Day: November 28, 2012

Top Links

• TouchDevelop: create apps ON iPad, iPhone, Android in addition to PC, Mac, Windows Phone (Nikolai Tillmann)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #28: Push Notifications (Jeff Blankenburg)
• JavaScript Support Improvements in ReSharper 7.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: OData – Part 1 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure SDK for .NET – June 2012 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 6 EAP build 123.26 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Make Sure You Follow the Documentation (Buck Woody)
• Building an MVC application using QuickBooks (dataintegration)
• How to Create a Cool Parallax Background for Windows 8 in Javascript (David Catuhe)
• Infographic: HTML5 and Why Developers Need It (DevToolsGuy)
• Developing with HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Jumpstart from the Microsoft Virtual Academy (free and a free exam voucher too!) (Greg Duncan)
• html-pipeline: Chainable Content Filters (Jerry Cheung)
• Workshop: Deep Dive into Building Real-Time Web Applications with SignalR (Kevin Griffin)
• How to backup a LocalDB database under an MVC 4 system (Marc Brooks)
• ‘HTML5 vs. Hybrid vs. Native Dilemma’ When You Build Enterprise Mobile Applications – The Bigger Picture (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Camera Launching From HTML App In Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• Introducing The Smashing eBook Library (Vitaly Friedman)
• Respond to change with Object.observe (Alex Danilo)
• W3C Web Performance: Continuing Performance Investments (Jatinder Mann)
• Coercing objects to primitives (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Native Code Support (Peter Kuhn)
• Google Analytics for your WinRT app (Johan Silfversparre)
• A journey in building a Calibre Windows 8/WinRT app, with a SQLite fun too… (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #700 – Dragging an Image to Microsoft Word (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8 apps performance helper: Speed at a glance (nokola)
• Styling windows 8 – 4 The button (Håkan Reis)
• The New LongListSelector control in Windows Phone 8 SDK in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 and the ALM Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
• Issues w/ OctoPack and ReSharper (Derik Whittaker)
• LINQ query to compare only date part of DateTime (Pranay Rana)
• Intellisense Support and Improved Easier Configuration in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.5 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• EF Fixes in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Rowan Miller)
• Teaching Your Application to Read (Doug Rathbone)
• Infragistics Parsing Framework – LL vs. LR Parsing (Mike Dour)
• Why All The Lambdas? (K. Scott Allen)
• Extending Team Explorer 2012 – Introduction [0 of N] (Toni Petrina)
• Rocking the Windows 8 Sensors on the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook (John Papa)
• Accessing Assembly Metadata with Reflection or Mono Cecil (Part 6) (Ken Beckett)
• MEF in .NET 4.5 (Milan Raval)
• Enhancing Enumerables with Operators and Conversion (Chris Eargle)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Exploratory Testing in TFS 2012 (Mickey Gousset)
• Integrating existing testing systems with Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio (Charles Sterling)
• Isn’t It Ironic? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Build Bullet #4: Rolling Builds and the Plane of Confidence (Roy Osherove)
• Software Craftsmanship is a misnomer (Scott Koon)
• Continuous value delivery with modern business applications (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Nurturing Leadership (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Taking Web Audio Offline in iOS 6 Safari (Alex Gibson)
• Is Android’s AsyncTask executing tasks serially or concurrently? (Anders Göransson)
• Translating Objective-C adopts-protocol idioms to C# (Miguel de Icaza)
• Free Training: Web vs Apps: The Big Picture – Free for 48 hours! (Steve Woolley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Evans Instruments Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Living With Lumia: The Final Verdict on Windows Phone 8 (Christina Warren)
• The Abominable Snow Monster Gets His Windows Phone Speed Dating On (Richard Hay)
• Episode 8 of the Guild is here! (Felicia Day)
• App Biz Dev Podcast Episode 6: Matt runs WPUG (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Ping 160: Sinofsky, WP celebrity ads, Nook app, Xbox anniversary | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 013 – Thomas LaRock and Joey D’Antoni (Denny Cherry)
• Engadget HD Podcast 326 – 11.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: John Papa on Single Page Apps with HTML5,Web API, Knockout and jQuery (Paul Ballard)
• In Los Angeles this Friday for .NET Rocks Roadshow (Phil Haack)

 

Database

• What’s New in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Scott Murray)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (Axel Achten)
• SQL SERVER – Auto Recovery File Settings in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #034 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Are Your Protecting Your DB Backups? (Denny Cherry)
• One Interview question. Many Answers (Ramkumar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Server Products and Microsoft License Mobility for Cloud environment (Avkash Chauhan)
• Dogfooding Windows 8: I Tell All (Jeremy Likness)
• The Days of Microsoft Lives. (Scott Barnes)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 27, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1242 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 28, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/28/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 27 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 27 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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