Dew Drop – January 17, 2013 (#1,481)

Top Links

• Working on TypeScript 0.8.2 (Jonathan Turner)
• Nullable micro-optimizations, part six (Eric Lippert)
• MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 5 (Fluent export properties) and MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 6 (Composition scoping and lifetime management) (Bnaya Eshet)
• jQuery 1.9 final, jQuery 2.0 beta, Migrate final released (Dave Methvin)

Web Development

• Node Roundup: 0.8.17, 0.9.6, gelf-node, jsong, Stuff.js (Alex Young)
• The ASP.NET developer checklist (Mads Kristensen)
• Voxel.js: A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node (Devon Govett)
• Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry (Adam J. Sontag)
• Setting a var property in the JavaScript Revealing Module Pattern requires a setter (Kevin)
• Cross-Post: Tutorial Series and Sample Application for ASP.NET MVC 4 with Windows Azure Tables, Blobs and Queues (Craig Kitterman)
• How to work with Navigation App Template in Windows Store App with JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Magic of the jQuery 1.9 Source Map and Don’t Hot-fix IE6-8, Upgrade to IE9-10 Instead (Elijah Manor)
• Magical Web API action selector – HTTP-verb and action name dispatching in a single controller (Filip W)
• Why 2013 is the Year of PHP (Gabriel Manricks)
• Debugging mocha unit tests with WebStorm step by step (Glenn Block)
• Understanding the CSS Clip Property (Hugo Giraudel)
• Stupid Question 127: What is strict mode in Javascript? (Iris Classon)
• i18n Module for Node and Express.js (John Resig)
• Building A Node.JS Server That Won’t Melt – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 5 (Lloyd Hilaiel)
• Putting CSS Clip to Work: Expanding Overlay Effect (Mary Lou)
• 3 Open-Source Validation Projects for ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kennedy)
• Obfuscate.js: clean sensitive information out from web page screenshots (Mikko Ohtamaa)
• Handing MVC paths with dots in the path (Scott Forsyth)
• Advanced CSS3 2D and 3D Transform Techniques (Syed Fazle Rahman)
• Adding Multi Column Sort to Dynamic Data List Page (Steve Naughton)
• The problem with website security is us! (Troy Hunt)
• YUI 3.9.0pr1 – Charts, JSONP, and Responsive Grids (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Responsive web design versus adaptive web design (Axel Rauschmayer)
• One step closer to full support for Redis on Windows, MS Open Tech releases 64-bit and Azure installer (Claudio Caldato)
• Modern Lifecycle on the Cloud OS (Brian Harry)
• KeyboardJS 0.4.1 released (Callum Macrae)
• Who can beat Amazon at IaaS? (Joe Masters Emison)

XAML

• Creating Spinning progress Animation in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Should Windows Phone Developers Target Both 7 and 8? (Keith Ward)
• App submission tips for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 (Bernardo Zamora)
• How to use the Light Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications (Derik Whittaker)
• What Is New In WPF 4.5 (DevToolsGuy)
• Windows Phone 8: Contacts Integration (Peter Kuhn)
• How to be Windows Phone’s Next App Star (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Want to ILMerge but you’re building a WPF app? Resource them baby! (Greg Duncan)
• Comparing Web Storage and WinRT AppData/Settings APIs and My Take on HTML/JS vs. C#/XAML vs. C++/DirectX (choosing a language for a Windows Store app) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• 32feet.NET for Windows Phone (Peter Foot)
• Liven up app development with the Windows Phone 8 Emulator skin switcher (Rich Edmonds)
• A simple WPF Text Clock Gadget for Windows (Sanjay)
• 2000 WPF Things #735 – System Applet Indicates Maximum Number of Touch Points and #736 – Finding the Maximum Number of Touch Points at Run-time (Sean Sexton)
• PhoneGap and Why I’ve Been Busy (Shawn Wildermuth)
• How To: Merge assemblies into WPF application (Vladimir Enchev)
• Outlook-Like Navigation Pane WPF Control v1.0.4764.30675 and  WPF Composites Version 3.5.0(CodePlex)
• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone – Part 2 – Infinite Image Scroll (Dennis Delimarsky)
• PhoneGap Sample – Shake to Roll (Raymond Camden)
• Free Windows 8 Design Templates are now Available for all Developers (Doris Chen)
• How to Launch WP8 built-in Apps using URI Schemes? and A Quick Solution to Resolve a WP App Deployment Issue (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Developer Series: Building Windows Store Applications with Dr. “Z” (Zhiming Xue)
• A Reusable INotifyPropertyChanged Extension Method (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

• R2P: A General-Purpose ReSharper Plugin (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Converting Between Unix Time And DateTime (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Quick Launch and Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Solution Explorer Scope (Andy Schwam)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (KB2707250): New Features (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Workflow and Timeouts (Peter Vogel)
• Entity Framework Profiler support for Entity Framework 6 alpha 2 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator Upcoming Feature: Bracket Highlighting (Blake Niemyjski)
• Xamarin for Java Developers (Craig Dunn)
• WinForms MVP – An MVP Framework for Winforms (David Rogers)
• What does async & await generate? (Filip Ekberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum and multiple project teams (Bill Wagner)
• How to do Unit Test using NUnit : Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MindMup is live: Mind Mapping will never be the same (Gojko Adzic)
• Managing Programs With Agile and Traditional Projects (Johanna Rothman)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Interpreter (Oren Eini)
• Code Today’s Requirements Today (Ken Downs)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mobile, Tablet and Desktop Development All at The Same Time (Doug Rathbone)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erik Meijer, Immo Landwerth, and Andrew Arnott: Immutable Collections for .NET (Charles Torre)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 100 – “Good for Your Cholesterol” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Video: Viewing Data Through a Window in SQL Server 2012 (Paul Ballard)
• Yet Another Podcast #89–Laurent Bugnion on MVVM and Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.9 rc1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sick Ray (Chris Hardwick)
• Ping 164: IllumiRoom, Skype, Ballmer & Basketball, Surface Pro | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 018 – Troy Hunt (Denny Cherry)

Community / Events

• UBELLY IGNITE 21st JAN – MEET OUR SPEAKERS (Tom Rouse)
• Publish an app in the Windows Store or the Windows Phone Store and win crazy prizes/get store registration refunded! and Windows 8 Unleashed events in Ann Arbor and Columbus (Jennifer Marsman)
• A former OneNote tester is writing a book and you can help! (John Guin)
• Announcing the Windows Startup Challenge (Antoine Leblond)

Database

• Using the Data Profiling SQL Server Integration Services SSIS task (Ben Snaidero)
• SSIS Top 10 Best Practices Basics (Katie & Emil)
• SQL Server ODBC Driver 11 and Command Line Utilities 11 for released (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Send Email From SQL Server – Configure Database Mail – SQL in Sixty Seconds #039 – Video and SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 4 (Pinal Dave)
• What is going on with Database Mail in SQL Server and MongoDB, how to sort results (Denis Gobo)
• Day 14 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Fixing a Corrupt Tempdb and Day 15 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Running DBCC CheckTable in Parallel Jobs (Robert Davis)
• All Software Development is Schema Management (Ken Downs)
• Database mirroring: avoiding ‘cannot obtain a LOCK resource’ problems (Paul Randal)
• Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues (Sam Vanga)
• More SSDT naming confusion (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint folders and OneNote for WinRT (Rockford Lhotka)
• SharePoint Solution Deployer 4.1 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: What does “diversity and inclusion” mean at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
• My Experience Migrating to Office 365 (Andrew Connell)
• Executify’s Vision (Nick Berardi)
• How do I create a TaskDialog with a progress bar but no cancel button? (Raymond Chen)
• Female Nerds Who Altered The Course Of History [Infographic] (Richard Darell)
• How to get from an idea to a book (Scott Berkun)
• Picking the Right Tools for Your Project (Shayne Boyer)
• Creating a photo book with your Windows Phone (Lisa Stratton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 15th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 16th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 15, 2013 and Geek Reading January 16, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly Links, January 15 2013 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Double Shot #1045 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 16 Jan 2013 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1274 and The Morning Brew #1275 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 16, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/15/2013 and Daily News Digest 1/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Most Popular LightSwitch Team Blog Posts of 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Entity Framework Links #3 (Rowan Miller)

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