Daily Links – Page 1027 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

The Dew Returns Tomorrow, March 20, 2013

It’s alive!!!!

I am back from vacation, and ready to ramp things up again.

I will be putting together a Best Links post this weekend, aggregating the best of the best from the two weeks I was away. If you want to view all of my Google Reader starred items, you can get the feed here:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F15217774922118815663%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred

Thanks for continuing to read The Morning Dew. I hope everyone has found a new favorite blog reader/aggregator to replace Google Reader. I am going to give NewsBlur a try.

Alvin

Dew Drop – March 5, 2013 (#1,509)

Top Links

Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S.Somasegar)
Windows Azure Updates: Android Support, SQL Reporting Services, Active Directory, More… (Scott Guthrie)
CTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available (Brian Harry)
Monads, part four (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

Windows Azure, now with more enterprise access management! (Alex Simons)
How to Build a Better Button in CSS3 (Craig Buckler)
Creating a Line Chart using the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
Learn CSS Layout (Greg Smith)
Announcing a New Preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client (John Stallo)
HTML5 offline MVC: Part 1 (Sebastiaan Meijerink)
ASP.NET 4.5 – FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions (Vincent Maverick Durano)
Horizontal Drop-Down Menu and Vertical Icon Menu (Mary Lou)

XAML

Dynamic columns in the Silverlight DataGrid (Jimmy Larkin)
Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 3 (Gill Cleeren)
Chatting up your Windows Phone 8 Apps (Greg Duncan)
Editable WPF controls (Jon Harrop)
A better WPF Browser Control (Robert Köpferl)
2000 WPF Things #769 – Rotation Transforms (Sean Sexton)
APress Deal of the Day 5/Mar/2013 – Applied WPF 4 in Context (Tatworth)
What Windows Azure Mobile Services can do for an app and Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles (Kraig Brockschmidt)
LightSwitch Succinctly – Free eBook by Jan Van (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4 (Beth Massi)
March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling)
Understanding IntelliTrace Part VI: Working with IntelliTrace Logs (Zain Naboulsi)
2000 C# Things #793 – Being Notified When an Object’s Properties Change, Part II (Sean Sexton)
Connecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK (Andy Rich)
Team Foundation Service Update – Mar 4 (Brian Harry)
Extending the OData Async Extensions to DataServiceCollection<T> Methods (Glenn Gailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

TFS Kanban board Swim lane customization walk through (Charles Sterling)
Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood” (Gregg Boer)
Coders, Musicians and Cooks (Mike Hadlow)
Test Better (Phil Haack)
8 Tips Toward A Better Deployment Process (Andy Schwam)

Other Mobile Platforms

Native RTL support in Android 4.2 (Fabrice Di Meglio)
iOS Tips and Tricks: Associate a File Type with your App – Part 1 (Stephen Zaharuk)
MS Open Tech develops the open source Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services (Olivier Bloch)
PhoneGap 2.5 Enables Application Cache and InAppBrowser Geolocation (Anand Narayanaswamy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Tomas Petricek: How F# Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data (Charles Torre)
Episode 217 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson talks about his new PowerShell books (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Microsoft DevRadio: Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps (Part 2) (G. Andrew Duthie)
Video: Gather Testing Intel on Your JavaScript with Jasmine Spies (Paul Ballard)
Yet Another Podcast #92–Jeremy Likness on Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
Defrag Tools: #30 – MCTS Windows Internals | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for March 4th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
That Thing They Call "Unemployment" (Ted Neward)
The Week Ahead – March 4, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
Ultimate Coder – Week 3: Blog posting (Pete O’Hanlon)

Database

SQL SERVER – Exporting Query Results to CSV using SQLCMD (Pinal Dave)
Giving only insert permissions to a table for a new login (Denis Gobo)
Introduction to the SQL BCP Utility (Brady Upton)
Building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with PowerPivot (Adam & Jennifer Salvo)
Writing a transaction manager on top of LevelDB (Rob Ashton)
Standardize Table Aliases (Sam Vanga)
SSMS – Enabling Ctrl+R Shortcut to show or hide query results/messages pane (Kevin Conan)

SharePoint

ASP.NET Training Videos Delivered via SharePoint (Bil Simser)
Save 50% off SharePoint ebooks through March 6, 2013 (Kim Spilker)
Retrieving User Name and MetaData through WCF Web Services for SharePoint 2010 (Tom Hearn)

Miscellaneous

Jobs in IT: Microsoft is often misunderstood (MS JobsBlog)
Memo to Microsoft – If you want Windows 8 to succeed, among other things, get apps in the store that people want (John Petersen)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading March 4, 2013 (Rob Diana)
The Morning Brew #1308 (Chris Alcock)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 4th (Rob Caron)
Double Shot #1079 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-03-05 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: March 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 3/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #22 (Jason Strate)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 March 2013 (Geek Champ)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 March 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Windows 8 Application Development (9781118012680): István Novák, Zoltan Arvai, György Balássy, David Fulop: Books

ISBN: 1118012682
ISBN-13: 9781118012680

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Dew Drop – March 4, 2013 (#1,508)

Top Links

jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 Released (Dave Methvin)
Coding Without Code Analysis is Like Writing Legacy Code (Alexandre Brisebois)
Intro to Sketching Prototypes (Ambrose Little)
What language features do you miss in C#? (Filip Ekberg)

Web Development

Storing Windows Azure Storage Table Entities in Descending Order (Alexandre Brisebois)
Azure Table Storage and the Great Certificate Expiry of 2013 (Peter Ritchie)
HTML5 context menus in the wild: Twitter’s “Follow” button (Axel Rauschmayer)
Convention over Configuration with MVC and Autofac (Bil Simser)
Top 5 ASP.NET Developer Blogs You Should Follow (DevToolsGuy)
SignalR, Filters and ServiceStack (Filip W)
Practical Azure #13: Windows Azure Queue Storage (Jim O’Neil)
File Watchers in WebStorm/PhpStorm 6 (a.k.a. “Background Tasks”) (John Lindquist)
JavaScript Libraries Improvements in WebStorm 6 (K. Safonov)
Windows Store Apps: Using IndexedDB for Storing Data using HTML5 and JavaScript (Mahesh Sabnis)
Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption (Mike Neil)
Running ASP.NET Web API services under Linux and OS X (Piotr Walat)
How to Leverage the .NET 4.5 Model Binding and Strongly Typed Data Controls with Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls – Part 2 (Radoslav Kirilov)
Book Review: Murach’s Javascript and jQuery (Sam Abraham)
How to integrate RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX in a WebFarm or WebGarden scenario (Veselina Raykova)
Twitter Bootstrap Navbar as AngularJS component (tdziurko)
DOM Enlightenment Book Review (David Hayden)
Trunk Based Development at Facebook (Paul Hammant)
Getting Started with Sass (Darren Wood)
First IronMQ impressions (Jef Claes)

XAML

Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 2 (Gill Cleeren)
Marketing your Windows Phone app 101 – Q&A with resident Windows Phone developer Bernardo Zamora (Kami LeMonds)
Photosynth, the hit 3-D panorama photo app, debuts on Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)
2000 WPF Things #768 – Scaling Transforms (Sean Sexton)
MVVM ICommand, Lambda Expression for CanExecuteChanged (Yasser Moradi)

Miscellaneous .NET

Console Applications and %ERRORLEVEL% (Richard Carr)
Redis and VB.Net (Christiaan Baes)
C# Programming – Caller Information Attributes (Dirk Strauss)
ALM Rangers ship guidance for Microsoft Fakes, TFS Disaster Avoidance and updates to two other guides (Willy-P. Schaub)
Wishes for the CLR JIT in the 2020s (Sasha Goldshtein)
2000 C# Things #792 – Being Notified When an Object’s Properties Change, Part I (Sean Sexton)
Generating Entity Data Model Diagram from EF Code First DbContext (Shiju V.)
The source of much confusion: "backed by the system paging file" (Raymond Chen)
Exporting XML Comments to Your Application (Nick Harrison)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Book Review: The Power of Starting Something Stupid (J.D. Meier)
Outside In TDD versus DDD (Mark Seemann)
Inserting the UX into an existing Agile Project. (Scott Barnes)
My “Agile” experience (Daniela Panfili)
Top Five Pain Points: Dealing With Time Constraints (Jim Holmes)
Polymorphism Part 2: Refactoring to Polymorphic Behavior (John Teague)
Testing Tip #4: Suspend/Resume and Restart after Terminate (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Code Layouting: There is no Standard (Niels Matthijs)
Aggregate Design and Security (Rinat Abdullin)
Code readability hypotheses (Mark Seemann)
Fixing five fundamental flaws (Eric Brechner)

Other Mobile Platforms

New course: Introduction to iOS for .NET Developers (Megan Russell)
Free Xamarin Studio and Free Chapters 1-4 Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# (Wally McClure)
Weekend Reading: hands-on guide to Xamarin 2.0 (Ryan Paul)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes – Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco (Scott Hanselman)
Technology & Friends Episode 255: James Bender on BDD (David Giard)
SharePoint Experts–Bangladesh: An open discussion on first usergroup meet-up day (16 Feb 2013) at Microsoft (MJ Ferdous)
Windows Weekly 301: Designed in the Dark (Paul Thurrott)
SDU Show 56 with guest Thomas LaRock (Greg Low)
The Tablet Show – Toni Kaufmann Builds Games with Cocos2D-x (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Nerdist Podcast – Rich Moore (Chris Hardwick)
TWC9: IE10 for Win7, VS Guides, Image Watch, Tons of Training and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
049 JSJ MooTools with Valerio Proietti and Arian Stolwijk (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
The Glimpse Team on Channel 9 | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
Agile 2012 – Bob Martin – Clean Coders and Clean Code (Agile Toolkit Team)
Episode 101 – Real-World Windows Azure with Auth0 | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
The JavaScript Show – Flight, JS1K, TodoMVC 1.1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

Great .Net Education Day Coming April 19th, 2013 in San Francisco, CodeMastery! (Peter Kellner)
Nerd Nite No. 22, March 6, 2013 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
I’ll be Presenting at the SharePoint Shindig in Redmond, WA, May 7-9, 2013 #spshindig and I’ll be Presenting at SPTechCon 2013 San Francisco Next Week (Andrew Connell)
March 2013 Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
Your SXSW Survival Guide (Aubrey Sabala)

Database

Loop through Flat Files in SQL Server Integration Services (Tim Smith)
SQL Server – How to Rename Table/Column in SQL Server (Vishal Gajjar)
Bootstrapping SQL Server bloggers and blog readers with Twitter! (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #8 : script a database to SQLite (Erik EJ)
SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #018 and SQL SERVER – Download Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and PowerPivot in Excel 2013 Samples and SQL SERVER – SSMS does NOT Print NULL Values (Pinal Dave)
Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition when dealing with temp tables (Denis Gobo)
Scaling Windows Azure SQL Database to Your Operational Needs (Alexandre Brisebois)
Basic operations with LevelDB and Transactional guarantees on top of LevelDB (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

Open SharePoint Alerts Page Using JavaScript (Jacob L. Adams)
[Sample Of Mar 3rd] Download document from SharePoint Document libraries (philip fu)

PowerShell

PowerShell Tactics (Chris Yates)
PowerShell Script to Find last Backup and Restore of Databases (Vinoth NM)

Miscellaneous

Everyone Should Learn Programming (Filip Ekberg)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 2, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 3, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2013 02.16 ~ 02.28 (yuanjian)
Distributed Weekly 196 (Scott Banwart)
Geek Reading March 1, 2013 (Rob Diana)
The Morning Brew #1307 (Chris Alcock)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 1st (Rob Caron)
Pie in the Sky (March 1, 2012) (Larry Franks)
Collective #53 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1078 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five – 2013 MVP Summit (MVP Award Program)
The Daily Six Pack: March 2, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: March 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 3/1/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #84 (Frank)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-03-04 (Dan Rigby)
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–February 2013 (Beth Massi)
Reblog: February 22 to February 28 (Jason Strate)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #56) (Craig Kitterman)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 8 Unleashed: Daniel Vaughan: 9780672336898: Books

ISBN: 0672336898
ISBN-13: 9780672336898

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