Dew Drop – November 26, 2012 (#1,449)

Top Links

• APress Cyber Monday update – $15 / Ebook (Tatworth)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #24: Light Sensor and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #25: Accelerometer and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #26: Gyrometer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• ReSharper 7.1 Plugins (Matt Ellis)
• Developing a Windows 8 Application prototype (Lee Stott)

Web Development

• What to Expect from Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Control Suite in February 2013 (Iana Tsolova)
• jQuery Color 2.1.1 Released (Corey Frang)
• ASP.NET Web API and HTTP Byte Range Support (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• jQuery UI 1.9.2 (Jörn Zaefferer)
• Fixing WCF RIA Services After Upgrading To HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• sublime text 2 review ! (Anirudha Gupta)
• Introduction to Page Visibility API (Aurelio De Rosa)
• What browsers really need is most likely not what you think it is (Christian Heilmann)
• Changing Times For Web Developers – 6 Tips You Should Read To Survive (Anoop Madhusudanan)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Compile in the Cloud (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Store Apps with XAML or HTML? (Christian Nagel)
• Windows Phone 8 API QuickStart Poster (Greg Duncan)
• How to get $799 worth of WinRT XAML controls free (Hilary)
• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Working with the Windows 8 Clipboard in WinRT applications (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A List of Great Build Videos for Windows Phone 8 (Michael Crump)
• Implementing Ads on any page in your Windows 8 XAML app–part 1 and Implementing Ads on any page in your Windows 8 XAML app–part 2 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• 2000 WPF Things #698 – Playing an MP3 File Using a MediaPlayer Object (Sean Sexton)
• Creating a Hub Experience in a Windows Store Application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• First Look: Telerik Rad Controls for Windows 8 (Zubair Ahmed)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Try F# 3.0 – Get Your Feedback In Now! (F# Team)
• Using the Windows 8 SDK with Visual Studio 2010 – configuring multiple projects (Jennifer Leaf)
• Deploying: Git vs. TFS Showdown (Juri Strumpflohner)
• How to hibernate async methods (how to serialize Task) (Lucian Wischik)
• Basic use of LLVM from F# (Jon Harrop)
• Using BlockingCollection To Communicate Between Threads (Mike Hadlow)
• WCF WS-Security and WSE Nonce Authentication (Rick Strahl)
• Update project templates to the latest NuGet packages (Xavier Decoster)
• The Simplest Way to use MEF Fully Lazy DLL Loading (Shai Vashdi)
• WiX Toolset v3.7 RC (CodePlex)
• CodeIt.Right Takes Refactoring To The Next Level (Peter Kellner)
• Meet Ms. Roslyn – Article in DNC Magazine (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Debugging a Windows Service using an #if Directive (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Forms I/O Extension for Small Basic (Ed Price)
• Stupid Question 90: Do I have to use the return value of a method? (Iris Classon)
• Windows 8 SDK Update with updated WACK Criteria for Win8Dev (Kunal Chowdhury)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Real Life Unit Testing: How to Test Dependencies & Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)
• 10 Big Ideas from Getting Results the Agile Way and Nobody Wants to Invest (JD Meier)
• You’re Only a Beginner Once (John Sonmez)
• Self Evaluate User Experience of Apps (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Kids don’t mark their own homework (Jamie Thomson)
• A lesson in automated testing via SlickGrid (Josh Arnold)
• Portable Areas three years later (Eric Hexter)
• Enable Cloud Strategy and Planning with Predictable Methods, Models, and Tools (Mike Walker)

Other Mobile Platforms

• C# to Objective-C – Part 4 : Interfaces (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 241: Kevin Wolf on his Quad Copter (David Giard)
• Reinventing software quality: video (Gojko Adzic)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Hives (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – John Sonmez Builds with Service Stack and MonoGame (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SitePoint Podcast #189: Websites Got Fat (Karn Broad)
• Edge Show 44 – Data Protection Manager (DPM) Enhancements in System Center 2012 SP1 | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• The latest Reflector beta: a video overview (Nick)

Community / Events

• Join us for the first SharePoint Community Event in Armenia on Nov 30 (Joel Oleson)

Database

• [Book Review] "What’s New in SQL Server 2012" (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Weekend and Weekdays from Datetime in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Sends backups to a Network Folder, FTP Server, Dropbox, Google Drive or Amazon S3 (Pinal Dave)
• How do I programatically determine which port a SQL Server is running on? (Ralph Willgoss)
• Removing SQL Server Index Fragmentation (Richard Carr)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysperfinfo (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Beware! SharePoint 2013 RTM apps bug/gotcha with SPHostUrl parameter (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• How do I recycle an IIS App pool with PowerShell? (Ralph Willgoss)

Miscellaneous

• StackOverflow and Lack of Transparency (Peter Kellner)
• Oh, So This Is Where You Use The Microsoft Surface (Sarah Perez)
• Nest Thermostat Review 2nd Generation – Every consumer electronic device should be this polished (Scott Hanselman)
• Stack Overflow question checklist (Jon Skeet)
• Rumor: Windows Phone 7.8 to be Released on 11/28 (Wednesday) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone: the 7.8 “problem” (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 25, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 182 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading November 23, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #39 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1009 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes # 72 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1240 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 24, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 25, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 26, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/23/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/23/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 47/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #46) (Himanshu Singh)

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