Dew Drop – November 7, 2012 (#1,438)

Top Links

• Reactive Extensions (Rx) is now Open Source (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #7: Share Contract (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Microsoft Access 2013: A Cool New Rapid Development Tool for the Cloud (Gregory Leake)
• Report: Microsoft working on Xbox Surface 7-inch gaming tablet (Rich Edmonds)

Web Development

• Animations and Gestures in a Windows 8 app using WinJS (Mehfuz Hossain)
• The Latest Updates to jQuery Mobile (Andy Matthews)
• FireClosure – JavaScript Closure Inspector (Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko)
• Is HTML5 hype justified or not? (Sasha Krsmanovic)
• 11 Things I Learned By Studying the Metro UI CSS Files (Chris Love)
• Debugging Azure HTTP 500 Errors (Rick Anderson)
• Internet Explorer 10 Wins (Again) on Performance (Roger Capriotti)
• Lucene.Net "Full-Text Search for Your Intranet or Website using 37 Lines of Code" article updated for 3 & 4 (Lucene.Net 3 and .Net 4) (Greg Duncan)
• High Availability for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS in the Cloud (Buck Woody)
• Property assignment and the prototype chain (Axel Rauschmayer)

XAML

• Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 1) (Andrea Boschin)
• What’s new in photos and video for Windows Phone 8 (Jon Canan)
• DNS Client for Windows and Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Wpf and Design Time data Part 2–Use a Concrete Class (Ricci Gian Maria)
• 2000 WPF Things #685 – Capturing the Mouse (Sean Sexton)
• DirectX and XAML in Windows (Phone) 8: Part 0 of N (Toni Petrina)
• Styling windows 8 – 3 Implicit and explicit styling (Håkan Reis)

Miscellaneous .NET

• .NET Garbage Collection (Richard Carr)
• ReSharper SDK Adventures Part 6 — Read-only inteface generator (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• EasyNetQ Publisher Confirms (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual C++ Compiler November 2012 CTP (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design patterns in the test of time: Decorator (Oren Eini)
• Moving from TFS to Github – Steps we took to do the migration (Derik Whittaker)
• User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps (Rick Muszynski & Patrik Lundberg)
• The Nature of Code (Rob Bazinet)
• Transforming Mountains (Rick Austin)
• Testing with queries and repositories (a simple example) (Jimmy Bogard)
• A Few Good Reasons for Code Review (Jakob Nilsson-Ehle)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started using NUCLiOS with MonoTouch Part 1: IGChartView (Brent Schooley)
• Sencha Touch 2.1 is Here with New Charting & Tools (Edmund Leung)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mani Ramaswamy and Peter Sollich: Inside Compiler in the Cloud and MDIL | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 238: Mark Nichols on Clark’s Garage (part 2) (David Giard)
• Episode 206 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michael Niehaus talks about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Angela Kinsey (Chris Hardwick)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 5: Elbert Perez and BUILD (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 189: Newcomers (Gareth)
• The JavaScript Show – Windows 8 Apps (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Defrag Tools: Live – //Build/2012 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Mark Russinovich, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• People Talking Tech Episode 010 – Stephen Rose (Denny Cherry)
• Engadget HD Podcast 323 – 11.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Community for F# Online Meetup – "The F# Foundation" with Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford – Thursday Nov 8 2012 (Don Syme)
• Notes from a trip to Microsoft BUILD 2012 (Alan Mendelevich)
• Windows 8 Online Office Hours (Jennifer Marsman)
• Meet the Author: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework in the Enterprise (Paul Ballard)

Database

• Introduction to SQL Server Data Tools (Ray Barley)
• Scripting SSIS Package Deployments (Chad Miller)
• Introducing sp_ssiscatalog (v1.0.0.0) (Jamie Thomson)
• SET ROWCOUNT VS TOP in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• Another Dive into Transaction Log File Forensics (Hugo)

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Featured Program – Turtle Maze (Ed Price)
• Is “Cloud TV” coming to Microsoft? and Skype: Windows Live Messenger “retirement” official–gone by 1st quarter 2013 and On the final post on “Inside Windows Live”, Brian Hall says goodbye to Windows Live Messenger (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Daily Windows 8 Development News 6 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #996 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1227 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 11/6/2012 and Daily News Digest 11/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)

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