Dew Drop – January 15, 2013 (#1,480)

Top Links

• Part 1 of 9: Creating a Complete Windows 8 Game (minus the game) (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• RTM’d today: Programming Windows, Sixth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Building a Game With JavaScript: Start Screen (Christopher Bennage)
• Next App Star: See your app featured in a Windows Phone TV ad (Todd Brix)

Web Development

• Microsoft to offer its ‘Drawbridge’ virtualization technology on top of its Windows Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Creating an HTML5 Based Document Editor (Alexander Mitnikov)
• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 124.509 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• JavaScript encapsulation & the module pattern (Avi Yehuda)
• HTML5 Drag and Drop Avatar Changer with Resizing and Cropping (Chris Coyier)
• The New CSS3 Relative Font Sizing Units (Craig Buckler)
• The State of jQuery 2013 (Dave Methvin)
• How to Build Telerik.com-like Navigation with Telerik’s ASP.NET Menu Control (Katerina Manova)
• Customizing ASP.NET Web API Routing for the User Defined methods in ApiController class (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Thinking in value terms (Giorgio Sironi)
• Finding jQuery Event Handlers with Visual Event (K. Scott Allen)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 Beta (Todd Parker)
• Visualizing List Data using a Map Control (Heinrich Wendel)
• WordPress Database Error on Azure (Andy Schwam)
• Amazon Web Services Programming Tool Kits (Dan Morrill)
• Using WP_Query In WordPress (Daniel Pataki)
• Ambient Light and Proximity Enter the DOM (Faraz Yashar)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 – Dynamic AppBars for Conference Buddy (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 8 Jumpstart Content and Samples (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #734 – Recognizing Different Fingers in Touch Event Handlers (Sean Sexton)
• Extending the functionality of RadControls with Attached Properties (Vladimir Amiorkov)

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSpeller: A Spell-Checking Plugin for ReSharper (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (KB2707250): Bug Fixes (Zain Naboulsi)
• COPPAesthetics: Form Follows Function Yet Again (Sebastian Holst)
• Team Foundation Services Binaries folder (Xavier Decoster)
• MSDN Library Icon Legend (Greg Duncan)
• Stupid Question 126: What is a hat type or handle declarator in C++/CX? (Iris Classon)
• Testing without ExpectedExceptionAttribute (Bill Wagner)
• Async and AggregateException (Bnaya Eshet)
• Accessing Team Foundation Server with OData (Brian Harry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Requires an Integrated Story (Dave J. West)
• Zero to App in Two Weeks (or, Why Do Some Developers Struggle?) (Kraig BrockSchmidt)
• Article: The Role of the Development Manager (Robert McCabe)
• Productivity on Fire: 30 Days of Getting Results (JD Meier)
• Indigo Studio Design Rationale – Defining Interactions (Ambrose Little)
• The Importance Of A Good Icon (DevToolsGuy)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Sencha Eclipse Plugin Tips & Tricks (Justin Early)
• Evolution of Renderscript Performance (Android Developers)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 081: Wonderful apps, books, comics, and gear (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Richard Astbury Migrates Applications to Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside Windows 8: Chris Stevens – Boot Environment | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Episode 211 – PowerScripting Podcast – Osama Sajid from Microsoft on CIM and WMI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• YUIConf 2012 Talk: Tilo Mitra on Building Native Windows 8 Apps with YUI (Andrew Wooldridge)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 9: Joakim Knows His Metrics (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Defrag Tools: #23 – Windows 8 SDK | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Next App Star- get your app on TV! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Microsoft just teased the next Xbox at CES (Tom Warren)
• Reasons to Attend a Mobile App Development Workshop (Lori Lalonde)
• In The Community: Meet Jeremiah Morrill (Eric Battalio)

Database

• Email alerts when new databases are created in SQL Server (Chad Churchwell)
• SQL Server – Enabling backup CHECKSUM with Trace Flag 3023 (Vishal)
• Top 10 Free SQL Server Tools (John Sansom)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #2 : locate the IDENTITY column in a table (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction of Showplan Warning (Pinal Dave)
• TRY / CATCH Can Catch More Than Just Errors (Shaun Stuart)

Miscellaneous

• The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3’s Source Code (Shawn McGrath)
• Introducing Small Basic (MS Downloads)
• Should I tell my recruiter about pending offers? (MS JobsBlog)
• Wayback Machine: Phil Plait: Bad Astronomer and Champion for Science (Jenny Williams)
• The Sinofsky Spin: will we hear the other side of the story? (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1273 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1044 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading January 14, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 14th (Rob Caron)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/14/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Top 10 for the week of January 6-12, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)

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