Dew Drop – November 14, 2012 (#1,442)
Top Links
- ReSharper 7.1 is Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Improve perceived performance of ASP.NET MVC websites with asynchronous partial views (Michael Kennedy)
- Getting Started with the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2 (Beth Massi)
- Who is Julie Larson-Green? Meet the new head of Windows and Sinofsky’s departure from Microsoft: Politics or products to blame? (Mary Jo Foley)
Web Development
- Sending e-mail from Windows Azure and A phone call from the cloud: Windows Azure, SignalR & Twilio (Maarten Balliauw)
- Microsoft updates ‘Napa’ and ‘LightSwitch developer tools (Mary Jo Foley)
- JavaScript The Good Parts Reviewed (Steve Smith)
- Enable Automatic Code First Migrations On SQL Database in Azure Web Sites (Steve Michelotti)
- JavaScript Object Creation by New Operator (Alexander Beletsky)
- Getting Started with Parse (Tilo Mitra)
- What is Node.JS all about? (Claire Sawyers)
- Working with Array of Arrays in JavaScript and What is Associative Array in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
- How and why to avoid mixing your mark-up and serverside code (Rachel Andrew)
- jQuery 1.8.3 Released (Dave Methvin)
- Creative CSS Loading Animations (Hugo Giraudel)
- Announcing LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2! (John Stallo)
- New LightSwitch HTML Client APIs (Steven Provine)
- JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of (and some you have) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit (Scott Forsyth)
- Interacting with Databases for Web Developers in VS 2012 (Pranav Rastogi)
- Variable declarations: three rules you can break (Axel Rauschmayer)
- W3C Charters Pointer Events Working Group (Jacob Rossi)
- IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7 (Rob Mauceri)
- Understanding HEAD, HTTP/204 and HTTP/206 (Eric Lawrence)
- Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 Preview (damaster)
- Using Mental Models When Designing Web Applications (DevToolsGuy)
- Implementing a MapReduce Join with Hadoop and the .Net Framework (Carl Nolan)
XAML
- Are you a Windows Phone developer? Try being part of www.dvlup.com and enjoy the perks (Avkash Chauhan)
- Features of Windows Phone 7.8 detailed in leaked Nokia sales training slides (damaster)
- A WinRT behavior to mimic EventToCommand (take 2) (Joost van Schaik)
- 2000 WPF Things #689 – An Application Can Lose Its Mouse Capture and #690 – Being Notified When Mouse Capture Is Lost (Sean Sexton)
- Sinofsky and Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
- DirectX and XAML in Windows (Phone) 8: RT Component and C# Integration (Toni Petrina)
- Windows 8 Store Apps–Debugging Background Tasks (Mike Taulty)
- Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 9) – Share Contract using DataTransferManager (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #13: Navigation and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #14: Geolocation (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Common certification errors when submitting to the Windows Store and Common Windows Store certification errors: 1.2 App must be fully functional (Jennifer Marsman)
- Answering your Windows 8 Questions (Jeremy Likness)
- Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 7: Working with sockets from a Windows 8 application (Gill Cleeren)
- Windows Store Tips:Follow the company developer account guidelines (Eric Nelson)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Visual Studio Preview Tab (Richard Carr)
- Expert F# 3.0 (Don Syme)
- Nicer Client Properties For EasyNetQ (Mike Hadlow)
- Visual Studio 2012 and JustCode shortcuts cheat sheet (Емил Табаков)
- Code First Stored Procedures (aureolin)
- IntelliTrace: Making On Time Shipping Possible (John Robbins)
- Top 11 Reasons to Visit the Hilo Docs in the MSDN Library (Eric Battalio)
- Why is deriving a public class from an internal class illegal? (Eric Lippert)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Deployment Automation Patterns Refcardz (reg-ware) – "The Essential Deployment Automation Patterns Cheat Sheet" (Greg Duncan)
- Midbook pattern crisis: Do NOT reach for that pattern and Design patterns in the test of time: Flyweight (Oren Eini)
- Game on! How to Retain Your Top Performing Millennials. (Ryan Jenkins)
- My Defacto .gitignore file (Kevin Griffin)
- Working Long? Rethink Why (Johanna Rothman)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Introducing Android 4.2, A New and Improved Jelly Bean (Angana Ghosh & Dirk Dougherty)
- iOS, Android, Firefox OS: HERE is available everywhere (Pino Bonetti)
- Creating a Netflix style iOS Grid (Stephen Zaharuk)
- Nokia Maps Spin-Off: Welcome to HERE (Antonio Hernandez)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 075: Oliver Sacks’ Hallucinations (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Oren Eini Does NoSQL First (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Inside Windows 8: Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya – The Windows Runtime (Charles Torre)
- Webinar Recording on Cross Platform Development with MonoTouch and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
- A conversation with Steve Marx (John Sheehan)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly and Sophie Winkleman and The Nerdist Podcast – Max Landis (Chris Hardwick)
- ShopTalk Episode #42 (Chris Coyier)
- Yet Another Podcast #81–Mary Jo Foley on /Build &Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
- Defrag Tools: #14 – WinDbg – SOS | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
- Ping 159: SkyDrive, SmartGlass, Skype takes over, Microsoft reinvents itself | Ping! (Laura Foy)
- People Talking Tech Episode 011 – Chris Ross (Denny Cherry)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 68 (Richard Hay)
- Bill Gates: 13 Talks That Expanded My Worldview (TED Talks)
- Engadget HD Podcast 324 – 11.13.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- SQL PASS Summit 2012 in Review (Tim Mitchell)
- Free online Windows AzureConf this Wednesday (Scott Guthrie)
- Meet the Author: Jon Flanders on Introduction to the ASP.NET Web API (Paul Ballard)
- Windows Azure Open Services Summit – use any OS, database, language, tool (Sara Allison)
- OpenROV at Node.js Conf Italy and Maker Italy (Simone Chiaretta)
- Interview with Robin Berjon, HTML5 editor (Bruce Lawson)
- Help select a new Fiddler logo! (Eric Lawrence)
- Drinkup in Raleigh, NC (Jared Pace)
- “Coffee and Code” event in Microsoft Southfield office (Jennifer Marsman)
- Announcing the Windows 8 Apps for Good Contest (MS Public Sector Team)
Database
- Auditing SQL Server 2012 Server Roles (K. Brian Kelley)
- Why SQL Server Named Instance connect without specifying instance name ? and SQL Server || Compress & UnComprees Backups in one Media\File (Rohit Garg)
- SQL SERVER – Rename Columnname or Tablename – SQL in Sixty Seconds #032 – Video (Pinal Dave)
- MICROSOFT REPORT VIEWER 2012 RUNTIME (MS Downloads)
- A dacpac limitation – Deploy dacpac wizard does not understand SqlCmd variables (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
- Customize the SharePoint 2013 search experience with a Content Enrichment web service (Kathrine Hammervold)
- Building Apps for Office and SharePoint (S.Somasegar)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Stack for Startups (Jason Gaylord)
- From iPad to Surface: Landscape vs. Portrait (Nick Landry)
- Microsoft gifting 10-year anniversary Xbox 360s to long-term Xbox Live loyalists (Ben Gilbert)
- Forget Sinofski (Charles Young)
- Living With Lumia: Day 1, Getting Into the Groove (Christina Warren)
- Kid’s Corner having PIN problems? (George Ponder)
- Stupid Question 80: Do you have to have an open source project to be taken serious as a programmer? and Stupid Question 81: Why did Microsoft’s Windows chief Steven Sinofsky quit? (Iris Classon)
- Ed Wilson: The problem with Frankenstein (Ed Wilson)
- SINOFSKY’S FINAL MEMO: I Wasn’t Fired. I Quit. And I’m Ready To Compete With Microsoft (MSFT) (Nicholas Carlson)
- Sinofsky’s departure gives me hope for Windows (Rockford Lhotka)
- The fall of Sinofsky ..where’s the gold plated AK47? (Scott Barnes)
- Steve Ballmer’s letter to team on Sinofsky departure (Sean Hollister)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 13, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading November 12, 2012 and Geek Reading November 13, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #1000 and Double Shot #1001 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily Links 14 Nov 2012 (Jax)
- Reading Notes #70 (Frank)
- Daily News Digest 11/12/2012 and Daily News Digest 11/13/2012 and Daily News Digest 11/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-13 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1231 and The Morning Brew #1232 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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