Dew Drop – December 5, 2012 (#1,456)

Top Links

• Windows 8 Development Tip #1: Choosing XAML or HTML and Windows 8 Development Tips (Brent Schooley)
• iOS Support with Windows Azure Mobile Services – now with Push Notifications (Scott Guthrie)
• Why are braces required in try-catch-finally? (Eric Lippert)
• Evolving Simple Wireframes With AppMock (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• PhpStorm & WebStorm 6 EAP build 123.66 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Arrays in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Web API alternative – self hosting HTTP services in native C++ code (Filip W)
• jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have (Matt Baker)
• EFMVC Migrated to .NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET MVC 4 and EF 5 Code First (Shiju Varghese)
• Dependency Injection in PHP (Steve Rodrigue)
• Cross Site Scripting and Prevention in ASP.NET MVC (Dharmindar Devsidas)
• Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player (Osvaldas Valutis)
• Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute (Paul Rouget)
• Picture Search Part 1: Searching with Bing (Christian Nagel)
• What’s New in WordPress 3.5 (Craig Buckler)

XAML

• 10 Things Silverlight Developers Need to Know About the Windows Runtime (Michael Crump)
• Tips and gotchas for Windows Phone apps:InkSpill (Ramez Debbas)
• 2000 WPF Things #705 – Dragging a Custom Object Using Serialization as Format (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8 Apps Unleashed Now in Bookstores! (Stephen Walther)
• Designing a Simple and Secure App Package – APPX (Jack Davis)
• Nokia Announces Premium Developer Program (Matteo Pagani)
• Changing the name of a Windows 8 Store app (Andreas Hammar)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reading CSV Data (Richard Carr)
• Understand Lambda Expressions in 3 minutes (Ronaldo jer)
• Casablanca : Give us your feedback! (Sana Mithani)
• How to create random readable strings for .Net application (Marc Brooks)
• Working with Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Sensors (Steve Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review of Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations (Andrzej Grzesik)
• A New Agile Practice: Collaboration Contract (was Collaboration 8) (Michael Norton)
• Mini book: Real Life Scrum (Jesper Boeg)
• Agile might save your job (Dror Helper)
• Agile at the Speed of Trust – Organizational Trust (Peter Callies)
• The Onion Of Compromise (Mike Hadlow)
• Implementing Traits in custom Visual Studio Test Adapters (Mathew Aniyan)
• "Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012" eBook (Think Story based approach to presenting "Testing for Continuous Delivery") (Greg Duncan)
• Micro Services: Plugging in 3rd party components (Mark Needham)
• The Windows 8 UI – An evolving design (DevToolsGuy)
• Three Kanban Reminders (Karl Scotland)

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Google Maps Android API Features Vector-Based 3D Maps, Indoor Maps and More (Janet Wagner)
• C# to Objective-C – Part 9 : Connecting Data to a Control (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 9 of the Guild is here! (Felicia Day)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Demetri Martin (Chris Hardwick)
• Ping 161: Scroogled, Xbox sales, Windows Store wins, IE 10 trolls | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 014 – Rodney Landrum (Denny Cherry)
• SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2011 Insider videos on YouTube (Paul S. Randal)
• Engadget HD Podcast 327 – 12.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• DevExpress 12.2 Release Announcement (DevExpress Team)

Community / Events

• Windows Store Workshop: Game Development (G. Andrew Duthie)
• patterns & practices Symposium 2013 (Christopher Bennage)
• Want a Windows Phone? Tell us why and win (Kip Kniskern)
• Attend my sessions at DevWeek 2013 in London (Michael Kennedy)
• Google I/O 2013 dates announced: starts May 15th, registration to open early next year (Darren Murph)

Database

• How I Passed the SQL Server 2008 MCM Exams (Jason Strate)
• Index Create Memory Setting for SQL Server (Manvendra Singh)
• Documenting sp_ssiscatalog (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Concat Strings in SQL Server using T-SQL – SQL in Sixty Seconds #035 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Survey: where do you store your database backups? (Paul S. Randal)

PowerShell

• Powershell Run-As Script and Powershell Test Reg Key function and Powershell: Get-Framework-Versions. and Powershell: Install-dotNET4 function (Marc Dekeyser)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft opens its Socl social-search site to any and all testers (Mary Jo Foley)
• With Windows 8, Microsoft’s playing a scene from Groundhog Day (Ed Bott)
• Install Kindle Fire HD 8.9” ROM On Nexus S [How-To Tutorial] (Aatif Khan)
• DuckDuckGo for Chrome Powers Up Your Search Results (Adam Dachis)
• How IFTTT is Changing the Way We Do Things on the Web (Emily Price)
• Microsoft’s Steven Guggenheimer: Steven Sinofsky Is A “Phenomenal Visionary” – Will Be Missed At Microsoft (Frederic Lardinois)
• The family is growing: Nokia Lumia 620 (Ian Delaney)
• Perfect Gifts For Your Geek This Xmas (Mel Kirk)
• My next PC will be an Ultrabook (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1247 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading December 4, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 5, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 Dec 2012: and Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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