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Dew Drop – March 5, 2014 (#1736)

Top Links

Upcoming .NET NuGet Releases (Richard Lander)
Knockout.js 3.1 Released (Ryan Niemeyer)
Implementing CRUD Activities in a TypeScript ViewModel (Peter Vogel)
Repositories On Top UnitOfWork Are Not a Good Idea (Rob Conery)

Web Development

The JavaScript Alternatives (Andrew Binstock)
ASP.NET MVC 5 Lifecycle Document Published (Cephas Lin)
Add a touch gamepad to your HTML5 game (David Washington)
Node.js on Azure Websites- in minutes – deploying with GitHub (Iris Classon)
Scheduling work on the UI Thread with the WinJS Scheduler API (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Getting Started with Entity Framework 6 Code First using MVC 5 tutorials (Kris van der Mast)
Flushing in ASP.NET MVC (Nik Molnar)
Javascript without the this (Pete Hodgson)
Flexbox Bar Navigation Demo and Thoughts on Media Queries for Elements (Chris Coyier)
Remote Desktop Client with AngularJS and Yeoman (Minko Gechev)
Rewriting A WebApp With ECMAScript 6 (Addy, Sindre, Pascal & Stephen)
Introducing Reading View in IE 11 (Jane Liles, Bonnie Yu & Marty Hall)
HTTP API Versioning Using Nancy (Jim Liddell)
Simple Stack Effects (Mary Lou)
Memory Tooling In Firefox Developer Tools In 2014 (Nick Fitzgerald)

XAML

2000 WPF Things #1,022 – Render Tick Marks in a Different Color (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Cross platform development with C# (Loek van den Ouweland)
TFS for cross team and cross business line work item tracking (Martin Hinshelwood)
F#5 : Operators (Sacha Barber)
dotCover 2.7 EAP is Open (Olga Kosyreva)
New CodeRush Plugin Templates – NewCodeProvider and NewRefactoring (Rory Becker)
2000 C# Things #1,046 – Implicit vs. Explicit Conversions (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Five things every developer should know about software architecture (Simon Brown)
Tracking Agile Velocity (George Dinwiddie)
Distributed counters feature design (Oren Eini)
Defactoring In Action (Wolfram Kriesing)
Use Singleton to define your special entity (Zoe Luo)
Netflix: How ‘Separation of Concerns’ Can Benefit Your API Design (Daniel Jacobson)

Other Mobile Platforms

What do Super Heroes and The Telerik Platform Have in Common? (Michael Crump)
Sencha Converts Microsoft Azure into BaaS Platform (Michael Vizard)
Objective-C: Property Attribute Reference Guide (Nick Hanan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek podcast 136: Zombie Jughead (Mark Frauenfelder)
Hello World Podcast Episode 14: Julie Lerman (Shawn Wildermuth)
The Nerdist Podcast – Andy Daly (Chris Hardwick)
YUIConf 2013: Reid Burke on Testing YUI Everywhere (Andrew Wooldridge)
The Amp Hour #187 – An Interview with Elecia White – Wirewove Worshipping Wookieist? (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
SSW TV – Error Analytics with John Bristowe – TechEd New Zealand (SSW Team)
The Verge Mobile Show 082 – March 4th, 2014 (Verge Video)

Community / Events

Update on the Forms Story from the SharePoint Conference 2014 (Update on the Future of InfoPath) (Andrew Connell)
Dev of the Week: Matt Butcher (Alec Noller)
Nokia DVLUP Day NYC – Register to Attend (Bob Familiar)
Craziest Entrepreneur Challenge: Can 3 Devs Make $100 Each In 24 Hours? (1 of 3) (John Sonmez)
Join Us Thursday, March 6, 2014 for “Your top-5 .NET challenges, solved” (Phil Japikse)

Database

SQL Server Data Encryption Options (Derek Wilson)
Creating a Kerberos Delegation Table for SQL Server Access (Brian P. O’Dwyer)
SQL SERVER – SQL Report Builder in dbForge Studio for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
Blog Post: SSAS Tabular: Calculating the actual compression rate (Chris Schmidt)
Blog Post: ROLLBACK damn you! (Mark Broadbent)

SharePoint

BreezeJS Makes Client-Side SharePoint 2013 REST Development a… BREEZE! and Understanding Challenges Using Breeze & SharePoint Out-Of-The-Box and Getting BreezeJS to Work with the SharePoint 2013 REST API (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

7zbackup – PowerShell Script to Backup Files with 7zip – 7zBackup v1.9.5 Stable (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Making pages with tables load faster in OneNote (John Guin)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, March 4, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading March 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1561 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1311 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily Links 4 Mar 2014 (Jax)
The Daily Six Pack: March 5, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 3/5/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-05 (Dan Rigby)
LightSwitch Community and Content Rollup–February 2014 (+March Update Released!) (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end: Michael Mikowski, Josh Powell: 9781617290756: Books

ISBN: 1617290750
ISBN-13: 9781617290756

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Dew Drop – February 20, 2014 (#1727)

Top Links

Hello Biggy (Rob Conery)
“Everybody Lies” (Eric Lawrence)
Blend for VS2013 Windows Phone SketchFlow Templates (Greg Duncan)
Cross Platform Development With Xamarin | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web Development

Ember.js – reduceComputed and Property Brace Expansion (Paul Cowan)
Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 – Address Book HTML Sample (Beth Massi)
Tutorial: Using MongoDB, Windows Communication Foundation, OData, and PowerBI to build a Business Intelligence solution on Windows Azure (Brian Benz)
What the Kendo UI MVC Server Wrappers Are and Why You Should Be Using Them – Part 1 (James Bender)
Book Review: Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript (Dustin Marx)
#WindowsAzure Lessons Learned – Continuous Services Require Continuous Attention (Alexandre Brisebois)
How I Work Around The require(“../../../../../../../”) Problem In NodeJS (Derick Bailey)
Creating Theme-Specific Overrides in Ext JS (Lee Boonstra)
Who wrote that blob? (Mike Stall)
Distributed Automated Browser Testing with Selenium and BrowserStack (Scott Hanselman)

XAML

How to tame WebBrowser control on Windows Phone 8 (Christian Jacobsen)
How to build a custom Application Bar for your Windows Phone app (the easy way) (Marco Siccardi)
[Sample Of Feb 19th] How to list songs and read/write their properties in WP8 (Philip Fu)
2000 WPF Things #1,013 – Typing Text to Select an Item in a ComboBox (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Script Bundling in NancyFx (Mike Ward)
Typemock Isolator++ Updated with 64 bit Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
Converting AutoMapper to a Portable Class Library (Jimmy Bogard)
When will the static control automatically delete the image loaded into it, and when is it the responsibility of the application? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,037 – Specifying Type Parameter Constraints for More than One Type Parameter (Sean Sexton)
Asynchronous Predicates, Actions and Funcs (Shawn Kendrot)

Design / Methodology / Testing

5 Resources to Train Your Team about Unit Testing (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
How Team Members Learn From Each Other in Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
Article: The Kanban Survivability Agenda (Mike Burrows)
What does TDD have to do with Star Trek? (Wolfram Kriesing)
Time series feature design: Querying over large data sets (Oren Eini)

Other Mobile Platforms

Should I Consider an Open Source or a Commercial UI Library for my Next iOS App? (Michael Crump)
How to Create the Native Tick Sound on Button Click with PhoneGap (Pieter de Rycke)
Using the Mobile Emulation Mode in Chrome (Isaac Haynes)
Awesome Azure Mobile Services (Marc LaFleur)
Introducing Telerik Mobile Testing (Robert Shoemate)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek podcast 134: Minecraft Raspberry Pi (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Building Umbraco with Benjamin Howarth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
097 JSJ Gulp.js with Eric Schoffstall (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
The Nerdist Podcast – Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer (Chris Hardwick)
The new Office: Who Moved My MSI? | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
Bill Buxton and Jeff Han – Part 3 of 4 | Microsoft Research Luminaries and Defrag: Compatibility Series Part 1 | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 201: Martin Thompson on Mechanical Sympathy (SE-Radio Team)

Community / Events

Live Webinar: Cross-Platform Data Visualization for Mobile with ShinobiControls and Xamarin (Mike Bluestein)
2013 Stack Overflow User Survey Results (Alison Sperling)
Geek of the Week: DJ John Burke (Mary E. Brickthrower)
2014: The Year of Craft Beer; A List of Local Events (Michelle Cryder)
Why did an open source guy pick Microsoft? (Mohamed Mansour)
Two New Philly User Groups (Andy Schwam)
Windows Phone DVLUP Global Campaign Lessons Learned (Bill Reiss)
Windows Azure Training Events– San Francisco Bay Area (Neil Mackenzie)

Database

SQL SERVER – Finding the Last Backup for All Databases – Notes from the Field #016 (Pinal Dave)
If You Plan to Publish A SQL Script–Some Suggestions (Andy Warren)
Finding and Terminating Long-Running Operations in MongoDB (Chris Chang)

Miscellaneous

Why culture trumps everything else in hiring (Aaron Skonnard)
VLC Media Player for Windows 8.1 Release Imminent (Nazmus Shakib Khandaker)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 18, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 19, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
The Daily Six Pack: February 20, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 2/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Double Shot #1303 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1552 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-20 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed: Stephen Walther: 9780672336058: Books

ISBN: 0672336057
ISBN-13: 9780672336058

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Dew Drop – February 17, 2014 (#1724)

Top Links

Free eBooks from Microsoft Press (Microsoft Virtual Academy)
Hello World Podcast Episode 12: Scott Hanselman (Shawn Wildermuth)
Angular App Structuring Guidelines (John Papa)
Software Career Development: Tips for Choosing Your Next Programming Language (Blair Greenwood)

Web Development

JavaScript time talues: dates as milliseconds since 1970-01-01 (Axel Rauschmayer)
JavaScript Promises: A Journey To The “Promise Land” (Derick Bailey)
Running and debugging Node.js application (Ekaterina Prigara)
Memory Leaks are Web Performance Killers (Chris Love)
New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)
A Windows Store App for Accessing Camera using JavaScript (Mahesh Sabnis)
Some advanced AngularJS concepts (Arun Mahendrakar)
[Sample Of Feb 16th] How to bind data to WinJS.ListView dynamically in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)
Batch Update Support in ASP.NET Web API OData (Ravi Kiran)
JavaScript Animation That Works (Part 3 of 4) (Steven Riche)
How to Create Úp and Running’ Azure Service Bus Queues in Minutes (Shankar Perumaalla)
Windows 8.1 Apps Now in Bookstores (Stephen Walther)

XAML

Your app featured in the Windows Phone Store (Johan Silfversparre)
Reduced Windows Phone Certification Times (Bernardo Zamora)
Build it Beta is now public for Windows Phone app developers (Nick Randolph)
The Windows Phone app store is full of apps, but also full of possibilities (Matt Lacey)
Windows Phone App Promotion (Paras Wadehra)
[Sample Of Feb 15th] How to perform data binding by using CollectionViewSource in WP8 (Philip Fu)
2000 WPF Things #1,010 – ComboBox Data Binding Basics, Part II (Sean Sexton)
WPF Text Input Controls – TextBox – Selection (Richard Carr)
Should I Localize My App? (Sanjay Sharma)

Miscellaneous .NET

The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 1–Overly Chatty Queries (Adam Anderson)
Implementing VB’s Like Operator in C# (Jonathan Wood)
Productivity, Exploration, Diagnostics, and Collaboration: Visual Studio 2013 (Sasha Goldshtein)
C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (4/n) (Sanjay Sharma)
SharpDevelop 5 Introduces Class Browser, Search Grouping, Insert with Cursor and ILSpy Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
The Old New C++ Thing (Eric Battalio)
uNFC – Windows Embedded Platform NFC Library (Greg Duncan)
Upgrading OpenAccess ORM to Telerik Data Access (Ivailo Ivanov)
Debugging: Diagnosing why malloc is failing (Raymond Chen)
NHibernate Pitfalls: Table Schema and On NHibernate Performance (Ricardo Peres)
2000 C# Things #1,034 – Making One Type Parameter Depend on Another (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How To Learn Anything Better (J.D. Meier)
Unit Testing 101: Creating Flexible Test Code (Luis Aguilar)
Religion, Politics, and Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
Debugging a Failing Unit-Test Which Interacts with RavenDB (Itamar Syn-hershko)
Time series feature design: Client API (Oren Eini)
Making Virtual Teams Work: Ten Basic Principles #remotework (Adam Jorgensen)
Apprenticeship Week 2 – Getting Started with Behaviour Driven Development (Alice Waddicor)
Design, then Develop Experiences (Andrew Pucci)
10 Tips for Nailing UI Voice and Style (David Starr)
Clean Code: Conditionals (Santosh Kumar)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin/MvvmCross + Autofac (Nathan B. Evans)
Tracking Events using the Amazon Mobile Ads API (Dave Isbitski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

MNR 500: Titanfall Beeta and more (Larry Hyrb)
TechNet Radio: IT Time – Valentine’s Day Special! The 14 Things we LOVE about PowerShell | TechNet Radio (Chris Caldwell & Blain Barton)
Episode 131: Developing against the Monitoring Alerts Autoscale and Metrics API | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
TWC9: What not to do with ASP.NET, explore .Net 4.5.1, more Async tips, Conan and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
The Tablet Show – The Evolution of HTML with Domenic Denicola (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Nerdist Podcast – Live at SF Sketchfest 2014 (Chris Hardwick)
Web Weekly Episode 6 Video Highlights (Dan Wahlin)
VLog Episode 003: My first book is out (Iris Classon)
Get Up And Code 41: North Pole Expedition With Austin Dimmer (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
Remembering Richard Feynman | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
StarTalk Radio – MythBusters (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Build for both–an instruction video pivot page for Windows store apps (Joost van Schaik)

Database

SQL SERVER – Get Current TimeZone Name in SQL Server and MySQL – How to Detect Current Time Zone Name in MySQL and MongoDB and MySQL – Comparing Scalability, Data Distribution & Query Model – Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
Tribal SQL (Ian Stirk)

PowerShell

Powershell in a Month Day 17 – Security Alert (Steve Jones)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia is still set to close by the end of March (Nathan Ingraham)
The Windows Phone 8.1 features you haven’t seen in the leaked SDK (John Hsu)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 13, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 14, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Collective #103 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1300 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five – February 14, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
Pie in the Sky (February 14th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
Reblog: February 7 to February 13 (Jason Strate)
Friday Links #291 (Mike Ward)
The Morning Brew #1549 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: February 17, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 2/14/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #128 (Frank)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 8.1 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed eBook: Stephen Walther: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00HJUBRQK

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