Dew Drop – December 16-17, 2012 (#1,464)

Top Links

• Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using JavaScript: Hilo (Windows) – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• Inside the ASP.NET Single Page Apps Template and Knockout Intellisense in Visual Studio 2012 (John Papa)
• How to make non-observable properties observable in Knockout.js (Derik Whittaker)
• Announcing the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)

Web Development

• Combining Modules in Require.js (John Teague)
• Ember.js and CoffeeScript (Chris Smith)
• Which JavaScript Recipe Is Right For You? (Zack Grossbart)
• Box API v2: Less is More (John Sheehan)
• npm install require-directory (Troy Goode)
• Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) (Ali Spivak)
• Customized Twitter Bootstrap sites in WebMatrix (Gianmaria Gregori)
• Google Analytics: Exclude Your Own IP Address from the Results (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Elegantly using socket.io in backbone apps (Swizec Teller)
• A Harder-Working Class (Nathan Ford)

XAML

• How to create Image Stream of XAML Page using Telerik’s ExportExtension method? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Preventing high speed socket communication on Windows Phone 8 going south when using async/await (Joost van Schaik)
• Building WinRT components that implement interfaces with C# (Olivier Rouit)
• Building a great Windows 8 app Step 3: Installing the SDK & Tools (Susan Ibach)
• Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook Review (Ricardo Peres)
• Binding MediaElement to a ViewModel in a Windows 8 Store App (John Danforth)
• Walkthrough: Implementing SnapView in Your Windows 8 App (Jerry Nixon)
• Analytics for Windows 8 apps using Markedup (Arun Mahendrakar)

Miscellaneous .NET

• A LINQ Style Replace Operator (Richard Carr)
• CLR via C# Fourth Edition Book Review (David Hayden)
• Super D to the B to the A – AKA Script for reducing the size of a database (Rob Reynolds)
• Introducing this.Log (Rob Reynolds)
• C# memory model articles (Stephen Toub)
• Kinecting to Google Maps and Adapting to Lucene.Net with this simplification approach, "Simplifying Lucene using Adapter Pattern, Generics, Reflection, and Custom Attributes" (Greg Duncan)
• Why is it possible to create a toolbar with the wrong HINSTANCE? And what’s the right HINSTANCE anyway? (Raymond Chen)
• Loading Entities Dynamically with Entity Framework (Ricardo Peres)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is "Agile Coaching"? (Ben Linders)
• How to do Agile Performance Reviews (David J. Bland)
• What is Your Message? (J.D. Meier)
• Agile Estimating: Story Points and Decay (Jim Bird)
• The More I Know, the Less I Know (John Sonmez)
• Just Design It Like You Want It (Ambrose Little)
• An Errors List Underscores the Need for Static Code Analysis (Abel Avram)
• The Flyweight Pattern (Daniel Barreiro)
• Stupid Question 103: What are some different types of code reviews? and Stupid Question 104: What is a ‘Fagan Inspection’? (Iris Classon)
• Own Your Work (Chris Missal)
• Lessons from refactoring two year old code (Josh Arnold)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 079: Milo Danger, maker of the armed civilian drone (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 461: Happy Holidays (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 096 – “Get To Know Your Spouse” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Neridst Podcast – John Hodgman returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• Windows Weekly 290: Beer and Cookies (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Year Wrap Up | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
• Engadget Podcast 320 – 12.14.2012 (James Trew)
• SitePoint Podcast #192: The End (Karn Broad)
• Podcast: Google Maps, Amazon + Facebook, and EveryMove’s ‘mileage program’ for your health (Todd Bishop)
• Episode 95 – Windows Azure Service Bus Fall Updates | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Instant Index Insight: How to Use sp_BlitzIndex (video) (Kendra Little)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 105: Font tools, design thoughts, parallel deployment, and my Florida road trip (Michael Kimsal)

Community / Events

• Join the Visual Studio diagnostics team (Daniel Moth)
• Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk (Derick Bailey)

Database

• Querying SQL Server Agent Job History Data (Chad Churchwell)
• SQL Server – Convert Month Number to Month Name (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #007 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 14: When to say no and SQL Advent 2012 Day 15: Benefits of Indexes (Denis Gobo)
• SSMS Tools Pack 2.5.3 is out with bug fixes and improved licensing (Mladen Prajdic)
• Database unit testing is now available for SSDT (Jamie Thomson)
• Practical Azure #5: Windows Azure SQL Database (Jim O’Neil)

PowerShell

• Using Unregistered COM Objects in PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Meet Mark Penn, the former Clinton electioneer behind Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign (Adi Robertson)
• Christmas Pi (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 15, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheasheet: 2012 12.01 ~ 12.16 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading December 14, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Friday Five – December 14, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #42 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1023 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reblog: December 7 to December 13 (Jason Strate)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 50/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 14 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/15/2012) (Silverlight Show)

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