Month: January 2013

Top Links

• Git support for Visual Studio – Git, TFS, and VS put into Context and Cross Browser Debugging integrated into Visual Studio with BrowserStack (Scott Hanselman)
• Improving the Modern Application Lifecycle (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2) and Git init VS (Brian Harry)
• CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling)
• Telerik Windows 8 Accelerator Program (Telerik Team) – “We are looking for the next smashing Windows 8 app. If you are a startup and you have a brilliant, financially viable idea for a Windows 8 app, pitch it to us. Your app wins our hearts and your startup wins $30,000 of funding, a mentor-led boot camp, and 3 months of access to the accelerator program.”

Web Development

• Howler.js: A Cross Browser JavaScript Audio Playback Library Supporting Audio Sprites (Devon Govett)
• PHP Server-side wrapper for the Ignite UI File Upload (Damyan Petev)
• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 126.92 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Using Fiddler to decipher Windows Azure PowerShell or REST API HTTPS traffic (Avkash Chauhan)
• WebStorm 6 EAP build 126.86 (K. Safonov)
• Windows Azure Most Valuable Professional Of The Year 2012 (Magnus Mårtensson)
• It’s Time to Learn JavaScript (Andy Schwam)
• OAuth with NancyFX and WorldDomination.Web.Authentication (Phillip Haydon)
• ECMAScript 6 and Array Comprehension (Ariya Hidayat)
• modern.IE – Analysis and Testing Tools for Web Developers (Elijah Manor)
• IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit Available for Windows 7 (Kevin Luu)
• How to Make a Useful WordPress Plugin (Jess Genevieve Brown)
• A Developer’s Guide to Using Free WordPress Plugins (Rakhitha Nimesh)
• A Peek at Internet Explorer’s Developer Tools (Rey Bango)
• Introducing modern.IE – Testing sites for Internet Explorer made easier (Ryan Gavin)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Protocols and File Type Associations (Peter Kuhn)
• PhoneGap 2.3.0 with Windows Phone 8 Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• A Silverlight x:Type Markup Extension (Brian Lagunas)
• Get your sync on as Microsoft updates Windows Phone app for Desktop to Preview 3 (Daniel Rubino)
• Fluent WPF App Building, Xaml and Data Temples, need not apply… (Greg Duncan)
• Syncing Google services with Windows Phone (Michael Stroh)
• 2000 WPF Things #746 – Specifying Inertial Deceleration (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (Vinay Krishna)
• How To: Quick Database Explorer With Telerik WPF Components (Vladimir Enchev)
• XAML (Richard Carr)
• Invalid Format Error Prevents XAP Deployment in WP8 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Pivot and Panorama Have Moved AND Changed in WP8 (Matt Lacey)
• Examining the Windows Store apps AppxManifest at Runtime (Tony Champion)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Why Nuget Package Restore’s Not For Me (Doug Rathbone)
• Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service (Andy Lewis)
• Using jQuery webcam plugin with ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2012 Update 2 Brings Symbol Improvements to Profiler and IntelliTrace (Dmitri Leonov)
• Developing games for Windows Phone or Windows 8? Check out Buddy.com and XNA is dead, and this may be a good thing (Bill Reiss)
• ReSharper SDK Adventures Part 9 — Update notifications (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Twelve F# type providers in action (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio: Multiple Startup Projects (Mike Hadlow)
• DistinctBy in Linq (Find Distinct Object by Property) (pranayamr)
• WinRT Toast Notification From Desktop Application (Shai Raiten)
• Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 2 (Unni Ravindranathan)
• NuGet Package Analysis: Encouraging Semantic Versioning (Xavier Decoster)
• Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Choices (Zain Naboulsi)
• 2000 C# Things #770 – Use Intellisense to Get List of Methods to Override (Sean Sexton)
• Unable to obtain public key for StrongNameKeyPair (Sacha Barber)
• Why doesn’t HeapValidate detect corruption in the managed heap? and The somewhat misguided question of whether MapViewOfFile or WriteProcessMemory is faster (Raymond Chen)
• Assert.ThrowsException for async lambdas (Bill Wagner)
• The no-lock deadlock (Eric Lippert)
• EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available (Glenn Condron)
• Let’s try this again, StructureMap 3.0 in en route as of now (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Learning JustMock for Working with Nasty Dependencies (Jim Holmes)
• NServiceBus, Semantic Versioning and events (Jimmy Bogard)
• Line-by-line profiling with dotTrace Performance (Maarten Balliauw)
• [Sample Of Jan 30th] Dynamically build lambda expression (Philip Fu)
• A Timely Post – Introducing Palmer and TempusReader (Chris Missal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Big Issues When Scaling Scrum (Sean McHugh)
• List of Agile Practices (Steve Rogalsky)
• Hibernating Rhinos Practices: Development Workflow (Oren Eini)
• Win 200 UI Design Icons (Anthony)
• My Ideal Greenfield Development Platform: Now vs. 5 Years ago (Frank Kelly)
• Post-mature optimization (Mark Rendle)
• Intraversion at Work (Sumeet Moghe)
• Using Something You Can’t Implement Yourself (Sasha Goldshtein)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward Announces Git with TFS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 213 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sizemore from NetApp on Enterprise Storage (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• What the Tech 150: Office 365 (Paul Thurrott)
• Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS (Brian Keller & Martin Woodward)
• Flying the AR.Drone 2.0 with Windows Store Applications (Clint Rutkas & Peter Dwersteg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 334 – 01.28.2013 (Joe Pollicino)
• Defrag: High CPU Usage, Audio Interrupt, Sharing Printers and Files | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: FC Rocket, SkyMotion, Air Hockey, Qello, PhotoBeamer | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• ACE in the Whole – A look at the Oracle ACE Program – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Video: Let SQL Server Tell You Where It Hurts (Paul Ballard)
• Saving and Restoring State in Windows Store Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Facebook Apps with New ASP.NET Template | Web Camps TV (Erik Porter, Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 005: Windows Azure Boost, Hear It From the Judge, and the Big Board! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)

Community / Events

• Win Up To $40,000 in the Windows 8 Apps For Social Good Contest (Zain Naboulsi)
• Geek of the Week: Karina Kacala of First Person Arts (Eric Smith)
• Codemania NZ 2013 – it’s gonna be a good one! (Hilary)
• Women in Tech and Empathy Work (Lauren Bacon)

Database

• Making Data Tell a Story With SSRS Properties and SSRS Properties – Background Image and SSRS Properties – Columns (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Significance of Table Input Parameter to Stored Procedure – Guest Post by Vikas Munjal – Koenig Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB: How to backup and restore databases (Denis Gobo)
• Building SOLID Databases: Open/Closed Principle (Chris Travers)
• Slow source? Make your data flow buffers smaller! (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint

• Theming a LightSwitch SharePoint App with ThemeRoller (Beth Massi)
• 3 of the most interesting UI improvements in SharePoint 2013 (DevToolsGuy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft hired the designer who rebranded “Microsoft” (MS JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 31, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1285 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading January 30, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 30th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1056 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 31, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/31/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-30 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-31 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 30 Jan 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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