Dew Drop – April 23, 2013 (#1,533)

Top Links

• Introducing: Code Digger, an extension for VS2012 (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Announcing TypeScript 0.9 early previews (Jonathan Turner)
• Microsoft’s Blue: What will developers do? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Producing permutations, part three (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Introducing: Practical JavaScript (Peter Vogel)
• Magic Numbers in CSS (Chris Coyier)
• [Sample Of Apr 22nd] Client templating with jQuery and JSON (Philip Fu)
• Node.js as a Tool For Learning To Program (K. Scott Allen)
• Building Windows Azure Cloud Services App with Web Role, Worker Role, Table Storage and Service Bus (Shiju Varghese)
• Testing WebAPI with Fiddler (Wally McClure)
• Meet the Connect Framework (Andrew Burgess)
• Updating Fiddler Documentation (Brendan Enrick)
• Prosthetics And Orthotics: Building Backbone Plugins (Derick Bailey)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #804 – Specifying a MatrixTransform as a Simple String (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services Data and Telerik RadDataGrid: Two good things together (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Recording Media in a Windows Store App Part 3: Video Capture (Eric Vogel)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Identifying the Namespaces in an Assembly (Richard Carr)
• XDT (XML Document Transform) released on codeplex.com (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook (Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa)
• Stop Your Console App The Nice Way (Mike Hadlow)
• Upgrading your process template from MSF for Agile 4 to Visual Studio Scrum 2.x (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Learn IntelliTrace (Tim Varcak)
• Learning Log Parser Studio in two parts… (From Install to Library Ninja) (Greg Duncan)
• Getting the current selection from an Explorer window (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #828 – Implementing Both a Copy Constructor and ICloneable (Sean Sexton)
• Using and abusing CallerMemberName (Nigel Sampson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Better Testers (Phil Haack)
• The Dimensions of Web Design (Greg Smith)
• Avoid Failing Tests When Automating Dynamic Ajax Requests (Ina Cherpokova)
• Testing Tip #7: Simulating a metered connection (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Beautiful Builds: Release Compilation Step (Roy Osherove)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 091: Dennis Eichhorn & Neat Stuff (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Herding Code 164: OWIN and Katana with Louis DeJardin (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Defrag Tools: #37 – JavaScript – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & AmandaS)
• Yet Another Podcast #96–John Papa on SPA and Public Speaking (Jesse Liberty)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 193: Apache Mahout (SE-Radio Team)
• Penny Pinching Video: Moving my Website’s Images to the Azure CDN (and using a custom domain) (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Nerd Nite No. 24, April 24, 2013 – The Philadelphia Science Festival! (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Drinkup in Firenze, Italy (Jenifer Duke)
• 6th Annual Hartford Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Jim O’Neil)
• May and June begins Philly Appathon Wednesdays (David Isbitski)
• Philly Give & Get Spotlight: A Q&A With Becky Collins (Lansie Sylvia)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Return Specific Row to at the Bottom of the Resultset – T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
• Exporting Data from RavenDB, the new way (Oren Eini)
• Creating your own SQL snippets in SSDT (Jamie Thomson)
• A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• Don’t Create Pages in SharePoint; Use User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• Virtual Machine Tips for running SharePoint (Bil Simser)

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Get an UNC of a remote folder (Prashanth Jayaram)

Miscellaneous

• Why personal branding matters (MS JobsBlog)
• Redis on Windows – stable and reliable (Claudio Caldato)
• OMeta OData ODear – polishing it off (Rob Ashton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 22nd (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1113 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/23/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #91 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1341 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #29 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 22 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 22 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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