Dew Drop – May 22, 2012 (#1,332)

Top Links

• Creating a fast and fluid app launch experience (Justin Cooperman) – For Windows 8 Metro apps
• Introducing GitHub For Windows (Phil Haack)
• GitHub for Windows (Tim Clem)
• How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2 (Telerik WP Team)
• Kinect for Windows: SDK and Runtime version 1.5 Released (Craig Eisler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• If you put tripwires in my paths, you won’t get my money and RavenHQ goes out of beta (Oren Eini)
• Under the covers of the async modifier and await operator in .NET 4.5 and C# Metro style applications (Pete Brown)
• Windows 8 C# – Capture Media (Shai Raiten)
• Get started with Windows 8 Metro style app development using JavaScript and HTML5 (Rachel Appel)
• Fixing the certifications issues for the Windows 8 App Store and #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• MonoDevelop 3.0 – Better Code Completion, Performance, Quick-Fix Suggestions (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Metro: Creating a Master/Detail View with a WinJS ListView Control (Stephen Walther)
• Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users (Jesse Taber)
• Sample Browser v5.2 Update (Jialiang Ge)
• Getting Started with Windows 8 Development (Jim O’Neil)
• File system places accessible through WinRT API (Andrei Marukovich)
• LLBLGen Pro feature highlights: assigning attributes based on rules to properties in generated code. (Frans Bouma)

Web Development

• A Gentle Reintroduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Creating an Animated 3D Bouncing Ball with CSS3 (Daniel Sternlicht)
• File Icons using CSS Selectors (Deran Schilling)
• Espresso Tip: Get an element’s entire Html string with jQuery (Jonathan Creamer)
• ASP.NET MVC Beta and RC Upgrades – Confirm your Expectations and Version Numbers in Production Environments (Scott Hanselman)
• APress deal of the day 22/May/2012 – Pro HTML5 Programming (TATWORTH)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 6 – Managing Animated Shapes (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset feature (Troy Hunt)
• Build Starter Apps with Rails Apps Composer version 1.5.0 (Daniel Kehoe)
• About.me Releases Public API, SDK At Disrupt, Now Integrates With Reputation, Smarterer, Forkly, Kred And Showyou (Matt Burns)
• Embedded Excel Services on your Website (Zack Barresse)
• Separate mobile site vs. responsive design (Paul Boag)
• Fun with the Service Bus (Part 2) (Jim O’Neil)
• More Fun with the Windows Azure Service Bus (Brian Oneill)
• Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP (Chad Smith & Derek Woods)
• Diving into CanJS (Curtis Cummings)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD/CQRS Challenge – Integrating Distributed Systems (Rinat Abdullin)
• The surgery metaphor (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Git Bash in Console2 (Nick Berardi)
• Double-loop learning in retrospectives and the Lean Startup (Anand Vishwanath)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Only One Dialog Box is Allowed in Silverlight (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows Phone 8 concept shows serious potential (Brad Sams)
• The correct AdventureWorks database to use for Silverlight 5 in Action (and Silverlight 4 in Action) book examples (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #563 – Additional Effects in Expression SDK (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Beth Massi Builds Apps with LightSwitch in Studio 11 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 86: Announcing GitHub for Windows (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 213: Max Trinidad on Powershell (David Giard)
• Episode 186 – PowerScripting Podcast – The Scripting Games Winners with Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Metro Developer Podcast Episode 067 – “that SHOW Pho Sure” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Tablet Show – Greg Shackles Does Cross Platform Mobile Development with C# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside Windows Phone #38 | Nikola Mihaylov, the Developer Behind Fantasia Painter | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Walkthrough: Designing Metro style apps with XAML Designer in VS and Blend | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Navit Saxena)
• Project Detroit: Lighting System (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 – Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & More (Dan Fernandez)
• Building Windows Runtime Components with C++ | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Harry Pierson)
• Herb Sutter: Visual C++ for Windows 8 | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Herb Sutter)
• Getting the most out of the C++ compiler | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Jim Hogg)
• Ping 142: Siri speaks, Xbox in the den, E3, Microsoft at the races | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Using Caching Policies in the Enterprise Library Caching Application Block (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• More Windows 8 Developer Camps! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spec by Example mentoring programme (Gojko Adzic)
• Announcing the 90 regional finalists of the Google Science Fair 2012 (Sam Peter)
• Build the Next Great App at AngelHack June 23-24, 2012 (Amy Conklin)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on MonoTouch with XCode 4 and iOS 5 (Paul Ballard)
• Disrupt NYC Day 1: Your Startup Battlefield Companies (Elin Blesener)
• node.js in the cloud with Windows Azure activities in Oslo (Glenn Block)

Database

• What happens when a SSAS Tabular model exceeds memory? (James Serra)
• SQL Server 2008 SP3 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SSIS Reporting Pack v0.4 – Execution Report updated (Jamie Thomson)
• Using Sequence in SQL Server 2012 (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – SmallDateTime and Precision – A Continuous Confusion (Pinal Dave)
• ‘Fastest Consistent Database’ Claims MVVM Affinity (David Ramel)
• BIxPress 3.5–Now With More Awesome! (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft adCenter Desktop (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Launched the So.cl Social Media Program (George Garza)
• Windows Server 2012’s Data Deduplication – What is it, how will it help you and why you should care… and How to Excel with the Azure Data Hub (Greg Duncan)
• Computer Algorithms: Minimum and Maximum (Stoimen Popov)
• DuckDuckGo Zero-Click Info Adds Instant Answers to Google [Chrome Extensions] (Thorin Klosowski)
• New official wallpapers for your Windows Phone (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #885 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1110 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 5/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Reading Notes #47 (Frank)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 A Beginners Guide 5/E (Beginner’s Guides) by Dusan Petkovic