Dew Drop – March 28, 2013 (#1,516)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out on GeoThermal Power (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Blue Bird – Events (Elijah Manor)
• Glimpse 1.2 Released With Support for Entity Framework & ADO (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• New middleware makes porting games to Windows Phone easy (Todd Brix)

Web Development

• Baby steps to Backbone.js: Exploring collections (Alexander Beletsky)
• Are You a Teacher? Get a 5 Month Windows Azure Academic Pass! (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Getting Started Managing Client-Side Data with the Breeze JavaScript Library (Dan Wahlin)
• Unreal Engine 3 ported to JavaScript and WebGL, works in any modern browser (Grant Brunner)
• Change signature refactoring in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Relative CSS Positioning: Parent vs. Self (Niels Matthijs)
• How To Style A Checkbox With CSS (Paul Underwood)
• Enhancements for the ASP.NET Web Developer in Visual Studio 2012 (Web Tools Update 2012.2) (Suprotim Agarwal)
• WebAPI Tip #5: Generating Links (K. Scott Allen)
• Three gotchas with the Azure Service Bus (Nathan Evans)
• Enabling basic OpenLayers pinch zooming for Internet Explorer 10 touch events (Joost van Schaik)
• When Traditional Solutions Fall Short: Navigation For Mega-Sites (Paul Boag)
• YUI 3.9.1 Released (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Ecma wasn’t always Ecma (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Refresh button in IE developer tools (David DeSandro)
• Remote Load-on-Demand with the Ignite UI igTree (Craig Shoemaker)
• Build Windows 8 Apps with YUI (Jeff Burtoft)
• Making Your Site Responsive: Mastering Real-World Constraints (A Case Study) (Alex Fedorov)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #785 – Using the Visual Profiler Tool and #786 – Using Data Binding to Control a 2D Transform (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – UniformGrid (Richard Carr)
• [Sample Of Mar 27th] How to load VisualStateManager dynamically in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)
• Building A Powerful Platform for Windows Store Mapping apps (Morten Nielsen)
• How to Detect WP Device Infos using DeviceExtendedProperties? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• F# Data: New type provider library (Tomas Petricek)
• Reviewing LevelDB: Part VI, the Log is base for Atomicity (Oren Eini)
• Another ReSharper 8 EAP Build. More Features (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Find feature in Standard Toolbar Visual Studio 2010, 2012 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• 2000 C# Things #809 – Extension Method Signatures Shouldn’t Match Class Methods and #810 – Where Extension Methods Came From (Sean Sexton)
• FSharpx 1.8 removes support for CSV, JSON and XML document type providers (Steffen Forkmann)
• Say Sasa! (Think "Big collection of .Net extensions, functions, methods and such") (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating Scrum Tools for Project Tracking with Diverse Teams (Part 0) (Dara Monasch)
• Moq.FSharp.Extensions (Phillip Trelford)
• My relationship with SOLID – Seeing I to I (Rob Ashton)
• Adding the Git changeset hash on every build (Nathan Evans)
• Does mocking privates hurt testing as a design tool? (Brian Marick)
• How to work with Loops in Test Studio (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Stupid Question 169: LOB, BLOB and CLOB – what are those? (Iris Classon)

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to set up Icenium project from Github repository (Dhananjay Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• IWP50 – Introducing Unity for Windows Phone Devleopment | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• What the Tech 158: Windows Blue (Paul Thurrott)
• Stack Exchange Podcast #46 – The Podcast That Sounds Dirty But Isn’t (Alex Miller)
• Ask Me: Questions about me (Iris Classon)
• Defrag: VS Compile prob, Moving AppData, Versioning AX | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• People Talking Tech Episode 028 – Sean and Jen McCown (Denny Cherry)
• Video: Building a Better Toaster in Windows 8 (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• Spring in the Pacific Northwest – A happiness guide for indoor and outdoor geeks (MS JobsBlog)
• Nerd Nite No. 23, April 3, 2013 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• You’re Invited to Our Upcoming Ignite Events (Josh T.)

Database

• Comparison of Queries Written in T-SQL and SQL Server MDX (Dallas Snider)
• Does my SQL Server Database Support Compression? (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Executing Dynamic SQL – SQL Queries 2012 Joes 2 Pros Volume 4 – Query Programming Objects for SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Data Explorer Online Search Overview (Data Explorer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Office twin of Windows Blue dubbed ‘Gemini’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• Five reasons why the Windows desktop isn’t going away (Ed Bott)
• How to Find a Top Paying Developer Job (DevToolsGuy)
• Whoa! Mini-Supernovas Discovered (Charles Q. Choi)
• Windows Blue Pro with Media Center: How to unlock it and create a bootable ISO (Stephen Chapman)
• Which countries is Windows Phone outselling the iPhone? (Sam Sabri)
• Sysinternals updates Autoruns and Process Monitor (Mike Williams)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1324b and The Morning Brew #1325 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, March 27th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1094 and Double Shot #1095 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 28, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/27/2013 and Daily News Digest 3/28/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 27 March 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 27 March 2013 (Geek Champ)
• Interesting Things Circa March 2013 (Jon Galloway)

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