Dew Drop – September 21, 2012 (#1,406)

Top Links

• CTP of Quarterly Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (MS Downloads)
• jQuery 1.8.2 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Moving a website to Azure while adding Continuous Deployment from Git (Scott Hanselman)
• Adding NuGet Support to F# Interactive in VS2012 (Daniel Mohl)

Web Development

• jQuery Editors: Rich client experience (part 2) (Damyan Petev)
• Head.js is Awesome! (John Whish)
• How to Enable XDebug in Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
• Using LESS as a Live CSS Engine (Andrew Powers)
• Moving to Windows Azure Web Sites (Christian Nagel)
• LightningJS – A Safe, Fast, & Asynchronous Embed Code Intended for Third-Party JavaScript (Hirvesh Munogee)
• 5 LINQ for JavaScript Libraries (Senthil Kumar)
• Google Introduces JavaScript Support for the Drive API (Janet Wagner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: HTML5 Media – $6.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• ASP.NET 4.5 ScriptManager Improvements in WebForms (Pranav Rastogi)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview Walkthrough–Part 5: Distributing Your App From the Windows Store (Roger Jennings)
• Announcing Open Sourcing of Windows Azure Mobile Services SDK on GitHub, and Partnership with Xamarin (Kirill Gavrylyuk)
• September 2012 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Using Web Workers to improve performance of image manipulation (David Catuhe)
• Friday with Filip – Do you care about web security? (Filip Ekberg)
• Setting Prototype Properties Using Inherited Scope Methods In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)

XAML

• Weekend reading: Windows Phone tips from MSDN Magazine (Michael Stroh)
• 2000 WPF Things #652 – Mouse Event Summary (Sean Sexton)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.2.3 (CodePlex)
• Introduction to Telerik RadSlideHubTile Control for Windows 8 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows 8 App Bars (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous .NET

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Timeout static class (James Michael Hare)
• Just* works even better in Visual Studio 2012 (Just* Team)
• Assembly Programming with Visual Studio 2010/2012 (Spiros Kakos)
• VS2012 Coded UI Test closes browser by default (Tarun Arora)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Windows 8 Game Development… (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 RC (CodePlex)
• Setting the right DirectoryEntry for DirectorySearcher used for DirectorySynchronization (Sebastian Dau)
• Project Austin Part 1 of 6: Introduction (Jorge Pereira)
• Sometimes a nanosecond makes all the difference (Nick Berardi)
• How do I invoke a verb on an IShellItemArray? (Raymond Chen)
• Real time visualization of a .net process (Rohit Sharma)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bug Fixes in OSS environment (Oren Eini)
• Gang of Four Design Patterns Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)
• Be fast and fluid – Metro Design Series Part 4 (Brent Schooley)
• Design Obsessions (Rinat Abdullin)
• Technical Debt – When Do You Have To Pay It Off? (Jim Bird)
• Limiting your abstractions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Git output in color on terminal (Deepak Kapoor)
• Using OneNote with an online class at Coursera (John Guin)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Check out the iOS 6 Feast (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Rob Burnett and Jon Beckerman (Chris Hardwick)
• Bonny Lau: Windows 8 User Experience (Chris Caldwell)
• Defrag: Migrating Predictive Text, Defrag Spam, PlayTo & MKV’s | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• People Talking Tech Episode 003 – SQL PASS Board Candidates (Denny Cherry)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 2: Second to none (Alan Mendelevich)
• What The Tech 133 (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Ed Blankenship talks Lab Management (Martin Woodward)
• Boagworld: Has responsive design killed Photoshop for web designers? (Paul Boag)

Community / Events

• .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows 8 and Windows Azure Invade Texas (Chris Koenig)
• YUIConf Update – Notice: potential date change (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Leaving Microsoft (Brad Wilson)
• Week 1 Winners – $250,000 to Help Public Schools Sweepstakes from Bing Rewards (Alex Danskin)
• Microsoft introduces new YouthSpark philanthropy program (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 SP1 CTP and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 SP1 Community Technology Preview Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Replace a Column Name in Multiple Stored Procedure all together (Pinal Dave)
• Azure Table Storage (Rick Anderson)

SharePoint

• Integrating Additional Tools in a SharePoint Continuous Integration Build (Chris O’Brien)
• APress Deal of the Day 21/Sept/2012 – Pro ASP.NET SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Tatworth)

PowerShell

• Parsing Windows event logs with PowerShell (Colleen Morrow)

Miscellaneous

• Coding for Kids #2. Code! (Brian Hitney)
• Intel Ultrabook–First Impressions (Daniel Egan)
• Poll – Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X, Samsung ATIV S, which will be yours? (Daniel Rubino)
• How to Think Like a Functional Programmer (Marc Clifton)
• Why C and C++ is still relevant in current times (Tarie Nosworthy)
• What’s the big secret with Windows Phone 8? (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 21, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 173 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading September 20, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #963 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 21 Sep 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 9/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1194 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 20 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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