Dew Drop – December 12, 2012 (#1,461)

Welcome to the 12³ edition of the Dew Drop!

Top Links

• Welcome to a New Gist (Bryan Veloso)
• Petzold’s Programming Windows 6E is coming soon! (Devon Musgrave)
• Taking responsibility (Eric Lippert)
• Entity Framework 6: Alpha2 Now Available (Scott Guthrie)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Storage New Pricing Structure Revealed (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Review: Pro HTML5 Accessibility by Joshue O Connor (Bruce Lawson)
• I Could Sure Use Some Windows Azure Code Samples… (Buck Woody)
• Hello Hilo – Hilo (JavaScript) sample for Windows Store released from Microsoft Patterns and Practices (Greg Duncan)
• Drag and Drop with AngularJS using jQuery UI (Jos Dirksen)
• Get Started with Three.js (Jess Genevieve Brown)
• First Separate WebStorm 6 EAP Build 124.218 (K. Safonov)
• DotNetNuke 7 with Active Directory and SharePoint Lists (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Fullscreen Pageflip Layout (Manoela Ilic)
• Using ES6 template strings for regular expressions (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using existing database with Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
• Hilo JavaScript Windows Sample Official Release (CodePlex)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Developer Tools (Peter Kuhn)
• Jeff’s Top 5 XAML Tools. (Jeffrey Smith)
• Complete Guide to Windows Phone StringFormat Binding (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #710 – DoDragDrop Is a Blocking Call (Sean Sexton)
• PRISM application from the beginning: part I (juanlubarreda)
• Merry Christmas all Windows 8 Developers and Designers from….Telerik AppMock (Eric Nelson)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using NuGet to simplify remote profiling with dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
• Layer Diagram in Visual Studio 2012 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Ruby for C# developers (Mehdi Khalili)
• HowTo: Use .NET Code on a Network Share From Windows (Rob Reynolds)
• Comparing two techniques in .NET Asynchronous Coordination Primitives (Scott Hanselman)
• New release: .NET Obfuscation Checker (free beta) (Roger Hart)
• Generating .NET POCO Classes for SQL Query Results (Joe Kunk)
• re-linq 1.13.178.0 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Project Manager—Viola: The Great Reveal (Bob Galen)
• Your Team Is New To Scrum (Derek Huether)
• Maybe You Are Doing Too Much Test Driven Development (Rob Bazinet)
• Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design (Ben Terrill)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating custom Android views – Part 4: Measuring and how to force a view to be square (Anders Ericsson)
• The 2012 Android Developer Survey (Android Developer Relations)
• Implementing iOS smart app banners (Tim Hibbard)
• Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 is here! (Robert Nyman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Matt Nunn Talks Modern Apps and the Modern App Lifecycle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget HD Podcast 328 – 12.11.2012 (James Trew)
• Ping 162: Life after Microsoft, Imagine Cup, Horror stories, Win8 app creator | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 71 (Richard Hay)
• People Talking Tech Episode 015 – Argenis Fernandez (Denny Cherry)

 

Community / Events

• Philly Pluralsight Study Group (Tony Verguldi)
• Small Basic TeamChallenge – Tower Defense Game (VOTE TO SEE WHO WINS!!!) (Ed Price)
• Meet the Author: Kate Gregory on Introduction to Visual Studio 2012 – Part 1 (Paul Ballard)
• Toronto Drinkup (John D. Britton)
• Microsoft TechDays 2013 Belgium: first sessions & speakers announced (Katrien de Graeve)
• Microsoft SLG Developer Days- Denver (1/15/13) and Boise (1/17/13) (MS Public Sector Team)
• Registration for C++Now 2013 Opens Today! (James McNellis)

 

Database

• How to Automate SQL Server Restores for a Test Server (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Inviting Ideas for SQL in Sixty Seconds – 12/12/12 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 12: Proactive notifications (Denis Gobo)
• Preserving Privacy in a Big Data World – Part 3 (Vincent Huang)
• RavenDB indexing optimizations, Step I–dynamic batches (Oren Eini)
• T-SQL Tuesday #37: Join me in a month of Joins (Koen Verbeeck)

 

SharePoint

• Annoying “Not a Local Site” when building SharePoint 2013 Solutions with Visual Studio 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Debugging SharePoint Apps with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio (James Wang)

 

Miscellaneous

• An update to the Microsoft Camera Codec pack is available (Aaron Bregel)
• Microspeak: v-team (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft needs reimagine Live to be alive. and Don’t be a clone, be different. (Scott Barnes)
• Is writing the same as coding? (Swizec Teller)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 11, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1020 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1252 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 12, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 11 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 11 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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