Dew Drop – November 9, 2012 (#1,440)

Top Links

• Zen Coding in Visual Studio 2012 (John Papa)
• Enterprise Library 6.0 – Vision/Scope (Grigori Melnik)
• Dynamic contagion, part two (Eric Lippert)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #9: Live Tiles (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• Embed JavaScript in Custom ASP.NET Server Controls (Jason Gaylord)
• Ignite UI jQuery Mobile layouts and ASP.NET MVC– wrapping it all up (Damyan Petev)
• Publish and Subscribe using SignalR in Home Automation – Part 3 (Eric Hexter)
• A guide to 2ality’s posts on ECMAScript.next/ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Adding Session support to ASP.NET Web API (Filip W.)
• Live Changes Within Node.js Scripts Without Stop/Start (Gonzalo Ayuso)
• Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 3) (Jim O’Neil)
• New JavaScript inspections and intentions (Konstantin Ulitin)
• Enabling ASP.NET Web API Help Pages for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications (Mark Berryman)
• HTML5 Input type=date Formatting Issues (Rick Strahl)
• Hello to Assembla’s New API with OAuth2 (Michael Chletsos)
• Building Single Page Web Apps with Sinatra: Part 1 (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Versioning RESTful Services (Howard Dierking)
• WordPress: The Complete Guide To Custom Post Types (Daniel Pataki)

XAML

• Biggest Windows Phone 8 Feature? Could be C++ (Bill Reiss)
• A look at Windows Phone 8 (DevToolsGuy)
• Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 2) (Andrea Boschin)
• 2000 WPF Things #687 – What Happens If You Forget to Release The Mouse (Sean Sexton)
• Design Templates for Windows Phone: Keep Gettin’ Better (Telerik WP Team)
• Adapting UI of Windows 8 app for available pointer devices (Andrei Marukovich)
• Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework for Windows 8 (v1.0) (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Forcing Garbage Collection (Richard Carr)
• What does the COINIT_SPEED_OVER_MEMORY flag to CoInitializeEx do? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design patterns in the test of time: Façade (Oren Eini)
• A Retrospective of an Unproductive Day (Swizec Teller)
• Compose your Software Development Practices (Luis Atencio)
• Automating Jasmine Tests with Chutzpah (Joel Ross)
• Friday with Filip – Know your tools (Filip Ekberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building Enterprise Smartphone App – Part 1: Why Build Smart Phone Apps (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Frank McSherry: Introduction to Naiad and Differential Dataflow (Charles Torre)
• The Verge Mobile Show 024 – November 7th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 001: Brain Games, Season Update, and Build! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Yet Another Podcast #80–Miguel de Icaza & Mono (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag: Bing Desktop on 8, RAID0 SSD, Build Favorites | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• BUILD is wrapped- let’s party! (Laura Foy)
• Ratchet and the Geek – Radio Voice (Luvvie Ajayi & Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• The SharePoint Community is the BEST Technical Community on Earth (Joel Oleson)
• Meet the Author: Paul O’Fallon on Node on Windows and Azure (Paul Ballard)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel® 2010 and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Product Guide (MS Downloads)
• Create SQL Server Analysis Services Partitions using AMO (Daniel Calbimonte)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Online Management Shell and Case Study: Mavention and Web Content Management in SharePoint 2013 (MS Downloads)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell Command Builder Getting Started Guide (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Midori operating-system skunkworks project soldiers on (Mary Jo Foley)
• Weekly Poll: Refcardz Topics and More! (Bill Armstrong)
• Microsoft patents spying on you with your TV’s camera and fining you if there are too many people watching (Cory Doctorow)
• Have I got a gesture for you… No, not that gesture, this "Windows 8 Gestures Guide" cheat sheet and How do Physics Engines Work? How about a "How Physics Engines Work" article then? (Greg Duncan)
• Switching to Skype from Messenger? There’s a FAQ for that (Kip Kniskern)
• Many Raspberry Pi projects – How can you not love a tiny computer? (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone 8: Desktop Application Now Available for Windows 7 (Antonio Hernandez)
• Internet Explorer 10 brings HTML5 to Windows Phone 8 in a big way (Charles Morris)
• Reports That Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Will Be Priced Above $1,000 Likely Inaccurate (Zach Epstein)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 8, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1229 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 8 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 8 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 11/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)

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