Dew Drop – November 2, 2012 (#1,435)

Top Links

• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 (CodePlex)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #2: Orientation & Snap (Jeff Blankenburg)
• C# 5.0: More Than Just Async (Patrick Steele)
• Microsoft currently testing its own smartphone, says WSJ (Sam Byford)

 

Web Development

• Build an ASP.NET JavaScript Generator (Peter Vogel)
• With TypeScript, Microsoft Embraces and Augments (Andrew J. Brust)
• Web Performance Optimization: When Possible Use Native Selectors Instead of jQuery (Chris Love)
• Use Twitter Login in ASP.NET MVC 4 without membership & co. (Code Inside Team)
• For-in loop in JavaScript Array (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Quick news: Free training and exam voucher for HTML5 and JavaScript (Kim Spilker)
• ASP.NET Web Pages website made with WebMatrix (Ranger49)
• Fun with HTML5 (varun)
• NancyFx and bundling with Cassette (Jef Claes)
• Dropdown Default Styling (Chris Coyier)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Navigation with the LongListSelector (Nick Randolph)
• Windows 8 metro: make your app alive with background tasks (Andrea Boschin)
• Quick news: Building an app for both Windows Phone and iOS (Kim Spilker)
• Nokia publishes Windows Phone 8 developer resource (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #682 – Panel Elements Only Fire Mouse Events When Background Is Set (Sean Sexton)
• WACK ARM (Rene Schulte)
• Text-To-Speech with Microsoft Translator Service – TranslatorService.Speech for WinRT v1.4.0 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• When you synthesize input with SendInput, you are also synthesizing the timestamp (Raymond Chen)
• Integrating Project Server 2013 with Team Foundation Server 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit level BDD using SubSpec (Dror Helper)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Bridge (Oren Eini)
• Debugging Isn’t an Obvious or Easy Skill (Andy Warren)
• Testability and Cost of Change (Paul Hammant)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Screencast: Refactoring with Partial Views in MVC (Michael Kennedy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Instagramming Matt (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 023 – October 31st, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• BUILD Day 2 Keynote Developer Love Video (Laura Foy)
• What The Tech 139: Windows RT is the Future (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Why aren’t there more women in tech? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• //build/ 2012 Tip of the Day: Microsoft Library (Greg Duncan)
• SSDT Team at PASS Summit (Janet Yeilding)

 

Database

• Dynamic XMLA using T-SQL for SQL Server Analysis Services (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Scope of variables in Dynamic SQL – SQL Server Vs MySQL‏ (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Function to Round Up Time to Nearest Minutes Interval (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t Abuse SQL for Large Datasets (Rinat Abdullin)

 

SharePoint

• Adding Suggestions to the SharePoint 2010 Search Programatically (Ricardo Peres)
• UI Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 (Srishti)

 

PowerShell

• More than slightly modified “CD” command for PowerShell (Jason Jarrett)

 

Miscellaneous

• The University Interview Process: A Must-Read Guide (MS JobsBlog)
• Nokia Lumia 920 review (Dieter Bohn)
• Oprah loves Microsoft Surface: It ‘feels like a Mercedes-Benz to me, people!’ (Todd Bishop)
• From iPad to Surface – Day 4: Shopping for Apps (Nick Landry)
• Microsoft admits it ‘ran out of time’ on Windows Phone 8 notification center (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 10.24 ~ 10.31 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 179 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading November 1, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #993 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1224 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-11-02 (Dan Rigby)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–October 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 1 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 1 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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