Dew Drop – April 11, 2013 (#1,525)

Top Links

• Creating connected Windows Store apps (Suhail Khalid, Steven Baker & Peter Smith)
• Getting Started using NucliOS with Xamarin.iOS Part 2: IGGridView (Brent Schooley)
• Webinar Recording: Jon Skeet Inspects ReSharper (Robert Demmer)
• Judged by its Cover (Mark Nijhof)

Web Development

• Using Node.js with Jekyll to Optimize Static Content (Nathan Totten)
• Two Tools to Keep Your CSS Clean (Tim Murtaugh)
• Is Your Responsive Web Design too Fragile? (Craig Buckler)
• PhpStorm 6.0.1 EAP build 129.240 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Can You “Over Organize” JavaScript? (Chris Coyier)
• Manage your app’s settings with Telerik’s ASP.NET Persistence Framework (Daniel Peichev)
• WebStorm 6.0.2 EAP is available (Dmitry Jemerov)
• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Big Brother Bird – Patterns (Elijah Manor)
• Introduction to Fabric.js: the Fun Stuff (Juriy Zaytsev)
• Many-To-How-Many – HTML Edition (Heinrich Wendel)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Handlers (Ricardo Peres)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.3.1 (Todd Parker)
• Introducing the YUI Modules Explorer (Iliyan Peychev)
• What does the web platform need next? (Bruce Lawson)
• What is Document Object Model? (Dhananjay Kumar)

XAML

• Fetching Windows Azure Mobile Services Data in XAML based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Modern UI for WPF 1.0.3 (CodePlex)
• Inherating from a Look Less WPF Control (Dirkster99)
• How to detect in Silverlight whether Network Connection is available? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Generate a Windows Phone 8 Local Database DataContext from an existing database (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #795 – How a Translation Transform Works and #796 – WPF Transforms Use Homogeneous Coordinates (Sean Sexton)
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Adding Authentication (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Testing the Untestable with Microsoft Fakes and Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (Doug Rathbone)
• Essential Reactive Extensions with .NET 4.5 and LINQ (Mark Michaelis & Allen Greaves)
• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XVI–Recovery ain’t so tough? (Oren Eini)
• Nuget packages and source control (Deepak Kapoor)
• SymbolSource support for NuGet Package Source Discovery (Maarten Balliauw)
• RTM’d today: Supplement to Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, 2nd Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Paging support in our OData parser (Rob Ashton)
• 2000 C# Things #819 – A Private Constructor May Prevent Inheritance and #820 – A Protected Constructor Allows a Subclass to Create Instances (Sean Sexton)
• Plugging in with JustDecompile (Chris Eargle)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is Test Oracle (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Testing Tip #6: Testing the Share Contract (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Dependency Injection is over Hyped (M. Lang)
• Improved Exporting and Sharing (Ambrose Little)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 088: Nick Harmer of Death Cab for Cutie (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar Take a Glimpse (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 163: Sticker Tales and Building Windows Store apps with Damien Guard and Robert Sweeney (Jon Galloway)
• Video: Learn to Use ASP.NET 4.5 WebSockets The Easy Way (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Divine Fits (Chris Hardwick)
• 11 "Schoolhouse Rock!" Hits (Chris Higgins)
• People Talking Tech Episode 029 – Jessica Moss (Denny Cherry)

Community / Events

• I’m Presenting at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference 2013 Next Week @spevo13 (Andrew Connell)
• Learn F# in New York – Fast Track to F# with Tomas Petricek, 30 April – 1 May (Don Syme)
• Pluralsight in One Word (Krystyl)
• April 18: Refactoring and Design Skills for Test Driven Development Workshop (Roy Osherove)
• GeekWire Meetup & Radio Show is Thursday night: What to know if you’re going (Todd Bishop)
• Humanitarian Toolbox Hack a thon, Day 1 (Bill Wagner)

Database

• Buffer Latch Error Restoring SQL Server Database (Ted Krueger)
• Run DBCC CHECKDB on a regular basis (Peter Skoglund)

SharePoint

• My MSDN SharePoint 2013 Workflow Samples Updated (Andrew Connell)
• SPChitChat – Nestivity Community Experiment for the SharePoint Community (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

• New book: Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step (Carol Vu)

Miscellaneous

• What Microsoft technologies are you excited about right now? (MS JobsBlog)
• A First Look At My Arduino BBQ Thermometer (Derick Bailey)
• 40 Legit Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers [Infographic] (Diana Adams)
• Are you a Microsoft enthusiast, or just Scroogled? (Kip Kniskern)
• Talking about your own open source project (Rockford Lhotka)
• Exclusive: Microsoft’s next Xbox will take over your TV, interact with your cable box (Tom Warren)
• A Theory about the Office on iPad Schedule (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, April 10th (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1333 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1105 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 11, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/11/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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