Dew Drop – May 24, 2013 (#1,554)

Top Links

• Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus (Scott Guthrie)
• JavaScript is Web Assembly Language and that’s OK. (Scott Hanselman)
• The mystery of the inserted method (Eric Lippert)
• Practical MVVM For Windows Phone | Inside Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• My favorite alternative to JavaScript’s switch statement (Dave Ward)

Web Development

• Responsive Web Design with jQuery Grids: A closer look (Damyan Petev)
• Announcing the General Availability of AMQP 1.0 in Windows Azure Service Bus! (Clemens Vasters)
• TextMate Bundles in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using Entity Framework Code First Approach with Fluent API in an ASP.NET MVC application (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Understanding The LightSwitch HTML Client Visual Collection (Michael Washington)
• Tooltip Menu (Mary Lou)
• Use Web Components Today With Google’s Polymer (Zef Hemel)
• Rich Notifications in Chrome (Justin DeWitt)
• Portable HttpClient is now available as RC (Immo Landwerth)
• Top 10 Quick Tips for Building Great Mobile LightSwitch Apps (Beth Massi)
• Moving from Partial Views to AJAX Calls (Patrick Steele)
• Developing a RESTful CRUD grid with IgniteUI, WebAPI and Entity Framework (Angel Todorov)
• ECMAScript 6 and Block Scope (Ariya Hidayat)

XAML

• PerfecTile v3.0 available: a must have tool for every Windows Phone and Windows Store app developer (Geek Champ)
• Windows Phone 8 XAML LongListSelector (Adam Denning)
• Android to Windows Phone 8: Working with Key-Value Pairs (Adam Grocholski)
• 2000 WPF Things #827 – Overriding the Cursor Properties of Child Elements (Sean Sexton)
• 420 Frames Per Second (Paulo Zemek)

Miscellaneous .NET

• APress Deal of the Day 24/May/2013 – A Programmer’s Guide to C# 5.0 (Tatworth)
• Use Predicate Methods to Stop Writing For…Each Loops (Peter Vogel)
• .NET Framework – Serialize and Deserialize (Deepak Kapoor)
• Even though mouse-move, paint, and timer messages are generated on demand, it’s still possible for one to end up in your queue (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #851 – A General Philosophy for Handling Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• How to Navigate to an URL in LightSwitch? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• patterns & practices Data Access Guidance Drop2 2013.05.17 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Improving Collaboration of Testers and Developers in Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• Being agile instead of doing agile (Patrick Kua)
• How do you start a new project with TDD? (Scott Koon)
• A/B testing with napkin math in OneNote (John Guin)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Pivot Tables on iPad and how to make one with ReportPlus (Gabriel Lopez)
• Objective-C Associated Object (Mehfuz Hossain)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Are you secure? WiFi Honeypots, Pineapples and SSL with Troy Hunt (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Central 160 – Lumia 925, 928 and HTC woes (Daniel Rubino)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 110: Azure hits 1 billion, RubyFlux compiler, Laracasts and more (Michael Kimsal)
• The Katana Project – OWIN for ASP.NET | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 010: BBC’s Matt Smith hosts Imagine Cup, Facebook Creativity Award, Avenade Dinner, and more! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Video Highlight #11: Semantic zoom (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Community / Events

• Speaking announcement: ThatConference (Bill Wagner)
• WebStorm is Going to O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference (Robert Demmer)

Database

• Raven Xyz: Trying out some ideas (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Analytics A Big Step Backward (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Pro Tip – Change Vim Color Theme (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Rumor: More Nokia “EOS” specifications leaked, to be announced on July 9? (damaster)
• Luke Skywalker’s pants sold for $36,000 (David Pescovitz)
• The New Generation Kinect for Windows Sensor is Coming Next Year (Bob Heddle)
• This is what the Xbox One Game case will look like (Larry Hryb)
• Windows Run Commands for Developers (Pascal Arnould)
• Deal Alert: Nokia wireless charging pad only $25 during the next 24 hours (Sam Sabri)
• Reviews of Super Weird Mice:The Microsoft Arc Touch and Wedge Mouse (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 208 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 23rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 23, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Windows Dev News for May 23, 2013 – #0149 (Dave Campbell)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1363 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 24, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 23 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 23 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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