Dew Drop – February 7, 2013 (#1,495)

Top Links

• Static constructors, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Rx 2.1 is available on NuGet! (Rx team)
• Fall Fury, the PDF! (Greg Duncan)
• Managing Events As Relationships, Not Just References (Derick Bailey)

Web Development

• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 126.162 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• HTML5 app manifests – are we emulating failure? (Bruce Lawson)
• Working with Knockout.js Part 3: Working with Observables (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 6 EAP build 126.159 (K. Safonov)
• Closures and asynchronous chaining in Office JavaScript (Mark Brew)
• A KnockOut.js binding helper for a JQuery Mobile Slider (Joost van Schaik)
• Accessing Your Webcam in HTML5 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OWIN and Razor (Fredrik Normen)
• ECMAScript 6 and Destructuring Assignment (Ariya Hidayat)
• modern.IE – New tools for mobile web developers (Charles Morris)
• Using WebAPIs to make the web layer more capable (Robert Nyman)
• Building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack (Stephen Walther)
• Node v0.8.19 (Stable) (node.js Team)

XAML

• Designer-friendly MVVM for XAML Windows Store applications (András Velvárt)
• 2000 WPF Things #751 – Indicating which Touch Manipulation Modes You Support (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• F# Promises a Big Return on Big Data (Tara E. Buck)
• A LINQ Style Partition Operator (Richard Carr)
• Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git (Andy Lewis)
• Using database unit tests in Visual Studio (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1: Understanding Code Map (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft Token Validation Extensions for .Net 4.5 (MS Downloads)
• New book: Programming Windows, Sixth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Using XML /// tags in code to help IntelliSense with your own functions (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• HowTo wait in a WorkerRole using Timer and EventWaitHandle over Thread.Sleep (Magnus Mårtensson)
• String Calculator kata with AutoFixture and String Calculator kata with AutoFixture exercise 1 and String Calculator kata with Autofixture exercise 2 (Mark Seemann)
• 2000 C# Things #775 – Copying an Array of Anonymously-Typed Objects (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Values, Impacts and Heuristics (Karl Scotland)
• On failing tests (Oren Eini)
• 10 Reasons Why You’re Failing to Realize Your Potential as a Developer (Aaron Stannard)
• All Bugs Are Not Created Equal (Doug Rathbone)
• 5 Things That Every New Developer Needs to Know (CM Smith)
• The 3 Myths of Learning Programming Languages (Charles Manfre)
• My Team’s Gated Build (David Starr)
• Automatically Building Pull Requests from GitHub with TeamCity (Hadi Hariri)
• Internal versus external events (Jimmy Bogard)
• 10 Steps for Awesome Speech Recognition User Interface Design: Part 1 (Kim Logan)
• Tip to become a successful software engineer (Matt Hinze)
• Build Pattern: Adopt Artifacts (Roy Osherove)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Walgreens Introduces Refill API for Mobile Developers (Eric Carter)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Geeking Out with a Nuclear Entrepreneur (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ADP West 2012 – Kent McDonald – Agile Business Analysis – Agile Philanthropy and More (Agile Toolkit Podcast Team)
• What the Tech 151: Nexus 4 and Blackberry 10 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – SF Sketchfest 2013 (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget HD Podcast 335 – 02.06.2013 (James Trew)
• Defrag: Task Bar, Pop ups and UNC Behavior | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Skulls of the Shogun, Instant Heart Rate, MonsterUp Adventures, Mayan Tiles, GeoCaching LIVE | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Microsoft geeks speak: How to make winter weekends count (MS JobsBlog)
• SQLAuthority News – Delhi Flash Mob and Women Safety – 2400th Blog Post – A Milestone (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SSRS Properties – Tablix Sorting (Jes Schultz Borland)
• MongoDB: Creating capped collections (Denis Gobo)
• The Fastest Query is the One You Never Make (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.5 is Available (Jim Christopher)
• Powershell Script: Deploying Virtual Machines and Powershell: Find driveletter of mounted VHD (Marc Dekeyser)

Miscellaneous

• Congratulations Microsoft on the Surface Pro (Hal Berenson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #1061 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading February 6, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 6th (Rob Caron)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/6/2013 and Daily News Digest 2/7/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1290 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2013 (Beth Massi)

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