Dew Drop – March 26, 2013 (#1,514)

Top Links

• Working on TypeScript 0.9: Generics, Overload on Constants and Compiler Performance (Luke Hoban)
• Monads, part ten (Eric Lippert)
• Changing ASP.NET web.config inheritance when mixing versions of child applications (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET WebAPI Tip #3: camelCasing JSON (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

• Running unit tests when deploying ASP.NET to Windows Azure Web Sites (Maarten Balliauw)
• Use a DataList element for an HTML5 Auto Complete Experience (Chris Love)
• Create a Cross-browser Touch-based Joystick with Hand.js (David Rousset)
• A Deeper Dive into jQuery Mobile: Themes (HTML5 Partners)
• Ignite UI: What’s New in 13.1 HTML5, jQuery & ASP.NET MVC Controls (Jason Beres)
• ASP.Net MVC: Single Page Application (SPA) from Scratch; A How To Step by Step (William Wegerson)
• Using Redis with ASP.NET Web API (Piotr Walat)
• ASP.NET MVC Facebook Birthday App (Rick Anderson)
• CSS3 Patterns Gallery (Tom Kenny)
• How to Build a Better Tag Cloud in WordPress (Craig Buckler)
• High-Speed Coding: Goodbye, Zen Coding. Hello, Emmet! (Zeno Rocha)
• All browsers that support SVG background images also supports multiple background images (Tom Kenny)
• C is for cookie, H is for hacker – understanding HTTP only and Secure cookies (Troy Hunt)
• Stupid Question 167 & 168: What are packaged web apps and is it the same as hosted apps? (Iris Classon)

XAML

• WinRT Settings with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
• WinRT component: How to generate a GUID? (David Catuhe)
• What’s New in NetAdvantage for WPF & Silverlight 13.1 (Nick Landry)
• App to App Communication in Windows Phone 8 (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #784 – Using the Perforator Tool to Analyze WPF Application Performance (Sean Sexton)
• Kinect Interactions with WPF – Part I: Getting Started (András Velvárt)
• Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Windows 8 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Signed-In Part 4 – Authentication and Branding (Andy Kung)
• What Web Developers Need to Know to Develop Windows 8 Apps (Doris Chen)
• Background processing in Windows 8: Part 1: How Windows 8 applications execute (Gill Cleeren)

Miscellaneous .NET

• How do Parallel methods behave on a single core machine? (Rory Primrose)
• Reviewing LevelDB: Part IV: On std::string, buffers and memory management in C++ (Oren Eini)
• C# Smorgasbord book: 50 copies to win with Raygun (John-Daniel Trask)
• Nice Tool for Presenters who use Visual Studio 2012 (Michael Crump)
• 2000 C# Things #808 – Adding Parameters to an Extension Method (Sean Sexton)
• Reflection API Changes in .NET 4.5 Applications and Fun with Custom Reflection Context (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Using accessibility to monitoring windows as they come and go (Raymond Chen)
• Easy error tracking in your applications (Filip Ekberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Kanban Pioneer: Interview with David J. Anderson (Leonardo Campos, Rafael Buzon, Eric Fer & Anselmo Martelini)
• My relationship with SOLID – The big O (Rob Ashton)
• Writing Effective Requirement Documents – An Overview (csrinivasan)
• The 5 laws of API dates and times (API UX)

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Developers Rejoice: More Native UI Controls and More Features in NucliOS 13.1 (Nick Landry)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Hakansson and Robbins Talk NancyFX (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 162: Whacha doin, Goodbye Google Reader, scriptcs and Lightning Round! (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Major Nelson Podcast – PAX East 2013 Show (Larry Hyrb)
• Dynamic Lockscreen Changer for Windows Phone 8, Built With ASP.NET MVC and Azure Mobile Services (Clint Rutkas & Den Delimarsky)
• Episode 103 – Windows Azure HDInsight | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• ASP.NET Web API and CORS Support | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Offerman (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #33 – CLR GC – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• Ping 172: MVP Program, Developers get paid, TMall in China, Xbox hacked | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Geek and Sundry: Coming back for a Second Year! (Felicia Day)
• GeekDad Approved | Geek & Sundry’s TableTop Confirmed for a Second Season (Dave Banks)
• New course: Teaching Kids Programming (Megan Russell)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Next App Star—it’s down to 32 (Michael Stroh)
• Announcing the Windows 8 Philly Appathon March 25th to May 7th (David Isbitski)
• Announcing Firefox OS App Workshops (Havi Hoffman)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Identity Fields Review – SQL Queries 2012 Joes 2 Pros Volume 2 – The SQL Query Techniques Tutorial for SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Execution Plans in Azure SQL Database (Grant Fritchey)
• DBCC CHECKDB performance and computed-column indexes (Paul Randal)

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk 2013 is now RTM (Brian Loesgen)
• Evernote vs. Google Keep: Which Does More? (Christina Warren)
• From the MVPs: Using Lync Server 2013 calling number translation rules to change display number (Devon Musgrave)
• Twitter Verification Has More To Do With Being Good At Twitter Than With Identity (Jordan Crook)
• Is There a Future for Feedburner? (Sarah Kimmel)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 25th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 25, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1093 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Resding Notes #87 (Frank)
• Daily News Digest 3/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #25 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 March 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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