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Top Links

• Indigo Studio Design Rationale – An Interaction Design Tool (Ambrose Little)
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements For Windows 8 App Development (Karsten Januszewski)
• Expanding our commitment to Windows Store games (Antoine Leblond)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 canvas performance: Drawing circles (Daniel Davis)
• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 124.237 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Using Underscore.js’s debounce() to filter double-clicks (Amy Lee)
• Ant Task to Validate JavaScript (Ariya Hidayat)
• JavaScript puzzle: equal, but not the same (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Installing Windows Azure SDK on Visual Studio 2012 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Show More pagination with angular.js (Jef Claes)
• Responsive Patterns, automatic jQuery app tester, RESTClient for debugging – Hacks Weekly (Robert Nyman)
• Writing JavaScript That Implements The Binding Pattern In Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• "HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts." Series (Greg Duncan)
• Using meta viewport (Pete LePage)
• Indulging in Futurology: How will we build web applications in the future? (Ian Cooper)
• Node Application Server with CouchDB (Keyhole Software)
• Ignite UI Tree Drag & Drop (Damyan Petev)
• Moving Applications to the Cloud, 3rd Edition – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• YUI 3.8.0 – Y.Color, Templates, and more! (Andrew Wooldridge)

 

XAML

• Just Released: WPF Diagrams 3.0! (Jason Fauchelle)
• Windows 8 XAML Video Player: Easy Globalization / Translations (Jon Antoine)
• Enumerating Cameras and Camera Locations on Your Surface RT (Jeff Prosise)
• Reason: Telerik RadHtmlPlaceholder control for Silverlight refuses to open certain Websites (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone StringFormat Binding And Blend (Matthias Shapiro)
• Robot Work – Reducing the Windows Phone Localization Friction a bit (Rene Schulte)
• 2000 WPF Things #711 – Changing the Mouse Cursor While Dragging (Sean Sexton)
• Working With Static NFC Cards on Windows Phone 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Building Great apps step 1 : Refining your app idea (Susan Ibach)
• App Certification Holiday Schedule: Open for Business (Todd Brix)
• Sharing from your app (Ishita Kapur)
• Windows 8: Adding An AppBar to Conference Buddy (Jesse Liberty)
• LightSpeed 5 beta is out! (John-Daniel Trask)
• OSMinVersion must have value 6.2.1 or higher in Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Sidekicks is available for TFS 2012 (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio 2012 Presentation Mode (Nathan Totten)
• Refresh Database–Speed up Your Development Cycles (Rob Reynolds)
• NuGet Package Restore from a secured feed and NuGet Package Restore using solution-specific NuGet.config (Xavier Decoster)
• How am I supposed to free the information returned by the GetSecurityInfo function? (Raymond Chen)
• Process.Start() and ShellExecute() fail with URLs on Windows 8 (Rick Strahl)
• Stupid Question 101: Are there any coding standards documents for .Net? (Iris Classon)
• .NET Framework 4.5 Multi-Threaded Globalization (Eric Vogel)
• Way to Lambda (Florian Rappl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Reviews: Understanding and Breaking the Stigma (Zac Gery)
• The danger of large releases: Trenord case study (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Art of Productivity (Dan Wahlin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 078: Joshuah Bearman and ARGO (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Faster Development Cycles at Better Software (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Bind Your Way with DataConverters in JavaScript and HTML Apps for Windows 8 (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Malcolm McDowell (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 029 – December 11th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Boagworld – Volia vs Skitch, Hammer vs Mixture, Mailchimp and CarTunes (Paul Boag)
• DevOps and Continuous Integration: The Basics (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• I’m Presenting at the SharePoint 2013 Evolution Conference (Andrew Connell)
• Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers agenda (free streaming event) (Iris Classon)
• Inside Microsoft Research: Grudin Joins Ranks of ACM Fellows (Rob Knies)

 

Database

• SQL Server Clustering Myths (Burt King)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 12: Proactive notifications (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB indexing optimizations, Step II–Pre Fetching (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Drag and Drop Load Test Results and a Few Tips (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• An update to the Microsoft Camera Codec pack is available (Aaron Bregel)
• Author news: A call for authors and technical editors (Kim Spilker)
• Looking for that Google app for your Windows Phone? Don’t hold your breath (Sam Sabri)
• What’s new for gamers in Windows Phone 8 (Alex Weingart)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Talking about .NET in the Community Press (Brandon Bray)
• Geek Reading December 12, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1022 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1253 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 13, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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