Dew Drop – November 15, 2012 (#1,443)

Top Links

• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #15: The On-Screen Keyboard (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Creating A Windows 8 Application From Scratch (Jesse Liberty)
• Respect and the 40-hour work week (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Windows 8 Development + Blendability (Braulio Diez)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web API and dependencies in request scope (Filip W)
• Creative CSS Loading Animations (Hugo Giraudel)
• HTML5 game developer feels IE10 lacks important features (John Callaham)
• Unable to Edit and Continue in Windows Azure Web Roles (Kevin Griffin)
• Unit Testing your JavaScript (Alex Staveley)
• Using Routers in Backbone.js (Sagar H. Ganatra)
• Finding Elements In The DOM Using querySelector and Storing and Retrieving an Array from Local Storage (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Running IISNode on Windows 8 x64 (Per Ökvist)
• How and why to avoid mixing your mark-up and server-side code (Rachel Andrew)
• Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes (Matt Rakow)
• Increasing Productivity: Using The Texture Panel In Adobe Fireworks (Matt Curtis)
• Responsive Grids With Susy (Gabriel Manricks)

XAML

• Sending In-Application Toast Notifications in WinRT for C# (Derik Whittaker)
• Taking a Look at Registering a new Windows Phone 8 Device and Syncing Content (Michael Crump)
• Update on Windows Phone 8 support for Rx v2.0 (Rx Team)
• 2000 WPF Things #691 – IsMouseCaptured Indicates Whether Mouse Is Currently Captured (Sean Sexton)
• Common Windows Store certification errors: 3.8 App must meet the basic performance criteria on a low-power computer (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using WinMerge with VS2012 (Rory Primrose)
• Simple Setup Engine for KinectContrib Templates (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ReSharper 7.1 update (Tatworth)
• Paraffin Bug Fix and Future Ideas (John Robbins)
• Native Development Experience in Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Eric Battalio)
• Sharing files across projects by linking in VS (Iris Classon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Methodologies – The Missing Path (Mohamed Kishawy)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Proxy (Oren Eini)
• Extending Load Testing With A Custom Plugin (Stoil Stoichev)
• Are 20% projects profitable? (Craig Buckler)
• How to use Git and Github for Windows from within a Windows auth proxy network. (Eric Hexter)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android SDK Tools, Revision 21 (Xavier Ducrohet & Angana Ghosh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Udi Dahan Talks CQRS, Agile and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• XAMLflix presents RadPivotGrid for WPF and Silverlight (Michael Crump)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 104: A few infrastructure services and version control (Michael Kimsal)
• The JavaScript Show – Getting Started with Knockout.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Core technologies for Windows 8 games | Build 2012 (Chas Boyd)
• Hot Apps: Roll In The Hole, Akinator, Space Tube FREE, Shoot 1UP, Archer | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Video: Code Your Way to Riches with Windows 8 App Paid Features (Paul Ballard)
• Dude, What’s My Role? – Cloud-Driven Changes (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Geek Graduates: Interns help ship Windows 8 (MS JobsBlog)
• 5 Important SharePoint Conference 2012 Announcements You Can’t Miss… #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
• Geek of the Week: Katie Sweeney, Writer and Broken Umbrellarazzi (Michaelangelo Ilagan)

Database

• SQL Server TCP Port Number (Vinoth NM)
• SQL Server || Compress & UnComprees Backups in one MediaFile (Rohit Garg)
• How to restore a SQL Server database to a lower version (Basit Farooq)
• SQL SERVER – Concurrency Basics – Guest Post by Vinod Kumar (Pinal Dave)
• 15 SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips for Database Developers (Sajid Wasim)
• Is being a DBA still sexy? (Jes Schultz Borland)

Miscellaneous

• Why Windows 8 is a compelling choice for clinicians around the world (Bill Crounse)
• Exclusive excerpt from The Walking Dead novel – The Road to Woodbury (Mark Frauenfelder)
• The Computer Backup Rule of Three (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 14, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1001 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Links (11-12-12) (Matthias Shapiro)
• The Morning Brew #1233 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 14, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 15, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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