Welcome to the 123 edition of the Dew Drop!
Top Links
- Welcome to a New Gist (Bryan Veloso)
- Petzold’s Programming Windows 6E is coming soon! (Devon Musgrave)
- Taking responsibility (Eric Lippert)
- Entity Framework 6: Alpha2 Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
Web Development
- Windows Azure Storage New Pricing Structure Revealed (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- Review: Pro HTML5 Accessibility by Joshue O Connor (Bruce Lawson)
- I Could Sure Use Some Windows Azure Code Samples… (Buck Woody)
- Hello Hilo – Hilo (JavaScript) sample for Windows Store released from Microsoft Patterns and Practices (Greg Duncan)
- Drag and Drop with AngularJS using jQuery UI (Jos Dirksen)
- Get Started with Three.js (Jess Genevieve Brown)
- First Separate WebStorm 6 EAP Build 124.218 (K. Safonov)
- DotNetNuke 7 with Active Directory and SharePoint Lists (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- Fullscreen Pageflip Layout (Manoela Ilic)
- Using ES6 template strings for regular expressions (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Using existing database with Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
- Hilo JavaScript Windows Sample Official Release (CodePlex)
XAML
- Windows Phone 8: Developer Tools (Peter Kuhn)
- Jeff’s Top 5 XAML Tools. (Jeffrey Smith)
- Complete Guide to Windows Phone StringFormat Binding (Matthias Shapiro)
- 2000 WPF Things #710 – DoDragDrop Is a Blocking Call (Sean Sexton)
- PRISM application from the beginning: part I (juanlubarreda)
- Merry Christmas all Windows 8 Developers and Designers from….Telerik AppMock (Eric Nelson)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Using NuGet to simplify remote profiling with dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
- Layer Diagram in Visual Studio 2012 (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Ruby for C# developers (Mehdi Khalili)
- HowTo: Use .NET Code on a Network Share From Windows (Rob Reynolds)
- Comparing two techniques in .NET Asynchronous Coordination Primitives (Scott Hanselman)
- New release: .NET Obfuscation Checker (free beta) (Roger Hart)
- Generating .NET POCO Classes for SQL Query Results (Joe Kunk)
- re-linq 1.13.178.0 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Agile Project Manager—Viola: The Great Reveal (Bob Galen)
- Your Team Is New To Scrum (Derek Huether)
- Maybe You Are Doing Too Much Test Driven Development (Rob Bazinet)
- Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design (Ben Terrill)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Creating custom Android views – Part 4: Measuring and how to force a view to be square (Anders Ericsson)
- The 2012 Android Developer Survey (Android Developer Relations)
- Implementing iOS smart app banners (Tim Hibbard)
- Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 is here! (Robert Nyman)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Matt Nunn Talks Modern Apps and the Modern App Lifecycle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Engadget HD Podcast 328 – 12.11.2012 (James Trew)
- Ping 162: Life after Microsoft, Imagine Cup, Horror stories, Win8 app creator | Ping! (Laura Foy)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 71 (Richard Hay)
- People Talking Tech Episode 015 – Argenis Fernandez (Denny Cherry)
Community / Events
- Philly Pluralsight Study Group (Tony Verguldi)
- Small Basic TeamChallenge – Tower Defense Game (VOTE TO SEE WHO WINS!!!) (Ed Price)
- Meet the Author: Kate Gregory on Introduction to Visual Studio 2012 – Part 1 (Paul Ballard)
- Toronto Drinkup (John D. Britton)
- Microsoft TechDays 2013 Belgium: first sessions & speakers announced (Katrien de Graeve)
- Microsoft SLG Developer Days- Denver (1/15/13) and Boise (1/17/13) (MS Public Sector Team)
- Registration for C++Now 2013 Opens Today! (James McNellis)
Database
- How to Automate SQL Server Restores for a Test Server (K. Brian Kelley)
- SQL SERVER – Inviting Ideas for SQL in Sixty Seconds – 12/12/12 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2012 Day 12: Proactive notifications (Denis Gobo)
- Preserving Privacy in a Big Data World – Part 3 (Vincent Huang)
- RavenDB indexing optimizations, Step I–dynamic batches (Oren Eini)
- T-SQL Tuesday #37: Join me in a month of Joins (Koen Verbeeck)
SharePoint
- Annoying “Not a Local Site” when building SharePoint 2013 Solutions with Visual Studio 2012 (Andrew Connell)
- Debugging SharePoint Apps with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio (James Wang)
Miscellaneous
- An update to the Microsoft Camera Codec pack is available (Aaron Bregel)
- Microspeak: v-team (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft needs reimagine Live to be alive. and Don’t be a clone, be different. (Scott Barnes)
- Is writing the same as coding? (Swizec Teller)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading December 11, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #1020 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 12/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1252 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-12 (Dan Rigby)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 12, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 11 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 11 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
Professional Visual Studio 2012: Bruce Johnson: 9781118337707: Books ISBN: 1118337700 |