Dew Drop – July 12, 2013 (#1,584)

Top Links

• Ballmer’s big bet will reshape Microsoft — with no shortage of risk (Todd Bishop)
• Nokia’s Lumia 1020: everything you need to know (Dante D’Orazio)
• Q&A: How Nokia and Microsoft collaborated to create the groundbreaking new Lumia 1020 with Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)
• Nokia Imaging SDK – Now Available (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

 

Web Development

• Deleting a Storage Account from Windows Azure – The right way ! (Anup SivaDas)
• Scaling Up and Scaling Out in Windows Azure Web Sites (Craig Kitterman)
• Knockout JS, Attr Binding and Radio Button Values (Derik Whittaker)
• 7 Advantages of HTML5 Mobile Apps (Eric Genesky)
• Are You Serving Files Insecurely in ASP.NET (Filip Ekberg)
• 4 Tricks for Smaller CSS in Sencha Touch 2.2 (Ivan Jouikov)
• HTML5 History API: A Syntax Primer (Louis Lazaris)
• jQueryRotate 2.3 (Pawel Witkowski)
• Great new samples and tutorials for Mobile Services integration scenarios (Glenn Gailey)
• Image Filters and Media Profiles in Orchard CMS Media Processing (David Hayden)
• Eight Cool Features Coming in ES6 (Maciej Sopyło)
• The Current and Future Performance of the Mobile Web (Zef Hemel)
• ECMAScript 6 and Proxy (Ariya Hidayat)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #862 – Changing Default Tooltip Delay for all Applications (Sean Sexton)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #8: Files & Tiles (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• [Sample Of Jul 11th] Extract and convert audio file by using Expression Encoder SDK (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: tries++ (Oren Eini)
• WCF LOB Adapter SDK 2013 (MS Downloads)
• Instrumenting Your Application to Measure its Performance Part 7 Injecting EventSource into WCF Service Calls (Dan Moyer)
• Issue [ TFS 2013 ] You need elevated privileges to install InRelease and Issue [ TFS 2013 InRelease ] You get TF400324 when connecting InRelease to TFS and Issue [ TFS 2013 ] InRelease account requires make requests on behalf of others (Martin Hinshelwood)
• C# Regex for Parsing Known texts (William Wegerson)
• “Enable Edit and Continue” debugging option is now on by default for new web applications in VS2013 preview (Xinyang Qiu)
• New open source releases: Reactive Extensions (Rx) libraries for Python and Ruby (Brian Benz)
• Lock vs. Mutex (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #886 – Setting the HelpLink Property when You Throw an Exception (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• If Scrum Doesn’t Work For You, Should You Try Kanban? (Allan Kelly)
• Primary and Secondary Greatness and Steve Ballmer On a Big Vision — To Help People Realize Their Full Potential (JD Meier)
• The Chain of Responsibility Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
• The Flexible Schedule. Potential Project Killers. Part 5 (Brad Egeland)
• Six Ways to Make Your Peer Code Reviews More Effective (Emma Jane Westby)
• Best Practices for Source Code Control (Raghuveer Gopalakrishnan)
• Test Studio 2013 R1 – Must I Record Using Multiple Browsers? (Steven Vore)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Working With Radio Buttons In Sencha Touch Form Panels (Peter Kellner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside Windows Phone – Motion design using the Windows Phone Toolkit (Larry Lieberman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tig Notaro (Chris Hardwick)
• The Engadget Interview: Nokia’s Stephen Elop on the Lumia 1020 (Brian Heater)
• The Vergecast 084 – July 11th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 184 – 07.11.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 97 (Richard Hay)
• Edge Show 67 – Networking with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager | Edge (Symon Perriman)

 

Community / Events

• Northwest Cadence Presents: Introduction to Kanban and Northwest Cadence Presents: Agile Development using Visual Studio ALM (MS Public Sector Team)
• The Power of Teaching Online (Aaron Skonnard)
• Quick news: Jump Start July 18 – Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 (Kim Spilker)
• Imagine Cup alum becomes intern (MS JobsBlog)
• MVP Award & Why Communities Rock (MVP Award Program)
• Winners of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 announced (Steve Wiens)

 

Database

• Use SQL Server’s UNPIVOT operator to help normalize output (Aaron Bertrand)
• MySQL – Learning MySQL Online in 6 Hours – MySQL Fundamentals in 320 Minutes (Pinal Dave)
• Article: Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1 (Seth Proctor)

 

SharePoint

• Deploying SP2013 provider-hosted apps/Remote Event Receivers to Azure Websites (for Office 365 apps) (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Get CPU Details and its Usage (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Nokia Pro Camera tells you when you’re going to ruin your photo (Daniel Rubino)
• Exclusive: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on Why the $300 Lumia 1020 Is a Camera Phone Worth a Premium Price (Video) (Ina Fried)
• Tuts+ Premium Mid-Year Sale – 25% off Yearly Subscriptions (Joel Bankhead)
• Steve Ballmer begins Town Hall Meetings with Microsoft Employees Concerning Reorganization (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone 8 GDR2 update detailed on official website (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, July 11th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 11, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: June 4th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Double Shot #1161 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1397 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 12, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Dev News for July 11, 2013 – #0170 (Dave Campbell)

 

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