Dew Drop – December 24, 2012 (#1,469)

Top Links

• Updates to Windows Azure (Mobile, Web Sites, SQL Data Sync, ACS, Media, Store) (Scott Guthrie)
• Creating a Windows 8 Store Game with MonoGame (XAML) and SignalR (Filip Ekberg)
• Buiilding Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Treat Every Line of Code as If It’s Going to be Thrown Away One Day (Daniel Doubrovkine)
• Introducing PropertyCross – Helping you select a cross-platform mobile framework (Colin Eberhardt)

Web Development

• Bootstrap Tabs with Angular.js (Christian Grobmeier)
• Cutter.js – A Library For Truncating HTML Code By Word Number Without Losing Markup (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Building a Simple Bottle to Extend FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Knockout Lite Tools (KoLite 1.1.0) (John Papa)
• Does ASP.NET Web API + OData filter at the database level? Let’s ask IntelliTrace. (Jon Galloway)
• Tips for optional parameters to ASP.NET MVC action methods (Michael Kennedy)
• Providing session state in ASP.NET WebAPI (Oleksandr Kulchytskyi)
• Book Review: Practical ASP.NET MVC 4.0 (Rob Lazarus)
• Applying MVC to Your Frontend Application Using Require and Backbone (Sagar H. Ganatra)
• Hello Hilo [JS] (Greg Duncan)
• 6 Useful HTML5 Tools (Sonia Jackson)
• Realtime Node.js App: A Stress Testing Story (Mike Pennisi)
• Introducing the Grid Builder (Tilo Mitra)
• 10 Things Engineers and Non-Engineers Can Do to Make a Website Faster (Daniel Doubrovkine)
• The twelve days of ZUMO and Delete records and truncate tables (Day 1) and It’s time for CRON (Day 2) and Filter this (Day 3) (Josh Twist)
• WebSocket with WebMotion and AngularJS (Julien Ruchaud)
• Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4– new release 1.0.71 (Eric Hexter)

XAML

• Hacking the Silverlight Unit Tests to support returning Task (Morten Nielsen)
• XAML Coding Convention (Sébastien Lachance)
• Progress Control Animations for Windows Store Apps with XAML and C# (Nano Vazquez)
• How to develop for Windows Phone 8 on your Mac (Olivier Bloch)
• 2000 WPF Things #717 – Drag-and-Drop with Touch on Windows 7 and #718 – Copying Text To and From the Clipboard (Sean Sexton)
• No Style.Triggers in Windows 8 and Alternative for StringFormat in Binding in WPF / Win8 and Implicit Datatemplates in Windows 8 Metro apps missing (Bart Roozendaal)
• Windows Store App Picture Search Part 2: Creating a Windows Runtime Component (Christian Nagel)
• Performance tracing a Windows Store application with dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
• Creating a Sharing Contract for Windows 8 & RT Apps (Don Burnett)
• Windows 8 Line of Business (LOB) Guidance – Prism on .NET 4.5 and the road to Windows Store apps and Enrich your Windows Store Apps with Telerik RadControls! (Davide Zordan)

Miscellaneous .NET

• RavenDB Feature of the Year: Indexing related documents and RavenDB Memory Issue, The Process (Oren Eini)
• Detecting a Parameter Array (Richard Carr)
• TFS 2012 Update 1: Permissions lost on attaching a collection (fix available in early January) (Buck Hodges)
• VB, .Net Gadgeteer, .Net Micro Framework SDK 4.2 and a simple Web Server and "Understanding OData v3 and WCF Data Services 5.x" and Putting the Code in Team [Explorer]… "Extending Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012" code sample (Greg Duncan)
• What’s New in TFS 2012? – Team Explorer (M. Radwan)
• Linq – Group By (Srinivasu Pemma)
• What is the proper handling of WM_RENDERFORMAT and WM_RENDERALLFORMATS? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Study the Flow of Work with Kanban Cards (Benjamin Mitchell)
• An Overview of Agile Contracts and Scrum and Fixed Price Contracts (David J. Bland)
• Setting up Unit Testing w/ Jasmine, Chutzpah and Typescript (Derik Whittaker)
• Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level and Time Management Books and Career Books and Best Business Books List, Version 2 (JD Meier)
• How Agile Do You Need to Be? (Jim Highsmith)
• Article: Book Review: ATDD By Example (Manuel Pais)
• Mike Cohn’s "Succeeding With Agile" (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Code Katas: Ruzzle solver (Giorgio Sironi)
• Investing in your tests–A lesson in object composition (Josh Arnold)
• Stupid Question 109: In computer science, what do we mean by ACID? (Iris Classon)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Consuming Azure Mobile Services from Android: Part 4 (Bruno Terkaly)
• Using Fiddler with Apple iOS Devices (Eric Lawrence)
• Databases and Data with MonoTouch and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services — Unofficial Android SDK (Sasha Goldshtein)
• State of the Art in Cross Platform Mobile Tools (Dio Synodinos)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Learning how to Learn Git with Michael Sarchet (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 291: The Year in Review (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Kenny returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Paul Sheriff Talks Multi-Client Architecture (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• StackOverflow Podcast #39 – The One with Wil Wheaton (Alex Miller)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 003: New Gadgets, Amazing IC Grants Winners, and Azure, Azure, Azure! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 162 – 12.21.2012 and Engadget Podcast 321 – 12.21.2012 (James Trew)
• Special announcement – new weekly webcast in January 2013 (Kevin Goff)
• Process Lifecycle Management and State Management | Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers (Eric Jeffers)
• 039 JSJ Sweet.js with Tim Disney (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• Radio TFS – TFS Goodies from Santa (Martin Woodward)
• Episode 96 – Windows Azure Store | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• DevRadio webcast: Ashley Gullen on using Construct 2 to build amazing games for Windows 8 (Jennifer Marsman)

Community / Events

• Supporting Communities, User Groups and Open Source Projects (Mikhail Vink)

Database

• Restore SQL Server Databases using DateTime functions (Brady Upton)
• PowerPivot Example with SQL Server 2012 (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL SERVER – Fix – Error: 4214: BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup. (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 21: With VLDBs it matters what you do and how you do it and SQL Advent 2012 Day 22: Testing your backup and failover strategy and SQL Advent 2012 Day 23: Get the tools you need to be more productive and SQL Advent 2012 Day 24: Getting help (Denis Gobo)
• Importance of where you store your backups and Importance of how often you take full backups (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Creating Custom Forms for SharePoint 2013 Workflows and SharePoint Emulators for Making SharePoint more Testable and Using JavaScript / jQuery to get the value of the PeopleEditor in SharePoint 2013 (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

• PowerTip: The Easy Way to Create a Custom PowerShell Object (The Scripting Guys)
• Start-PowerShellPoint Now on GitHub (John Robbins)

Miscellaneous

• WSJ: Retailers adjusting online prices based on location and perceived income (Ben Kersey)
• Picture Search available in the Windows Store (Christian Nagel)
• Last-Minute Gifts for Beginning Coders (Eric Gregory)
• Ultrabook Comparative Analysis Report (Intel Corporation)
• Stupid Question 110 & 111: What is a digital image (raster type/ bitmap) and what is a pixel? (Iris Classon)
• The 7 signs you’re a Nokia Lumia 920 lover (Joel Willans)
• According To CERN, It Looks Like The Higgs Boson Exists After All (Kyle Hastings)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 24, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 21, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1260 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Five – December 21, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #43 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1028 and Double Shot #1029 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-the-world SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/21/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• The Doomsday Six Pack: December 21, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: December 22, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: December 23, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: December 24, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #76 (Frank)
• Visual Studio ALM Links wees 51/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Reblog: December 14 to December 20 (Jason Strate)

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