Dew Drop – January 29, 2013 (#1,489)

Top Links

• Yo dawg, I herd you like loops, so jQuery put a loop in your code (Elijah Manor)
• A Simple Editor Pattern for Knockout.js (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Integer division that rounds up (Eric Lippert)
• ReSharper and custom ASP.NET MVC view location (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Roundup: QUnit 1.11, Knockout-jQueryUI, Tab Override, FilteredPaste.js (Alex Young)
• experimental.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Executing Powershell commands in Windows Azure Web or Worker Role VM Instance return exception (Avkash Chauhan)
• More on DRM in HTML5 (Bruce Lawson)
• Tips and tricks for Windows 8 JavaScript (and C# !) developers: Use compression API to save disk space (David Catuhe)
• WebStorm 6 Sneak Peek- TypeScript, Background Tasks, and Sourcemaps (John Lindquist)
• Introducing FubuMVC.Validation. For real. (Josh Arnold)
• Exploring WinJS.Class Patterns Part 2: derivations (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• JavaScript ‘this’ in Different Contexts (Louis Lazaris)
• CSS Selectors Level 4: The Path to CSS4 (Syed Fazle Rahman)
• Team Foundation Server 2012 build notification using ASP.Net Web API Part 2 (Fredrik Normen)
• New ASP.NET Single Page Application Template (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to Think About OAuth (Tim Bray)
• Building a Chat Web App With Signal R, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• Introducing Raygun.io and Nancy.Raygun (Phillip Haydon)
• parseInt() doesn’t always correctly convert to integer (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building real time applications for any client with Azure Mobile Services & Pusher (Filip W)
• Working with Making Waves and VGTV – Mobile Services (Josh Twist)
• A Developer’s Guide to Internet Explorer for Xbox (Andrew Spooner)

 

XAML

• WinRT : do no display the logo of your app on notifications (Jonathan Antoine)
• Confused about WinRT? Best in-depth article! (Iris Classon)
• Using Portable Class Libraries with Win 8 and WP8 and MVVM (Michael Crump)
• Using F# and WPF to create the World (Jon Harrop)
• 2000 WPF Things #744 – Keeping an Element within Window During Touch Manipulation (Sean Sexton)
• Portable MVVM Light – Move Your View Models : Part 2 (Shayne Boyer)
• Crash reports help you certify your Windows Store app (Dave Smith)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Operators in C# (Neetu Gangwani)
• How to use TFS on a Mac (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Parallel aggregates (Jon Harrop)
• Finding a printer, and then creating a shortcut to that printer (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #768 – When to Call the Constructor of a Base Class (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is About Execution – Just Do It, Or What is Blocking Us? [Infographic] (Peter Saddington)
• Pondering How Game and Arcade User Input Influences User Interface for Modern Software Client Applications (Chris Love)
• A Quick Look at the Importance of Information Architecture (Mike Walker)
• Learning about management from open source projects (Scott Berkun)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Amazon Kindle Fire owns the U.S. Android tablet market with a 37% share (Phone Arena Team)
• MonoTouch: iOS 6 Introduction, Social Media & Maps – Online Training with LearnNowOnline (Wally McClure)
• How to Populate a UITableView From a plist (property list) (Nick Petrov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 101 – “Get Your Free Lumia NOW!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Video: The New Way To Work Together with SharePoint 2013 #newoffice #office2013 #office365 (Dux R. Sy)
• Stack Exchange Podcast #41 – Neither of Us Have Muscles (Alex Miller)
• Video accompanying my SSDT article is now available (Jamie Thomson)
• Defrag Tools: #25 – WinDbg – Events | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 166: Facebook Graph Search, WP8 Nominated, Nokia Drive, Microsoft loves the 90’s | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Extending Interfaces in TypeScript (Paul Ballard)

 

Community / Events

• Courses, courses! All you can learn! (Oren Eini)
• Keynote Speaker – SharePoint Summit 2013 Toronto–May 13-15, 2013 (Andrew Connell)
• In The Community: Meet Marius Bancila (Eric Battalio)
• The Week Ahead-January 28, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Where Do I Fly or Train In For MADExpo? (Kevin Griffin)
• Stupid Question 137 : Where can I ask tech questions? (Iris Classon)

 

Database

• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #4 : select rows 50 to 60 from a table (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Contest to Win Amazon Card – Experience Cloud Data Management System (CDMS) and NuoDB (Pinal Dave)
• Day 23 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Restoring Differential Backups With New Files (Robert Davis)
• A Glance of Plan Explorer Pro’s Deadlock Analysis and When do statistics update? (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox Release 3.3 Visual Studio add-in (CodePlex)

 

SharePoint

• Sending Email from a LightSwitch SharePoint App using Exchange Online (Beth Massi)

 

Miscellaneous

• Geek Grads: How to succeed at Microsoft (Sam Doan)
• Small Basic: The Improved I/O Extension (Ed Price)
• First peek at Nokia Music+ clients for Windows platforms and beyond (Rich Edmonds)
• Review of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book (Julian M. Bucknall)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 29, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading January 28, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 28th (Rob Caron)
• Collective #48 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 1/28/2013 and Daily News Digest 1/29/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 29 Jan 2013 (Jax)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Top 10 for the week of January 20-26, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #1283 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-29 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 29, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #17 (Jason Strate)

 

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