Dew Drop – April 17, 2013 (#1,529)

Top Links

• Microsoft’s Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop and Xamarin opens its Test Cloud beta; buys Calabash framework maker (Mary Jo Foley)
• The beginners guide to breaking website security with nothing more than a Pineapple (Troy Hunt)
• Glimpse 1.3 released with a new glimpse.axd page & N+1 detection (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Static Tiles and Tile Icons (Geek Champ)

 

Web Development

• PhpStorm 6.0.1 released (Mikhail Vink)
• Hack Raspberry Pi – How To Build Apps In C#, WinForms and ASP.NET Using Mono In Pi (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Creating Unit Testable Applications in ASP.NET MVC – A Beginner’s Tutorial (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• Integrate Tumblr into C#.NET Website (Nupur S. Tiwari)
• Services and Dependency Injection in AngularJS (Ingo Rammer)
• Twitter API v1.0 Deprecation and Blackout Schedule (Joe Mayo)
• How to Forward a GoDaddy Domain to Azure (M. Lang)

 

XAML

• Smart Navigation in Windows Phone (Geek Champ)
• Controlling a hardware prototype with your Windows Phone (Adam Denning)
• Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 4: Running the Windows Phone Application (Adam Grocholski)
• Using CSS Grid Layout and Blend 5 to Build a Game (David Rousset)
• Building Windows Phone 8 Apps on a Mac (Mark Arteaga)
• Windows Phone App Manager (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #800 – Transforms Do Not Affect ActualWidth and ActualHeight (Sean Sexton)
• Does licensechanged first when an expiration date passes? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Launching PDF Documents (Peter Foot)
• Three Steps to work with RadDataGrid in XAML based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts Now Available (Brian Keller)
• Using GridFS in MongoDb from C# (K. Scott Allen)
• 2000 C# Things #824 – A Copy Constructor Makes a Copy of an Existing Object (Sean Sexton)
• Building great-looking apps for Office using the new project templates (Michael Zlatkovsky)
• [Sample Of Apr 16th] A basic Windows service in C++ (Philip Fu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML (Simon Brown)
• A Merge Tool that Understands Functions (Jonathan Allen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Build beautiful Android apps with our Iguana UI controls (DevToolsGuy)
• Animations, Actions And Particle Systems: Creating Realistic iPhone Games With Cocos2D (Zack Grossbart)
• Update on Tablet App Guidelines and Screenshots (Ellie Powers)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Dev Radio Episode 109: Typescript and a bit more… (Michael Kimsal)
• Engadget HD Podcast 345 – 04.16.13 (James Trew)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Developer Workshop (Nick Randolph)
• 7 Reasons to Hack – Hackathons help you build your network (MS JobsBlog)
• Philly Startup Weekend @ Two Liberty Place: Ticket Giveaway! (Eric Smith)
• GeekWire Awards: Vote for Young Entrepreneur of the Year (John Cook)
• Brazilian MVPs Deliver During Virtual Conference (JP Clementi)
• Nerd Nite Takes on the Philadelphia Science Festival April 18-28 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Agile Interview with Stephen Forte (Vesselina Tasheva)
• New CreativeJS Workshop in New York (Val Head)

 

Database

• Easy automation of SQL Server database maintenance (Paul Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Remove Cached Login from SSMS Connect Dialog – SQL in Sixty Seconds #049 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server NOLOCK Hint (Richard Carr)
• Data Warehouse modeling deliberations – foreign keys and unknown members (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• Monitor SQL Instance Balance across Windows Cluster Nodes Using PowerShell (Lin Liu)

 

Miscellaneous

• First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling (Ed Bott)
• CISPA vote means companies can’t promise to protect privacy (Declan McCullagh)
• Why I love Windows 8 (Ian Barker)
• Adding arithmetic operators to our OData parser (Rob Ashton)
• How to disable the On-Screen Touch Keyboard in Windows 8 (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Blue build 9369 leaks: Windows nerds, rejoice! (Stephen Chapman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 04.01 ~ 04.16 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, April 16th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1108 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1337 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/17/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Digest 8 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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