Dew Drop – February 12, 2013 (#1,497)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Web API Roundtable with Block, Nielsen and Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• February CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 (Charles Sterling)
• Static constructors, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript Now Available (James Shore)

Web Development

• JavaScript’s regular expressions: more fun with XRegExp (Axel Rauschmayer)
• An End-To-End LightSwitch HTML Example (Michael Washington)
• jQuery Object Quacks like an Array Duck (Elijah Manor)
• using the asp.net lego blocks to create a synchronized Kanban board. (Eric Hexter)
• But I don’t want to call Web Api controllers “Controller”! (Filip W)
• HTML5 Audio Player – Fully Featured Music Player With Last.fm Artworks (Hirvesh Munogee)
• NuGet Package MVC Controller from a live application (M. Lang)
• Using Virtual Machines in Windows Azure (Nagarjuna Podapati)
• Useful Error Messages for Node.js Apps on Windows Azure Web Sites (Nathan Totten)
• and along with EPUB 3: New CSS! (Nellie McKesson)
• Fiddler and Modern TLS Versions (Eric Lawrence)
• Configuring an Amazon Web Services Security Group (Dan Morrill)
• MarionetteJS Screencasts And Videos (Derick Bailey)
• Exploring Directive Controllers, Compiling, Linking, And Priority In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• X-Http-Method-Override with NancyFX (Phillip Haydon)
• Push or Pull Decorators (Paul Hammant)
• Packery: A new JS-based layout library (Meta Fizzy)
• Part 1: Application: A Thorough Introduction To Backbone.Marionette (Joseph Zimmerman)
• When to Avoid the Descendant Selector (Louis Lazaris)

XAML

• Visual Studio Unit Testing Enhancements for Windows Store and Windows Phone (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Windows Phone 8: NFC (Near Field Communication) (Peter Kuhn)
• Comparing the HTML File/File System APIs and WinRT file system APIs (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Working with Message Dialog in WinRT apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Setting up Unit Testing in Windows Phone 7 and 8 (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #753 – Scale vs. Expansion in ManipulationDelta Events and #754 – Implementing Inertia for Expansion during Touch Manipulation (Sean Sexton)
• Creating a WPF Project in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Help I am getting an XMLHttpRequest exception of Access-Control-Allow-Orig (Derik Whittaker)
• Manage network connectivity in Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Generic Priority Queue (Richard Carr)
• Using Microsoft Solver Foundation to solve linear programming tasks (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 2 – Turn off Menu Upper Casing (Dirk Strauss)
• HOWTO: Generate C# request object for GitHub hooks (Емил Табаков)
• Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch – Getting Started with Building Business Applications (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Creating Collections of Entity Objects using LINQ (Paul Sheriff)
• Understanding IntelliTrace Part I: What the @#$% is IntelliTrace? (Zain Naboulsi)
• A Caveat with NuGet Source Code Packages (Phil Haack)
• 2000 C# Things #777 – A struct Isn’t Mutable When Used as a Property and #778 – A struct Isn’t Mutable When Used in a Collection (Sean Sexton)
• Ducksboard API for .Net (Brendan Tompkins)
• Team Foundation Service Update – Feb 11 (Brian Harry)
• Display an overlay on the taskbar button (Raymond Chen)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Sets and Hash Codes (Ricardo Peres)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile for Families in the WSJ (David Starr)
• Think Small: Five Tips for Agile Program Management Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• We Can’t Measure Anything in Software Development (John Sonmez)
• Defensive coding is your friend and Software architecture with nail guns (Oren Eini)
• TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 9: Server, Repository, and Statistics (Michael Sorens)
• MyGet is Offering Free Build Services for CodePlex, GitHub, and BitBucket (Jonathan Allen)
• Dependency Injection and Unit Of Work using Castle Windsor and NHibernate (Halil ibrahim Kalkan)
• Light weight browser based test management and execution (Charles Sterling)
• Why I Write Tests (Jason Whaley)
• Always is always (Chris Brandsma)

Other Mobile Platforms

• My Favourite Xcode Improvement (Joey deVilla)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter – atomic<> Weapons, 1 of 2 | Going Deep and C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter – atomic<> Weapons, 2 of 2 | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 252: Chris Woodruff on Data Experience (David Giard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – T.J. Miller returns! and Jason Schwartzman (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #27 – WinDbg – Configure Kernel Debugging | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Video: Effectively Managing Your Personal Brand Online (Scott Hanselman)
• GeekWire Podcast: Digital tipping point for Post Office (Todd Bishop)
• The Tablet Show – Stuart Lodge Builds Cross Platform Apps with MVVMCross (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Teach Your Website Spanish with Spring MVC and Interceptors (Paul Ballard)
• Episode 100 – Introduction to the Windows Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (elio, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for February 11th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLSaturday #200 in Philadelphia (And Vacation) (Andy Warren)
• Microsoft Press and the 2013 MVP Global Summit (Devon Musgrave)
• In the Community: Meet PJ Naughter (Eric Battalio)
• Recorded session from DataTjej 2013 (ITGirl) (Iris Classon)
• More Windows 8 Office Hours (Jennifer Marsman)
• The Week Ahead-February 11, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Flip bits, not burgers: Google Summer of Code 2013 is on! (Scott Knaster)
• GameLoop Philly Returns to City of Brotherly Love in May (Nicole Kline)
• Awesome Lineup for April 2013 DevIntersections (John Papa)
• The Making of a Tech Meetup (Lillian Pierson)

Database

• Improve Performance with SQL Server Pro Magazine February 2013 (Ian Stirk)
• SSRS Properties – FixedRowHeaders (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Error Handling in SQL Server with THROW (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Primary Key and NonClustered Index in Simple Words and SQL SERVER – What is Semantics Model – A Simple Explanation and SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 5 (Pinal Dave)
• Getting the tables with the most rows from your database and SQL Server Support Windows Phone App released and Discovering new things (for me) in SSMS and An Oracle NULL/Blank gotcha when coming from SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Data Corruption Is Most Likely Caused By Your Code And Not Your Database (Daniel Doubrovkine)
• Building SOLID Databases: Liskov Substitution Weirdness (Chris Travers)
• Which version of SSDT Database Projects do I have installed? (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Display Location Maps within SharePoint Lists using Geolocation Column In SharePoint 2013 (Asif Rehmani)

PowerShell

• A Month of PowerShell – Day 11 (SMO: Databases) and A Month of PowerShell – Day 9 (Getting Started with SMO) (Wayne Sheffield)
• Install .NET Framework using #Powershell (#TSQL2sday!) (Jen McCown)
• PowerShell Script to Populate a vWorkspace Farm (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft SurfaceRT Review 3+ Months Later (Even After Using a SurfacePro) (Andrew Connell)
• Adding a 4th row of Windows 8 Start Screen tiles to any 1366×768 display (i.e. a Surface RT or standard notebook…) (Greg Duncan)
• Happy Birthday XML! (Jean Paoli)
• Microsoft explains Surface Pro shortages: Customer response has been ‘amazing’ (Todd Bishop)
• The ghost who codes: how anonymity is killing your programming career (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 12, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading February 8, 2013 and Geek Reading February 11, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 11th (Rob Caron)
• Collective #50 (Mary Lou)
• Weekly Links – 2-11-2012 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Double Shot #1063 and Double Shot #1064 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #81 (Frank)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Facebook Favorites February 3-9, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1292 and The Morning Brew #1293 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 9, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 11, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 12, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/11/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-11 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for February 08, 2013 (Denny Cherry)
• Reblog: February 1 to February 7 (Jason Strate)
• Visual Studio ALM Links–Week 6 2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #54) (Craig Kitterman)

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