Dew Drop – May 9, 2013 (#1,544)

Top Links

• Introducing Objective Sharpie (Aaron Bockover)
• jQuery Migrate 1.2.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• When To Comment Your Code (Steve Smith)
• Conversation #38– disrupt or die (Steven Sinofsky)

Web Development

• Developing a CRUD grid with IgniteUI, Node.js, Express, Mongoose, MongoDB and Nginx (Angel Todorov)
• Speed up Windows PHP Performance using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (Ankit Asthana)
• Continuous Monitoring of JavaScript Code Complexity (Ariya Hidayat)
• How to Create a Toggle Switch in CSS3 (Craig Buckler)
• Debugging TypeScript Under DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
• KendoUI + WebApi + Jsonp – How to get KendoUI working with WebApi and Jsonp (Jon Gallant)
• Working with TODO in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Screen Navigation and Advanced JavaScript Examples (Michael Washington)
• Custom MVC4 bundling for timezoneJS tz data (Rory Primrose)
• Here’s why you can’t trust SSL logos on HTTP pages (even from SSL vendors) (Troy Hunt)
• Responsive Retina-Ready Menu (Stéphanie Walter)
• Yeti 0.2.22 Released (Reid Burke)
• Designing the Octopus Deploy 2.0 HTTP API and Consistent error handling with Nancy (Paul Stovell)
• NancyFX – Revisiting Content Negotiation APIs (Part 2) (Phillip Haydon)

XAML

• An Overview of Expression Blend (Gradient Girl)
• More Metro… Syncfusion Metro Studio 2 released. 2500 icons, still free [reg-ware] (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #816 – Using a Font Dialog to Select Fonts (Sean Sexton)
• Sharing to your target app (Ishita Kapur)
• Store Certification Tip #11: Honoring all input modalities (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visualizing TFS Source History now with more source (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #840 – Use an Anonymous Type as a Read-Only Subset of an Object (Sean Sexton)
• Make a shoot-em-up in 20 minutes (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Entity Framework Code First Validation (Ricardo Peres)
• Creating Sortable Objects with IComparable and Planning Your Interface Strategy (Peter Vogel)
• Some thoughts on a comment about VS 2012.3 (Brian Harry)
• Utilize Roslyn to Create the Next Level Plugin Capability (Filip Ekberg)
• A console sink with property colouring (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Continuous Testing Feedback with Guard and Spork (Dave Burke)
• Merge Files with Git Merge Tool (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Gartner Says Smart Organizations Will Embrace Fast and Frequent Project Failure in Their Quest for Agility (JD Meier)
• Ditching two-phased commits (Jimmy Bogard)

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS XML Parser (Stephen Zaharuk)
• 7 Overlooked Features of Sencha Architect (Patrick Chu)
• C99 Initializer Syntax in Objective C (Jaco Pretorius)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Geeking Out on Nanotechnology (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 227 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett talks about Splunk (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 6) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Authentication (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Prism for Windows Store Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 164: The Right Tablet Size (Paul Thurrott)
• Defrag: Explorer Won’t Run, Network Limited Access, Touch PC’s We Like | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

Community / Events

• Announcement: FREE LIVE Web Seminar—SharePoint2013: Key Strategies to Effectively Govern and Secure Sensitive Data (Joel Oleson)
• Nerd Nite No. 25, May 15, 2013 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Geek of the Week: Local Musician Brad Podray (Chris Urie)
• Free Windows 8 App Development Training and Hackathon (Doris Chen)
• We’re going live from Google I/O (Emily Wood)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #14 : script all data in a table (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – A New Approach to Scale .NET Applications (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Map/Reduce optimizations (Oren Eini)
• Modify a Power View Data Source (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint

• Reimagine SharePoint Development (Keenan Newton)

PowerShell

• Using Show-Command to make a simple UI for a non-PowerSheller (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Electronic Health Records – Still not good enough Part 2 (Bill Crounse)
• How two ‘Star Trek’ fans are restoring original series shuttlecraft (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• My Thoughts on the Microsoft Career Model – Do I have to get into management to be successful at Microsoft? (Jon Gallant)
• 10 Tips for Learning a New Technology (Pavan Podila)
• Neil Gaiman: I Would ‘Definitely Not’ Wear Google Glass (Pete Pachal)
• Bring out the GIMP: Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to become subscription-only (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading May 8, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1124 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 9, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1352 (Chris Alcock)

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