Dew Drop – February 19, 2013 (#1,501)

Top Links

• ASP.NET SPA Templates Released (John Papa)
• Windows Store App with Caliburn.Micro – Getting Started (Updated) (Phillip Haydon)
• Where tips in LINQ (Bil Simser)
• Four new single page application templates (Gunnar Peipman)

Web Development

• asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers (Devon Govett)
• Pre-release of ASP.NET Scaffolding with a Web Forms scaffold generator (Anton Babadjanov)
• Deeptissue.js A Gesture Library For the Modern Web (Chris Love)
• Quick news: Rescheduling of Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start (Devon Musgrave)
• How to find index of an item in JavaScript Object Array? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using Sass and Compass in ASP.Net MVC with Web Workbench (Edward Charbeneau)
• SignalR, ActionFilters and ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Diagnosing ASP.NET page compilation errors (Jack Ukleja)
• Prediction: Dell & others to sell new Windows Azure mainframe server (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Announcing the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release! (Jon Galloway)
• GlobalWindowsAzure a truly global Windows Azure community event (Magnus Mårtensson)
• JavaScript Has Its Place, But Not Every Place (Rob Bazinet)
• Released: ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in Context (Scott Hanselman)
• Mixing Static And Dynamic Data In An AngularJS Select Menu (Ben Nadel)
• AngularJS and DOM Manipulation (K. Scott Allen)
• Source Diving: _.each() (Josh Bush)

XAML

• WinRT RoamingSettings and Serialization (Brian Hitney)
• Windows Phone 8: Speech (Peter Kuhn)
• #759 – Device-Independent Units (DIPs) (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – Canvas (Richard Carr)
• Music to Your Ears – Fixing the Win 8 Music App (Doug Rathbone)
• Quick Start Guide to Windows 8 Hero App Template and Server (Mark Arteaga)
• Windows 8–Let Templates Simplify the Search Contract (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous .NET

• WCF Data Services 5.3.0 RTW (WCF Team)
• Hot Towel SPA – Visual Studio Project Template (John Papa)
• Building my Visual Studio workplace from scratch (Емил Табаков)
• Improving NuGet package extraction performance (Paul Stovell)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Add Reference Dialog (Andy Schwam)
• Thoughts on Commenting Asynchronous Functions in C# (Toni Petrina)
• Understanding IntelliTrace Part III: IntelliTrace Events (Zain Naboulsi)
• 2000 C# Things #783 – When to Create a Static Class (Sean Sexton)
• [Sample Of Feb 18th] Update POCO entity properties and relationships in EF (Philip Fu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Migrating Your Test Project Between VS/Standalone (Stoil Stoichev)
• Microspeak: bubble up (Raymond Chen)
• Principles Are Timeless, Best Practices Are Fads (John Sonmez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 082: Mitch O’Connell, the World’s Best Artist (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes Builds LOB Apps with Kona Guidance (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 215 – PowerScripting Podcast – Lee Holmes from the PowerShell team talks about his new book (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SQLAuthority News – Introduction to ColdFusion – Video Tutorial on Pluralsight (Pinal Dave)
• RaghuRam Takes a Second Lap Around ASP.NET Web API and OData | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Ping 168: Gamerloop, Bing & the State of the Union, Xbox Xpanding, Tablet size | Ping! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Women Students Compete at Worldwide Hackathon (Rane Johnson-Stempson)
• MVPs, thanks for visiting us at the MVP Summit Showcase (Devon Musgrave)
• In the Community: Meet Tom Serface (Eric Battalio)
• Washington, D.C. Drinkup (Jeremy McAnally)

Database

• How to move a SQL Server Log Shipped Secondary Database to Different SQL Server (Manvendra Singh)
• Improvements with SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2 and Sysprep (Scott Mattie)
• SSRS Properties – InnerPlotPosition (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #7 : get the full path to a database file (Erik EJ)
• Ingesting Massive Amounts of Relational Data With Windows Azure SQL Database (70+ Million records/day) (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Merging Windows and Linux MySQL Development (Dave Burke)
• Re-thinking result transformations in RavenDB (Rob Ashton)
• Amazon Redshift API is out of limited preview and available! (Ajay Ohri)

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE will do *everything* (though some assembly may be required!) (Michael S. Kaplan)

Miscellaneous

• How To Contribute to ASPNET Yourself (Steve Smith)
• Jobs in IT: What might surprise you about Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Why Nobody Can Copy Apple (Charlie Kindel)
• 14 Simple Rules to Getting That Promotion (John Tabita)
• Outlook.com out of Preview; fires up new marketing campaign (Kip Kniskern)
• Ultimate Coder: Going Perceptual – Week 1 Blog Posting. (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Customer Service vs. Serving the Customer (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading February 18, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 18th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1069 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1298 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 19, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/19/2013 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Sitting next to Jason Bock in a session at the MVP Summit, so I’ve included his fantastic book today.