Dew Drop – September 19, 2013 (#1,627)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Asteroid Mining and Beyond Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• iOS 7 and Xamarin: Ready When You Are (Miguel de Icaza)
• 30 Days of TDD: Day Five – Make Your Code SOLID (James Bender)
• Designing pixel perfect layouts in Visual Studio 2013 and Blend (Dante Gagne)
• Logging in the OWIN World with Microsoft.Owin: Introduction (Tugberk Ugurlu)

Web Development

• "Dependency Injection" in Go (Karl Seguin)
• RestSharp 104.2.0 Released (Phil Haack)
• Instrumenting ASP.NET Web API (Bates Westmoreland)
• More options to integrate on-premises networks and Windows Azure with AT&T (Steven Martin)
• Scaffolding asynchronous MVC and Web API controllers for Entity Framework 6 (Xueyuan Dai)
• Node.js Goes Mobile: StrongLoop Launches Open Source mBaaS (Zef Hemel)
• Dealing with Vendor Prefixes in CSS and JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building an AngularJS Modal Service (Dan Wahlin)
• IE11 Release Preview for Windows 7: 30% Faster than Other Browsers and Even More Support for Web Standards (Sandeep Singhal & Rob Mauceri)
• Creative Loading Effects (Manoela Ilic)
• Azure From The Trenches: Updating Service Configuration Whilst Running In The Emulator (Mike.Larah)
• Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview Now Available for Windows 7 Customers (Roger Capriotti)
• Feedly, Now Powering 50 RSS-Based Applications, Opens API To All Developers (Sarah Perez)

XAML

• Aligning XAML elements outside the screen using scaling (for a Facebook-like GUI) (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #910 – Using Data Binding to Control the Currently Selected Tab of a TabControl (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – FrameworkElement – Tool Tips (Richard Carr)
• What happens to appdata folder contents when an app is updated? (and previousExecutionState) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Retargeting Windows 8 RSS Reader to Windows 8.1 (Zubair Ahmed)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Seeing even farther with Farseer Physics Engine v3.5 (Greg Duncan)
• SubtractRect doesn’t always give you the exact difference (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #934 – How Generations Help the Garbage Collector Run More Efficiently (Sean Sexton)
• Simple.Data 2.0 (Mark Rendle)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Survey on the use of sketches and diagrams (Simon Brown)
• Expanding "Testing Asynchronous Javascript" to include Promises (Martin Fowler)
• The software architecture role from a non-technical point of view (Simon Brown)
• UI Practicalities: Managing Data (Peter Vogel)
• No, Grumpy Testers Don’t Have Cooties (Or, Why Devs Should Talk to Testers) (Jim Holmes)
• Rich UI enhancement : A case study (Patrick Smacchia)

Other Mobile Platforms

• RenderScript in the Android Support Library (Tim Murray)
• Xamarin for Android #4–Weirdness Explained (Jesse Liberty)
• NucliOS Controls for iOS 7 Developers (Nick Landry)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 241 – PowerScripting Podcast – Microsoft PFE Matthew Reynolds on the Windows Performance Toolkit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jonah Ray Donovan (Chris Hardwick)
• ICTV013 | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Engadget HD Podcast 367 – 09.18.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Defrag: Elevated App, Turning off Tabbed Browsing, Win 8.1 RTM | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference 2014 Registration is Open! (Andrew Connell)
• Webinar: Version Control with PhpStorm and other IntelliJ IDEA-based IDEs, October 2nd (Mikhail Vink)
• Geek of the Week: Philly Film Critic Lou Gaul (Dan)
• 5th Anniversary of kunal-chowdhury.com – Huge Licenses to Giveaway (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SQL Contest – Identify the Database Celebrity – Win USD 100 Amazon Gift Card (Pinal Dave)

Database

• Using the REPLAY feature within SQL Server Profiler (Ben Snaidero)
• Optimizing writes in Voron (Oren Eini)
• What is Product Information Management? (Axel Achten)
• How to tell who changed a log file characteristic? (Paul Randal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 dynamic JavaScript and Minimal Downloads: the _layouts/15/start.aspx# conundrum (Greg Galipeau)
• Step-by-step: Sending email messages from a workflow in an app for SharePoint 2013 (Saint Wesonga)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 18, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 17th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 18, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1204 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1445 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 19, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/18/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for Sep 18, 2013 – #0192 (Dave Campbell)

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