Dew Drop – September 5, 2012 (#1,394)

Top Links

• 20 controversial programming opinions (Yannis Rizos)
• Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview opens for applications Sept. 12 (Todd Brix)
• Commentary: Windows Phone’s Canary in the Coal Mine (Charlie Kindel)
• Video: Introducing the Nokia Lumia 920 (Boc Ly)
• Nokia Lumia 920 vs. Lumia 900: what’s changed? (Daniel Cooper)
• Initial Impressions of the 3rd Generation Ivy Bridge Intel Ultrabook Reference Hardware for Developers on Windows 8 (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NuGet Perf, Part VII AKA getting results is only half the work (Oren Eini)
• Releasing the new Sample Browser for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 (All-In-One Code Framework)
• Automated Build-Deploy-Test using TFS 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• SQLite For WinRT Available on Visual Studio Gallery (Matteo Pagani)
• Windows Azure Solution Cookbook (Zain Naboulsi)
• WiX Toolset v3.6 (CodePlex)
• Preventing unauthorized modifications of XAML files in Windows 8 apps with XamlIntegRT (Andrei Marukovich)
• Asynchronous Loading Text Files in Metro/C++/DirectX Apps (Toni Petrina)
• Why don’t the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show up in the Favorites menu? (Raymond Chen)
• Pie Chart: Taking Control of the Label (Jesse Liberty)
• WinRT app guide: Step 5: Adding the model and some helper classes (Iris Classon)
• Building WebKit with VS2012 (Ashod Nakashian)
• Windows 8 Game Development For The Win (Bob Familiar)
• Code providers for working in two-dimensional space and Code provider to format the String.Format call output (Alex Skorkin)
• Getting started with Metro Elements: Chart controls (Jason Fauchelle)
• Windows 8: Scheduled Tasks & the Lock Screen (Jerry Nixon)
• Create an Appointment Tracking App with RadDatePicker & RadTimePicker. (Michael Crump)

Web Development

• Dissecting MVC Scaffolded Code for EF Updates (Anders Abel)
• jQuery Mobile 1.2 Beta Released (Todd Parker)
• JavaScript: the glass is half full (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 Blob Objects Made Easier (Gil Fink)
• Enquire.js – Media Query Callbacks in JavaScript (Nick Williams)
• Seeding Membership & Roles in ASP.NET MVC 4 (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET Frameworks and Raw Throughput Performance (Rick Strahl)
• Modernizr 2.6.2 released (Modernizr Team)
• A Meaningful Client Side Alternative To node require() (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Perfectly Paired: Using Symmetry in Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
• Node Roundup: redis-stream, DataGen, Cushion (Alex Young)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Continuous Delivery and Scalable Agile – Find Out the Secret (Andy Singleton)
• Automating the testing of Windows 8 apps (Ashwin Needamangala)
• UX guidelines for Windows 8 Store apps are now available as a handy pdf download (Eric Nelson)
• Stupid question 35: What is meant by the term bootstrapping in programming? (Iris Classon)
• Changing Iteration Contents Mid-Sprint (Johanna Rothman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Random ArgumentException in a Windows Phone 7 application (Jeremy Alles)
• Benefits of using #Telerik “RadDataBoundListBox” in Windows Phone (#WP) Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #639 – Default Tab Order Is Sensible (Sean Sexton)
• Cordova (Formerly PhoneGap) Network Type and Status in Windows Phone and Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) – Alert, Confirm, Vibrate and Beep in Windows Phone (Sumit Dutta)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 066: Happier at Home, by Gretchen Rubin (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Rich Hickey – The Database as a Value (Charles Torre)
• Gil Zilberfeld on Agile Weekly Podcast (Avi Kaye)
• Videos in Visual Studio 2012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 – New “How Do I” Videos Released! (Beth Massi)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Mike Birbiglia 3peat (Chris Hardwick)
• Start Up Success Podcast #151 – Show #40: Derek Sivers, CDBaby and MuckWork (Bob Walsh)
• Video: Introducing the Nokia Lumia 820 (Ian Delaney)
• Yet Another Podcast #76–Glenn Block on Node.js & Technology in China (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #6 – RAMMap | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 1: The First and The Worst (Alan Mendelevich)
• Engadget HD Podcast 314 – 09.05.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Git and GitHub Talk in Hawaii! (Phil Haack)
• September Tech Announcements for Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon (Jason Gaylord)
• The First Ever NEPA BlogCon Comes to Luzerne County (Mike)
• Meet the Author: Donald Belcham on Mocking with Moq (Paul Ballard)
• From XNA to Windows 8 Game in one day. Join the hackathon September 11 (Katrien de Graeve)

Database

• Parameterized Row Filters in SQL Server Merge Replication (Chad Churchwell)
• SSIS Design Patterns (Michelle Ufford)
• SQLskills Joins the Pluralsight Library to Deliver Hardcore SQL Server Training Online (Aaron Skonnard)
• Plan Cache effects when dropping columns (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• 3 things not to do with SharePoint (Chris Wright)
• How do I – Identify the SharePoint site template type and ID of a given sub web? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• How to work with web service using “Call HTTP Web Service” action (HyongGuk Kim)

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• Using Roslyn and PowerShell 3 to Convert C# to PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: How Microsoft’s three software engineering roles fit together (MS JobsBlog)
• Setting up Virtualization using Hyper-V for Windows 8 (Jason Gaylord)
• Microsoft stamps out more ‘Windows Live’ references and Windows Server 2012 spinoffs: What else is Microsoft shipping? and Nokia takes the wraps off its first Windows Phone 8 devices (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: Initial Impressions (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Nokia Lumia 920: how the new flagship compares with the competition (Dieter Bohn)
• MVMC RTW’s (Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator is now available) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Server 2012 is Here…And so is the Cloud OS (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Intel Ultrabook Pre-Release First Look (Jesse Liberty)
• Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Free Nokia Music streaming service comes to Lumia 900 and 710 in the US (Louis Goddard)
• Windows 8 Sneak Peek: Microsoft’s ‘Adera’ game aims to redefine Xbox Live (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone 8 to include ‘Rooms’ group chat with calendar, photos, and notes sharing (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 4, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #951 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1182 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 9/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– August 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Windows Dev News for September 04, 2012 – #0124 (Dave Campbell)

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