Dew Drop – October 1, 2012 (#1,412)

Top Links

• How can I enumerate thee? Let me count the ways… (Jon Skeet)
• Why Can’t I Get Audio Data Directly On A Windows Phone? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ReSharper 7.1 Early Access is Open (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Creating a Direct2D game for WinRT (Filip Ekberg)

Web Development

• Building HTML5 Applications: Is this the right choice? and Building responsive web design using CSS3 Media Queries! (Abhishek Narain)
• F*** MongoDB, F*** Node.js, and F*** You! (Allen Coin)
• Using Labjs in Place of Head.js (John Whish)
• Restyle Your CSS Declarations With CSScomb (Craig Buckler)
• Don’t Initialize All the Things in jQuery.ready() (Elijah Manor)
• Zombie.js – Insanely Fast, Headless Full-Stack Testing Using Node.js (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – September 2012 Preview (Martin Sawicki)
• Vertical Showcase Slider with jQuery and CSS Transitions (Mary Lou)
• Introducing SignalWire – Magical Plumbing with your Data Store + C# and LINQ in your HTML pages (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• jQuery UI 1.8.24 (Scott González)
• Faster Javascript (Yusuf Aytaş)
• Using Live SDK in Windows 8 – JavaScript (Shai Raiten)
• 10 Must-Know Skills for a WordPress Plugin Developer (Rakhitha Nimesh)
• Discovering your Web API and Web API Help Page and XML Comments (Deborah Kurata)
• Microsoft Cloud Analysis Tool and Infrastructure Optimization Tool (JD Meier)
• Nancy and Areas (Phillip Haydon)
• Sublime Text as Code Editor (1) Compile (Greg Young)
• Single Page Application Template Now Available (Daniel Mohl)
• Support for the Web Audio API is growing (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Organizing Enterprise-Level Applications (Jonathan Cutrell)

XAML

• How to get started with the XAML Syntax Editor (Damyan Petev)
• Windows Phone ButtonImage Control that Supports Pressed and IsEnabled States (Sébastien Lachance)
• Getting Started Building Windows 8 Store Apps with XAML/C# (Dan Wahlin)
• Setting the Display for a WPF Application (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• UPnP via WinRT and Managed Code for Windows 8 and MarkedUp Analytics Beta for Windows 8 now available (and free) (Greg Duncan)
• Blend confusion. Which Blend for WPF, SL4, SL5 and Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)
• [WP7] Handling events in the items of a ListBox (Windows Developer podcast challenge) (Jeremy Alles)
• Repairing the Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string (Joost van Schaik)
• Obfuscate Windows Phone 7 (Part 1) and Obfuscate Windows Phone 7 (Part 2) (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #658 – An Easier Way to Handle Mouse Double Clicks (Sean Sexton)
• W8WIL #5: Bringing the Awesome in Search (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Dev Center gets new translation feature (Todd Brix)
• Downloading files in Windows 8 apps using Background Transfer feature (Piotr Walat)
• ModernUI Toolkit The Once Stop for All Chart Controls (Mahmoud Medhat Moussa)
• Learning Windows Store app development? Download Windows 8 Camp in a Box! (Davide Zordan)
• Resolution: Unable to Activate Windows Store App. The activation request failed with error E_Fail. (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8–Toast Notification (Jesse Liberty)
• Game Development 101, Part 1 and Game Development 101, Part 2 (Ed Donahue)
• WPUtils 1.2 and Windows 8 Toolkit – Charts and More – Beta 1.0 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Thread Synchronisation with the Monitor Class (Richard Carr)
• September Update CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 and Getting Started with PreEmptive Analytics for Team Foundation Server (Charles Sterling)
• Making WiX more approachable with the WiX Artefacts Creator for VS2010 (Greg Duncan)
• Parsing a Connection String With Sprache (Mike Hadlow)
• How to create a Alchemy game for Windows 8 (Rudi Grobler)
• C++ Runtime for Windows 8 Store apps (Raman Sharma)
• Dot Net Gotcha #2 – Loop variables and Closures (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Strings in .NET are Enumerable (Scott Dorman)
• Migration to Telerik OpenAccess ORM is Now Easier Than Ever (OpenAccess ORM Team)
• .NET Framework Parallel Dataflow, Part 3 (Eric Vogel)
• Stupid Question 55: What is the best serialization class to use from a performance perspective? (Iris Classon)
• Merging Symbol Servers (John Robbins)
• Convert IBuffer to Byte Array (Nicolas Humann)
• Code Issues hints for types and members and Navigating in the CodeRush abstract source code tree (Alex Skorkin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Sneak peek: Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (Devon Musgrave)
• A quick guide to Registration-Free COM in .Net–and how to Unit Test it (Samuel Jack)
• Model Based UI Testing using DGML (Chris Lovett)
• How To Get Things Done When You Don’t Have Enough Resources, Budget, or Capacity (JD Meier)
• Stupid Question 54: Performance, when should you care? (Iris Classon)
• Planning and Tracking – Flat TOC (Kathryn E.)
• Using Data Driven Find Logic (Jim Holmes)
• Friday with Filip – Being productive (Filip Ekberg)
• Encouraging Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects // Design Process (Andy Clarke)

Other Mobile Platforms

• DZone Refcardz – Code Gems for Android Developers (Avi Yehuda)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 232: Keith Casey on Twilio (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 453: Medal of Honor Warfighter beta, Bond 50 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 086 – “Designers, Designers, Designers” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Video: Revolutionize Your Organization with #SharePoint 2013 #mvpbuzz #sharepointfest (Dux Raymond Sy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sara Watkins and The Nerdist Podcast – Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 048 – September 27th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• 5 hour IntelliTrace Course is now available online (Charles Sterling)
• SitePoint Podcast #181: Solving More Problems Than You Create (Karn Broad)
• Video: Back to Basics with C Language Pointers (Paul Ballard)
• What The Tech 134: Oh the Humanity and Windows Weekly 280: The Stink of Atom (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 311 – 09.28.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: Windows Phone to Windows 8, DirectX graphics development, SSDT Updated | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• R2 Release Webinar is Live on TTV! (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• Learn XNA, Win an iPad! (John Sonmez)
• MADExpo 2012 Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts (Jon Gallant)

Database

• SQL SERVER : How to List All Email Subscription configured in SSRS ? (Nelson Aloor)
• Handling a Large Number of Categories in a SQL Server Reporting Services Pie Chart (Dattatrey Sindol)
• Pagination – SQL Server Vs MySQL‏ (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Importance of User Without Login and SQL SERVER – Preserve Leading Zero While Coping to Excel from SSMS and SQLAuthority News – Follow up on – Replace a Column Name in Multiple Stored Procedure all together (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Using SSIS to Automatically Populate a SharePoint List (Brady Upton)

PowerShell

• Updated WintellectPowerShell for September 29, 2012 (John Robbins)

Miscellaneous

• Webs of Trust versus Certifications (Steve Smith)
• Careers: Losing Jobs, Finding Jobs, Creating Jobs, and Changing Jobs (JD Meier)
• Sorry, Tim Cook, apology not accepted (Joe Wilcox)
• Testing XML generation with vimdiff (Mark Needham)
• How to create a DVD on Windows 8 even though Windows DVD Maker is gone – DVDStyler (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Halo 4 is done, set for November release (Taylor Soper)
• Pluralsight HTML 5 Player Beta! (Keith Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 30, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 09.24 ~ 09.29 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading September 28, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #969 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five–September 28, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #31 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 9/28/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (9/29/2012) and Daily News Digest 10/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1199 and The Morning Brew #1200 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Pie in the Sky (September 28, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for September 30, 2012 – #0128 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio ALM links 39/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #38) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 28 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 28 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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