Dew Drop – February 1, 2013 (#1,492)

Top Links

• Fixing the Entity Framework designer “Generate Database from Model” T4 template (Erik EJ)
• jQuery Migrate 1.1.0 Released (Dave Methvin)
• The Developer’s Life 3.0.1 Cancer (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone 8, Netduino and Bluetooth… (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Textillate.js – A jQuery Plugin For CSS3 Text Animations (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Using GitHub without leaving PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Leveraging Browser Quirks in WinJS (Phil Japikse)
• Enabling Twitter OAuth For An Azure Mobile Service (Zumo) in a Windows 8 Game (Sumit Maitra)
• Twitter Open Sources Flight, an Event-based Component Framework (Abel Avram)
• Web Performance 101: An opinionated guide to the 22 links that every developer should read (Joshua Bixby)

XAML

• A Silverlight BooleanToVisibilityConverter (Brian Lagunas)
• How to get your app promoted in the Windows Phone Store (Kami LeMonds)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (CTP) and Blend is here (Kunal Chowdhury)
• [Sample Of Jan 31st] Irregular Shape of WPF Window (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #747 – Implementing Inertia during Touch Manipulation (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• LINQ Insight 2.0 Released with RavenDB (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• WCF Data Services 5.3.0-rc1 Prerelease (WCF Team)
• A quick look at Git support in Visual Studio 2012 (Jon Galloway)
• The TFS Automation Platform is dead, long live the TfPlugable (Martin Hinshelwood)
• How to Write Scalable Services (Mike Hadlow)
• Creating an XNA GameComponent in Windows Store Apps (Chris Gardner)
• The somewhat misguided question of whether MapViewOfFile or WriteProcessMemory is faster (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #771 – Summary of System.Object Members (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coaching Anti-Patterns : Non-accountability (Michael Norton)
• Is it important? (Eric Brechner)
• GitHub Enterprise 11.10.300 Release (Joel Watson)
• Responsive Web Design and Interaction Prototyping (Ambrose Little)
• The Saga Pattern and That Architecture vs. Design Thing (Arnon Rotem-gal-oz)
• What is Information Architecture? (Mike Walker)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introduction to iOS6 Social Networks with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The RavenDB Webinar is on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• IWP49 | How we pick great apps to showcase in the store | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• 045 JSJ jQuery (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 005: Windows Azure Boost, Hear It From the Judge, and the Big Board! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 168 – 01.31.13 and Engadget Podcast 329 – 01.31.13 (James Trew)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 78 (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Geeks Without Bounds with Willow Brugh (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Herding Cats – It’s a Career! (Dara Monasch)

Database

• SSRS Properties – Columns (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between NOLOCK and NOWAIT Hints (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB: How to restore collections and Umm….No…that is not how you export a table into a file with SQL Server and MongoDB: How to backup all the databases with one command (Denis Gobo)
• Database Lifecycle Management for Azure SQL Database (Paul Turley)
• PowerPivot with Excel 2013 (Brady Upton)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: False alarm. We aren’t backing away from DirectX (Mary Jo Foley)
• Dell-Microsoft deal could be finalized by Monday (TechFlash)
• Casting Variables in C (No, You’re Not Just Bad at Math) (Dara Monasch)
• Bing Apps for Office: extending Office 365 Premium (Kip Kniskern)
• Bill Gates says Steve Jobs was “always cooler than me” (Taylor Soper)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 192 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading January 31, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 31st (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1057 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 1, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/1/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1286 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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