Dew Drop – March 20, 2013 (#1,510)

Top Links

• RSS isn’t dead: the best Google Reader alternatives (Ellis Hamburger)
• Microsoft ASP.NET and Frameworks 2012.2 (MS Downloads)
• Glimpse 1.1 Released With Support for MVC 4 (nikmd23)
• March 2013 Pluralsight Experiment (Steve Smith)

 

Web Development

• How to Customize Telerik’s ASP.NET PivotGrid Cells Using the Built-in Templates (Daniel Peichev)
• New MVC Learning Resource – feedback requested (Gregor Suttie)
• Fantastic front end performance, part 3 – Big performance wins by optimizing fonts – A Node.js holiday season, part 8 (Jared Hirsch)
• Understanding JavaScript Prototypes (Jim Cooper)
• Drag & Drop Project Files to Remote Hosts in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Content Injector for ASP.NET MVC (Peter Blum)
• Join the jQuery Foundation! (Richard D. Worth)
• SignalR Self Hosting With .NET Client (Sacha Barber)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.1.2 (Todd Parker)
• Google Drive Realtime API arrives, lets developers make collaborative apps (Jon Fingas)
• Thumbnail Grid with Expanding Preview (Mary Lou)
• Fixing the Two Home Controller Problem (M. Lang)

 

XAML

• Create Flickr Photo Search Windows Store App in XAML (Dhananjay Kumar)
• DemoGAP for Windows Phone (CodePlex)
• Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB, Part I: What is this all about? (Oren Eini)
• How to configure diff and Merge tool in Visual Studio Git Tools (Ricci Gian Maria)
• How to fix “TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred.” on your Kanban board in TFS 2012 Update 2 CTP4 (Ewald Hofman)
• CSLA 4 version 4.5.20 release available (Rockford Lhotka)
• EF 6: Async (Bnaya Eshet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programming language "laws" (Ted Neward)
• Keep Your Codebase Maintainable – Introducing Inline Comments in Merge Requests (Titas Norkunas)
• Undo Button in GitHub for Windows (Paul Betts)
• The Cost of Unmerge (Paul Hamant)
• Management Tips from Jean-Luc Picard (Joey deVilla)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Juice Up Your Android App UI (Wally McClure)
• Producing Better Bindings for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac (Sebastien Pouliot)
• Zumero: Efficient sync by using multiple SQLite files (Eric Sink)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 086: Utopian for Beginners (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Immo Landwerth and Andrew Arnott: Inside Immutable Collections | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Episode 220 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mark Minasi (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Video: Making the Leap from .NET to iOS (Paul Ballard)
• Engadget HD Podcast 341 – 03.19.2013 (James Trew)
• Keeping it sharp (Eric Lippert)

 

Community / Events

• TableTop Day: Game On, March 30 (Chris Higgins)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – How to Avoid Procrastination – Professional Development #001 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Unique index difference between Oracle and SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Connected development in SSDT versus SSMS (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft offers developers cash to write Windows 8 apps (Mary Jo Foley)
• My Perspective on Remote Work (Derek Huether)
• Author news: Loads of guidance from Kraig Brockschmidt beyond his free ebook (Devon Musgrave)
• Stupid Question 164: What is the difference between Telemetry and Analytics data in RE to Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)
• Microspeak: Science project (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft: ‘Windows Phone 8 is upgradeable’ (Mihaita Bamburic)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 20, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, March 19th (Rob Caron)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 March 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 19 March 2013 (Geek Champ)
• Geek Reading March 19, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 20, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1319 (Chris Alcock)

 

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