Dew Drop – October 2, 2012 (#1,413)

Top Links

• TypeScript: JavaScript Development at Application Scale (S.Somasegar)
• An introduction to Type Script (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• TypeScript first impressions (Bertrand Le Roy)
• TypeScript: First Impressions (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Web Development

• Microsoft takes the wraps off TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript (Mary Jo Foley)
• The obligatory TypeScript reaction post (Mark Rendle)
• Control Your Alerts with Notifications For Each Event (Michael Chletsos)
• Sublime Text, Vi, Emacs: TypeScript enabled! (Olivier Bloch)
• Zuckerberg Was Right, but HTML5 is Not the Problem – Apple, Google, Microsoft & Developers Are! (Chris Love)
• Transform Your HTML/CSS/JavaScript Apps into Windows 8 Application (Doris Chen)
• Namespacing in PHP (Elias Zerrouq)
• Live Weather Display Using CSS, jQuery and PHP (Darren Jamieson)
• jQuery VintageJS – Vintage Effects For Your Images With The HTML5 Canvas Element (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Build Your Own Membership System For ASP.NET MVC – Part I (K. Scott Allen)
• Developing an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application for TDD using xUnit and Moq (Raj Aththanayake)
• Creating classes in JavaScript (Renso Hollhumer)
• A tiny Utility to recycle an IIS Application Pool (Rick Strahl)
• Got big JSON? BigQuery expands data import for large scale web apps (Scott Knaster)

 

XAML

• Windows 8: Using WinRT APIs in Desktop Apps (Peter Kuhn)
• Make money form Windows Phone: Paid or Free app, which strategy to choose? (Windows Phone Geek)
• A WPF Image/Text Button (Paul Sheriff)
• Do NOT use FileOpenPicker while snapped (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #659 – Detecting a Triple Click (Sean Sexton)
• How to create an infinite scrollable list with LongListSelector (Rohan Thakkar)
• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services Part 4: Tile interactions in Windows 8 (Gill Cleeren)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft Update available for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Shubhra Maji)
• Free book from Microsoft – Introduction-to-Visual-Studio-Technologies.pdf (Tatworth)
• More data portal enhancements for CSLA 4.5 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Raven.DynamicSession for RavenDB (Phillip Haydon)
• Using T4 to Generate Typesafe Enum Classes and Resource Files (Geoff Hudik)
• A Few New OData Things of Interest (Glenn Gailey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Unit Testing Reviewed (Steve Smith)
• Editing a Verification for an IF Conditional (Jim Holmes)
• The Pitfalls of Cut and Paste Coding (Doug Rathbone)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• The Seven Deadly Myths of Mobile (Adam Waid)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Bill Wagner Deals With Change (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript and Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban: Inside TypeScript (Charles Torre)
• SharePoint 2013 Infrastructure Changes, Cloud, Search with Spence Harbar-Episode 75 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Video: 7 Ways to Empower Reluctant PMs with SharePoint 2013 #pmot #sharepointfest (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Introducing Visual Studio 2012 (Video) (Peter Provost)
• Introduction to CSS3: Responsive Web Design Training with Presentation|Video (Doris Chen)
• 029 JSJ Bower.js with Alex MacCaw and Jacob Thornton (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ ONeal, Jamison Dance)
• The Power of Microsoft PixelSense (Jackie Kmetz)
• Defrag Tools: #10 – ProcDump – Triggers | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Boagworld: Could Adobe Reflow be the future of design apps? (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the SharePoint Community Hub and STP Global Luncheons at #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
• Finalists for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Richmond Code Camp (Shayne Boyer)
• ANN: Expert DevExpress XAF Class USA, January 2013 (Oliver Sturm)
• Congratulations, You’re an MVP! Here’s What You Need to Know. (Brent Ozar)
• Philadelphia Film Festival: Call for Volunteers! (Dan Tabor)
• Indyhalloween 5.0: A Very Reddit Halloween @ Tattooed Mom (Eric Smith)
• Windows 8 Game Hackathon October 3-4 in ATL (Glen Gordon)
• Boston Windows 8 Meetup Kickoff–October 9th (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• Importing Data From Excel Using SSIS – Part 2 (Arshad Ali)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – 2 T-SQL Puzzles – Display Star and Shortest Code to Display 1 (Pinal Dave)
• The T-SQL Trick (Mark Bowytz)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 and Jquery $ sign issue (Greg Galipeau)

 

Miscellaneous

• Dear Jobsblog: Long Term Career Path: Can I stay a geek and code, or do I need to become a manager? (MS JobsBlog)
• New book: Windows Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 2 (Carol Vu)
• NASA Wants You to Help Build More APIs (Curtis C. Chen)
• The new Microsoft (Eric Brechner)
• Daily Update, Oct. 1st – Introducing MSN for Windows 8 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• MSN to unveil MSN for Windows 8 and Deep Zoom imagery coming to Bing Home Page? (Kip Kniskern)
• Copying a free Microsoft Press ebook in .mobi format to an iPad (Devon Musgrave)
• LastPass For Windows 8 Is Here! (Joe Siegrist)
• Low early Windows 8 adoption numbers sound alarm bells for Microsoft (Brad Reed)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 1, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #970 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 1 Oct 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1201 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for October 01, 2012 – #0129 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 1 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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