Dew Drop – April 12, 2013 (#1,526)

Top Links

• Announcing Channel 9 Notifications (Karsten Januszewski)
• PhoneGap 2.6 Released (Ben Forta)
• New Fiddler Site Released (Brendan Enrick)
• Hanselminutes – Practical Rest with Sebastien Lambla (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• Understanding JavaScript Inheritance (Alex Sexton)
• Ignite UI and NetAdvantage for ASP.NET DOCTYPE Support (Aaron Marisi)
• Baby steps to Backbone.js: Exploring collections. Part 2. (Alexander Beletsky)
• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Mighty Eagle – Automation (Elijah Manor)
• Collaborative route planner with SignalR, Knockout.js and Google Maps (Filip W)
• Responsive Design with CSS Media Queries (Matt Raible)
• MVC Model State Validation–DRY to the rescue! (Nuri Halperin)
• Challenge your RadGrid for Asp.Net AJAX (Pavel Pankov)
• Deploying an ASP.NET Website to Azure in Visual Studio 2012 from a Git Repository directly (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Computed Properties With the LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• Node v0.10.4 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Yeti 0.2.21 Released (Reid Burke)
• What does the web platform need next? (Bruce Lawson)
• Task Based APIs for Service Bus (Craig Kitterman)

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 1: Setting Up the Development Environment (Adam Grocholski)
• 2000 WPF Things #797 – Scale Transforms Using Homogeneous Coordinates (Sean Sexton)
• A few design tips for “Early Learner” apps (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to integrate Infragistics InfoBox control in your WP app? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Accelerate cool app development with the Coding4Fun Toolkit (Larry Lieberman)
• Recording Media in a Windows Store App Part 2: Photo Capture (Eric Vogel)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XV–MemTables gets compacted too (Oren Eini)
• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3 and Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit (Roberto Sonnino)
• How to implement Guid.Comb on SQL Server with Entity Framework Code First (Jon Gallant)
• 2000 C# Things #821 – The Factory Pattern (Sean Sexton)
• ALM Rangers ship guidance for DevOps bug resolution using IntelliTrace (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Will Microsoft .Net 5 support XML Schema 1.1? (Barry Conlon)
• Unity vs. MEF: Picking the Right Dependency Injection Manager (Peter Vogel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Your Responsive Web Design too Fragile? (Craig Buckler)
• The Disruptive Nature of Agile (Jim Cooper)
• ScrumMaster Can be a Tough Job (Michael Sahota)
• Prototyping with Infragistics Indigo (Peter Foot)
• Use Software Design to Aid Your Development Process (Rinat Abdullin)
• The Five-Step Maturity Model for Building a Collaborative Organization (Jacob Morgan)

Other Mobile Platforms

• What is MonoTouch? (DevToolsGuy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Jonah’s Wedding (Chris Hardwick)
• 055 JSJ Web Developer Skills (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 14: René Did It All (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Andrew Garrison from Jundroo- Developing mobile games | Developer Diaries (Laura Foy)
• Video: Make It Rain Cats and Dogs While Learning Programming with Scratch (Paul Ballard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 86 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Start Your Agile Project Right and Coaching Master Class in London, May 16 and 17, 2013 (Johanna Rothman)
• Webinar on April 25th – Quality Assurance for PHP Projects Using PhpStorm with Michelangelo van Dam (Mikhail Vink)
• Humanitarian Toolbox: Day 2 (Bill Wagner)
• Using AngularJS: My Interview with Joe Eames and Jim Cooper (Dan Wahlin)
• London Drinkup (Zach Holman)

Database

• Using the SSIS WMI Task to Gather System Information (Brady Upton)

SharePoint

• Testing and Consuming OData Services using Fiddler, LinqPad, Excel and SharePoint (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• My Thoughts: InfoPath 2013 & the Future of InfoPath (Andrew Connell)
• Meeting in the middle: How Microsoft will enable mini Surfaces and maxi Win Phones (Mary Jo Foley)
• Get 50GB of Free, Encrypted Online Storage from Tresorit (Melanie Pinola)
• Our OData parser – looking at filterby (Rob Ashton)
• The problem with Kids Corner in Windows Phone 8 (Adam Benoit)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 12, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 4/12/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 12, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1334 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 11 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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