Windows Azure Web Sites: Creating a Blog Application (Mark Brown)
PhpStorm 7.1 update released: Search Everywhere, Lens Mode, SVN 1.8, Bug Fixes, Improvements & more (Mikhail Vink)
Scope $watch() vs. $watchCollection() In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
AngularJS–Part 5, pushing data to the server (Gabriel Schenker)
SEO essentials for web developers: On-page elements (Joel Klettke)

XAML

[Sample Of Dec 17th] How to implement master/detail data binding in WPF (Philip Fu)
2000 WPF Things #974 – Properties for Retrieving Selected Items in a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
Opportunities for app builders this holiday season (Windows Apps Team)

Miscellaneous .NET

What about F# collections? (Oren Eini)
JSON and the Microsoft C++ REST SDK (Gaston Hillar)
Start Building for XBox One – NOW! (Simon Jackson)
Why doesn’t the New Folder command work in the root of a redirected drive resource in a Remote Desktop session? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #998 – UTF-8 Encoding (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit testing Workflow Foundation Bookmarks… easily… (Phillip Haydon)
Keeping the Startup Mentality and Energy Alive (Peter Saddington)
Voron Performance, let go off that tree, dude! (Oren Eini)
Are We Solving The Right Problem? (Mike Cottmeyer)
Designing for exponential trends of 2014 (Steven Sinofsky)
Identifying Loss Aversion in Software Design (Zac Gery)

Other Mobile Platforms

Glass Developer Kit Enables Developers to Build Apps for Google Glass using Xamarin.Android (Anand Narayanaswamy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Implementing a Loading Splash Screen for your Windows Phone App | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Bret Bentzinger)
The Nerdist Podcast – Laina Morris and The Nerdist Podcast – Will Forte (Chris Hardwick)
The Amp Hour #176 – Funding New/Manufacturing Old Projects – Radical Robotic Requisition (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
AngularJS for .NET Developers (Pluralsight) (Joe Eames & Jim Cooper)

Community / Events

How to Run a Successful Open Source Project (Mike Hadlow)
Dev of the Week: Peter Zaitsev (Allen Coin)
Pluralsight Author Summit 2014: Call for speakers (Chad Utley)
The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Katie & James (Eric Smith)
Refactoring and code reviewing my very first application- join an educational refactoring OSS project! (Iris Classon)
MVP Developed Coloris App Shines in Windows Store (MVP Award Program)
Developer Tools US Public Sector Upcoming Webcasts (MS Public Sector Team)
Agile Practitioners 2014 conference (Dror Helper)

Database

Introducing Managed Backups in SQL Server 2014 (Grant Fritchey)
SQL SERVER – How to Survive on Free Tools for Month – ApexSQL Complete – A Free SQL Assistant (Pinal Dave)
Building the perfect database release experience (Justin Caldicott)
RECOMPILE Hints and Execution Plan Caching (Kendra Little)

PowerShell

Powershell in a Month– Day 4 and 5 – Providers (Steve Jones)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Office chief DelBene to head up Healthcare.gov revamp (Mary Jo Foley)
Streamlined Sharing Arrives on OneNote and Bing Apps (Bing Apps Team)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript Patterns JumpStart Guide (Cleanup your JavaScript Code) eBook: Dan Wahlin: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00EW43638

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Dew Drop – December 17, 2013 (#1685)

Web Development

Minty: Working The Evented Pattern (Rob Conery)
Exploring TypeScript: JQuery Parallax Starfield (Bill Wagner)
Microsoft: Skype runs on Windows Azure; SkyDrive up next (Mary Jo Foley)
New tutorial for migrating applications with membership and User Profile information from Universal Providers to ASP.NET Identity (.NET Web Development and Tools Blog)
Learn JavaScript: Part 1 – Create a Starfield (Dave Kerr)
JavaScript Functions is a Statement or Expression? (Dhananjay Kumar)
IFileClient – Generalizing storage access in ASP.NET web applications (Gunnar Peipman)
Secure by default with SSL in Windows Azure Web Sites (Tomasz Janczuk)
Robots.txt Module for Orchard CMS using Infoset (David Hayden)
What You May Not Know About Z-Index and Line Menu Icon… That Is A Menu (Chris Coyier)
Studying Go language (golang) (Rinat Abdullin)
GitHub Pages just got easier (Tobias Ahlin)

XAML

Blend and the Global User Interface font mystery (Laurent Bugnion)
2000 WPF Things #973 – Keyboard Shortcuts for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
Long Filenames in Windows 8 (Kenny Kerr)
VisualStates and the missing Snapped mode made easy in Windows Store Apps (Iris Classon)
Change in sequence for body.onload event for Windows 8.1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Integrating SemanticZoom with Hub in Windows 8.1 (Houssem Dellai)
Developing apps that use image scanners in Windows 8.1 (Monica Czarny)
Building an Appointment Tracking App by using the Telerik WP Cloud Components – Part 3 (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous .NET

What about F# collections? (Oren Eini)
Problem Calling POST Service Operations Using the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Client for Windows Store apps (Glenn Gailey)
TFS Administration Tool 2.3 (aka 2013 Version) Now Available and Bing Code Snippets – C#, JavaScript, HTML and XML code snippets for Bing dev’s and Team Foundation Server 2013 Collaboration Provider for Skype Released… (Greg Duncan)
Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – Quick Launch (Where was that option/menu item?) (Susan Ibach)
PostSharp 3.1 Goes RTM With More Licensing Options (Iveta Moldavcuk)
Elasticsearch and .Net (Christiaan Baes)
How much bias is introduced by the remainder technique? (Eric Lippert)
Disabling the PrtSc key by blocking input (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #997 – UTF-16 Encoding, Part II (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Pause to Make a Smarter Next Move (J.D. Meier)
Visualizing A Git Merge Without A Rebase (Ben Nadel)
Diversify Your User Experience Career (Cory Lebson)
The Value of Testing (James Padolsey)
Generalized Conway’s law (Jérémie Chassaing)
The Runtime Performance Checklist (Paul Lewis)

Other Mobile Platforms

An Introduction to the Android NDK (Alec Noller)
Batteries in mobile devices (Matt Lacey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – GPUs on the Web with Steve Sanderson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Nerdist Podcast – Taran Killam (Chris Hardwick)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 142 – “Fail Fast” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Defrag Tools: #69 – Windows 8.1 – XML Load Crash | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Imagine Cup TV Episode 017: New Winners & New Contests | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
Lucas Joppa Connecting Environmental and Computer Science (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

Getting ready for CES 2014 and The Internet of Stuff (Ed Bott)
2014 Grads: Can you imagine your life after college? (Melody Bolton)
SQL Contest – USD 100 Gift Card and Attractive Discount from Devart (Pinal Dave)
Easy Ways to Contribute to Open-source Projects (Rey Bango)
Top Microsoft engineer makes the hardest decision of his life and packs his bags for Google (Seth Brodeur)

Database

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Administration (Ian Stirk)
Registered Servers in SQL Server Management Studio (Jakub Chodounský)

PowerShell

Managing Your HDInsight Cluster using PowerShell – Update (Carl Nolan)
Powershell’s Desired State Configuration Supports Push And Pull Modes (Joao Miranda)
PowerShell Security Best Practices (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

Software Developer Gifts (And Other Tech Geek Gifts) (John Sonmez)

The Geek Shelf

Kindle – Best-Selling Ereader – Only $69

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