Dew Drop – December 4, 2012 (#1,475)

Top Links

• CodeProject Article on Xamarin Cross Platform Development (Colin Eberhardt)
• Evaluating Certificates in Fiddler and FiddlerCore (Eric Lawrence)
• Nullable micro-optimization, part three (Eric Lippert)
• C# is the “Language of the Year” (Brandon Bray)

Web Development

• My Experience With AngularJS – The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework (Ben Nadel)
• Working with Windows Azure command line tools from within Visual Studio (Maarten Balliauw)
• JavaScript terminology: the two prototypes (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using Memcache to access a Windows Azure Dedicated Cache–Take 2 (Brian Swan)
• All You Need to Know About CSS Transitions (Chris Coyier)
• Asynchronously streaming video with ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Building Ribbit in PHP (Gabriel Manricks)
• Supermodel.js – Minimal Model Tracking For Backbone.js (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Web Sites Using Knockout.js (John Papa)
• Realtime Node.js App: Stress Testing Procedure (Mike Pennisi)
• CSS gradients (Peter-Paul Koch)
• Building and Deploying Windows Azure Web Site with Node.js and MongoDB by using Microsoft WebMatrix (Shiju Varghese)
• Reuse and Recycle: The Canvas 2D API (Rob Larsen)

XAML

• Windows Store App – Tiled Background using Mindscape Metro Elements (Phillip Haydon)
• Live Tiles in Windows Phone 8: Part 1 Tile Templates (Windows Phone Geek)
• Did ya get the memo? Let me send you another copy… Windows Phone 8 Delightful Design Memo (aka Cheat Sheet) (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #727 – Getting a List of Files from the Clipboard (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 – Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# (Tatworth)
• Windows Runtime–what’s supported where? (Jim O’Neil)
• Windows Store App: Live tiles and toast- a simple example (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Introducing DirectX Factor (Charles Petzold)
• Lazy<T> in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 1 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Windows Workflow Foundation Case Studies (Jurgen Willis)
• Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks (Marko Apfel)
• Why does my program run really slow or even crash (or stop crashing, or crash differently) if running under a debugger? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Things you can Check when Adopting Agile (Ben Linders)
• MyGet build services now integrated with CodePlex (Mark Groves)
• Gartner on New Skills Required For Enterprise Architects (Mike Walker)
• A Nod to Professionalism (Jim Cooper)
• How to add updating to the Ignite UI Tree’s Drag & Drop (Damyan Petev)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Localizing iOS6 Storyboards with MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• How to create, remove and manage geofence reminders in iOS programmatically with Xcode (Tim Hibbard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Add a Bit of Dash to Your Data with jQuery and MVC 4 (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Warren Ellis (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 031 – January 2nd, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
• 041 JSJ Single Page Applications (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell, Merrick Christensen)
• Mobile Nations 20: CES 2013 preview! (Daniel Rubino)
• Engadget HD Podcast 330 – 01.03.2013 (James Trew)
• Watch This: Geek & Sundry’s TableTop Returns With Alhambra (Matt Blum)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 74 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• April Conferences Where I’ll be Teaching, Plus a Workshop (Julie Lerman)
• A career in technology at Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
• Interview: Erik Meijer on Big Data, Types of Data Stores and Reactive Programming (InfoQ)

Database

• Standardizing SQL Server CRUD Templates with Rollback Plans (Derek Colley)
• SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
• Moving OdeToCode to Azure – The Database (K. Scott Allen)

PowerShell

• Pseudo-Polymorphism in PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Cheers to a new year–and a new you. Our top 6 job-search tips (MS JobsBlog)
• Microsoft counts down to what? (Joe Wilcox)
• Review: Surface with Windows RT (Andy Schwam)
• Welcome to “Learning by Shipping” (Steven Sinofsky)
• Can Windows Phone Survive? (Damon Payne)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 188 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading January 3, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1036 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/3/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1266 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2012 – #0139 (Dave Campbell)

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