Dew Drop – December 27, 2012 (#1,471)

Top Links

• Windows Blue is in the works, has a more customizable version of Metro (Grant Brunner)
• Windows 8 GridView, ListView and SnapView (Jesse Liberty)
• Backbone.js Tutorial: List Views (Alex Young)

Web Development

• 10 recent HTML5 canvas tutorials (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services — Scheduler Scripts (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Windows Azure Training Kit December 2012 Refresh (Zhiming Xue)
• Why Background Audio Isn’t Working? (Shai Raiten)
• A Mobile Services Log Watcher (Day 6) (Josh Twist)
• 3 Reasons to Choose AngularJS for Your Next Project (Adam Conrad)
• How To Deal With Vendor Prefixes (Chris Coyier)

XAML

• On Silverlight and the Dangers of Over-specialization (Damon Payne)
• Windows Phone 8: Enterprise Development (Peter Kuhn)
• Preventing high speed socket communication on Windows Phone 8 going south when using async/await and Handling Windows Phone 8 NFC startup events using the MVVMLight Messenger (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #721 – A Tool for Viewing the Clipboard (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone performance – Part 6 of many: Nokia Lumia 920 performance (András Velvárt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are your Software Development Projects using Agile? (Ben Linders)
• Demand For Agile Skills Outstripping Supply (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Testing Backbone apps with Mocha (Swizec Teller)
• Mocking Property Getters and Setters (Elena Pundjeva)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Step Outside The Box with Visual Studio 2012 Debugging (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Husky Puppies (Chris Hardwick)
• DevOps: Tech, Talk, and Territorialism (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• In NYC on 1/29? Join Us For Breakfast! (Jim Holmes)
• The Ultimate Experience–Write an App and Win! (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Importing SQL Server Data from Multiple Data Sources into PowerPivot for Excel (Dattatrey Sindol)
• Remove Non-Alphabet Characters from a String–SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Creating Database with Different Collation on Server (Pinal Dave)
• NULL Values Impact the Performance of MAX() and MIN() (John Huang)

PowerShell

• SQL Server Agent Job Email Notifications via PowerShell (K. Brian Kelley)

Miscellaneous

• Thoughts on my new Surface (Ted Neward)
• Looking for a job at Google? Better know Microsoft Office (Todd Bishop)
• Reflecting on 2012: scale and opportunity (Todd Brix)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #1031 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1261 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)

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