Dew Drop – February 25, 2012 (#1,274)

Top Links

• Introducing the New Developer Experience, Part #2 (Monty Hammontree)
• Change Considered Harmful? – The New Visual Studio Look and Feel and One ASP.NET – Making JSON Web APIs with ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta and ASP.NET Web API (Scott Hanselman)
• Xamarin Mobile World Congress 2012 Unofficial Conference App Released! (Bryan Costanich) – “Cross-Platform Mobile Development with C#”
• TouchDevelop book and slides – now available online (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Testing Your Model with Mocha, Mongo, and NodeJS and NodeJS Callback Conventions and Your App (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflecting Properties (Richard Carr)
• Creating gadget-like blocks for Windows Home Server 2011 web add-in user interface (Gunnar Peipman)
• "Practical Windows Kinect In C#" series and An end-to-end WiX example… (Greg Duncan)
• DbContext Book is Online! (Julie Lerman)
• Upgrade to Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service – Done (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Chocolatey – Guidance on Packaging Apps with Both an Install and Executable/Zip Option (Rob Reynolds)
• Why does Windows keeps showing the old indirect strings even after I update the binary? (Raymond Chen)
• Finalization Queue or F-Reachable Queue? Find Out with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Running Jasmine in .NET (Josh Arnold)
• Reviewing Programming Entity Framework : Code First by Julie Lerman and Rowan Miller (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Organize Big Solutions with Solution Folders (Peter Vogel)
• Eight books for .NET (mostly) developers (mostly web) you must read (Piotr Kwapin)

Web Development

• Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta – Part 1 and Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta – Part 2 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Async Streaming in ASP.NET Web API (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• ASP.NET MVC4 bundling in ASP.NET MVC3 (Jef Claes)
• HTML5 Full Screen Mode: Quick Notes (Michael Mahemoff)
• ASP.NET MVC – reCAPTCHA & Email Confirmation (Shai Raiten)
• WCF and Node.js, better together (Yaron Naveh)
• Windows Web Applications: Understanding the default.js File and Windows Web Applications: Understanding Observables (Stephen Walther)
• O’Reilly special offer on the "The Little Book on CoffeeScript" to March 1st 2012 (Tatworth)
• Quake-style animated models in three.js (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Functional JavaScript with CoffeeScript and Node (Andrew Glover)
• Stop paying your jQuery tax (Sam Saffron)
• Json Toolkit 3.0 (CodePlex)
• How to do Custom Event Logging and Trace Writing in Azure (J. Danforth)
• A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites (Jeremy Girard)
• Nancy v0.10.0 – The next step in awesome (Andreas Håkansson)
• Master Slave architecture in Hadoop (Avkash Chauhan)
• Restivus – REST APIs for the rest of us (Alan deLevie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft’s CQRS Journey project to take community contributions (Grigori Melnik)
• Agile Results: It Works for Teams and Leaders Too (JD Meier)
• Can I Make My Team Do Agile? Post 400 on LeadingAgile! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Is ALM a useful term? and I messed up my work items from Excel! What now? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Testing Framework Documentation (Jim Holmes)
• Windows 8 Metro touch developer document released (John Callaham)
• Naming conventions are poison. (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Usability: What a Project Manager Needs to Know – Part 2 (Cory Lebson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) (MS Downloads) – Updated XAML spec.
• Windows Phone Starter Kit for Conferences (Dani Diaz)
• Select ListBox Item on the Hold event in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps Missing on Windows Phone (Nick Landry)
• 5 ways to make money off of Silverlight 5 based games (Surf4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: AisleFinder.com – Creating a Location-based Mobile Startup with Curtiss Pope (Scott Hanselman)
• Gweek 041: Under the Moons of Mars (Mark Frauenfelder)
• C++ AMP: The Test Team – Hallway Office Tour (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 431: Borderlands 2 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The JavaScript Show – Microjs (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Tech News Weekly 67: Device Overload and Windows Weekly 249: Shopping For Puppies (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 282 – 02.24.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 127 – 02.24.2012 and The Vergecast 019 -02.24.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• GeekWire Radio: Google glasses, Office on iPad, and a big picture of the mobile world (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• Stack Exchange’s Greatest Hits (Jeff Atwood)
• New England Code Camp – March 31st (Jim O’Neil)
• Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia: Hosting Board Game Night @ Redcap’s Corner (Nicole Kline)

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Cool Trick – Restoring the Default SQL Server Management Studio – SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• A Script A Day – Day 19 – Remove Virtual Subscriptions and A Script A Day – Day 20 – User Database VLF Count (Chris McGowan)

SharePoint

• Are SharePoint Web Analytics Good Enough? (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

• Powershell Get-EventLog and Event Log messages (Jack Vamvas)
• Freeing up memory in PowerShell using garbage collector (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Miscellaneous

• Debugging Android Web Traffic (Eric Daugherty)
• Steve Jobs – A Perfectionist (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft Office 15 apps to have "touch mode" (John Callaham)
• How to change the default command prompt color on Vista and above (Kirill Osenkov)
• Windows 8 Edition Names Revealed by HP (Martin Brinkmann)
• Open Source Hardware and why you should care (Pete Brown)
• Essential Sublime Text 2 Plugins and Extensions (Siddharth)
• How Microsoft is killing off the Zune and Windows Live brands in Windows 8 (Tom Warren)
• Bluetooth File Transfer Application for Windows Phone 7 (Saad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 24 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• MVP Friday Five: February 24, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Windows Dev News for February 24, 2012 – #0044 (Dave Campbell)
• Re-blog – February 17 – February 23 (Jason Strate)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 73 – Version 3 and Continued Success (Peter Saddington)

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