Dew Drop – May 2, 2012 (#1,318)

Top Links

• Fast and fluid animations in your Metro style app (Angelina Gambo & Hamid Mahmood)
• Develop HTML5 Windows Phone Apps with Apache Cordova (Colin Eberhardt)
• .NET Rocks! – Glenn Block Does node.js on Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Jeroens Frijters – IKVM.NET (Java VM implemented in .NET) (Charles Torre)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Exceptions dialogs (Daniel Moth)
• Android Ported to C# (Really, the Xamarin team has done a test/experimental/research port of Android to C#) (Greg Duncan)
• Building a WebServer using C# (rockdino)
• Introducing Workspace Reloader – A Visual Studio AddIn to save your open files across project reloads (Scott Hanselman)
• Lights, Camera, Action with Mono for Android Article in Visual Studio Magazine and Playing, Recording, and Editing Video in the iPhone with MonoTouch Article (Wally McClure)
• Stylecop 4.7.18.0 has been released (Tatworth)
• Four Different Ways to Get Windows Azure Accounts and Services (Zhiming Xue)
• Setting Up an Offline Production Debugging Environment (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Problems with portable libraries and object-oriented APIs (Joh.)
• IDisposable for Dummies #1 – Why? What? (Paul Ballard)
• Filling in the UX Gaps in Metro Style apps (Brent Schooley)
• What System Center Can Do for Developers (Andrew J. Brust)
• Isolating Integration Tests with EF4.x, Code First & MSTest (Andrew Connell)
• Etching sketches with a Netduino Go (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Web Development

• New Course on JsRender Templating Fundamentals with JavaScript (John Papa)
• Changes Large and Small: WCF 4.5 and the ASP.NET Web API (Peter Vogel)
• .NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 in Windows Azure (Nicolas Humann)
• CSS: The Good Parts (Louis Lazaris)
• How Are You Scaling ASP.NET? (Michael Kennedy)
• Decoding jQuery – domManip: DOM Manipulation (Shi Chuan)
• HTML5 Accessibility Chops: hidden and aria-hidden (Steve Faulkner)
• Getting started with HTML 5 and JavaScript (Surf4Fun)
• Ajax Control Toolkit May 2012 Release (Stephen Walther)
• Starting out with CoffeeScript (Chad Lung)
• Google App Engine 1.6.5 Release Sees Datastore, Images and Location Enhancements (Romin Irani)
• Multicast Communication in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TestPyramid (Martin Fowler)
• The Zen of python should be the zen of good unit testing and What should a good code review look and feel like? (Roy Osherove)
• Lean tools: Options thinking (Giorgio Sironi)
• Effective Typography-Driven Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
• Metro style applications – designing for the user (Lazar Nikolov)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• “What Time Is It” explained and ported to Windows Phone (Den Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfall (4 of n) (Peter Kuhn)
• 2000 WPF Things #549 – More Colors Than You Know What to Do With (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SQL SERVER – Video – Step by Step Installation of SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Hot Apps: Civilization Revolution, Baconit, Symmetry, Wikitude, Falling Birds (Laura Foy)
• Ping 139: System Center Advisor, Real Life Phaser, Skydrive, DigiGirlz (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
• Video: Using NHibernate to Pluck Data Into Orchard CMS (Paul Ballard)
• Symposium Session: Gadgeteering and the .NET Micro Framework (Pete Brown)
• Engadget HD Podcast 297 – 05.01.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #185: Disentangling our Test (James Shore)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 167: Blackberry World (Gareth)
• Diagnosing Application Issues – 01 (Golnaz & Brad L.)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for May 1st, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8, Windows Phone and Windows Azure Events in May and June 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
• Free XNA Game Programming and Windows Phone 7 Events in Arizona in May (Dan Wahlin)
• Introducing our "Women in IT" Series (Angela Romei)
• The GitHub Data Challenge (Brian Doll)
• The Verge team expands: say hello to our newest writers! (Joshua Topolsky)
• PowerHour Webcast on 5/23/2012: Managing Office 365 with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)
• Talking Cloud Tuesday with Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole (MVP Award Program)
• Virtual Developer Day: Hands-on Database App Development (May 15) – with Big Data and Cloud Sessions (Oracle TechNet)
• Join us on May 8th for a Microsoft TechCast: Using Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 to Create Rich User Experience Apps! (MS Public Sector Team)

 

Database

• Are You Using the Right SQL Server Performance Metrics? (Thomas LaRock)
• How to execute a package from another package? (Sam Vangas)

 

PowerShell

• Don’t Waste Speed – How To Activate The PowerShell Turbo Mode (Tobias Weltner)

 

Miscellaneous

• Trust Me, I’m Lying (Jeff Atwood)
• The ReactOS team wants your money (Alfonso Maruccia)
• “Native applications are catching up to Web applications” (Anders M. Andersen)
• Microsoft Research is looking at ways for you can talk to toast (voice enabling notifications) with SpeechToast (Greg Duncan)
• One week only: Save 50% on Windows 7 ebooks from Microsoft Press (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #871 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1096 and The Morning Brew #1097 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 05/01/2012 and Daily News Digest 5/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for May 01, 2012 – #0077 (Dave Campbell)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–April 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions by Itzik Ben-Gan