Dew Drop – February 25, 2013 (#1,504)

Top Links

• The Tablet Show – Miguel de Icaza Updates Us on Xamarin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Isolator 7.3 Released! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• PhoneGap 2.4.0 for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store Applications (Mihail Mateev)
• Alive with activity, Part 1: Working with tiles, badges, and toasts (Windows 8 Team)
• Hosting .NET code in node.js applications using OWIN (Tomasz Janczuk)

Web Development

• Working with Windows Azure SQL Database in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stop Writing REST API Clients (Tolga Tezel)
• Ignite UI jQuery Grid Column Moving (Damyan Petev)
• Try jQuery Interactive Course (Adam J. Sontag)
• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 126.339 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Advanced Windows Store App Development Using JavaScript Jump Start (Deepak Puri)
• JavaScript: Muddy Waters of Reflection (Erik Arvidsson)
• ASP.NET Web API and Protocol Buffers (Filip W)
• GitHub for Windows Recent Improvements (Phil Haack)
• Example of using JavaScript Arguments and TypeScript Rest Parameters (Jag Reehal)
• New CSS tests – fonts and text (Peter-Paul Koch)
• How to Leverage the .NET 4.5 Model Binding and Strongly Typed Data Controls with Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls – Part 1 (Radoslav Kirilov)
• Windows Azure Service Disruption from Expired Certificate (Steven Martin)
• Seven things still missing from CSS and More CSS Secrets from Lea Verou (Tom Kenny)
• MVC Single Page Application Template for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Xinyang Qiu)
• All About CSS Animations and Animating Movement Smoothly Using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Microsoft Azure Overtakes Amazon’s Cloud In Performance Test (Timothy)
• Orchard Content Type Widget Layer Rule (David Hayden)
• Configuring Azure DNS – The Missing Documentation (Anthony Grace)
• Always have a host or URL prefix on the default Orchard tenant (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Test Driving a Node HTTP Server with James Shore (Bobby Johnson)
• Confessions of a Sublime Text-aholic (Jan Van Ryswyck)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Voice Commands (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 8 Running App Article wins CodeProject competition (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone 8: Voice Commands (Peter Kuhn)
• An Overview of the Windows Phone 8 SDK Article (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #762 – Set FlowDirection at Runtime Based on CurrentUICulture and #763 – The Difference Between CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture (Sean Sexton)
• A Prototyping Tool for Your Windows Store and Windows Phone Apps (Zhiming Xue)
• ClickOnce, Windows 8 and SmartScreen (If you’re using ClickOnce, planning on Windows 8 [Desktop] and don’t have a CA cert, read this…) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Conference Buddy–Be A Sharing Target (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Generic EventHandler Delegate and Controlling the Wave Device Volume (Richard Carr)
• Nuget Packages for Typescript Definition Files (Derik Whittaker)
• DefinitelyTyped TypeScript definitions now on NuGet (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows 8–WinRT StorageFolder, Hidden Files, .NET, C++, AppContainers, Brokering (Mike Taulty)
• Conditional Statements in C# and Everything related to Variables and Constants in C# and Iterations Statements in C# (Neet Aarzoo)
• Creating and Consuming OData Services using Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Big Update on StructureMap 3.0 Progress (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Book Review of Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management (Nick Harrison)
• 2000 C# Things #786 – A Lazier Singleton Pattern and #787 – Avoid Public Fields in a Class (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating Scrum Tools for Project Tracking with Diverse Teams (Part 1) (Dara Monasch)
• Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction (Johanna Rothman)
• Learning How to Program to Become a Better Designer (Tom Kenny)
• Don’t Let User Experience Design Methods Die (Rian van der Merwe)
• "Write Once…" is Anti-Customer (Charlie Kindel)
• Stupid Question 157: How can I monitor how much time I spend on different activities on my computer? (Iris Classon)
• How To Build a Foundation for Execution and Diversification, Coordination, Replication, and Unification (JD Meier)
• In organizational change, culture comes last (Jesse Fewell)
• Polymorphism: Part 1 (John Teague)
• Chicken Thinking (Gil Zilberfeld)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Test Studio for iOS 2.0 – Web Portal (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Demo app and eBook for Windows Azure Mobile Services for iOS Clients (shiju)
• Testing devices made easier with Perfecto Mobile’s MobileCloud™ platform and Team Foundation Server (Charles Sterling)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 083: How Schweetz It Is! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 254: Brian and Stephen Sherwin on Controlling your Robot Army with C#, NetDuino and Kinect (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 468: Majestic Map Pack, Tomb Raider and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show – Episode 105 – “Blankenmilk” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• TWC9: New Tools, New Videos, New Talks, New Shows and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Neil Patrick Harris, Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 153: The Inexpensive Chromebook Pixel and Windows Weekly 300: All Hat no Pixels (Paul Thurrott)
• SDU Show 55 with guest Erin Welker (Greg Low)
• C# Fundamentals Important Update! | C# Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners (Bob Tabor & Golnaz)
• Windows Phone Minute : Groups | Windows Phone Minute (Laura Foy)
• Benjamin Soulier Logs into a Web Site Using a Bar Code and Windows Phone | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• 048 JSJ Why JavaScript Is Hard (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Podcast #43 – False Facts & Blood Feuds (Alex Miller)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 006: New award and new challenge, the secret of Howest, and the Big Board! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Radio TFS – Summitastic (Martin Woodward)
• Edge Show 52 – Automation with System Center and Powershell | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• Engadget Podcast 332 – 02.22.13 (James Trew)

Community / Events

• Official Launch of the Tunisian SharePoint User Group (Joel Oleson)
• 2013 MVP Global Summit – The Experience! (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• MVP Summit 2013 Recap (Dylan Smith)
• MVP Summit Recap (Bill Wagner)
• Scientist Nudges Girls Toward Careers In STEM (Danielle Nadler)
• Speaking at Boise Code Camp March 16, 2013 (Karl Shifflett)
• MVP Showcase at the 2013 MVP Summit (MVP Award Program)
• Windows 8 Student App Madness Challenge| Receive $100 | Win Trip of A Lifetime (Doris Chen)

Database

• Improve SQL Server Analysis Services Performance with the Usage Based Optimization Wizard (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Five Virtual Labs for the SQL Server 2012 DBA (Jason Strate)
• SSRS Properties – Image Source and SSRS Properties – Chart Axis Minimum, Maximum, and Interval and SSRS Properties – Chart Series Tooltip (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Some SQL Server Compact Toolbox usage graphs (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Keep CPU Busy and SQL SERVER – Cumulative Update Released in February 2013 for SQL Server Editions and SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL 2012 – Why we use Code Comments – Abstract from Joes 2 Pros Volume 1 (Pinal Dave)
• Listing tables that are truly partitioned in SQL Server and MongoDB: Using the web-based administrative tool and An easier way to get SQL Server startup parameters: the sys.dm_server_registry dmv (Denis Gobo)

PowerShell

• A Month of PowerShell – Day 22 (Restores) and A Month of PowerShell – Day 23 (JobServer: Alerts) and A Month of PowerShell – Day 24 (JobServer: Jobs) (Wayne Sheffield)
• Get Perfmon data with Powershell (James Xu)

Miscellaneous

• Wrapup Intel Ultrabook (Daniel Egan)
• Does the language you choose make a difference? (Don Syme)
• Talking versus Teaching–There’s a Big Difference (Dan Wahlin)
• The Chromebook Pixel, for what’s next (Emily Wood)
• Chromebook Pixel is Microsoft’s worst nightmare come true — and Apple’s, too (Joe Wilcox)
• Chromebook Pixel to have integrated Quickoffice, able to open docs natively (Nicole Lee)
• Ruby 2.0.0 Released (Soulskill)
• POLL: Will you buy the new Google-designed, $1,299 Chromebook Pixel laptop? (Taylor Soper)
• Java was not the first (Ted Neward)
• What’s inside a Microsoft Surface Pro and can it really replace the laptop? (Troy Hunt)
• How Microsoft can save Xbox games for Windows Phone: Part 5 (Paul Acevedo)
• In a season of awards, Windows Phones nab some of their own and Nokia’s free map and navigation apps now available for more Windows Phones (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone developer updates & offers from Mobile World Congress (Todd Brix)
• Rumor: Windows Phone Blue could be delayed to 2014 (John Callaham)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 195 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading February 21, 2013 and Geek Reading February 21, 2013 and Geek Reading February 22, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, February 22nd (Rob Caron)
• Expressions In AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Pie in the Sky (February 22, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #52 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1072 and Double Shot #1073 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/22/2013 and Daily News Digest 2/25/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/22/2013) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #83 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1301 and The Morning Brew #1302 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 22, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• ArchBeat Facebook Faves – February 17-23, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)
• Reblog: February 15 to February 21 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 22 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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