Dew Drop – December 20, 2012 (#1,467)

Top Links

• azure-cli 0.6.9 ships, pure joy (Glenn Block)
• this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance (Rob Reynolds)
• A Sudden Move: one developer’s journey from C# to JavaScript (Joel Cochran)
• Need funding for a great app idea? AppCampus is here to help (Todd Brix)

Web Development

• Windows Azure: A look back and hints of what’s ahead (Mary Jo Foley)
• Baby steps to Backbone.js: Unit testing of views (Alexander Beletsky)
• Microsoft Open Technologies releases Windows Azure support for Solr 4.0 (Brian Benz)
• Enhancing LightSwitch Controls with jQuery Mobile (Michael Zlatkovsky)
• New Book: Learning CSS3 Animations (Louis Lazaris)
• Facebook Authentication with the Facebook C# SDK and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Nathan Totten)
• MVC Single Page Application Template Update for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (Xinyang Qiu)
• Applications are now open for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure – 2013 (Scott Guthrie)
• 40% off DevExpress DXperience ASP .NET course! – Merry Christmas! (Oliver Sturm)
• Why moving elements with translate() is better than pos:abs top/left (Paul Irish)
• Configuring multiple Forms Authentication sections with NancyFX (Phillip Haydon)
• A Tale of Animation Performance (Chris Coyier)

XAML

• Attached Behaviors vs Attached Properties vs Blend Behaviors (Brian Noyes)
• Microsoft publishes changelog for Windows Phone 8 OS update (Daniel Rubino)
• Tutorial: Bluetooth File Transfer with Windows Phone 8 (Eric Gregory)
• 10,000 Beta Users – Windows Phone Dev Center (Jesse MacFadyen)
• Simulation Dashboard for Windows Phone Apps (Jonathan Lyons)
• 2000 WPF Things #716 – Using a Border As a Visual Indication That a Control Can Be Dragged (Sean Sexton)
• Building a great Windows 8 app Step 4: Pick your programming language (Susan Ibach)
• Basics of Using Local Storage on Windows Phone 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Obtaining a List of Loaded Assemblies (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2012 C++ CppUnitTestFramework targeting the Visual Studio C++ 2010 compiler (Charles Sterling)
• Xamarin is Bringing C# to the Mac App Store (Jonathan Allen)
• Serialization and events in C# (Dror Helper)
• Accessing Methods Asynchronously in WCF 4.5 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Avoid WCF to test validity of HTTPS certificates (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Securing User Passwords (Michael Lang)
• Infragistics Parsing Framework – Removing Ambiguities, Part 2 (Mike Dour)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 with Kanban Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• DataReader for CSV files (Rockford Lhotka)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Tips on Drag & Drop with the Ignite UI Tree (Damyan Petev)
• Sprint Goals Tie up Loose Ends (Anders Abel)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Evernote Announces Major Updates to Android and iOS SDKs (Eric Carter)
• Adding a Login Screen to a Sencha Touch Application, Part 2 (Jorge Ramon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 097 – “I’m Ryan Lowdermilk, I Do NOT Approve This Message” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• What the Tech 146: Best Tech Products of 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Gilmartin (Chris Hardwick)
• Introducing the Windows 8 platform and the Windows Store | Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers (Aaron Hillegass)
• Using Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 App | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• DevRadio webcast: Patrick Godwin on “How I Wrote and Deployed a Cloud-Powered Windows 8 App in Six Days” (Jennifer Marsman)
• Yet Another Podcast #86–Azure Mobile Services with Josh Twist (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Show Webinar on An Overview of the New Windows Phone 8 SDK (Michael Crump)
• Geek of the Week: Allison Stadd of Uwishunu.com (Mary E. Brickthrower)

Database

• SQL Server – Skipping Function Execution when parameters are NULL (Vishal)
• Graphing the Sine Function in SQL Server Reporting Services (Scott Murray)
• A Look Inside SQL Server Row and Page Compression (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and GETDATE() – CURRENT_TIMESTAMP Equivalent in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 19: How to improve your tech skills (Denis Gobo)
• Book Review: Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure (Thomas LaRock)

SharePoint

• Implementing the Default SharePoint Interfaces with Lists (Peter Vogel)

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 3.0 Compatibility Update (PowerShell Team)

Miscellaneous

• Christmas Trees – Small Basic Featured Programs (Ed Price)
• Former Windows president Steven Sinofsky returning to Harvard Business School to teach this spring (Nathan Ingraham)
• ‘Code Hero’: The Kickstarter success story that soured (Tracey Lien)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 19, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1027 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 OTN Tech Articles for 2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #1258 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 20, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 19 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly HTML5 Apps Developer Resources, December 19th 2012 (Joe Stagner)

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