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Dew Drop – May 22, 2013 (#1,552)

Top Links

Regional Differences (Steve Smith)
Benchmarking mistakes, part two (Eric Lippert)
Introducing a New Generation of Xbox Live (Xbox Team)
Introducing Xbox One and Xbox One and Used Games (Larry Hryb)

Xbox

Microsoft bringing the new Kinect to Windows (Tim Schiesser)
Xbox One lets households share one Xbox Live Gold subscription across multiple accounts (Tom Warren)
Microsoft Xbox One: everything you need to know (Verge Staff)
More Xbox One details emerge: TV integration, Second-hand play, more (Kip Kniskern)
VIDEO: Xbox One revealed (Steve Clayton)
Xbox One installs discs to the HDD, friends list capped at 1,000 (Ben Gilbert)

Web Development

Web programming (HTML5/CSS3/jQuery) for beginners – the journey starts here… (Brent Schooley)
Compiling to JavaScript, and Debugging with Source Maps (Nick Fitzgerald)
How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line) (Scott Hanselman)
Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23 (Rob Campbell)
Dynamically Loading Controllers and Views with AngularJS and RequireJS (Dan Wahlin)
Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Recommendations (Jatinder Mann)
Take a Walk on the Client Side with WebAPI and WebForms – Part 2 (Jeff Fritz)
The Right Way to Retinafy Your Websites (Allan Berger)

XAML

Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2 (Adam Denning)
Blend for Visual Studio 2012 nice touch #2 (Eric Nelson)
ReversiEight – A Windows 8 Reversi Game (Colin Eberhardt)
Extended WPF Toolkit gets all v2.0 and now includes AvalonDock too! (Greg Duncan)
New version of Syncfusion Metro Studio V2 (I. Haynes)
2000 WPF Things #825 – Two Way Binding for a CheckBox (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

Thread-Safe Queues with ConcurrentQueue (Richard Carr)
Creating the Virtual Experiment Laboratory app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit (Roberto Sonnino)
2000 C# Things #849 – Using the Call Stack in Visual Studio to Navigate within Your Code (Sean Sexton)
Rhino Mocks New Home (Mike Meisinger)
Step-by-Step – Making Windows 8 Pong for a complete beginner (Susan Ibach)
Getting the current system language (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Image Processing with C++ AMP and the .NET Framework (Eric Battalio)
Cloning, inserting and deleting PowerPoint slides using OpenXML SDK (Jimmy Larkin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit Testing with the Test Studio Framework (Phil Japikse)
Never wireframe alone (Paul Boag)
Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably (Derek Huether)
Functional Testing with the Telerik Testing Framework (Jim Holmes)
3 Ways to Focus under Pressure (Brad Egeland)

Other Mobile Platforms

Beginner’s Android Development Tutorial (Eric Genesky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 228 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Darren Mar-Elia talks Group Policy and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
SharePoint Pod Show – SharePoint Apps, Apps in general, and client side development with Bill Ayres-Episode 80 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
The Nerdist Podcast – Band of Horses (Chris Hardwick)
Engadget HD Podcast 350 – 05.21.13 (Joe Pollicino)

Community / Events

Enter your app in the “Re-imagining Consumer Health with Windows 8 and HealthVault Challenge” (Ben Thompson)
FubuMVC at Monkeyspaces (Jeremy D. Miller)
Stay Connected with the Ch9 Events App (Mark DeFalco)
Join me Wednesday for an Yahoo! Chat (Larry Hryb)
Final ALM Certification Jumpstarts May 28th and May 29th (Charles Sterling)

Database

SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #15 : flush data to disk immediately (Erik EJ)

Miscellaneous

Father of GIFs: ‘It’s Pronounced JIF’ (Brian Anthony Hernandez)
How to turn up PluralSight video playback speed to 11! (Jon Gallant)
Software Engineer Interview Questions (Marie Berdini)
Meet the world’s smartest watch on Kickstarter: AGENT (Rich Edmonds)
How is Small Basic different from QBASIC and VB.Net? (Ed Price)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 22, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 21st (Rob Caron)
Double Shot #1133 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: May 22, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 5/22/2013 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1361 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Maintainable JavaScript (9781449327682): Nicholas C. Zakas: Books

ISBN: 1449327680
ISBN-13: 9781449327682

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Dew Drop – November 5, 2012 (#1,436)

Top Links

31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #3: The Splash Screen and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #5: Settings Contract (Jeff Blankenburg)
What’s New in the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update? and Inside the New Single Page Apps Template (John Papa)
Touring the Windows Phone 8 Dev Center (Todd Brix)
Simple Type Safe Coding in Microsoft’s C# (Peter Kellner)
Anti-security company VUPEN claims to have broken Windows 8 & Explorer 10, will sell exploits to cops, governments & wiretapping vendors (Cory Doctorow)

Web Development

Creating Ignite UI Cloud Applications – Using Spatial Data with Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1) (Mihail Mateev)
What’s new in Fiddler 2.4.1.1 (Eric Lawrence)
jQuery Modal Dialog with Dynamic Content (Abey Thomas)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0.4 released (Alexey Gopachenko)
Sorting of JavaScript Array (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage to Enable Higher Scalability Targets (Hanu Kommalapati)
JavaScript Style Badge – A Visual Fingerprint of your Coding Preferences (Hirvesh Munogee)
Heading Set Styling with CSS (Hugo Giraudel)
Fubu Updates and Announcements (Josh Arnold)
Preloading Multiple Audio Tags in Internet Explorer 9 (Kevin Griffin)
Beware the Perils of JavaScript (Merrick Chaffer)
New and Updated Windows Azure Services at a Glance and Windows Azure Poster for Download (Zhiming Xue)
Clarifying Windows Phone 8 HTML5 Apps (Shawn Wildermuth)
Building Windows Store Apps in HTML5 for Your Surface RT (Jeff Prosise)
ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4.4, N-Tier, jQuery) v8 (CodePlex)
More HTTP/2.0 Prototyping: a Suggested Approach to the Protocol Upgrade (Adalberto Foresti)
Browser Zoom – Why Does It Break Your Page And How To Avoid It (Marin Bratanov)

XAML

What`s new in Windows Phone 8 SDK for developers (Yordan Pavlov)
Windows Phone 8 Multi-Touch Behaviors available on CodePlex (Davide Zordan)
Designing Dashboards with MVVM – Useful Patterns (Filip Karadzic)
Windows Phone Power Tools 2.0 Beta for WP 8 (Greg Duncan)
Windows 8 Print Contract – Create Your Own Print Document Source (Gil Fink)
Example Windows Store App & Portable Class Library: How to access and use PCL resources and Problem: BCL Portability Pack for .NET Framework 4, Silverlight 4 and 5, and WP not installing and WinRT app guide: Step 14: Adding layout awereness and snapped view, disabling portrait view (Iris Classon)
TIP: Make a WPF dialog/window as application modal (Jaime Olivares)
Working with Google Drive in WPF (Jason Gleim)
The story behind the Windows Phone 8 Start screen (Josh Phillips)
Q&A: The new Windows Phone 8 lock screen (Michael Stroh)
Windows Phone 8 SDK: Accessing Content from an SD Card and Develop for Windows Phone and Windows using Portable Class Library (Nick Randolph)
All the New Features for Windows Phone 8 Developers (Matteo Pagani)
How to extend a WPF Textbox to Custom Picker (Sandeep Mewara)
2000 WPF Things #683 – MouseUp Can Happen in Different Control from MouseDown (Sean Sexton)
Time To Start Developing For Windows Phone 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)
First Look at WP8 – Project Template and Manifest File (Kunal Chowdhury)
RadAutoCompleteBox–An Annotated Demo (Jesse Liberty)
Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 6: Integrating the cloud through the Live SDK and roaming data (Gill Cleeren)
Planning the Windows 8 Cookbook (Dennis Doomen)

Miscellaneous .NET

Local Workspaces in TFS 2012 (Mickey Gousset)
Obtaining a Stack Trace (Richard Carr)
IntelliCommand – Your VS2010/2012 Keyboard Shortcut Padawan Learner extension (Think "Damn, what was that shortcut combo?" helper) and Getting sharp with F# with the free "F# Succinctly" eBook [reg-ware] (Greg Duncan)
Mocking LINQ Queries (JustMock Team)
How do I parse a string into a FILETIME? (Raymond Chen)
Back to Basics: When does a .NET Assembly Dependency get loaded (Rick Strahl)
Using Unity for IoC and DI (Rizvi Hasan)
LLBLGen Pro and JSON serialization (Frans Bouma)
Announcing November CTP of the C++ compiler, now with more C++11 (Eric Battalio)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Component Deployment (Simon Brown)
Unit Level BDD Using SubSpec (Dror Helper)
Self-Transformation: The Most Powerful Way to Get Unstuck and 80/20 People vs. Perpetually Incomplete People (JD Meier)
How to Calculate Budgets For Agile Teams (Jesse Fewell)
Design patterns in the test of time: Composite (Oren Eini)
A bizarre idea called "Software testing factory" (Shrini Kulkarni)
Initial thoughts on some new-fangled things part 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
More on Flexible Locators (Jim Holmes)
Git-TF 2.0 update available (Brian Harry)
GitHub Service Hooks: AppHarbor (Christopher Geers)
Friday with Filip – Dependency cycles & Spaghetti code (Filip Ekberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

100K Android Apps in Google Play Are ‘Suspicious’ [INFOGRAPHIC] (Anita Li)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 074: Lost at Sea with Jon Ronson (Mark Frauenfelder)
Technology & Friends Episode 237: Clark Sell on Clark’s Garage (David Giard)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 456: Halo 4 (Larry Hyrb)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 091 – “Build Blogger Bash 2012″ (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
034 JSJ Ember.js (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
New Tabletop: Star Fluxx! (Felicia Day)
The Tablet Show – Brian Noyes Builds LOB Apps in Win 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Vergecast 053 – November 1st, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++, 6 of n | C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++ (Charles Torre & Stephan T. Javavej)
Imagine Cup BUILD 2012 (Jritz)
SitePoint Podcast #186: Freelancing with Michael Kimsal (Karn Broad)
Windows Weekly 285: My Tongue Hurts (Paul Thurrott)
VIDEO: Touring the remodeled HUB Seattle (Taylor Soper)
Video: RESTful API Architecture (Adam DuVander)

Community / Events

New: Windows Consumer Apps MVP (Kip Kniskern)
Download All the Build Videos, while you sleep (Eric Hexter)
SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend #SQLPASS Summit 2012 – Seattle (Pinal Dave)
Catch me at the PowerShell Summit spring 2013! (Adam Driscoll)
3 great things we saw at BUILD 2012 (Alan Buckingham)
Learn DevExpress XAF – Courses in the USA and Europe (Oliver Sturm)
Nerd Nite No. 20! November 7, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful Than Ever Webinar (Phil Japikse)

Database

Conditional formatting of duplicate values in Excel (Jamie Thomson)
Different keys with RavenDb (Ugo Lattanzi)

SharePoint

Creating a SharePoint Key Performance Indicator (KPI) (Brady Upton)

PowerShell

New Powershell command line goodies for Windows Azure at #bldwin (Glenn Block)

Miscellaneous

How much do you have to pay to use Office 2013 RT for work? (Ed Bott)
Nokia Lumia 920 concert video confirms that its mono Rich Recording is nothing to sniff at (Phone Arena Team)
Product Review: Microsoft Surface RT (Andrew Connell)
Apple Only Paid 1.9% Tax On Foreign Earnings Of $37 Billion Last Year (AP)
What is the best display aspect ratio for tablets? (Axel Rauschmayer)
Why Win8 Picture Password is Not Secure and Word as a Blog Writer? Finally? (Charlie Kindel)
Latest Rumor: AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 coming Nov 9th with free charge pad and Developer edition of the Nokia Lumia 920 is a one of a kind pentaband (Daniel Rubino)
Small Basic – The Gas Physics Challenge (Ed Price)
Stupid Question 72: What is a SDK? (Iris Classon)
For Microsoft, now the hard work begins (Kip Kniskern)
Commentary: Microsoft Surface breaks out of the walled garden (Nat Burgess)
Microsoft Bets There Will Be Touching Everywhere (Rob Bazinet)
Microsoft Surface Diary: Bing, SmartGlass and settling in with our tablet (Todd Bishop)
Hacktivism is dead. Long live opportunism! (Troy Hunt)
From iPad to Surface – Day 5: Favorite Fridays (Nick Landry)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 3, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading November 2, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Pie in the Sky (November 2, 2012) (Larry Franks)
Collective #36 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #994 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five – November 2, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Reading Notes #69 (Frank)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-11-05 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #1225 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 2 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 2 Nov 2012 and Weekly Windows Phone Development News 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/2/2012) and Daily News Digest 11/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #43) (Himanshu Singh)

The Geek Shelf

Mobile Development with C#: Building Native iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Applications: Greg Shackles: Kindle Store

ASIN: B0081INXBG

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Dew Drop – July 13, 2011

Top Links

SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP3 Released! (Brian McDonald)
Small Basic 1.0 is here! (Sandra Aldana)
Announcing the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK Release (Pete Brown)
Stacks and queues in JavaScript (Jef Claes)

.NET / Visual Studio

ForEach Method for the collections (Abhijit Jana)
Tracking Changes in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Switching Visual Studio Environment Tools with Powershell and SlightlyPosher (Naeem Khedarun)
Detecting and Changing a File’s Internet Zone in .NET: Alternate Data Streams (Mike Hadlow)
Refactorings specific to auto-implemented properties (Alex Skorkin)
Entity Framework 4.1 managing relations (Gian Maria Ricci)
What curious property does this string have? (Eric Lippert)
Interactive WinForm Tag Cloud Control (Think “Cool, I can add a Word/Tag Cloud thing to my WinForm app!”) and Kinect Buttons (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 (Gil Fink)
When the Overlords Demand WebForms You Can Still Do MVC (J.P. Hamilton)
A JavaScript Trick You Should Know (Stoimen Popov)
NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Windows Azure Team)
Lockdown Pt 2– Sanitization and Data Security (Tim Kulp)
Cloud-based Development via Node.js and Cloud9 IDE Integration Coming Soon (Rey Bango)
Getting Started with the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Nathan Totten)
SassAndCoffee hits 1.0! (Paul Betts)
Debugging Web Workers in IE10 (Jonathan Carter & Gaurav Seth)
Exploring CoffeeScript Part 3 – More on Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Maarten Balliauw)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Method (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Registries and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Conventions (Josh Arnold)
Documenting Key End-to-End Deployment Scenarios (Vishal Joshi)
Thinking of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors (Jeevak Kasarkod)
Why Can’t Software Development Be More Like Sports? (Jeff Blankenburg)
Distributed Version Control is a Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)
Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VIII–CRUD is so 90s (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Creating a Soundboard (Rudi Grobler)
12 "All about WP7 Isolated Storage" articles (Windows Phone Geek)
How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML? (Kunal Chowdhury)
A Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application : Part 1 of 2 (Understanding OAuth) (Sudheer Kovalam)
Blog Post: Community Spotlight: Silverlight MVVM Templates (T. DuPont)
Background Agents – Part 2 of 3 and Background Agents – Part 3 of 3 (Peter Torr)
Extending a XamRibbon ButtonTool to execute ICommands (Devin Rader)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

How Do I: Efficiently Query a SQL Server Compact Database Using LINQ? (MS Podcasts)
Boagworld – Helping users find content and take action (Paul Boag)
Yet Another Podcast #42–Colin Blair and RIA Services (Jesse Liberty)
Hot Apps: Angry Birds, Hungry Pigs, Mosaic, MTV News, Pirates Assault (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2011 (Andrew Connell)
People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often! (Surf4Fun)
PowerShell Deep Dive @ The Experts Conference Europe 2011 (Travis Jones)
Steve Ballmer at WPC: the Zune Confusion (Kip Kniskern)
Author news: Charles Petzold reading in Seattle on Thursday (Devon Musgrave)
Top Students Descend on Microsoft Research Cambridge (Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche & Kenji Takeda)

Database

CTP3 is Here! Five Things to Know About the Next Version of SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.1 Supports SQL Server v-Next (Brian Swan)
Using PowerShell to manage SQL Server Compact database files (Erik EJ)
SSIS enhancements in Denali CTP3 (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server Denali CTP3: Policy Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
Automating Web App Deployments with SSIS (Jorge Segarra)
SQL Server Codename “Denali” CTP3 Resources (Jose Chinchilla)
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 13 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Query to Find Duplicate Indexes – Script to Find Redundant Indexes (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1–new table hint options for FORCESEEK and FORECSCAN (Simon Sabin)
SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY GROUPING SETS() (Vishal)
SQLDIY: Index Usage Statistics (Wesley Brown)
How to move the Model Database (Ryan Adams)
Copying parent-child rows and SQL Dependency Tracker (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

SharePoint provision default WebParts for MySites (Greg Galipeau)
Troubleshooting IIS and SharePoint When a Worker Process Goes Haywire (Joel Oleson)
Chat Web Part for SharePoint 2010 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

FUSE Labs Releases CompanyCrowd (MS FUSE Labs)
A New Android Market for Phones (Dirk Dougherty)
Running Dropbox as a service on Windows Server 2008 (Peter von Lochow)
Will the Xbox 720 run Windows 8? (Sebastian Anthony)
Just Announced: Windows Azure Marketplace Expands Application Selling Capabilities In US Markets (Windows Azure Team)
Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer (Adam Kinney)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – July 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Daily WP7 Development News 12 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Today’s Links (7/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #893 (Chris Alcock)
MS Surface: Links to SDK and Resources (Luis Cabrera)
70 Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tutorials You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)
Daily News Digest 07/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan Rasmusson

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