Dew Drop – April 9, 2013 (#1,523)

Top Links

• Windows Azure: Active Directory Release, New Backup Service + Web Site Monitoring and Log Improvements (Scott Guthrie)
• Poncho – An API to build APIs or, in other words, a DSL to build REST interfaces (Stripe)
• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Orange Bird – Templating (Elijah Manor)
• ReSharper 8 EAP, Build 3: What’s New! (Dmitri Nesteruk)

Web Development

• Windows Azure Active Directory: Ready for Production with over 265 Billion Authentications & 2.9 Million Organizations Served! (Alex Simons)
• [Sponsor] Where are JavaScript and the web going? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Active Directory (Dhananjay Kumar)
• My quest for awesome css (Glenn Dejaeger)
• JavaScript Namespace and Restricted Access (Nicolas Frankel)
• Web Control Extension Methods like jQuery CSS Utility Methods (Soe Tun)
• Release: Responsive Nav: A Simple JavaScript Plugin For Responsive Navigation (Viljami Salminen)
• Node v0.8.23 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1 (Pavan Podila)
• Moving A WordPress Website Without Hassle (Rachel McCollin)
• Parsing OData – service operations (Rob Ashton)
• WebAPI Tip #8: Working with Tasks (K. Scott Allen)
• Get Loaded with the File API (Andrew Dodson)
• YUI 3.10pr1 (Andrew Wooldridge)

XAML

• Repository Pattern with Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows Phone app and Windows Store app (Nicolas Humann)
• Win8 XAML App : how to debug the javascript in a WebView ! (Jon Antoine)
• Network Communications in Windows Phone 8 (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #794 – Matrix Multiplication, Part IV – Some Examples (Sean Sexton)
• Store Certification Tip #10: Release date and promo codes (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XIII–Smile, and here is your snapshot (Oren Eini)
• Multiple WCF EndPoints are not only about having Multiple Addresses Dude! (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Released LINQ to Twitter v2.1.05 (Joe Mayo)
• Optimistic concurrency in MongoDB using .NET and C# (Michael Kennedy)
• OOP Concept in C# and C# Data Types, Objects and many more… (neet_aarzoo)
• Git Integration in Visual Studio 2012 after Update 2 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Solution to “Could not find a part of the path ‘C:Users\AppDataLocalTempTestResultsOut’.” when running Unit Tests via ReSharper in Visual Studio 2012 (Jon Gallant)
• 2000 C# Things #818 – What Happens When an Instance Constructor Throws an Exception (Sean Sexton)
• Powering your Zipping with PowerShell and 7-Zip (and SevenZipSharp) (aka ‘7Zip4Powershell’) (Greg Duncan)
• Changes in Serilog 0.2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer) (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD for Business Value (Justin Bozonier)
• Moving a TFS Git Repository to Github (Derik Whittaker)
• Processes and Tools Over Individuals and Interactions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Top Five Usability Sweeteners in Indigo Studio (George Abraham)
• Dreamers and Doers (JD Meier)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Justin Beckwith Releases Web Matrix 3 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 4) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Azure Mobile Services (Brian Hitney)
• Video: JavaScript and mobile: Debug your web apps like a champ! (Allen Coin)
• SignalR and One ASP.NET with Scott Hanselman (Don Burnett)
• What the Tech 159: Facebook Home and Windows Weekly 306: Blacklisted (Paul Thurrott)
• EdgeShow 58a – Welcome to MMS 2013 | Edge (David Tesar, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Defrag Tools: #35 – CLR GC – Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 8th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Speaking Gigs and a Podcast (Phil Haack)
• Philadelphia Science Festival Spotlight: Nerd Nite CSI Edition [Ticket Giveaway!] (Eric Smith)
• API Mashup Contest Announces 5th Competition (Eric Carter)

Database

• Consolidating Error Logs from multiple SQL Servers using SSIS (Basit Farooq)
• SQL Server – Add Date/Time to output file of BCP / SQLCMD (Vishal Gajjar)
• SSIS gotcha – Regional Settings can affect your expressions (Jamie Thomson)
• List Empty Tables in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error: 217 Implicit conversion from data type datetime to int is not allowed. Use the CONVERT function to run this query. (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Apps for SharePoint Page Patterns (Humberto Lezama)

PowerShell

• Quick Tip: View or Export Lync Response Group Agents via PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Nothing beats working on Windows – WinSE ships code every month! (MS JobsBlog)
• Exclusive: Microsoft account to get two-factor authentication soon (damaster)
• What is Pluralsight? (Krystyl)
• More info points to May 21st next Xbox reveal (Tim Schiesser)
• 365 Days Remaining Until XP End Of Support. The Countdown Begins (Stephen L. Rose)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 9, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 8th (Rob Caron)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 9, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #89 (Frank)
• Double Shot #1103 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1331 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 8 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 8 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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