Dew Drop – November 21, 2012 (#1,447)

Top Links

• The update Windows SDK and Windows App Certification Kit tool (now checks branding images) (Pete Brown)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #21: Camera Capture (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Add Packages, not References – a NuGet plugin for ReSharper (Matt Ellis)
• Building Windows Store Apps with .NET (Brandon Bray)

Web Development

• Node Roundup: Knockout Winners, Node for Raspberry Pi, Benchtable (Alex Young)
• How does Windows Azure PowerShell import publishsettings using Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile command? (Avkash Chauhan)
• How to Duplicate Elements Using CSS3 Box Shadows (Craig Buckler)
• Web Publish Updates with Windows Azure SDK 1.8 (John Wen)
• Learning Principles for Improving Your CSS (Hugo Giraudel)
• Practical Azure #3: The Case for Windows Azure Drives (Jim O’Neil)
• Two ASP.NET MVC 4 Courses (K. Scott Allen)
• Inspiration: Adding A Personal Touch To Your Web Design (Sabina Idler)
• Fully Loaded Node – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 2 (Lloyd Hilaiel)
• IE10 CSS Hacks (Louis Lazaris)
• Fixing Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense for WinJS Files (Phil Japikse)
• Tips: 50 Performance Tricks To Make Your HTML5 Applications And Sites Faster (Vygantas Lipskas)
• Adaptive Thumbnail Pile Effect with Automatic Grouping (Pedro Botelho)
• Amazon adds Windows Server 2012 support to AWS (Mary Jo Foley)

XAML

• Implementing in-app purchasing in Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone Toolkit overview (Adam Denning)
• Passing event arguments to the WinRT EventToCommandBehavior (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #695 – Implementing Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Sean Sexton)
• Key Windows Phone Development Concepts (Tim Murphy)
• Speech Recognition Made Easy with Telerik RadControls for WP8 (Michael Crump)
• Sideloading and Testing Windows 8 Store Apps on Other Machines (Johan Danforth)
• Real-World Live Tiles: Working with Live Tiles in Windows 8 Apps (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Programmer’s Guide to C# 5.0 (Eric Gunnerson)
• How I push GoogleAnalyticsTracker to NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stupid Question 87: Warning levels, what are they, which level to use, and should they be treated as errors? and Stupid Question 88: How do I ignore certain warnings in code when I’ve set treat all warnings as errors? (Iris Classon)
• 5 Good and useful .NET Profilers (Senthil Kumar)
• Another Earful: Debugging Survey (Eric Battalio)
• Json.NET Release 11 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Part 2–Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer (Charles Sterling)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Command, Redux (Oren Eini)
• Unit Testing in Windows Phone 8 – Asynchronous Operations and Mocking (Matteo Pagani)
• Strangling the life out of Software Testing (Mark Pearl)
• Build Metrics with Distributed Teams & Large Organizations (Eric Hexter)

Other Mobile Platforms

• C# to Objective-C – Part 2 : Arrays (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Attell Returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• Living With Lumia: The Problem With Windows Phone Apps (Christina Warren)
• SE Podcast #37 – Back At It, Again (Alex Miller)
• Maelstrom: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Michael B. McLaughlin & Rick Barraza)
• ShopTalk Episode #43 (Chris Coyier)
• People Talking Tech Episode 012 – Jonathan Gardner (Denny Cherry)
• Engadget HD Podcast 325 – 11.20.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Performance tips for Windows Store apps using XAML | Build 2012 (Kiran Kumar)

Community / Events

• Drinkup in Oxford, UK this Thursday (Brandon Keepers)
• Mo’ Bash 2012: Movember Celebration in Manayunk (Eric Smith)
• A Change of Seasons… (James Michael Hare)
• The 25 Coolest New Businesses In Philadelphia (Melissa Stanger & Max Nisen)
• Windows Server 2012 IT Camp–Troy NY and Manchester NH (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SQL Server Database Security Audit (Part 1): What to expect? (Svetlana Golovko)
• Getting SSRS Subscriptions for a Specific Date (Kevin Conan)
• sp_ssiscatalog v1.0.1.0 now available for download (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server: Datetime vs Datetime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Display Datetime in Specific Format – SQL in Sixty Seconds #033 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 for $15 (Ted Krueger)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysopentapes (Jason Strate)
• Long Term Backup Storage With Amazon Glacier (Jeremiah Peschka)
• RavenDB 2.0 Release Candidates (Oren Eini)
• Article: The State of NoSQL (Stefan Edlich)

Miscellaneous

• Why Learn Small Basic? (Ed Price)
• Quick news: Mobi and ePub formats ready for Introducing Windows 8 free ebook (Kim Spilker)
• How to Tune Up a Virtual PC (Merrick Chaffer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 21, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 20, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1006 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 21, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1237 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 20 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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