Dew Drop – May 23, 2013 (#1,553)

Top Links

• Treehouse – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps (Ross Heise)
• Xbox One Architecture Panel (Larry Hyrb)
• Retrieving the client’s IP address in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Blob Storage Service – Migrating Blobs Between Accounts (Alexandre Brisebois)
• JavaScript quirk 7: inadvertent sharing of variables via closures and Plans for supporting Web Components in AngularJS and Ember.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Node.js Library for Authentication with Windows Azure Active Directory (Claudio Caldato)
• Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie (David Storey)
• WebStorm 6.0.2 Release Candidate (Dmitry Jemerov)
• Dealing with Windows Azure Storage transient faults (Grigori Melnik)
• How to build an Instagram-like photo sharing app with HTML5 (HTML5 Partners)
• Compiling to JavaScript, and Debugging with Source Maps (Nick Fitzgerald)
• Top 5 Windows Azure Annoyances (Paul Ballard)
• A first look at SignalR (Rick Strahl)
• AngularJS on Rails 4 – Part 1 (Eric Berry)
• Starting with Azure (Steve Jones)
• Glimpse 1.3.2 released (avanderhoorn)
• Wrestling All Day With WebAPI, NewtonSoft and JSON Date Formats (Peter Kellner)

 

XAML

• Developing Apps for Windows Phone 8 (Eric Genesky)
• Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, some PCL and your social world = Social Media Dashboard Sample (Greg Duncan)
• Blurring in XAML animations when switching view states (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Close WinRT virtual keyboard programatically (Loek van den Ouweland)
• 2000 WPF Things #826 – Lower-Level Elements Can Have Different Cursor (Sean Sexton)
• XAML-SDK solutions and projects (Vladimir Amiorkov)
• Your plate will never be full with all the great Geek Champ Windows 8 Templates… (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate – Part 5A of 8 – Coding Many-to-Many Entity Associations (Anand Lakshminarasimhan)
• 2000 C# Things #850 – Three Types of Errors that Can Lead to Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• Retrying tasks with TPL, async and synchronous code (Matthew Adams)
• Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 3 – Using the content factory (Mike Larah)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is Failure Demand in Software Development (Patrick Kua)
• Moving Stuff in Gimp (Dave Burke)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Michele Bustamante Starts Up a Startup (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 16: Garrett Serack – Inside NuGet for C++ | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
• RavenDB Dynamic Aggregation Webinar (Oren Eini)
• What the Tech 166: Xbox One: Achievement Unlocked (Paul Thurrott)
• The Changelog 90: Pair programming and Ruby with Avdi Grimm (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Defrag: Cloning to SSD, Extracting Wifi PW, UAC Triggers | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Windows Store Weekly: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, wordBrush | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• Countdown to TechEd: All about the Tech Expo a.k.a. Partner Pavilion | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• Launched (John Sheehan)
• Meet 5 women leaders (MS JobsBlog)
• I’m leaving .NET (Rob Ashton)
• Because PEOPLE. Because PASSION. (Cori Drew)
• Does a full day of CSS nerdery appeal to you? (Peter-Paul Koch)

 

Database

• SQL Puzzle: RIGHT without using the RIGHT function (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting SQL Server – A Guide for the Accidental DBA (Ian Stirk)

 

SharePoint

• We want your ideas on migrating SharePoint solutions to apps for SharePoint (Keenan Newton)
• Office and SharePoint 2013 Continuous Integration Using Team Foundation Service and Office 365 (Xiaoying Guo)

 

PowerShell

• Remote Execute PowerShell against each Windows 8 VM (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Miscellaneous

• The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft’s Xbox One? (Mary Jo Foley)
• What is the Best Programming Language to Learn? (Ed Price)
• Great FREE Tool for Presenters using a Mac to Draw on the Screen (Michael Crump)
• The best in devices and services, together as Xbox One (Steve Wiens)
• Xbox One lets households share one Xbox Live Gold subscription across multiple accounts (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 23, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 22nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 22, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1134 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/23/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 22 May 2013 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1362 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 22 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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