Dew Drop – December 19, 2012 (#1,466)

Top Links

• Team Explorer Everywhere Update 1 (Brian Harry)
• How to Await Just About Anything (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows 8 Development Tips #6: Be great at something (Brent Schooley)
• The Future of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Development (Jeremy Likness)

Web Development

• JavaScript Tutorial, part 2 – functions and closures (Piotr Kwapin)
• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 124.295 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• ‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (Anand Paranjape)
• The future of JavaScript: a CoffeeScript-like workflow (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 is Feature Complete. Hello HTML5.1! (Craig Buckler)
• Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors: Structural Pseudo-Classes (Emily Lewis)
• Use WinJS to post a message from an iFrame to your Win8 App (Jon Antoine)
• Realtime Node.js App: A Stress Testing Story (Mike Pennisi)
• Now available: Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript (beta) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Announcing the HTML5 is Ready App Contest (Paul Kopacki)
• Article: Developing Motoric Games with HTML5 – The Making of VeloMaze (Raimo Tuisku)
• My Super Simple Node Twitter Re-Tweeter (Mike Hadlow)
• The simpler, yet more powerful new YouTube Data API (Scott Knaster)
• Dart’s Web UI library is ready for testing (Seth Ladd)
• Conditional loading of resources with mediaqueries (Christian Heilmann)
• So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project (Chris Coyier)
• FloraJS (Kevin Sweeney)

XAML

• Test Your Windows Store Apps Using the Windows App Certification Kit (ACK) (Zhiming Xue)
• Cooking up a great Windows Store app (Antoine Leblond)
• How to Crop an Image based on a Shape or Path control? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Windows Store Game Development with Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.6.0 with VS Package and F# PowerPack with F# Compiler for F# 3.0 + .NET 4.x + VS2010 (CodePlex)
• "Introduction to Microsoft Kinect" (Greg Duncan)
• Tpl Dataflow TOC (Bnaya Eshet)
• Processing trees with F# zipper computation (Tomas Petricek)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Cost Agile Projects (David J. Bland)
• Are Estimations Harmful? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• TeamPulse R6 2012 is here: Customer Feedback Portal updates (TeamPulse Product Blog)
• Team Foundation Server 2012 Teams without Areas (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Establishing a Successful Programming Culture (Ron Lichty & Mickey Mantle)
• Understanding the Decorator Pattern (Abul Kayes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Venkat Subramaniam Talks Modern Development (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside Windows 8: Greg Colombo – Heap Manager | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Episode 11 of the Guild is here! Nothin’ like disappointing your… (Felicia Day)
• The Engadget Show 39: Holiday Spectacular with Jonathan Coulton, John Roderick and Ben Heck (Brian Heater)
• Engadget HD Podcast 329 – 12.18.2012 (James Trew)
• People Talking Tech Episode 016 – Ben Miller (Denny Cherry)
• Boagworld: You have no control over your content (Paul Boag)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 190: Lean (Software) Development (SE-Radio Team)
• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: Windows Ecosystem & Cocktail Flow apps case study | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Laura Foy)
• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 201: Composition | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, Laura Foy & Jared T. Potter)
• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 201: Controls & API’s | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Welcome to Winter Bash 2012! (Aarthi Devanathan)
• Rumor: Nokia to introduce Windows 8 tablet at Mobile World Congress (Sam Sabri)
• Introducing GeekWire 200: Seattle’s Startup Leaderboard (Todd Bishop)
• Women Techmakers for social good (Scott Knaster)
• Meet the Author: Marcel de Vries on Intellitrace (Paul Ballard)
• Looks like I’ll be speaking at DataTjej (‘ComputerGirl’) Conference 2013 (Iris Classon)
• Dev of the Week: Matt Lacey (Eric Gregory)
• Brian Lagunas – 2012 Year In Review (Brian Lagunas)
• Trip Report: Eastern Canada LightSwitch Speaking Tour (Beth Massi)
• Rock Paper Azure Redux (Chris Koenig)
• Aidan’s "Beginners Guide To The MVP Summit" (Greg Duncan)

Database

• SSIS still a goto tool (Bob Horkay)
• SSIS Precedence Constraint (Katie & Emil)
• SQL Server Encryption To Block DBAs Data Access (K. Brian Kelley)
• Get powers of 2 with Sql Server 2012 (Mika Wendelius)
• Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly in the SQL Server Compact Toolbox (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Select and Delete Duplicate Records – SQL in Sixty Seconds #036 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 18: Stay relevant and marketable (Denis Gobo)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Community Extensions 2.1.1 Production (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Rasbery Pi Gets An App Store (Harry Fairhead)
• All I Want For Christmas (A Developer’s Wishlist) (Andrew Burgess)
• AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 OS update begins tomorrow, Dec 19th (Daniel Rubino)
• Tanks Game – Small Basic Featured Program (Ed Price)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links 12-18-2012 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Double Shot #1026 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 18, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1257 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 19, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 18 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 18 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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