Dew Drop – May 8, 2013 (#1,543)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP is now available (Brian Harry)
• Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now available (Charles Sterling)
• scriptcs gets a REPL! (Glenn Block)
• Putting the Dynamic back into TypeScript (Derik Whittaker)

 

Web Development

• Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB (Jason Gaylord)
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services – Part 1 (Larry Franks)
• Announcing Runtime Update 1 – Supporting jQueryMobile 1.3 (Heinrich Wendel)
• Absolute Center Images With CSS (Paul Underwood)
• How much REST should your web API get? (Jerome Louvel)
• HashKeyCopier – An AngularJS Utility Class For Merging Cached And Live Data (Ben Nadel)
• Evented Github Adventure – Who writes the sweariest commit messages (Rob Ashton)
• Use ECMAScript 6 Today (Sayanee Basu)
• AngularJS Abstractions: Organizing Modules (K. Scott Allen)
• Good Book for Learning Meteor: Discover Meteor (Stephen Walther)
• Defending Websites from XSS attacks with ModSecurity 2.7.3 and OWASP Core Rule Set 2.2.7 (Greg Wroblewski)
• A Collection of Page Transitions (Pedro Botelho)

 

XAML

• Building reactive XAML apps with ASP.NET SignalR and MVVM (Piotr Walat)
• 2000 WPF Things #815 – Filling a ListBox with a List of All Fonts (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – Expander (Richard Carr)
• Prism for Windows Runtime: Validating User Input (Francis Cheung)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The state of Rhino Mocks (Oren Eini)
• Fix: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 breaks Windows XP targeting with ATL and/or statically linking MFC (Eric Battalio)
• Peeking into NuGet packages with dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using the Enterprise Library 6 Configuration Console with Visual Studio 2012 (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #839 – Anonymous Type Limitations (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Security Part 2 (Simon Cooper)
• Creating Secure .NET Applications (Sam Nasr)
• Fluent Kinect (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Downsizing: Why Agile Skills Improve a Project Manager’s Job Security (JD Meier)
• Embracing SCRUM and CMMI in TFS 2012 (Subodh Sohoni)
• Designing for touch screens (Daniela Panfili)
• Monitoring Tests – When This Runs Over (Wes McClure)
• The Perfect Project Status Report (Brad Egeland)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using custom Fonts in Xamarin.iOS (Michael James)
• Mobile Web versus Native Apps (Jaco Pretorius)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux: Inside Code Digger | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Ping 176: Windows Phone goes mainstream, Best ad ever, Facebook Beta app, MS exec makes a difference | Ping! and Windows Store Weekly- The Mothers Day Special | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – W. Kamau Bell (Chris Hardwick)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 16: Pitch Perfect with Daniel (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Engadget HD Podcast 348 – 05.07.13 (James Trew)
• Devnology Podcast 037 – James Robertson on the requirements process (Freek Leemhuis, Maarten Metz & Mendelt Siebenga)

 

Community / Events

• Seattle DotNet Startup Group: F# for Startups, Tuesday June 11 2013 (Don Syme)

 

Database

• Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 Express (Murali Krishnan)
• Extending SQL Server DDL Triggers for more functionality : Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – RESEED Identity Column in Database Table – Rest Table Identity Value – SQL in Sixty Seconds #051 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Baseline Collection (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• Azure is the new SharePoint ‘layouts’ directory (Chris O’Brien)
• Optimizing SharePoint 2013 websites for mobile devices (Waldek Mastykarz)

 

Miscellaneous

• Smart Watches are finally going to happen – Pebble Watch Reviewed (Scott Hanselman)
• Office Web Apps update set to include real-time editing and Android tablet support (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 6th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 7th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 7, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Windows Dev News for May 07, 2013 – #0146 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #1351 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 8, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 May 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 7 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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