Dew Drop – July 20, 2012 (#1,368)

Top Links

• Entity Framework and Open Source (Scott Guthrie)
• Entity Framework Magic Unicorn (and much more!) is now open source with take backs (Scott Hanselman)
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design – #9 Layout & Composition in Windows Phone – Part II (Arturo Toledo)
• CQRS Journey V3 Final Release (MS patterns & practices)
• Want To Build Win8/WinJS Apps? You Need To Understand Promises. (Derick Bailey)
• Modernizr 2.6 released (Paul Irish)
• node.js Version 0.8.3 (Stable) (node Team)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Awesome feature of the day, RavenDB Changes API (Oren Eini)
• More About F# 3.0 Language Features (Brian McNamara)
• Late Binding with Reflection (Richard Carr)
• Evolution of C# (1.0 – 5.0) – What are the New Features Introduced in C# (Kunal Chowdhury)
• FizzBuzz kata in F#: stage 1 (Mark Seemann)
• Serializing Singleton Objects (C#) (Maziar Taheri)
• Inside the DLR – Callsites (Simon Cooper)
• When is a non-breaking language fix, breaking? (Lucian Wischik)
• Win8, WinRT, Metro, Oh My (Jesse Liberty)
• 101 Exchange Code Examples (Think "One Boat Load of Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API samples for Exchange 2013") and Finding files fast in your Solution with VSFileNav (which is now open source too!) (Greg Duncan)
• Example Metro app /WinRT: Homemade Chart and DatePicker for Metro Apps (Iris Classon)

 

Web Development

• Introduction to Data Visualization with Javascript for Rails Devs (Richard Schneeman)
• 3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• AsyncUI MVC with Progressive Enhancement (M. Lang)
• Google+ API Opens, to Attract More Businesses (Todd Wasserman)
• Windows Azure: Effective use of the Storage and SQL Azure (Mahesh Sabnis)
• How to Assess Costs of using Windows Azure for your Applications (Himanshu Singh)
• XMLHttpRequest responseXML in IE10 Release Preview (Tony Ross)
• Merriam-Webster Opens its References to Developers via API (Eric Carter)
• WebGL Essentials: Part I (Gabriel Manricks)
• Orchard CMS 1.5 Released (David Hayden)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When do you need a 3-tier architecture? (Simon Brown)
• Game Design: Using PowerPoint with TFS to do storyboards, Part 1 (Surf4Fun)
• DDD/ES – Missing Guidance (Rinat Abdullin)
• Choosing an ORM strategy (Jimmy Bogard)
• How GoF Brought my Understanding of Object Orientation to Another Level (Anders Abel)
• Metro style and OneNote MX (Christian Nagel)
• If You Write An Article About TDD, Make Sure It Is Correct (Dennis Doomen)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Elements: New Color Picker Features (Jason Fauchelle)
• Creating tiled backgrounds in Metro style XAML apps (Rob Fonseca-Ensor)
• 2000 WPF Things #607 – An Instance Handler vs. A Class Handler (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 061: Trust Me, I’m Lying (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 89: What is the Big Deal about Big Data? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• aspConf 2012 Sessions (Steve Smith)
• ShopTalk Episode 26 (Chris Coyier)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – John Nicholson (Ryan Parsley)
• What The Tech Ep. 125: Everything Everywhere (Paul Thurrott)
• 90 Seconds on The Verge: Thursday, July 19th, 2012 (Ross Miller)
• Engadget Podcast 302 – 07.19.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Recording of Part 1 of the Webinar ‘Advanced Windows 8 Metro’ by Gill Cleeren (Gill Cleeren)
• Insert Coin: POP portable battery comes with 25,000 mAh of power, charges multiple devices (video) (Jason Hidalgo)
• Hear Jim Holmes talk Testing with Jesse Liberty (Jim Holmes)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2013 at SPTechCon – and SharePint 2013! (Andrew Connell)
• What Would You Like to See on Your DZone Profile? (Kelly Reiser)
• That’s All Folks, I’m Redmond-Bound (Matthias Shapiro)
• Cool stuff I saw at MADExpo (Steven Lott)
• Windows 8 SDK Customer Satisfaction Survey (Paulo Morgado)
• Little Wonders and the St. Louis Days of .NET – Just 2 Weeks Away! (James Michael Hare)

 

Database

• Using Cell-Level Encryption in SQL Server (Basit Farooq)
• Plotting SQL Server Data for Data Visualization (Tim Wiseman)
• How does SQL Server Scheduling work? There’s a flowchart for that… (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS and Value Character Maximum Length -1 (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL Rising (Rob Conery)
• CASTs become CONVERTs in computed columns with implications for SSDT (Jamie Thomson)
• Azure Tools Belt: SQL Azure Migration Wizard (Frank Boucher)

 

PowerShell

• SQL Server – PowerShell Get-Location (Jack Vamvas)

 

Miscellaneous

• Here are the latest whisper dates for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, Office 2013 (Mary Jo Foley)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 2: What do you mean by LOB (line of business) application? (Iris Classon)
• Microsoft Welcomes Yammer to the Office Division (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Installing the Exchange Server 2013 Preview on Windows Server 2012 (Mike Pfeiffer)
• Is Daddy on a call? A BusyLight Presence indicator for Lync for my Home Office (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 19, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #919 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 7/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1150 (Chris Alcock)
• Distributed Weekly 164 (Scott Banwart)

 

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