Dew Drop – March 25, 2013 (#1,513)

Top Links

• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Red Bird and Angry Birds of JavaScript Series (Elijah Manor)
• Introducing Pretty Paste for VS2012 (Mads Kristensen)
• DZone Refcardz: Git Patterns and Anti-Patterns (Luca Milanesio)
• New alleged Windows Blue build shows off coming interface tweaks and Microsoft readying multiple Windows Blue servers and a Blue Windows RT build (Mary Jo Foley)
• MarionetteJS v1.0 (Derick Bailey)

 

Web Development

• Ember.js – Client Side MVC is not Server Side MVC, Erase Your Brain (Paul Cowan)
• Query Level Caching For Entity Framework And Windows Azure SQL Database Including Transient Fault Handling (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Upgrading to jQuery 1.9.x (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript Design Patterns – The Module Pattern (Raymond Camden)
• CSS on Steroids – Introduction to LESS/SASS (Jakub Chodounsky)
• What’s the CSS :scope pseudo-class for? (Eric Bidelman)
• There’s more to the CSS rem unit than font sizing (Roman Rudenko)
• Basic JavaScript: Prototypical Inheritance vs. Functional Inheritance (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Edge.js Combines Node.js with .NET (Jeff Martin)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 2.4 (CodePlex)
• Practical Azure #16: Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Jim O’Neil)
• Why All Those JavaScript Libraries? (John Papa)
• Developing for HDInsight (Eron Kelly)
• Q&A on Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs, Part 5: What are MSStream and Blob objects in HTML5? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Website Performance with ASP.NET – Part1 – Measuring and Website Performance with ASP.NET – Part2 – Reduce Time to First Byte and Website Performance with ASP.NET – Part3 – Make Fewer HTTP Requests (Markus Greuel)
• DZone Refcardz: HTML5 Web Workers (Gerard Gallant)
• PhpStorm 6.0.1 EAP Started – Build 129.91 (Mikhail Vink)
• Ember… What If (Part 1) (Rob Conery)
• Using Facebook to Authenticate your ASP.NET MVC WebSite (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.2.1 (Todd Parker)
• Deploying to Azure Web Sites using NuGet package restore from a secured feed (Xavier Decoster)
• Intro to Flask: Adding a Contact Page (Lalith Polepeddi)
• Six Silly Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Web Controls (Jeff Fritz)
• Parallel JS (River Trail): soon in Firefox (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Why Are WebRequests Throttled? I Want More Throughput! (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Microsoft Makes Designing for Internet Explorer a Little Easier (DevToolsGuy)
• Authentication: Don’t be Clever (John Sheehan)
• Instant AngularJS Starter Book Review (David Hayden)

 

XAML

• When to Use WPF with Async and Reactive Extensions (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #783 – Downloading and Installing the WPF Performance Suite (Sean Sexton)
• Using Telerik Barcode with the Windows Phone 8 Wallet (Viktor Skarlatov)
• Modern UI for WPF 1.0.2 (CodePlex)
• Creating Windows Store Apps Using 55 App Templates (Zhiming Xue)
• Introducing NetAdvantage for Windows UI–Your Path to Windows 8 (Brian Lagunas)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Variable Naming and the @ Symbol (Richard Carr)
• Face Detection with 10 lines of code – VB.NET (Dejan Mauer)
• Asynchronous Programming: From F# to Python (Don Syme)
• Quote of the Week: "What can C# do that F# cannot?" (Don Syme)
• Exception Handling for LINQ to Twitter Streams (Joe Mayo)
• Change user of a workspace in TFS (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Reading large files in chunks with proper encapsulation (Jef Claes)
• Text Editor Associations/Extensions in Visual Studio getting lost (Rick Strahl)
• Time travelling with dates and time zone conversions in .NET (Troy Hunt)
• Developing Windows Store games (Shai Hinitz)
• Kinect – Infrared Stream Q&A (Rob Relyea)
• 2000 C# Things #807 – Defining and Using an Extension Method (Sean Sexton)
• When will GetMessage return -1? (Raymond Chen)
• Soft Deletes With NHibernate, Part II (Ricardo Peres)
• Team Foundation Service Update–Mar 22 (Brian Harry)
• Game State Management in MonoGame on Windows 8 (Rob Miles)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy (Martin Hinshelwood)
• ‘SQL Query’ Micro Design Pattern (Chris Pietschmann)
• My relationship with SOLID – Starting with S (Rob Ashton)
• Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part I (Justin Jones)
• Treat Technical Stories as User Stories (Steve Smith)
• When is Dependency Injection too Much? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• How to deal with bad code (James Padolsey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Objective-C workflow for iOS apps (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 258: Kristin Cederquist on Nanoparticles (David Giard)
• Video: Get to Know SharePoint 2013 (Paul Ballard)
• TWC9: Kinect for Windows SDK v1.7, SignalR eBook, Meteor and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Weekly 304: We’re Gonna Need Some Talcum Powder (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Lily Tomlin (Chris Hardwick)
• 052 JSJ Node & NPM with Isaac Schlueter (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 174 – 03.22.13 and Engadget Podcast 336 – 03.23.13 (James Trew)
• GeekWire Radio: Sports, tech and the future of being a fan (Todd Bishop)
• The Tablet Show – Ben Gracewood Builds Win 8 Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Community / Events

• Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Working in the background in Windows 8 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone Central heads to the Game Developers Conference (Paul Acevedo)
• C# Corner MVP Summit 2013 – HTML5 & jQuery Session recap (Nishanth Anil)
• The Week Ahead – March 25, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• New Ignite Webcast – The New Office 365 Pilot (Josh T.)
• Can’t We All Just Get Along? (James Bender)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Executing Multiple Script Files Using SQLCMD (Vishal Gajjar)
• An Introduction to SQL Server IO for Developers (video) (Kendra Little)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Plan Caching and Recompilation in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Query Writing Strategy – SQL Queries 2012 Joes 2 Pros Volume 1 – The SQL Queries 2012 Hands-On Tutorial for Beginners (Pinal Dave)
• Bring SQL Server databases Online or Offline when running on Amazon RDS (Denis Gobo)
• Customizing SSMS – Bigger Queries (Steve Jones)
• RavenDB 2.0.3 Stable Release! (Oren Eini)
• RedGate Source Control for Oracle 1.0 (RedGate)

 

Miscellaneous

• 10 Developer Job Interview Tips To Land The Best Job You Can (John Sonmez)
• Evernote, Box executives warn developers not to avoid Windows platforms (Anthony Tosie)
• Everyone Should Learn Programming (Filip Ekberg)
• IEAK 10 now available for Windows 7 and Windows 8 (Kevin Luu)
• The 11 Phases of a Web Developer’s Career (As Illustrated by Memes) (Jeffrey Way)
• Code Red! Windows Blue leaks (Joe Wilcox)
• Working From Home (Laura Yecies)
• Build Your Career Master Plan with a Mind Map (Melanie Pinola)
• Project Analyze: The first truly exciting thing to ever happen to Excel, ever (yes, ever) (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft’s Windows Store surpasses 50,000 apps for Windows 8 and RT (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 23, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 25, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 22nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 22, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1092 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – March 22, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (March 22, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #56 (Mary Lou)
• The Morning Brew #1322 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/22/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 22 March 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 22 March 2013 (Geek Champ)
• Visual Studio ALM Links – Week 12 / 2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #59) (Craig Kitterman)

 

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