Dew Drop – March 14, 2012 (#1,286)

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Top Links

• Why I left Google (James Whittaker)
• Web browsing in Windows 8 Consumer Preview with IE10 (Steven Sinofsky)
• 2/29/****: The case of the missing data point and the curious thing a Leap Year is (John Petersen)
• Updated Release of Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Nick Harris)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• RavenDB session management in ASP.Net Web API (Oren Eini)
• Asynchronous programming in C# 5 (Ivan Towlson)
• Updating to Entity Framework v.Latest the Easy Way and VS11 and EF5: Where’s that database that Code First created? (Julie Lerman)
• Setting WINVER for MFC Applications (Pat Brenner)
• Setting up Ethernet on the .NET Gadgeteer and Designing the Open Source Hardware .NET Gadgeteer MIDI Module (Pete Brown)
• .NET 4.5 is an in-place replacement for .NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• The Code Index SDK (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Understanding the Portable Library by Chasing ICommand (3 of 3) (Jeremy Likness)
• Abstractions For MongoDB (K. Scott Allen)
• EF Code First – Tips and Tricks (Michael Ceranski)
• Diagnostic Manager – Viewing History outside of 8AM to 5PM (Conan The Canadian)
• The way I think about Diagnostic tools and Live Debugging (Daniel Moth)

 

Web Development

• More Resources for JavaScript Patterns (John Papa)
• NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Volume 1 : Sneak Peek (Murtaza Abdeali)
• UnitTesting Controller DataAnnotation Validation in MVC3 : ModelState.IsValid always true ? (Etienne Giust)
• Making this blog work as an app on the iPhone (part 2) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery, ASP.NET Web API, and Json.NET walk into a bar… (Dave Ward)
• Find the jQuery Bug #7: Using a Method as an Event Handler (Elijah Manor)
• Techniques For Overcoming Poor CSS Support In Email (Lynda Elliott)
• The CSS3 Anthology (Rachel Andrew)
• How to Display Numbers in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• 7 Resources Every JavaScript Developer Should Know (Rob Bazinet)
• My Week With The Hypermedia Cowboys (Rob Conery)
• HTML5 Form Validation (Stephen Walther)
• Using HTML 5 Today part 1–Simplify your syntax (Steve Albers)
• .NET developers finally get their HTML5 Mobile Framework (VisualWebGui Team)
• Easy Form Generation Using FuelPHP (Sahan Lakshitha)
• Meet the Web Platform Again for the First Time (Alex Komoroske)
• Exploring the Excel Services REST API (Jamie Thomson)
• Sencha Animator 1.2 Now Available (Luca Candela)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 EAP 116.101 (Alexey Gopachenko)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s new for MSTest unit tests in Visual Studio 11 Beta (Abhishek Agrawal)
• 3 Problems with Scrum (Andy Singleton)
• Microsoft Test Manager 11 – Exploratory Testing (Shai Raiten)
• Bootstrap: rapid development and the complexity of a framework (Giorgio Sironi)
• Expectation Maintenance (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Deep dive into the NUIverse (James Maki)
• Test Case Migrator Plus V1.2 released (Gautam Goenka)
• Rubber Duck Problem Solving (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 3 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Kinect and Windows Phone – communication layer with Coding4Fun Kinect Service session (Den Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #514 – Different Ways to Select Objects in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Performance – Part 3 of Many: Tie Fighters and Drunk Spaceship Captains (András Velvárt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ShopTalk Episode 9: Ethan Marcotte (Chris Coyier)
• JavaScript Jabber #007 JSJ Online Resources for Javascript Developers and 008 JSJ V8 and Dart with Lars Bak and Kaspar Lund (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Joachim Larsen)
• Emily Hall – Community Program Manager, Telerik – Uncut & Unedited (Lohith G N)
• The GeekDads Episode #111: If We Just Could Have Kept the Internet to Ourselves (Ken Denmead)
• Electro Tennis at South by SouthWest (Laura Foy & Golnaz)
• Let’s Play TDD #172: Persistence Can Be Tricky (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Call for Speakers – Fall 2012 ClientDev Connections (Dan Wahlin)
• Talking Cloud with Office 365 MVP Loryan Strant (MVP Award Program)
• SQL Connections Fall 2012: Call for Abstracts (Paul S. Randal)
• Call for Speakers – DevConnections Fall 2012 (Paul Sheriff)
• Sharding with RavenDB Webinar (Oren Eini)
• Five things you didn’t know about Google I/O 2012 (Scott Knaster)
• Speaking on NoSQL and MVC at the South Sound .NET User Group (Near Seattle, WA) (Michael Kennedy)
• WPUG London Mar 21st meeting: A touch of Mono (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics – SQL in Sixty Seconds #006 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• A few more Database Mirroring Failover Considerations (Chris Shaw)
• Parsing T-SQL – The easy way (Dave Ballantyne)
• How are per-column modification counts tracked? (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• SP2010 Continuous Integration–pt 6:Running UI tests as part of a build (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Android–Setting up a Kindle Fire emulator (Bill Osuch)
• ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ officially out of print, going online-only after 244 years (Dante D’Orazio)
• Why I want Windows 8 on my PC (Rockford Lhotka)
• Successfully Interviewing for a Developer Job (Steve Rowe)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – March 13 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 5-11, 2012 and Daily News Digest 3/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1064 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 resources for JavaScript and HTML5 developers (Matt Harrington)
• Maker Geek Roundup 009 for 3/14/2012–Pi Day Edition (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #838 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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