Dew Drop – October 9, 2012 (#1,418)

Top Links

• Web Platform Docs Debuts with Developer Resources (Eliot Graff)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP (Charles Sterling)
• Glenn Block’s Return to Redmond | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Now we know the dates for shipping Windows Phone 8 (was that so hard?) (Kip Kniskern)

Web Development

• Resolving An AngularJS Deferred Object Twice With DeferredWithUpdate.js (Ben Nadel)
• Why I’m so excited about Web Platform Docs (Paul Irish)
• A Single-Page App with Knockout.js, MongoDB, and Twitter Bootstrap (Christopher Geers)
• A Single Page App with Knockout.js, ASP.NET Web API, and F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Introducing a New User Experience for Windows Azure Service Bus (Himanshu Singh)
• How to Update Application Cache Programmatically in HTML5? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The problem of user identity (Giorgio Sironi)
• Html Table Of Contents Generator (Sacha Barber)
• jQuery UI 1.9.0 (Scott González)
• Windows 8 Javascript Tips – TypeScript support (Fons Sonnemans)
• How your website is being pwned while you’re not looking (Troy Hunt)
• Is Internet Explorer Development Really a Waste of Time? (Craig Buckler)
• JSONiq: The JSON Query Language (Jonathan Allen)

XAML

• Add a separator line in a XAML AppBar (Nicolas Humann)
• The evolution of Windows Phone memory management (Andrew Whitechapel)
• Full WCF – WPF application which uses PRISM/Cinch/WCF/MEF/Castle (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #664 – MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events (Sean Sexton)
• SuperHeroes: Develop a Windows Phone quiz game in less than 10 minutes (Tanzim Saqib)
• W8WIL #6: Leverage the Maps app for location-based features (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Split an imagestrip into individual images/icons (Kirill Osenkov)
• Windows Store App Development Snack: App Age Restriction & Developers (Robert MacLean)
• Using User-Provided Images for Secondary Tiles (Morten Nielsen)
• Don’t forget your Logo background color (Nigel Sampson)

Miscellaneous .NET

• ListOfParams and other horrible things that you shouldn’t bring to RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Automatically create bug resolution task using the TFS 2010 API (Bob Hardister)
• CTP of Windows XP Targeting with C++ in Visual Studio 2012 (Ibrahim Damlaj)
• Writing a ContinueAfter method for Rx (Phil Haack)
• Telerik’s evolving platform guidance for .NET developers (Chris Sells)
• Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6 (MS Downloads)
• Creating a User-Friendly TimeSpan String (Jonathan Wood)
• A Synchronization Context Based On The TPL Dataflow Library (Paulo Morgado)
• dotCover 2.2: Early Access Program is Open (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Fluent Assertions 2.0 Out Of Beta (Dennis Doomen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Security and privacy concerns identified as most common obstacle to implementing application analytics (Sebastian Holst)
• The Deployment Frustration (Rikard Ottosson)
• Favor query objects over repositories (Jimmy Bogard)
• Enabling Test Case Management features in Team Foundation Server Web Access (Charles Sterling)
• Avoiding Premature Integration or: How we learned to stop worrying and ship software every day (Michael Chletsos & Titas Norkunas)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building Quality Tablet Apps (Reto Meier)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Web Performance at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Monday Brief: WP8 Event, Galaxy Note 2 Review, PlayBook OS 2.1, and more! (Ashley Esqueda)
• Defrag Tools: #11 – ProcDump – Windows 8 & Process Monitor | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Video: Back to Transact-SQL Basics (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 8th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Jobs in IT: With the Northwest as your outdoor playground, a career at Microsoft rocks (MS JobsBlog)
• A Journey To SQL Authority (John Sansom)
• Introduction to Mocking: How to Test Dependencies & Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)
• Building Your First Windows 8 App in Albany, NY–Oct 9th (Jim O’Neil)
• Columbus Drinkup #2 (Jason Long)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Identify Numbers of Non Clustered Index on Tables for Entire Database (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Check SQL Server Virtual Log Files Using PowerShell (Edwin Sarmiento)

Miscellaneous

• What are the 14 Keywords of Small Basic? (Ed Price)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 8, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #975 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/09/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 8 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 8 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for October 1-7, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1206 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for October 08, 2012 – #0131 (Dave Campbell)

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