Tag: windows blue

Top Links

• One ASP.NET: Nancy.Templates for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance (Steve Michelotti)
• Producing permutations, part seven (Eric Lippert)
• Glimpse 1.3.1 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)

Web Development

• Windows Azure SQL Data Sync – The Maximum Limit For Index or Statistics Key Column List is 16 and Windows Azure SQL Data Sync – Optimizing The Initial Sync Process For Large Data Sets (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Adventures with JSONP and jQuery (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Build a Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Website From Scratch: CSS stylesheet (Annarita Tranfici)
• Using Windows Firewall to restrict access to Windows Azure instances (Tom Hollander)
• ASP.NET hosts six community created SPA templates now (Xinyang Qiu)
• Why JavaScript Is Doomed (John Sonmez)
• New Defaults In Web Design: How Much Has The Web Really Changed? (Vasilis van Gemert)
• XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Store Certification (Mark Arteaga)
• 10 CoffeeScript Features You Might Not Know (Jaco Pretorius)
• Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2 (Juri Strumpflohner)
• Reblogged: What should I learn to get started in .NET and web development? (Michael Kennedy)
• A Collection of Page Transitions (Pedro Botelho)
• How to move or archive your Napa app projects (Ricardo Loo)
• Attacking Web Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 5 Ways to Support High-Density Retina Displays (Craig Buckler)
• Are you a Developer looking for Office 365 directory APIs? (Edward Wu)

XAML

• To Do Today for Windows Phone 8 (Nigel Sampson)
• Integrating with the Windows Phone 8 Lock Screen (Christian Helle)
• Sometimes you just need a donut [chart]… Free ModernUI Charts for WPF, Windows Store Apps (and SilverLight too) (Greg Duncan)
• RSA cryptography between a WinRT and a .Net app (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #814 – You Can Specify a List of Fonts to Try (Sean Sexton)
• When does an app get resized? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• A Fluent Approach to Windows Store Tiles (Jeremy Likness)
• Background processing in Windows 8: Part 2: Allowing Windows 8 applications to execute in the background (Gill Cleeren)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Peeking into NuGet packages with dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)
• Reading mouse input from a console program, and programmatically turning off Quick Edit mode (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #838 – Object and Collection Initializers as Parameters (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Ways to Make Agile Design More Effective (JD Meier)
• Open-Closed Principle in SOLID Object Orientation Rules Challenged (Jan Stenberg)
• Pretty good article advocating for a software testing degree (John Guin)
• Testing design: Testing users impressions of a design (Paul Boag)

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Infinite Scrolling (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Build Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build (Brian Rinaldi)
• Quick-Tip: Convert Coordinate System of a UIView (Torrey Betts)
• Getting in touch with TouchDevelop (Think "From What to Wow") (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 094: Director Chris Columbus and writer Ned Vizzini, authors of House of Secrets (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Pablo Santos Does DVCS with PlasticSCM (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 176: Windows Phone goes mainstream, Best ad ever, Facebook Beta app, MS exec makes a difference | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bob Saget (Chris Hardwick)
• Teaser Trailer: Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Coming July 2013) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Defrag Tools: #39 – Windows Performance Toolkit | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

• The Week Ahead: May 6th, 2013 and SQL Saturday Rochester – May 11th (Jim O’Neil)
• Introducing the Xamarin Speaker Program (Ryan Paul)

Database

• Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 Express (Murali Krishnan)
• SQLAuthority News – Sharding or No Sharding of Database – Working on my Weekend Project (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 2.5 Features: Import data to Excel (Oren Eini)
• Evented github adventure – database storage and backing up (Rob Ashton)

Miscellaneous

• What Microsoft is now saying (and not) about Windows Blue (Mary Jo Foley)
• Now in the Store: Hulu Plus for Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading May 6, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1122 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #93 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1350 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/7/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for May 06, 2013 – #0145 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 6 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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