Dew Drop – May 15, 2013 (#1,547)

Top Links

• Scripting ease with Script Packs (Glenn Block)
• Meet dotTrace 5.3.2 Performance with CLR 4.5 support (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Benchmarking mistakes, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Buy’ ngop! Bing adds Klingon to its popular Translator app for Windows Phone (Michael Stroh)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Makes Browsers Behave (Elisabeth Robson)
• Introducing FubuMVC.CodeSnippets for living documentation (Jeremy D. Miller)
• PhpStorm 6.0.2 released (Mikhail Vink)
• Running scripts from a Windows Azure role’s OnStart method (Tom Hollander)
• Evented Github Adventure – Sentiment Analysis of Github Commits (Rob Ashton)
• Node v0.10.6 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• YUI 3.10.1 Released to Fix SWF Vulnerability (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Debugging CoffeeScript Line-by-Line (Jaco Pretorius)

 

XAML

• Book Review – Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development With F# (Damir Arh)
• Latest Twitter Bootstrap broken in Windows Phone (Mikael Koskinen)
• 2000 WPF Things #820 – Viewing Additional Font Properties in Windows Explorer (Sean Sexton)
• Android to Windows 8: Working with Files (Adam Grocholski)
• Thoughts on Monetization #2: Trials vs. Demos/Lite Versions (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using bit fields in C# (Filip Ekberg)
• Specifying Visual Studio Version in NPM Installs (Kevin Griffin)
• Quality enablement with Visual Studio 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 2000 C# Things #844 – The Queue Data Type (Sean Sexton)
• Team Foundation Service Update – May 13 (Brian Harry)
• How to add .NET Assembly or Reference in Test Studio standalone version (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Creating plugins for dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 12 Traits of a Great Leader and How To Use Tasks in Microsoft Outlook More Effectively (JD Meier)
• Saga patterns: wrap up (Jimmy Bogard)
• Team Foundation Service my new default GIT repository (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microspeak: booked (Raymond Chen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mum makes an app with Icenium and Kendo UI Mobile + GitHub Part 2/2 (Iris Classon)
• A Client- And Server-Side Approach: Providing The Best Mobile User Experience Possible (Luca Passani)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #98–Jeff Fritz and ASP.NET, HTML5, more… (Jesse Liberty)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Fitz and the Tantrums (Chris Hardwick)
• Podcast #47 – Do You Even Twitter Bro? (Alex Miller)
• Engadget HD Podcast 349 – 05.14.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Ping 177: Female CFO, Barnes & Noble, Facebook App, Working at Microsoft | Ping! (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Welcome to SQLSaturday #225 Kosovo – 18-May-2013 (SQL Pass Team)
• Philly Appathon Winners announced at Code Camp! (David Isbitski)

 

Database

• Creating a multi-server query SSRS report using Central Managment Servers (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Puzzle of SET ANSI_NULL – Win USD 50 worth Amazon Gift Cards and Bubble Copter R/C (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Database owner ~~UNKNOWN~~ (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Customizing the SharePoint Chrome Control in LightSwitch (Brian Moore)

 

Miscellaneous

• Resume Power Words Part II: 5 ways to strengthen a weak CV (MS JobsBlog)
• Microsoft shares details about its next Windows Phone 8 update (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 14th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 14, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1127 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/14/2013 and Daily News Digest 5/15/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1356 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 14 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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