Dew Drop – July 10, 2012 (#1,360)

Top Links

• Node.js development with WebMatrix 2 + Express (Part 2) (Steve Sanderson)
• Why should ASP.NET developers consider SignalR for ALL projects? (Kevin Griffin)
• How to show the world you don’t “get the web” (Pete Brown)
• .NET Rocks! – Hadi Hariri Does Real World MVC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V4 RTM (Laurent Bugnion)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Raven Suggest: Review & Options (Oren Eini)
• C# MapReduce Based Co-occurrence Item Based Recommender (Carl Nolan)
• Tips and Tricks for C# Metro developers: Handling the virtual keyboard (David Catuhe)
• Why hasn’t the API hook mechanism for x64 been standardized like it was for x86? (Raymond Chen)
• Using the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector Remotely (Bill Horst)
• Blog Post: NuGet support for the Template Frameworks (Blake Niemyjski)
• Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 1 (Samidip Basu)

 

Web Development

• The old new Hello World… Building a simple RSS reader for Windows 8 Metro with HTML and JavaScript (Greg Duncan)
• How important is HTML5 Off Line ? (Joe Stagner)
• Create Windows Azure Website in 6 Steps (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MongoDB Installer for Windows Azure (Doug Mahugh)
• Guest Post: Now In the Cloud, Web Content Management and Authoring with Sitecore and Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Principles of Agile Development (Grzegorz Łukaszewicz)
• Our Post-Agile World (Jimmy Bogard)
• First steps with Machine.Specifications (BDD framework) (Peter Gfader)
• Becoming an Agile Coach – 7 Tips for Client Engagement (Peter Saddington)
• Static Overload – Code Audits #6 (Brendan Enrick)
• The Fabled Design Method (Devin Jordan)
• The Management Paradox (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Mscorlib mocking minus the attribute (Mehfuz Hossain)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Coded UI testing support for Silverlight (Brian Harry)
• Rumor – Leaked details of Windows Phone 7.8 shows little new features. But WP8 may get IntoNow alternative. (Daniel Rubino)
• How to: Find the Space in Isolated Storage in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #598 – Three Flavors of Routed Events (Sean Sexton)
• PhoneGap RSS Reader – Part 4 (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stephan T. Lavavej: Core C++, 2 of n | C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++ and Learn Windows Azure at TechEd Europe 2012 – Watch On-Demand (Charles Torre)
• Episode 192 – PowerScripting Podcast – Eric Williams on the UCS PowerTool (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Video: Composing an HTTP Masterpiece with Fiddler (Paul Ballard)
• Visual C++ and the Native Renaissance | TechEd Europe 2012 (Steve Teixeira)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 145 – 07.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: (part 7 – The bug that wouldn’t die) Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming (Roy Osherove)
• Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks | Learn Windows Azure at TechEd Europe (Mark Russinovich)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s Social Secret Sauce from #WPC12 (Joel Oleson)

 

Database

• SQL Server DMF sys.dm_os_volume_stats to retrieve information about physical disk drives (Jacob Sebastian)
• Removing Function Calls for Better Performance in SQL Server (Ben Snaidero)
• Microsoft® Connectors v1.2 for Oracle and Teradata (MS Downloads)
• Moving xml child elements to its parent using XQuery (Arthur Olcot)
• Identify and Alert for Long-Running Agent Jobs (Jorge Segarra)

 

Miscellaneous

• Betting the Company on Windows 8 (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Mactuts+ — Mac & OS X Tutorials, Guides & How To’s! (David Appleyard)
• GitHub Android App Released (Kevin Sawicki)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 07.01 ~ 07.10 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading July 9, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #912 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1142 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-10 (Dan Rigby)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–June 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Windows Dev News for July 09, 2012 – #0101 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 July 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 9 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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