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Dew Drop – December 21, 2012 (#1,468)

Top Links

Microsoft Expression News (Lori Dirks) – There is a misconception going around that this post states that the Blend functionality is being absorbed into VS2012 and Blend is being killed off. That is not true. Blend for VS2012 will be bundled with the VS2012 installer and include the ability to work with Win 8 apps (XAML and WinJS), WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow. This will be included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.
Stupid Question 107: Shhh… Harassment. Not a problem? Strong content warning (Iris Classon) – Sickening.
Knockout.js and Kendo UI – a Potent Duo (Ryan Niemeyer)
Nullable micro-optimizations, part one (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

JavaScript Tutorial, Part 3 – Dev setup, tooling, learning resources (Piotr Kwapin)
Complexity Analysis of JavaScript Code (Ariya Hidayat)
Touchy.js: a polyfill for supporting pointer events on every browser (David Catuhe)
Asp.Net Web Api MediaTypeFormatter Error for x-www-formurlencoded data (Derik Whittaker)
Cutter.js – A Library For Truncating HTML Code By Word Number Without Losing Markup (Hirvesh Munogee)
New Book: Learning CSS3 Animations (Louis Lazaris)
Hosting Multiple WordPress Sites for Free on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
Turning you ASP.Net Hyperlinks into images buttons using CSS and jQuery (Steve Naughton)
New Tutorial Series and Sample Application for ASP.NET MVC 4 with Windows Azure Tables, Blobs, and Queues (Tom Dykstra)
MVVM in WinJS Part 2 – Observable Collections (Phil Japikse)
Top Azure Tips and Best Practices (Rick Anderson)
jQuery Core 1.9 Upgrade Guide (jQuery Team)
Apptivate.MS: the results are in! (Abby T. Miller)
New MS Open Tech Prototype of the HTTP/2.0 initial draft in an Apache HTTP server module (Adalberto Foresti)
A Tale of Animation Performance (Chris Coyier)
Infinite Canvas: Moving Beyond the Page (Nathan Peretic)
A New Streaming API for Node v0.10 (Isaac Z. Schlueter)

XAML

Building MVVM HTML5/JS Apps Follow Up: Answers to Submitted Questions (Anand Raja)
Tips for Passing Microsoft Certification Exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Metro style Apps (Samidip Basu)
Network Monitoring for Windows Phone Apps (Jonathan Lyons)
Testing a WinRT app on a Surface RT (Rockford Lhotka)
2000 WPF Things #717 – Drag-and-Drop with Touch on Windows 7 (Sean Sexton)
Using MEF in a Windows Store App (Eric Vogel)

Miscellaneous .NET

Visual Studio Keyboard Bindings (David Starr)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Parallel.Invoke() Method (James Michael Hare)
What’s New in TFS 2012? – Team Explorer (Mohamed Radwan)
Kinect for Windows v1.6 Released – 2012/10/08 (Rob Relyea)
C++ Templates: Not a General Case of Generics (Diego Dagum)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How to Study the Flow of Work with Kanban Cards (Benjamin Mitchell)
The Cost of Stories (Gregg Boer)
A Sack of Gifts by the Secret Agilista (Team Pulse Team)
Today is the last day to innovate before tomorrow … (James Ashley)
Messaging Semantics: Ownership (Jimmy Bogard)
Who Do You Promote Into Management? (Johanna Rothman)

Other Mobile Platforms

Localize your Promotional Graphics on Google Play (llie Powers)
Introducing PropertyCross – Helping you select a cross-platform mobile framework (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Brian Randell Does DevOps on the Microsoft Stack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
YOW! 2012: Dave Thomas – On YOW!, Objects, Functions, Software Fashion, and More and YOW! 2012: Jafar Husain – Rx and Netflix, A Match Made in Composable Asynchrony and YOW! 2012: Mike Lee – New Lemurs, Chemistry, Transdimensional Portal, Object-Oriented Audio (Charles Torre)
Design differences between iOS and Windows 8 | Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers (Bart Claeys)
Video: Drill Into Semantic Zoom in Windows 8 with XAML and C# (Paul Ballard)
Mash This Podcast – Fiddler with Eric Lawrence (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
Windows Weekly 291: The Year in Review (Paul Thurrott)
EdgeShow 47 Unified Mobile Device Management | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)
Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 193: Jingle Balls (Gareth Myles, James Richardson, Matt Davis & Dan Carter)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 162 – 12.21.2012 (James Trew)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 72 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

Which SQL Server MVP Has Two Thumbs and a Hadoop Certification? (Jeremiah Peschka)
Celebrating a Tremendous Year for Technology and Community (Mike Hickman)

Database

Restore SQL Server Databases using DateTime functions (Brady Upton )
SQL Advent 2012 Day 20: Use the new features (Denis Gobo)
Practical Azure #7: SQL Database Federations (Jim O’Neil)

PowerShell

BizTalk Host Creation Script (Scott Banwart)

Miscellaneous

Last-Minute Gifts for Beginning Coders (Eric Gregory)
A Geek Christmas Quiz (Mike Hadlow)
The Mixed Bag of Windows 8 Chips (Jeremy Likness)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 186 (Scott Banwart)
The Morning Brew #1259 (Chris Alcock)
The Doomsday Six Pack: December 21, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 12/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Geek Reading December 20, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #1027 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Kindle Fire HD – Most Advanced 7" Tablet – Only $199

ASIN: B008GGCAVM

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Dew Drop – November 15, 2012 (#1,443)

Top Links

31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #15: The On-Screen Keyboard (Jeff Blankenburg)
Creating A Windows 8 Application From Scratch (Jesse Liberty)
Respect and the 40-hour work week (Jimmy Bogard)
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Windows 8 Development + Blendability (Braulio Diez)

Web Development

ASP.NET Web API and dependencies in request scope (Filip W)
Creative CSS Loading Animations (Hugo Giraudel)
HTML5 game developer feels IE10 lacks important features (John Callaham)
Unable to Edit and Continue in Windows Azure Web Roles (Kevin Griffin)
Unit Testing your JavaScript (Alex Staveley)
Using Routers in Backbone.js (Sagar H. Ganatra)
Finding Elements In The DOM Using querySelector and Storing and Retrieving an Array from Local Storage (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Running IISNode on Windows 8 x64 (Per Ökvist)
How and why to avoid mixing your mark-up and server-side code (Rachel Andrew)
Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes (Matt Rakow)
Increasing Productivity: Using The Texture Panel In Adobe Fireworks (Matt Curtis)
Responsive Grids With Susy (Gabriel Manricks)

XAML

Sending In-Application Toast Notifications in WinRT for C# (Derik Whittaker)
Taking a Look at Registering a new Windows Phone 8 Device and Syncing Content (Michael Crump)
Update on Windows Phone 8 support for Rx v2.0 (Rx Team)
2000 WPF Things #691 – IsMouseCaptured Indicates Whether Mouse Is Currently Captured (Sean Sexton)
Common Windows Store certification errors: 3.8 App must meet the basic performance criteria on a low-power computer (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous .NET

Using WinMerge with VS2012 (Rory Primrose)
Simple Setup Engine for KinectContrib Templates (Dennis Delimarsky)
ReSharper 7.1 update (Tatworth)
Paraffin Bug Fix and Future Ideas (John Robbins)
Native Development Experience in Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Eric Battalio)
Sharing files across projects by linking in VS (Iris Classon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Methodologies – The Missing Path (Mohamed Kishawy)
Design patterns in the test of time: Proxy (Oren Eini)
Extending Load Testing With A Custom Plugin (Stoil Stoichev)
Are 20% projects profitable? (Craig Buckler)
How to use Git and Github for Windows from within a Windows auth proxy network. (Eric Hexter)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android SDK Tools, Revision 21 (Xavier Ducrohet & Angana Ghosh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Udi Dahan Talks CQRS, Agile and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
XAMLflix presents RadPivotGrid for WPF and Silverlight (Michael Crump)
Web Dev Radio Episode 104: A few infrastructure services and version control (Michael Kimsal)
The JavaScript Show – Getting Started with Knockout.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Core technologies for Windows 8 games | Build 2012 (Chas Boyd)
Hot Apps: Roll In The Hole, Akinator, Space Tube FREE, Shoot 1UP, Archer | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
Video: Code Your Way to Riches with Windows 8 App Paid Features (Paul Ballard)
Dude, What’s My Role? – Cloud-Driven Changes (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

Geek Graduates: Interns help ship Windows 8 (MS JobsBlog)
5 Important SharePoint Conference 2012 Announcements You Can’t Miss… #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
Geek of the Week: Katie Sweeney, Writer and Broken Umbrellarazzi (Michaelangelo Ilagan)

Database

SQL Server TCP Port Number (Vinoth NM)
SQL Server || Compress & UnComprees Backups in one MediaFile (Rohit Garg)
How to restore a SQL Server database to a lower version (Basit Farooq)
SQL SERVER – Concurrency Basics – Guest Post by Vinod Kumar (Pinal Dave)
15 SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips for Database Developers (Sajid Wasim)
Is being a DBA still sexy? (Jes Schultz Borland)

Miscellaneous

Why Windows 8 is a compelling choice for clinicians around the world (Bill Crounse)
Exclusive excerpt from The Walking Dead novel – The Road to Woodbury (Mark Frauenfelder)
The Computer Backup Rule of Three (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading November 14, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #1001 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly Links (11-12-12) (Matthias Shapiro)
The Morning Brew #1233 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: November 14, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 15, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 11/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Async in C# 5.0: Alex Davies: Kindle Store

ASIN: B0099BJ4DU

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Dew Drop – July 23, 2012 (#1,369)

Top Links

Roslyn Code Quoter tool – generating syntax API calls to generate any C# program (Kirill Osenkov)
Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.4 (Yann Trevin)
Bending Your Code Like Anders With C# Roslyn APIs – More About Syntax Trees (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Stronger password hashing in .NET with Microsoft’s universal providers (Troy Hunt)
Using requestAnimationFrame in JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

It uses async, run for the hills (On .Net 4.0) (Oren Eini)
Email Q&A: Entity Framework Modified State and SaveChanges and When Entity Framework 5 (EF5) is not Entity Framework 5 (EF5) (Julie Lerman)
What’s New in C# 5.0 – Learn about CallerMemberName Attribute (Kunal Chowdhury)
FizzBuzz kata in F#: stage 1 (Mark Seemann)
Visual Studio Tip Move Multiple Files using Move command (Tarun Arora)
Inside the DLR – Callsites (Simon Cooper)
Example WinRT/Metro App: How to edit default template in Visual Studio 2012 and Blend and Example Metro app /WinRT: Out-of-the-box Icons for Buttons (XAML) (Iris Classon)
8 Quirks Windows 8 XAML Developers Should Understand Before Starting Their Metro App (Jerry Nixon)
System colors in WinRT/XAML (Joe White)
Faceted searches with Lucene.NET (Ricci Gian Maria)
A steaming hot .NET Gadgeteer project, the steampunk weather station and "Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management" free eBook (Greg Duncan)
WinJS Custom Controls (Corrado Cavalli)
FileLoadException: Could not load file for Version 2.0.5.0, Portable Class Library (Derik Whittaker)
Making money with your apps through the Windows Store (Antoine Leblond)
Weak Event (Bnaya Eshet)
Windows 8 Style Apps? (Brent Schooley)

Web Development

Most Popular JavaScript Tokens (Ariya Hidayat)
Partially Applied Functions In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
JavaScript Exactly Equal (Joe Mayo)
3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
Using Toastr with Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Preview) (Michael Washington)
The problem with mobile frameworks (Rob Borley)
APress Deal of the day – 23/Jul/2012 – Web Standards (Tatworth)
Windows Azure Marketplace Update: New Features, Availability in 12 New Countries (Peter Horsman)
New Blob Constructor in IE10 (Sharon Newman)
BSON (Binary JSON) and how your Web API can be even faster (Filip W.)
NPAPI plug-ins in Windows 8 Metro mode (Carlos Pizano)
Orchard 1.5.1 (CodePlex)
Dynamically Injecting Menu Items in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
Quick Tip: 7 Super-Handy PHP Functions for Beginners (Andrew Burgess)

Design / Methodology / Testing

When do you need a 3-tier architecture? (Simon Brown)
If You Write An Article About TDD, Make Sure It Is Correct (Dennis Doomen)
Article: Tackling real-world unit testing problems (Gil Zilberfeld)
Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Building Relationships at a Client (Peter Saddington)
Beyond Agile Estimation Part I: Measuring Key Data Points (Stephen Forte)
Structure of DDD+ES Solution in Visual Studio and Bounded Context is a Team Working Together (Rinat Abdullin)
Game Design: Using PowerPoint with TFS to do storyboards, Part 2 and Game Design: Tools you need to get familiar with, a bunch of downloads and installs (Surf4Fun)
Blackbox testing node.js apps (Swizec Teller)
& Thou Shalt Remember Me in Right Order (Vishal R. Joshi)
#Ebook Deal/Day: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Hours, Velocity, Silo’d Teams, & Gantts (Johanna Rothman)
An easy way to write an integration test with Web API (Ugo Lattanzi)
Time Management Tips #1 – Add Power Hours to Your Week and Time Management Tips #2 – Add Creative Hours and How To Get Your Groove Back On (JD Meier)
Upcoming book on VS 2012 ALM (Brian Harry)
Why Source Control Matters and Hopefully it’s Git (Chris Missal)
How GoF Brought my Understanding of Object Orientation to Another Level (Anders Abel)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone: Pizza Splitter and Getting System Info on Windows Phone and Using Entity Framework to Create Databases on Windows Phone (Adam Benoit)
2000 WPF Things #608 – Class Handlers Are Invoked Before Instance Handlers (Sean Sexton)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.6 (CodePlex)
A Live Tiles Tutorial (Sam Nasr)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 222: Gael Fraiteur on Aspect-Oriented Programming (David Giard)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 444: Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD, Halo 4 Console Sounds RTX . . . (Larry Hyrb)
The Metro Developer Show Episode 076 – “Untitled” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
The Tablet Show – David Bates on the Zombification of Flash (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Start Up Success Podcast #145 – Show #52 Sramana Mitra on Positioning your Startup. (Bob Walsh)
The Vergecast 039 – 07.19.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
TWC9: Dating Windows 8, visiting Napa, cooking Metro, magic Matrix and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
What Is an Arduino Shield and Why Should My Netduino Care? (Brian Peek & Fabien Royer)
Episode 84 – Windows Azure Storage Updates and a Preview of the Client Storage Library vNext | Cloud Cover (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
Windows Weekly 270: We’ll Look Back and Laugh (Paul Thurrott)
90 Seconds on The Verge: Friday, July 20th, 2012 (Ross Miller)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 146 – 07.22.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

SharePoint 2013 at SPTechCon – and SharePint 2013! (Andrew Connell)
Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons – Coming July to September (Brian Hitney)

Database

Plotting SQL Server Data for Data Visualization (Tim Wiseman)
Parallel Execution in SSIS with MaxConcurrentExecutables (Sam Vanga)
PowerPivot import data from SQL Server (Katie & Emil)
Display Line Numbers in a SQL Server Management Studio Query Window (Ashish Kumar Mehta)
SQL Server 2012 – Effective usage of EOMONTH function‏ (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Download SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit – Update July 2012 and SQLAuthority News – 2 SQL Server Documentations Updates and SQL SERVER – Observation of Top with Index and Order of Resultset (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2013 Review: Installation Process (Jason Gaylord)
Installing SharePoint 2013 preview on a standalone, workgroup server (Reidar Husmo)

Miscellaneous

New Programming Jargon (Jeff Atwood)
‘Stupid’ Question 3: What is a compiler and an interpreter, and what is the difference? (Iris Classon)
Metro style and OneNote MX (Christian Nagel)
The new Office Web Apps (Gray Knowlton)
The Unsung Story of the Windows 8 Desktop (Jeremy Likness)
30 More Questions About Windows 8 That I Get Asked All The Time (Jerry Nixon)
Microsoft’s ‘big boobs’ code is a big blunder — get over it (Molly Brown)
Experiencing modern Office with SkyDrive: Cloud-first. No compromises. (Omar Shahine)
Nokia and Windows Phone are misfits (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 21, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Friday Five–July 20, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Collective #21 (Manoela Ilic)
Pie in the Sky (July 20, 2012) (Brian Swan)
The Morning Brew #1151 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #920 (Mike Gunderloy)
Geek Reading July 20, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #28) (Himanshu Singh)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-23 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 7/20/2012 and Daily News Digest 7/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #56 (Frank)
Windows Dev News for July 22, 2012 – #0105 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for July 09 – 15, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
Retrospective 93 – Becoming an #Agile Coach #Series (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts (9780596804169): Barbee Davis, Harry Tucker: Books

ISBN: 0596804164
ISBN-13: 9780596804169

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