Dew Drop – October 23, 2012 (#1,427)

Top Links

• Mono 3.0 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing TouchDevelop Web App Preview (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Introducing Icenium – an Integrated Cloud Environment for Hybrid Mobile App Development (Telerik Marketing Team)
• A method group of one (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 1 (Levi Broderick)
• Cloud-Controlled Remote Pan Tilt Zoom Camera API for a Logitech BCC950 Camera with Azure and SignalR (Scott Hanselman)
• IE10 for Windows 8 to be released on October 26th, 2012 (xyz)
• Getting Started with Web Workers (Agraj Mangal)
• IE10 for Windows 7: Why the Delay? (Craig Buckler)

XAML

• Fun with ILDASM and ILASM: tweaking the code of an existing library (Jeremy Alles)
• Creating a XAML Tile Control (Paul Sheriff)
• Wpf Design Time Data (Ricci Gian Maria)
• 2000 WPF Things #674 – Mapping Mouse Position to Color, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Working with Report Templates in the Report Designer (Telerik Reporting Team)
• Windows Store App Development Snack: Side Loading Apps for Development Purposes (Robert MacLean)
• Microsoft Windows Store App Exams/Certifications are out (Iris Classon)
• Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 7 (Samidip Basu)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Updated F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 Now Available (Don Syme)
• Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 and Data Visualization, Oh My! (Chris Sells)
• The Visual Studio and TFS 2012 DevOps Story (Gabriel Torok)
• Save Your Visual Studio Settings in the Cloud (JustCode Team)
• Dynamic Code for type casting Generic Types ‘generically’ in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Feature explained–Spatial Geocode from address (Daniel Dar)
• WAFFLE 1.5 Released (Daniel Doubrovkine)
• Thread.Interrupt Is Evil (Alois Kraus)
• Kinect Games v2.5 with the Kinect for Windows SDk v1.6 (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Benefits of Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Mini book: The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager (Daniel Mezick)
• Transition to Agile, Large Technical Debt, Small Project (Johanna Rothman)
• Design patterns in the test of time (Oren Eini)
• Factory patterns: Collaborators Map (Giorgio Sironi)
• Designing your Windows 8 app to be the best in its category (Roxanne Beaver)
• IoC container solves a problem you might not have but it’s a nice problem to have (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mantle: a Model Framework for Objective-C (Justin Spahr-Summers)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 072: A History of Halloween (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Don Syme and Keith Battocchi Bring F# Everywhere (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Bill Gates Talks Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface (video) (Antonio Hernandez)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Guillermo del Toro LIVE from NYCC (Chris Hardwick)
• DartCasts.com Episode 3: Dart/JS Interop This screencast… (Victor Savkin)
• Defrag Tools: #13 – WinDbg | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Video: Killing Your Enemies with Vivid Animations in XNA (Paul Ballard)
• Video: This 3-year-old kid uses Windows 8 like a champ (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Server 2012: Shared Nothing Live Migration | IT Camps On-Demand: Windows Server 2012 (John Weston)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 22nd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SharePoint Conference 2012: Activity Planner #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)

Database

• Ways to compare and find differences for SQL Server tables and data (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Permissions (Scott Murray)
• Book Review: SQL Server Hardware (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Order By Numeric Values Formatted as String (Pinal Dave)
• Red Gate log shipping (Chuck Boyce Jr.)
• What Happened to rowmodctr from Sysindexes? (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Video: 5 Deadly Sins of SharePoint in the Enterprise #sharepointsym (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Dear JobsBlog: What makes Microsoft unique? (MS JobsBlog)
• The Unique Features of the Small Basic Language (Ed Price)
• Introducing the New Entertainment Experience from Xbox (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Skype for Windows 8 available Oct 26th: moving to Messenger backend and IFTTT launches SkyDrive Channel (Kip Kniskern)
• MVP Monday – Windows Server 2012’s Data Deduplication Feature (Paul Clement)
• Steven Sinofsky’s controversial strategy for launching Windows 8 (Sam Byford)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2012 10.17 ~ 10.23 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading October 22, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #984 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (October 19, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• The Morning Brew #1216 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 10/22/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #67 (Frank)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 22 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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