Dew Drop – January 18, 2013 (#1,482)

Top Links

• Windows Store App with Caliburn.Micro – Basic Databinding (Phillip Haydon)
• Nullable micro-optimizations, part seven (Eric Lippert)
• Using Json.Net JObject with WebApi GET Requests (Kevin)
• Fiddler ImageView Enhancements and Fiddler ImageView GeoLocation (Eric Lawrence)

Web Development

• CSS3 The Missing Manual Third Edition Book Review (David Hayden)
• How to Make a Vertical Menu Using CSS3 Transforms (Chris Love)
• Debugging mocha unit tests with WebStorm step by step (Glenn Block)
• Continuous Integration for PHP using TeamCity (Maarten Balliauw)
• Putting CSS Clip to Work: Expanding Overlay Effect (Manoela Ilic)
• Using SASS and Compass to Solve 2 CSS files into 1 CSS File (Peter Kellner)
• jQuery UI 1.10.0 (Scott González)
• Advanced CSS3 2D and 3D Transform Techniques (Syed Fazle Rahman)
• Thoughts on Internet Explorer in 2013 (Ryan Hayes)
• How to make authenticated calls to the LinkedIn API using the Spring.net Social Extension for LinkedIn (Jon Gallant)
• 10 Design Challenges of the Mobile Web – Part 2 (Kim Logan)

XAML

• Windows 8 and WinRT – A Close Encounter with Microsoft (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Optimizing Battery Consumption of Windows Phone Applications (Jonathan Lyons)
• My Take on HTML/JS vs. C#/XAML vs. C++/DirectX (choosing a language for a Windows Store app) and Store Certification Tip #7: Allowable vs. Certification Languages (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Portable Library and WinRT support for ElasticObject (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Introducing Blend for Visual Studio 2012 – Build a simple Windows 8 Store App (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• 2000 WPF Things #737 – Touch Behavior when Maximum Number of Touch Points Reached (Sean Sexton)
• Handle trial and in-app purchase with Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Want a free copy of C# Smorgasbord? (Filip Ekberg)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Multiple Solution Explorers (Andy Schwam)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (KB2707250): New Features (Zain Naboulsi)
• P/Invoke with C++ bool Return Values (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A brief history of the GetEnvironmentStrings functions (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework Profiler support for Entity Framework 6 alpha 2 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
• I’m using dynamic and unexpectedly lost intellisense! (Filip Ekberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to do Unit Test using NUnit : Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Stupid Question 129 and 130: Should you and how do you introduce new technologies in projects, and who pays? (Iris Classon)
• Clean Database per Automated Test Run? Yes, please. (Jeremy D. Miller)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Test Studio for iOS 2.0 – New Results Screen (Anthony Rinaldi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Today’s Web Malware with AVG’s Brad Rittenhouse (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Is Agile Dead at CodeMash (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What the Tech 148: Sitting in the Dark with Strangers (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Amber Benson (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 032 – January 17th, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
• Video Highlight #6: The PlayTo Contracts (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 76 (Richard Hay)
• Edge Show 49 – System Center 2012 SP1 Launch | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• Windows Phone Central 154 (Daniel Rubino)
• Video: Go Asynchronous with Event Emitters in Node.js (Paul Ballard)
• 043 JSJ Sinon.JS (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• How Halo 4 is using Windows Azure Service Bus (Clemens Vasters)

Community / Events

• UBELLY IGNITE 21st JAN – MEET OUR SPEAKERS part 2 (Tom Rouse)

Database

• Silent Truncation of SQL Server Data Inserts (Tim Wiseman)
• What’s on your SQL Server wish list? (Jeremy Kadlec)
• Does the SQL Server Database Filename Matter? (Steve Jones)
• SQL Server SESSIONPROPERTY (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A List of Various SQL Server RTM and Service Pack Number (Pinal Dave)
• Displaying missing dates by utilizing a calendar table (Denis Gobo)
• Day 15 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Running DBCC CheckTable in Parallel Jobs (Robert Davis)

SharePoint

• Get Started Building SharePoint Apps in Minutes with LightSwitch (Beth Massi)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: What does “diversity and inclusion” mean at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
• Using WPT For Batch Script Profiling (Alois Kraus)
• Introduction To Go: Channels (Karl Seguin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 190 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading January 17, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 18th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1046 and Double Shot #1047 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1276 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 18, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/17/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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