Dew Drop – March 4, 2013 (#1,508)

Top Links

• jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Coding Without Code Analysis is Like Writing Legacy Code (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Intro to Sketching Prototypes (Ambrose Little)
• What language features do you miss in C#? (Filip Ekberg)

Web Development

• Storing Windows Azure Storage Table Entities in Descending Order (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Azure Table Storage and the Great Certificate Expiry of 2013 (Peter Ritchie)
• HTML5 context menus in the wild: Twitter’s “Follow” button (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Convention over Configuration with MVC and Autofac (Bil Simser)
• Top 5 ASP.NET Developer Blogs You Should Follow (DevToolsGuy)
• SignalR, Filters and ServiceStack (Filip W)
• Practical Azure #13: Windows Azure Queue Storage (Jim O’Neil)
• File Watchers in WebStorm/PhpStorm 6 (a.k.a. “Background Tasks”) (John Lindquist)
• JavaScript Libraries Improvements in WebStorm 6 (K. Safonov)
• Windows Store Apps: Using IndexedDB for Storing Data using HTML5 and JavaScript (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption (Mike Neil)
• Running ASP.NET Web API services under Linux and OS X (Piotr Walat)
• How to Leverage the .NET 4.5 Model Binding and Strongly Typed Data Controls with Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls – Part 2 (Radoslav Kirilov)
• Book Review: Murach’s Javascript and jQuery (Sam Abraham)
• How to integrate RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX in a WebFarm or WebGarden scenario (Veselina Raykova)
• Twitter Bootstrap Navbar as AngularJS component (tdziurko)
• DOM Enlightenment Book Review (David Hayden)
• Trunk Based Development at Facebook (Paul Hammant)
• Getting Started with Sass (Darren Wood)
• First IronMQ impressions (Jef Claes)

XAML

• Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 2 (Gill Cleeren)
• Marketing your Windows Phone app 101 – Q&A with resident Windows Phone developer Bernardo Zamora (Kami LeMonds)
• Photosynth, the hit 3-D panorama photo app, debuts on Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)
• 2000 WPF Things #768 – Scaling Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• MVVM ICommand, Lambda Expression for CanExecuteChanged (Yasser Moradi)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Console Applications and %ERRORLEVEL% (Richard Carr)
• Redis and VB.Net (Christiaan Baes)
• C# Programming – Caller Information Attributes (Dirk Strauss)
• ALM Rangers ship guidance for Microsoft Fakes, TFS Disaster Avoidance and updates to two other guides (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Wishes for the CLR JIT in the 2020s (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #792 – Being Notified When an Object’s Properties Change, Part I (Sean Sexton)
• Generating Entity Data Model Diagram from EF Code First DbContext (Shiju V.)
• The source of much confusion: "backed by the system paging file" (Raymond Chen)
• Exporting XML Comments to Your Application (Nick Harrison)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: The Power of Starting Something Stupid (J.D. Meier)
• Outside In TDD versus DDD (Mark Seemann)
• Inserting the UX into an existing Agile Project. (Scott Barnes)
• My “Agile” experience (Daniela Panfili)
• Top Five Pain Points: Dealing With Time Constraints (Jim Holmes)
• Polymorphism Part 2: Refactoring to Polymorphic Behavior (John Teague)
• Testing Tip #4: Suspend/Resume and Restart after Terminate (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Code Layouting: There is no Standard (Niels Matthijs)
• Aggregate Design and Security (Rinat Abdullin)
• Code readability hypotheses (Mark Seemann)
• Fixing five fundamental flaws (Eric Brechner)

Other Mobile Platforms

• New course: Introduction to iOS for .NET Developers (Megan Russell)
• Free Xamarin Studio and Free Chapters 1-4 Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# (Wally McClure)
• Weekend Reading: hands-on guide to Xamarin 2.0 (Ryan Paul)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco (Scott Hanselman)
• Technology & Friends Episode 255: James Bender on BDD (David Giard)
• SharePoint Experts–Bangladesh: An open discussion on first usergroup meet-up day (16 Feb 2013) at Microsoft (MJ Ferdous)
• Windows Weekly 301: Designed in the Dark (Paul Thurrott)
• SDU Show 56 with guest Thomas LaRock (Greg Low)
• The Tablet Show – Toni Kaufmann Builds Games with Cocos2D-x (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rich Moore (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: IE10 for Win7, VS Guides, Image Watch, Tons of Training and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• 049 JSJ MooTools with Valerio Proietti and Arian Stolwijk (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Glimpse Team on Channel 9 | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Agile 2012 – Bob Martin – Clean Coders and Clean Code (Agile Toolkit Team)
• Episode 101 – Real-World Windows Azure with Auth0 | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• The JavaScript Show – Flight, JS1K, TodoMVC 1.1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

• Great .Net Education Day Coming April 19th, 2013 in San Francisco, CodeMastery! (Peter Kellner)
• Nerd Nite No. 22, March 6, 2013 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• I’ll be Presenting at the SharePoint Shindig in Redmond, WA, May 7-9, 2013 #spshindig and I’ll be Presenting at SPTechCon 2013 San Francisco Next Week (Andrew Connell)
• March 2013 Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• Your SXSW Survival Guide (Aubrey Sabala)

Database

• Loop through Flat Files in SQL Server Integration Services (Tim Smith)
• SQL Server – How to Rename Table/Column in SQL Server (Vishal Gajjar)
• Bootstrapping SQL Server bloggers and blog readers with Twitter! (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #8 : script a database to SQLite (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #018 and SQL SERVER – Download Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and PowerPivot in Excel 2013 Samples and SQL SERVER – SSMS does NOT Print NULL Values (Pinal Dave)
• Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition when dealing with temp tables (Denis Gobo)
• Scaling Windows Azure SQL Database to Your Operational Needs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Basic operations with LevelDB and Transactional guarantees on top of LevelDB (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

• Open SharePoint Alerts Page Using JavaScript (Jacob L. Adams)
• [Sample Of Mar 3rd] Download document from SharePoint Document libraries (philip fu)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Tactics (Chris Yates)
• PowerShell Script to Find last Backup and Restore of Databases (Vinoth NM)

Miscellaneous

• Everyone Should Learn Programming (Filip Ekberg)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 2, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 3, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 02.16 ~ 02.28 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 196 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading March 1, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1307 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 1st (Rob Caron)
• Pie in the Sky (March 1, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #53 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1078 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – 2013 MVP Summit (MVP Award Program)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 2, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: March 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/1/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #84 (Frank)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-03-04 (Dan Rigby)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–February 2013 (Beth Massi)
• Reblog: February 22 to February 28 (Jason Strate)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #56) (Craig Kitterman)

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