Dew Drop – April 15, 2013 (#1,527)

Top Links

• PhoneGap 2.6 Released (Ben Forta)
• What Breeze can do for You (John Papa)
• ReSharper 7.1.3 is Available for Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Why ReSharper Is Worth Using (reason #879) (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Understanding JavaScript Inheritance (Alex Sexton)
• Looking At Prototypal Inheritance To Determine Data Types In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• JumpStart # 19– Setting up Dependency Injection for ASP.Net Web API (Rami Vemula)
• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js and CLI updated for Node.js 0.10.x (Nathan Totten)
• jQuery Grids and Responsive Web Design (Damyan Petev)
• Baby steps to Backbone.js: Exploring collections. Part 2. (Alexander Beletsky)
• Building Windows Azure Services Without Compromising Testability (Alexandre Brisebois)
• JavaScript quirk 2: two “non-values” – undefined and null (Axel Rauschmayer)
• LightSwitch Tip: A Simple Way to Check User Permissions from the HTML Client (Beth Massi)
• Why Its Time to Sunset jQuery (Chris Love)
• Typescript, jQuery and the ‘this’ context causing issues (Derik Whittaker)
• Use Backbone.js to make a structured web application (Devanand7)
• YouTube™ API for ASP.NET (A. Bell)
• Building an HTML5 Web Sockets Server with ASP.NET 4.5 (Dan Wahlin)
• Overview And Examples: How To Benefit From CSS Generated Content And Counters (Gabriele Romanato)
• Intro.js – A JavaScript Library For Tour Guides For Websites (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Fabric.js: Advanced (Juriy Zaytsev)
• Responsive Design with CSS Media Queries (Matt Raible)
• Using async/await with Windows Azure Service Bus Client SDK (Shiju Varghese)
• HTML5 Video Preload (Steve Souders)
• Say that part about HTML standards, again? (Ted Neward)
• Server Side Search using the LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• Backbone Model Unit Testing with Jasmine (Ken Tabor)
• Is your WordPress based site ready for a brute force attack? (Richard Hay)
• WebAPI: Getting Headers, QueryString and Cookie Values (Rick Strahl)
• Relaunching SerialSeb – Practical ReST and then some (Sebastien Lambla)
• Intel releases Web-based app programming kit (Stephen Shankland)
• Internationalization in NancyFx (Jef Claes)
• The Good and Bad For MtGox.com – Helping it Scale With Web Performance Optimization (Chris Love)

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 1: Setting Up the Development Environment and Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Phone Project (Adam Grocholski)
• Enhanced Windows Phone 8 Map Gestures (Colin Eberhardt)
• 2000 WPF Things #798 – Rotation Transforms Using Homogeneous Coordinates (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8, Background Tasks and the ‘Noisy’ NetworkStatusChange Trigger (Mike Taulty)
• patterns & practices Kona Guidance for developing Windows Store apps Drop April 10, 2013 (CodePlex)
• Avoiding UI thread overload when using simulatenous async operations (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Windows Store app, Bing Maps and Leap Motion (Zubair Ahmed)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XV–MemTables gets compacted too (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Code Metrics (Richard Carr)
• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XVII– Filters? What filters? Oh, those filters… (Oren Eini)
• ‘yield’ Keyword in C# (Amogh Natu)
• A C# helper to read and write XML from and to objects (Bertrand Le Roy)
• ReSharper’s Web Path Mapping Explained (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• 2000 C# Things #822 – Embed a Factory Class Inside Its Related Class (Sean Sexton)
• Book Review-Instant Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration How-to (Tarun Arora)
• ALM Rangers ship guidance for DevOps bug resolution using IntelliTrace (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Facebook SDK for .NET (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Field initializers and base constructors order (Elisha)
• No, Virginia, .NET Isn’t a ‘Programming Language’ (Keith Ward)
• Dependency Injection for Multiple Concrete Implementations of an Interface (Rami Vemula)
• Infragistics Parsing Framework – Syntax Tree Pruning (Mike Dour)
• Creating a Notepad app with indexedDB (Sandeep Panda)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 15 Types of Behavior Change (J.D. Meier)
• What Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think (John Sonmez)
• Prototyping with Infragistics Indigo (Peter Foot)
• Effectiveness and Efficiency (Daniel Moth)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Handling Asynchronous Delays in Test Studio for iOS (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Generating Localized Resources in Mono for Android Using T4 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Announcing Zumero SQLite for Xamarin (Eric Sink)
• Demystifying Cordova and PhoneGap (Jim Cowart)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 261: Atley Hunter on Windows Phone 8 (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 472: Bioshock Infinite, Microsoft Retail Stores and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 112 – “Late Night with The Lowdermilks” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Store Development Series by joelcitizen (Zhiming Xue)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dominic Monaghan (Chris Hardwick)
• GeekWire Radio on stage: Here is our broadcast from Seattle’s Pioneer Square (Todd Bishop)
• 055 JSJ Web Developer Skills (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• TWC9: Azure Active Directory, Unity, Philips Hue and a little GunPowder | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
• The Vergecast 073 – April 11th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Engadget Podcast 339 – 04.12.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 176 – 04.12.13 (James Trew)
• Yet Another Podcast #95–Rey Bango on Testing IE (Jesse Liberty)
• The Best TED Talks for Developers (DevToolsGuy)
• Are you watching the Office 15-Minute Webinars? (JRG_MSFT)
• Video Tutorial: AngularJS Fundamentals in 60-ish Minutes (Dan Wahlin)

Community / Events

• Start Your Agile Project Right and Coaching Master Class in London, May 16 and 17, 2013 (Johanna Rothman)
• Windows Azure Global Bootcamp on April 27th – sign up now (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone 7 –> 8 Upgrade Labs (Jennifer Marsman)
• Aaron Skonnard: Co-Founder, Pluralsight – Uncut & Unedited (kashyapa)
• Philly Tech Week Spotlight: Open Hack Night @ Hive76 (David Goodman)

Database

• How to synchronize two SSAS Servers (Daniel Calbimonte)
• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Tricks for Row Offset and Paging in Various Versions of SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Download the latest Data Explorer update: Unpivot feature and search experience improvements (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Workflow: Custom Task Outcomes and SharePoint 2013 Workflow: Custom Tasks (Andrew Connell)
• New book: Exploring Microsoft SharePoint 2013: New Features & Functions (Valerie Woolley)

PowerShell

• Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Clean Out Temp Folders (The Scripting Guys)

Miscellaneous

• Pin to Pinterest Arrives for Bing Image Search (Chen Fang)
• That’s a big transistor (Eric Lippert)
• I’m thinking of… Mindwave + Arduino ["ThinkUino"] (Greg Duncan)
• Pluralsight Author Opportunity (Krystyl)
• Ultimate Photoshop CS6 Keyboard Shortcuts [Cheat Sheet] (Richard Darell)
• Recursive expression parsing in our OData filter parser (Rob Ashton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: April 3rd, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 11th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, April 12th (Rob Caron)
• Pie in the Sky (April 12, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #59 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1107 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – April 12, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 4/15/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 13, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1335 (Chris Alcock)
• Assorted Links for April 13, 2013 (Andy Warren)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #024 (Pinal Dave)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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