Month: December 2012

Top Links

• Getting Typescript setup on your build server (Derik Whittaker)
• Best practices for using push notifications, SMS and email in your mobile app (Kirill Gavrylyuk)
• Running SignalR on Mono (Filip Ekberg)
• EF6 Alpha 2 Available on NuGet (Rowan Miller)

Web Development

• Amazon SDK for Node.js (Kay Ewbank)
• Introduction to AJAX in JQuery (Amir)
• Windows Azure Storage New Pricing Structure Revealed (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Best Practices When Working With JavaScript Templates (Andrew Burgess)
• I Could Sure Use Some Windows Azure Code Samples… (Buck Woody)
• Get Started with Three.js (Jess Genevieve Brown)
• Restoring a LocalDB within an MVC web application (Marc Brooks)
• CSS3 Image Filters (Paul Underwood)
• Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself Node.js In 24 Hours (Michael J. Ross)
• Fullscreen Pageflip Layout (Manoela Ilic)
• GitHub system status API (Wynn Netherland)

XAML

• Like the new VS2012 UI style? Here’s how you can use like styles in your WPF app.. and Jeff takes off the cover of his CoverFlow Control for Windows 8 & Windows RT (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 / Windows Phone Code Sharing: HttpWebRequest GetResponseAsync (Matthias Shapiro)
• The importance of app submission notes in the Windows Store (Pete Brown)
• How to Deal with WebView and Overlaying Elements in Windows 8 (Matteo Pagani)
• MVP Monday – Put Your Windows 8 Apps on Cloud 9 (David Pallman)
• 2000 WPF Things #709 – Changing the Cursor (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• TFS 2012 Management Pack Available (Brian Harry)
• WCF RIA Services Now Supports EF 5.0 (Colin Blair)
• "Sync Block Edit" a Visual Studio 2010/2012 extension to sync multiple duplicate text blocks (Greg Duncan)
• Using NuGet to simplify remote profiling with dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
• Hacking Windows 8 Games (Justin Angel)
• How am I going to find out if .NET 4.5 is installed on my system? (Code Inside Team)
• Editor’s Holiday Pick: Special offer on select Microsoft Press ebooks at oreilly.com (Kim Spilker)
• Creating NGEN PDBs for Profiling Reports (Andrew B. Hall)
• Automatically Updating .SLN files to VS 2012 (John Robbins)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Asynchronous calls in C++ Windows Store Unit Tests (Mathew Aniyan)
• Preserving Privacy in a Big Data World – Part 3 (Vincent Huang)
• Team Foundation Service Update – Dec 10 (Brian Harry)
• Wireframe Sketcher: A Must Have For UI Developers (James Sugrue)
• Lessons learned from the Code Retreat (Giorgio Sironi)

Other Mobile Platforms

• C# to Objective-C – Part 10 : Events (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Android In-App Billing Version 3 (Bruno Oliveira)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Matt Nunn Talks Modern Apps and the Modern App Lifecycle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C++ and Beyond 2012: Andrei Alexandrescu – Systematic Error Handling in C++ | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp: The System | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy & Jared T. Potter)
• Episode 94 – Opscode demonstrate Chef an integration framework for Cloud Automation | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Judd Apatow (Chris Hardwick)
• Stupid Question 100: Are we in a new tech bubble? (and what is that anyway?) (Iris Classon)
• Yet Another Podcast #85–Fritz Onion of pluralsight (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #18 – WinDbg – Driver Verifier – Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• "Generation App" video makes a case for making Windows 8 apps (John Callaham)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for December 10th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• iOS developer curious about Windows Store App development? Free two day event! (Iris Classon)
• Attending DevIntersection? Griff’s Picks (Kevin Griffin)
• UPDATE: London Drinkup – 12/12/12 (Jenifer Duke)
• Announcing the Apptivate.MS competition semi-finals (Abby T. Miller)

Database

• How to Automate SQL Server Restores for a Test Server (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Asynchronous Update and Timestamp – Check if Row Values are Changed Since Last Retrieve (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 10: SQL Server Maintenance (Denis Gobo)
• Inserting Multiple Rows in SQL Server 2008 (Richard Carr)
• T-SQL Tuesday #37: Join me in a month of Joins (Koen Verbeeck)
• Editing sqlcmdvariable nodes in SSDT Publish Profile files using msbuild (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• New Windows Phone 8 OS update Portico brings SMS drafts and call reject with it (Daniel Rubino)
• Microsoft’s Bing Augmented Reality team readies framework, Windows 8 tablet apps (Mary Jo Foley)
• 10 Best Tips to Ace your Internship: Your insider guide to success (MS JobsBlog)
• Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing “Potentially Life Threatening” Misdirection (Catherine Shu)
• Microsoft releases SkyDrive app for Xbox 360 (damaster)
• Small Basic Code Block Generator: How to format a Code Block (Ed Price)
• Why do some shortcuts not support editing the command line and other properties? (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft needs reimagine Live to be alive. (Scott Barnes)
• Responsiveness, China and the “m” word: new blog meta post (Troy Hunt)
• How I set up my new Windows Phone—and what I learned that can help you (Lisa Stratton)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1020 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1251 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: December 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 10, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 11, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 12/11/2012 (Silverlight Show)

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