Dew Drop – January 3, 2013 (#1,474)

Top Links

• Eight Reasons C# is the Best Language for Mobile Development (Nat)
• Chocolatey Automatic Packages (Rob Reynolds)
• Working with Windows Azure from within PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• There is no ARM in Windows RT (Hal Berenson)

Web Development

• Scaling Windows Azure Web Sites from Free/Shared to Reserved (Brian Noyes)
• Creating a round button in CSS 3.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Upcoming ASP.NET Web API events in Toronto (Filip W)
• Arctic.js – A JavaScript Game Engine For Smartphones (Hirvesh Munogee)
• ASP.NET MVC Client-Side Validation Summary with jQuery Validation Plugin (Soe Tun)
• Microsoft’s ‘Orleans’ cloud programming model gets a Halo test drive (Mary Jo Foley)
• Web Storage Made Easy with AmplifyJS (Tim Corey)
• Test driving Brackets (Kevin Dangoor)
• A New Year’s Resolution for Web Developers (Andy Schwam)
• Why Bootstrap? (K. Scott Allen)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #726 – Sample Controls from the Extended WPF Toolkit (Sean Sexton)
• Building Apps Across Windows 8 Platforms (Nick Randolph)
• Mobile Services Custom Parameters in Windows Store apps (Glenn Gailey)
• Data Forms – No Problem with Telerik RadControls for WP8 (Michael Crump)
• Building a great Windows 8 app Step 5: Reserve your app name and Building a great Windows 8 app Step 6: Which template should you use? (Susan Ibach)
• A Recursively Splittable Panel Control for User Customizable Interfaces (Dr. Hurol Aslan)
• Windows 8 Development + Blendability, Part 2: Services (Braulio Diez)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Fisher-Yates-Durstenfeld Shuffle (Richard Carr)
• Retrospective on TFS 2012 Update 1 and Team Explorer Extensibility (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 pre-releases expiring Jan 15 (Brian Keller)
• DPack 3.5.x is out (Think VS2012++ version) (Greg Duncan)
• Upgrade Visual Sourcesafe to Team Foundation Server 2012 (Mohamed Radwan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Scrum Methodology Best Practices (Cagdas Basaraner)
• SOLID principles: are they enough for OO? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Replaceable Employees (Brendan Enrick)
• No silver bullet: reloaded (Cedric Otaku)
• Article: Automated Builds: The Key to Consistency (Joe Enos)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out on Nuclear Power (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C++ and Beyond 2012: Panel – Convincing your Colleagues (Charles Torre)
• Windows 8 Blendability – Intro and Windows 8 Blendability – SimpleDesign and Windows 8 Blendability – ContractsSample and Windows 8 Blendability – MVVMLightSample (Braulio Diez)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Morello (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 163 – 1.2.2013 (James Trew)
• Video: Turn Scary Monster Image Requests into Nice Sprites (Paul Ballard)
• [Screencast] Debugging Kendo UI Applications (Burke Holland)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 2nd, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Ignite Webcast – Real World Deployment Scenarios (Josh T.)
• Infragistics User Group Contest 2013: Let the Games Begin! (Brian Lagunas)
• Jeffrey Richter & Jennifer Smith at Windows 8 Meetup–January 8th (Jim O’Neil)
• Integrating Production Support into ALM Webcast (MS Public Sector Team)
• Starting An Open-Source Project (Nicholas C. Zakas)

Database

• Creating SSIS Package Templates for Reusability (Arshad Ali)
• Standardizing SQL Server CRUD Templates with Rollback Plans (Derek Colley)
• 4 New T-SQL Functions (Sam Nasr)
• Why you shouldn’t use SELECT * (Axel Achten)
• Auditing Login Attempts in MySQL (Peter Zaitsev)
• Data Platform Innovation, Without Disruption (Andrew J. Brust)
• Warning! Publish may fail on creation of a FOREIGN KEY constraint and then immediately succeed [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Integrating SharePoint Web Parts: Providers, Filters and More (Peter Vogel)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft resurrects YouTube-Windows Phone compatibility complaint (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pluralsight doubles library in 2012 – Now 400 courses! (Steve Woolley)
• A look back at Microsoft’s 2012, and what’s next for the evolving giant (Alex Wilhelm)
• The 10-Minute XPath Tutorial – Automating System Administration with Perl (David N. Blank-Edelman)
• A win for enterprise as RSA SecurID now available for Windows Phone (Robert Brand)
• Stupid Question 118: The pointer series: What is a pointer? (Iris Classon)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 2, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1265 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1036 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/2/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 2 Jan 2013 (Jax)
• Windows Dev News for January 02, 2012 – #0138 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 2 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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