Dew Drop – January 2, 2013 (#1,473)

Top Links

• TypeScript Grammar (John Papa)
• Announcing Panorama.js A JavaScript/CSS3 Library to Replicate the Core Windows Phone Panorama Control (Chris Love)
• Uber Prof 2.0 is OUT! (Oren Eini)
• Converting ASP.NET WSP (Web Site Projects) to WAP (Web Application Projects) with VS2012 (Peter Kellner)
• Kendo UI Mobile and Icenium (Telerik Team)

 

Web Development

• What are the Most Valuable Tools for HTML5 Development? (Dio Synodinos)
• using MVC Navigation Routes in Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4 (Eric Hexter)
• Getting Started with Kara (Hadi Hariri)
• Node.js: Using require to load your own files (Kevin Griffin)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Expression Builders (Ricardo Peres)
• HTML5 Amiga Emulator (Richard Davey)
• Creating ASP.NET Web Forms CRUD Pages Using ServerApplicationContext (Michael Washington)
• Intro to KnockoutJS: An MVVM Library for HTML/JS Developers (Anand Raja)
• JS101: A Primer on Strings and String Encodings (Alex Young)
• Migrating My Blog to WordPress on Azure (Andy Schwam)
• When in doubt, turn on Tracing (Scott Hanselman)
• Gitub-pages as a CMS again (Paul Hammant)
• my tale of npm woe – when all else fails, fix your path! (Neil Mackenzie)
• Setting the auth token in the Mobile Services client and caching the user’s identity (Day 10) and Handling expired tokens in your application (Day 11) and Exploring custom identity in Mobile Services (Day 12) (Josh Twist)
• How to Create a Simple Multi-Item Slider (Manoela Ilic)
• Submit a new blog post in WordPress using ASP .NET (Hasham Ahmad)
• Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API? (Frederic Lardinois)
• Windows 3.1 simulated in a browser (really) (Greg Duncan)
• 4 Ways to Make Your WordPress Site More Accessible (Eric Blair)

 

XAML

• MVVM in Windows 8: Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)
• A simple WPF Text Clock Gadget (Sanjay)
• 2000 WPF Things #723 – Turning Off All Caps Menus in Visual Studio 2012 and #724 – Sample Code for Examining Control Templates (Sean Sexton)
• Building a great Windows 8 app Step 5: Reserve your app name (Susan Ibach)
• How To: Compress Files In WinRT (Shai Raiten)
• What happens to Windows 8 Apps already Installed with a Current Expired Developer License? (Michael Crump)
• Building IG Outlook Part 7 – Adding the Contacts Module (Brian Lagunas)
• Adding a privacy policy to your Windows 8 application (David Burela)
• Sorted lists in Windows 8 applications (David Burela)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! (Dylan Smith)
• Block out some time to play with the C#, open source, block game engine, Voxeliq (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review: C# Smorgasbord by Filip Ekberg (Gregor Suttie)
• Tuple Type in C#4.0 (Pranay Rana)
• Versatile WebCam C# library (Predrag Tomasevic)
• Getting Started With Git-TF Tool (Shai Raiten)
• LINQ – Group By (Srinivasu Pemma)
• TFS 2012 Update 1 – TF400432 We were unable to connect to the SharePoint Central Administration and Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 in production – DONE (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Implementing The GeoCordinateWatcher As A Reactive Service (Paulo Morgado)
• Get your UML on! in VS 2012 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Automated Monitoring for Windows Services (M. Lang)
• Upgrade Visual Sourcesafe to Team Foundation Server 2012 (Mohamed Radwan)
• Microsoft Developer Platform at a Glance (JD Meier)
• Content Index for Coded UI Test (Mathew Aniyan)
• WiX v3.7 – MSBuild, Self Update and Reference Counting (Anand Narayanaswamy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Scrum Methodology Best Practices (Cagdas Basaraner)
• Life without distributed transactions (Udi Dahan)
• YAGNI and Professional Code (Jesse Taber)
• Gamification and Software: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Taking over (Eric Brechner)
• API Versioning: 3 Ways to Architect Your API to Handle Versioned Requests (Eric Oestrich & Sam Goldman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Setup Mono for Android on Windows – tutorial (Piotr K.)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – What Developers Should Care About in 2013! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter – You don’t know [blank] and [blank] (Charles Torre)
• Episode 209 – PowerScripting Podcast – Todd Klindt talks about SharePoint 2012 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• AgileDC 2012 – Jim Highsmith – Organizational Agility and Adaptive Leadership (Bob Payne)
• Episode 97 – The Best of Cloud Cover 2012 | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Defrag Tools: #21 – WinDbg – Memory User Mode | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Tablet Show – Mary Jo Foley Talks Tablets! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Community / Events

• Six years of Encosia (Dave Ward)
• Microsoft Research Redmond: 2012 in Review (Eric Horvitz & Yi-Min Wang)
• Happy New Year and Congratulations to the New and Renewed MVPs! (MVP Award Program)
• January Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• Introducing the F# Software Foundation (Jonathan Allen)
• Upcoming ASP.NET Web API events in Toronto (Filip W)

 

Database

• SQL Server Rounding Functions – Round, Ceiling and Floor (Jeremy Kadlec)
• Creating SSIS Package Templates for Reusability (Arshad Ali)
• SQL SERVER – Wrap SQL Code in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #038 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2012 – Management Studio Essentials (Sanjeev Narayan)
• Implementation details: RavenDB Bulk Inserts (Oren Eini)
• How ACID is MongoDB? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Auditing Login Attempts in MySQL (Peter Zaitsev)
• Interesting Observation – Declaring Table Variables impact on Tempdb (Devi Prasad Gakkula)
• Day 1 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Does DBCC Automatically Use Existing Snapshot? (Robert Davis)

 

PowerShell

• PowerSwitchUserTile – Creating a Switch User Windows 8 Tile with PowerShell (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 Books (DevToolsGuy)
• Choosing what Technologies/Frameworks to use (Gregor Suttie)
• Stupid Question 116: Do you need to know C to learn Objective C? and Stupid Question 117: For the new year- which books are a must read for developers? (Iris Classon)
• My Top 5 Cloud Predictions for 2013 (Laura Yecies)
• Getting Serious About Online Personal Security – Two-Factor Authentication (Nathan Totten)
• Tech Predictions, 2013 (Ted Neward)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 31, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 1, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 12.17 ~ 12.31 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading December 31, 2012 and Geek Reading January 1, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top MVP Monday Posts of 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #1033 and Double Shot #1034 and Double Shot #1035 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/2/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1263 and The Morning Brew #1264 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #13 and Node Roundup: 0.9.5, juxt, email-templates and jQuery Roundup: jKit, ZinoUI, jQuery.ajax.fake (Alex Young)

 

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