Dew Drop – July 13, 2012 (#1,363)

Top Links

• HiloJS – Hilo moves to Metro (and HTML5/JavaScript) (Greg Duncan)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.1.1 (Todd Parker)
• Visual Studio 2012 RC Web Tooling Extensions update (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Announcing the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (Alex Simons)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Recent Goings on in OData and WCF Data Services (Glenn Gailey)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Nullable<T> struct (James Michael Hare)
• Eric Lippert Reviews C# and Speculates on its Future (Jeff Martin)
• Tracing System.Net to debug HTTP Clients (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows 8: Top 10 Reasons Why I choose XAML Over HTML5 (Jerry Nixon)

Web Development

• Plucked HTML5 Audio Editor, and ThreeAudio.js Visualizer (Devon Govett)
• Old School Cassette Player with HTML5 Audio (Manoela Ilic)
• Metro, Authentication, and the ASP.NET Web API (Stephen Walther)
• It’s Time To Stop Blaming Internet Explorer (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Talking WebSharper with Adam Granicz (Jonathan Allen)
• An Introduction to Apache (Diana Eftaiha)
• IE10 User Agent String Update (Tony Ross)
• Service Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• 4 Minutes With Me And Sublime Text 2 (Burke Holland)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are You Using Agile Results? and Team of Leaders (JD Meier)
• Next Release of Lokad.CQRS Coming Soon (Rinat Abdullin)
• Testing Metro style apps in Windows 8 (J. Kalyana Sundaram, Ashwin Needamangala & Mete Goktepe)
• What is the Mythical UX Designer (Devin Jordan)
• Locks and Keys – Code Audits #8 (Brendan Enrick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Working with Design and Runtime Data for Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Implement Reactive UI Element in WPF (Elvin Cheng)
• Review Report: 70-506 Exam Silverlight 4 Development Practice Test Kit from uCertify (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7: Global Application Bar (Sumit Dutta)
• 2000 WPF Things #602 – Accessing Information in RoutedEventArgs (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: (part 8 – The big Refactoring) TDD Pairing a Go Game Engine (Roy Osherove)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 100 – 7 years and counting! (Michael Kimsal)
• Radio TFS – Jason Tweets (Martin Woodward)
• 90 Seconds on The Verge: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 (Ross Miller)
• Curing Your Event Processing Blues with Reactive Extensions (Rx) | TechEd Europe 2012 (Bart De Smet)

Community / Events

• Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: Windows 8 Metro Questions and Answers (Silverlight Show)
• WPUG is back, next meeting July 18 (Windows Phone Geek)
• aspConf – The Free, Online ASP.NET Conference – July 17-18 (Jon Galloway)

Database

• How to start SQL Server Agent when Agent XPs show disabled (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER : SQL Server Scheduler (John A. Nelson)
• Importing SQL Server Data Using SSIS – Which Option is Fastest (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL Server Index Terms (Jes Schultz Borland)
• See Exactly What’s Happenin’ with SSIS 2012 Data Taps (Joshua Fennessy)
• SQL SERVER – Switch Between Two Parenthesis using Shortcut CTRL+] (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Governance the #1 Challenge to Managing SharePoint (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

• An experiment with Git, Vim and posh-git (Mehdi Khalili)

Miscellaneous

• From the MVPs: How Kinect changed my living room (Devon Musgrave)
• OneNote Tip: changing default bullet and numbering values (John Guin)
• Update to the SkyDrive desktop app for Windows (Mike Torres)
• Microsoft to announce Office 15 on Monday, reports USA Today (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 12, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1145 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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