Dew Drop – November 5, 2012 (#1,436)

Top Links

• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #3: The Splash Screen and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #5: Settings Contract (Jeff Blankenburg)
• What’s New in the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update? and Inside the New Single Page Apps Template (John Papa)
• Touring the Windows Phone 8 Dev Center (Todd Brix)
• Simple Type Safe Coding in Microsoft’s C# (Peter Kellner)
• Anti-security company VUPEN claims to have broken Windows 8 & Explorer 10, will sell exploits to cops, governments & wiretapping vendors (Cory Doctorow)

 

Web Development

• Creating Ignite UI Cloud Applications – Using Spatial Data with Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1) (Mihail Mateev)
• What’s new in Fiddler 2.4.1.1 (Eric Lawrence)
• jQuery Modal Dialog with Dynamic Content (Abey Thomas)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0.4 released (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Sorting of JavaScript Array (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage to Enable Higher Scalability Targets (Hanu Kommalapati)
• JavaScript Style Badge – A Visual Fingerprint of your Coding Preferences (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Heading Set Styling with CSS (Hugo Giraudel)
• Fubu Updates and Announcements (Josh Arnold)
• Preloading Multiple Audio Tags in Internet Explorer 9 (Kevin Griffin)
• Beware the Perils of JavaScript (Merrick Chaffer)
• New and Updated Windows Azure Services at a Glance and Windows Azure Poster for Download (Zhiming Xue)
• Clarifying Windows Phone 8 HTML5 Apps (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Building Windows Store Apps in HTML5 for Your Surface RT (Jeff Prosise)
• ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4.4, N-Tier, jQuery) v8 (CodePlex)
• More HTTP/2.0 Prototyping: a Suggested Approach to the Protocol Upgrade (Adalberto Foresti)
• Browser Zoom – Why Does It Break Your Page And How To Avoid It (Marin Bratanov)

 

XAML

• What`s new in Windows Phone 8 SDK for developers (Yordan Pavlov)
• Windows Phone 8 Multi-Touch Behaviors available on CodePlex (Davide Zordan)
• Designing Dashboards with MVVM – Useful Patterns (Filip Karadzic)
• Windows Phone Power Tools 2.0 Beta for WP 8 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Print Contract – Create Your Own Print Document Source (Gil Fink)
• Example Windows Store App & Portable Class Library: How to access and use PCL resources and Problem: BCL Portability Pack for .NET Framework 4, Silverlight 4 and 5, and WP not installing and WinRT app guide: Step 14: Adding layout awereness and snapped view, disabling portrait view (Iris Classon)
• TIP: Make a WPF dialog/window as application modal (Jaime Olivares)
• Working with Google Drive in WPF (Jason Gleim)
• The story behind the Windows Phone 8 Start screen (Josh Phillips)
• Q&A: The new Windows Phone 8 lock screen (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone 8 SDK: Accessing Content from an SD Card and Develop for Windows Phone and Windows using Portable Class Library (Nick Randolph)
• All the New Features for Windows Phone 8 Developers (Matteo Pagani)
• How to extend a WPF Textbox to Custom Picker (Sandeep Mewara)
• 2000 WPF Things #683 – MouseUp Can Happen in Different Control from MouseDown (Sean Sexton)
• Time To Start Developing For Windows Phone 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• First Look at WP8 – Project Template and Manifest File (Kunal Chowdhury)
• RadAutoCompleteBox–An Annotated Demo (Jesse Liberty)
• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 6: Integrating the cloud through the Live SDK and roaming data (Gill Cleeren)
• Planning the Windows 8 Cookbook (Dennis Doomen)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Local Workspaces in TFS 2012 (Mickey Gousset)
• Obtaining a Stack Trace (Richard Carr)
• IntelliCommand – Your VS2010/2012 Keyboard Shortcut Padawan Learner extension (Think "Damn, what was that shortcut combo?" helper) and Getting sharp with F# with the free "F# Succinctly" eBook [reg-ware] (Greg Duncan)
• Mocking LINQ Queries (JustMock Team)
• How do I parse a string into a FILETIME? (Raymond Chen)
• Back to Basics: When does a .NET Assembly Dependency get loaded (Rick Strahl)
• Using Unity for IoC and DI (Rizvi Hasan)
• LLBLGen Pro and JSON serialization (Frans Bouma)
• Announcing November CTP of the C++ compiler, now with more C++11 (Eric Battalio)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Component Deployment (Simon Brown)
• Unit Level BDD Using SubSpec (Dror Helper)
• Self-Transformation: The Most Powerful Way to Get Unstuck and 80/20 People vs. Perpetually Incomplete People (JD Meier)
• How to Calculate Budgets For Agile Teams (Jesse Fewell)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Composite (Oren Eini)
• A bizarre idea called "Software testing factory" (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Initial thoughts on some new-fangled things part 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• More on Flexible Locators (Jim Holmes)
• Git-TF 2.0 update available (Brian Harry)
• GitHub Service Hooks: AppHarbor (Christopher Geers)
• Friday with Filip – Dependency cycles & Spaghetti code (Filip Ekberg)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 100K Android Apps in Google Play Are ‘Suspicious’ [INFOGRAPHIC] (Anita Li)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 074: Lost at Sea with Jon Ronson (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 237: Clark Sell on Clark’s Garage (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 456: Halo 4 (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 091 – “Build Blogger Bash 2012″ (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• 034 JSJ Ember.js (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• New Tabletop: Star Fluxx! (Felicia Day)
• The Tablet Show – Brian Noyes Builds LOB Apps in Win 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Vergecast 053 – November 1st, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++, 6 of n | C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++ (Charles Torre & Stephan T. Javavej)
• Imagine Cup BUILD 2012 (Jritz)
• SitePoint Podcast #186: Freelancing with Michael Kimsal (Karn Broad)
• Windows Weekly 285: My Tongue Hurts (Paul Thurrott)
• VIDEO: Touring the remodeled HUB Seattle (Taylor Soper)
• Video: RESTful API Architecture (Adam DuVander)

 

Community / Events

• New: Windows Consumer Apps MVP (Kip Kniskern)
• Download All the Build Videos, while you sleep (Eric Hexter)
• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend #SQLPASS Summit 2012 – Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Catch me at the PowerShell Summit spring 2013! (Adam Driscoll)
• 3 great things we saw at BUILD 2012 (Alan Buckingham)
• Learn DevExpress XAF – Courses in the USA and Europe (Oliver Sturm)
• Nerd Nite No. 20! November 7, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful Than Ever Webinar (Phil Japikse)

 

Database

• Conditional formatting of duplicate values in Excel (Jamie Thomson)
• Different keys with RavenDb (Ugo Lattanzi)

 

SharePoint

• Creating a SharePoint Key Performance Indicator (KPI) (Brady Upton)

 

PowerShell

• New Powershell command line goodies for Windows Azure at #bldwin (Glenn Block)

 

Miscellaneous

• How much do you have to pay to use Office 2013 RT for work? (Ed Bott)
• Nokia Lumia 920 concert video confirms that its mono Rich Recording is nothing to sniff at (Phone Arena Team)
• Product Review: Microsoft Surface RT (Andrew Connell)
• Apple Only Paid 1.9% Tax On Foreign Earnings Of $37 Billion Last Year (AP)
• What is the best display aspect ratio for tablets? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Why Win8 Picture Password is Not Secure and Word as a Blog Writer? Finally? (Charlie Kindel)
• Latest Rumor: AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 coming Nov 9th with free charge pad and Developer edition of the Nokia Lumia 920 is a one of a kind pentaband (Daniel Rubino)
• Small Basic – The Gas Physics Challenge (Ed Price)
• Stupid Question 72: What is a SDK? (Iris Classon)
• For Microsoft, now the hard work begins (Kip Kniskern)
• Commentary: Microsoft Surface breaks out of the walled garden (Nat Burgess)
• Microsoft Bets There Will Be Touching Everywhere (Rob Bazinet)
• Microsoft Surface Diary: Bing, SmartGlass and settling in with our tablet (Todd Bishop)
• Hacktivism is dead. Long live opportunism! (Troy Hunt)
• From iPad to Surface – Day 5: Favorite Fridays (Nick Landry)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 2, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (November 2, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #36 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #994 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – November 2, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #69 (Frank)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-11-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1225 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 2 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 2 Nov 2012 and Weekly Windows Phone Development News 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/2/2012) and Daily News Digest 11/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #43) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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