Dew Drop – December 26, 2012 (#1,470)

Top Links

• Simple bash scripting for “azure” cli (Glenn Block)
• Running Typescript tests via Jasmine and Chutzpah on Teamcity (Derik Whittaker)
• .NET Rocks! – A Very Haacky Christmas! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Get Started with Backbone.js (Jess Genevieve Brown)

Web Development

• Tutorial: Windows 8 App/Game Development with HTML5 (Eric Gregory)
• Introducing Backbone.ComputedFields (Alexander Beletsky)
• Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors: Other Pseudo-Classes (Emily Lewis)
• Getting started with the CLI and backing up your scripts (Day 4) and More CLI – changing your Mobile Services workflow (Day 5) (Josh Twist)
• Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4– new release 1.0.71 (Eric Hexter)
• Quilt.js – A JavaScript Library For Backbone.js Declarative Views (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Link To Windows Store App From Web Sites (Shai Raiten)
• Node Roundup: 0.9.4, screener, Jyql (Alex Young)
• Two ways of clearing an array (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to setup your First Website in IIS in Windows 8 (Des Raj Chauhan)

XAML

• [Sample Of Dec 25th] How to view word document in WPF application (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #719 – ASCII Art Generator and #720 – Discovering What Kind of Data Is on the Clipboard (Sean Sexton)
• Is the Ease of Windows Phone Development Ruining Its Image? (Tim Murphy)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Tooling shout out: .NET Memory Profiler and RavenDB Memory Issue, if I told you once, I told you a million times (Oren Eini)
• Service Oriented Architecture and WCF (Marla Sukesh)
• Transactions in WCF (ovaismehboob)
• WiX Toolset v3.7 (CodePlex)
• What is the proper handling of WM_RENDERFORMAT and WM_RENDERALLFORMATS? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile in its Second Decade (Dave Rooney)
• The TeamPulse Integration Service could not load the required TFS Client Libraries (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Power of the Present and Best Leadership Books and Personal Development Books at Your Fingertips (JD Meier)
• Use Scrum Even if You Don’t Want to be Agile (Johannes Brodwall)
• Things to consider when building a new team (Roy Osherove)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Lennon returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++, 7 of n | C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++ (Charles Torre & Stephan T. Lavavej)
• Defrag Tools: #20 – WinDbg – Basic Commands | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• ShopTalk Episode 48 (Chris Coyier)

Community / Events

• Christmas present for you: Announcing Web.NET Conf 2013 in Paris (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• SQL Server # Moving MASTER database in cluster environment (Hemantgiri S. Goswami)
• Importing SQL Server Data from Multiple Data Sources into PowerPivot for Excel (Dattatrey Sindol)
• SQL SERVER – Restoring 2012 Database to 2008 or 2005 Version and 2 other Most Asked Questions and SQL SERVER – Take Database Backup using SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #037 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 24: Getting help and SQL Advent 2012: Recap (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB Feature of the Year: Indexing related documents (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Mark Cuban says the Nokia Lumia "crushes" the Apple iPhone 5 (Phone Arena Team)
• The best apps for your new Windows Phone device (Tom Warren)
• WSJ: Retailers adjusting online prices based on location and perceived income (Ben Kersey)
• Stupid Question 112: How do touch screens work? Are there different types of touch screens? (Iris Classon)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 25, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 24, 2012 and Geek Reading December 25, 2012 (Rob Diana)

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