Dew Drop – September 7, 2012 (#1,396)

Top Links

• WebMatrix 2 is Released (Vishal R. Joshi)
• WebStorm 5.0 released: introduces Live Edit and Jade, better JSDoc and Sass/SCSS & more (Eugene Toporov)
• Hacking Node.js on WebMatrix 2 (Nathan Totten)
• Erik Meijer – Functional Programming From First Principles (Charles Torre)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook available (Brian Harry)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked CompareExchange() (James Michael Hare)
• Choosing the Right Tool for the Task to Manage Projects, Collaborate, and Monitor Progress in Visual Studio ALM (Kathryn E.)
• 2012 Update: Running C# on the Browser (Miguel de Icaza)
• Embracing UI on demand with the app bar (Jon Gordner)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.2.1 (CodePlex)
• dotCover 2.1 Release Candidate (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Code Contracts tab in VS2012 – Odd way to get it enabled (Derik Whittaker)
• 5 points developers should know about WinRT/Windows 8 (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Web Development

• Using Ant to Build a JavaScript Library (David Mann)
• How to Integrate HTML Color Code Generator in your Web Page? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Today in APIs: Amazon CloudFront Adds Cookies, Google Places API Developer Challenge for Good, and 14 New APIs (Wendell Santos)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Intro to Scalable Agile: Scale Your Teams and Release More Frequently (Andy Singleton)
• Book Review: Disciplined Agile Delivery (Ben Linders)
• Kanban for Skeptics: The 5 Most Common Arguments (Nick Oostvogels)
• CQRS is too complicated (Rob Ashton)
• Do you allow XSS in your passwords? You should! (Troy Hunt)
• Software Engineering Priorities for Early Stage Companies: Put the Team First (Aaron Stannard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Stupid question 38: Does Windows Phone 8 support Javascript apps? (Iris Classon)
• XamlParseException in WinRT (Joe White)
• A WPF Image Button (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #642 – Focusable and IsTabStop in Combination (Sean Sexton)
• Memory Profiling: The Methods View (Pratap Lakshman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Scott Hunter talks to the Entity Framework Team (Scott Hanselman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ambassador Class (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 015 – September 5th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Video from the first Pluralsight Study Group meeting (Sweden) (Iris Classon)
• Shit Apple Fanatics Say (Joey deVilla)
• Boagworld: Do you have a clear idea of when a native app is required? (Paul Boag)
• Episode 199 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Reynolds talks PowerShell and Chocolatey (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Quick news: Don’t miss the launch of Visual Studio 2012 (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster Part 4 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups (Wes Brown)
• Prevent SQL Server Reporting Services Slow Startup (Norman Chan)
• Meet the Author: Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar on SQL Server Performance: Introduction to Query Tuning (Paul Ballard)
• SQL SERVER – Fun Post – Connecting Same SQL Server using Different Methods (Pinal Dave)
• CHECKDB internals: what is the BlobEater? (Paul S. Randal)
• T-SQL Window Functions – Part 1: The OVER Clause (Steve Hughes)
• Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 2) (Basit Farooq)

SharePoint

• Create lists, content types, fields etc. within a SharePoint 2013 app (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft and the GatherReader e-reader: More on Microsoft’s vision for reading (Mary Jo Foley)
• Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite: Four Years in the Making (Ina Fried)
• Kindle Fire HD is bad for Android, worse for iPad (Joe Wilcox)
• Amazon Blows Up the Tablet Market (Lance Ulanoff)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 171 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading September 6, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #953 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 06 Sep 2012 (Malcolm Jack)
• The Morning Brew #1184 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 9/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 6 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Node.js and JavaScript Links (Tim Spann)

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