Dew Drop – January 30, 2013 (#1,490)

Top Links

• Get DependencyProperty by Name for WPF and Silverlight (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows 8 Development Tips #9: Get a Windows 8 tablet (Brent Schooley)
• ReSharper SDK Adventures Part 9 — Update notifications (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Sublime Text 3 Beta Released (Jeffrey Way)
• 102 simple steps for installing and configuring a new Windows 8 machine (Troy Hunt)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Mobile and Responsive Tables (David Hayden)
• Running unit tests when deploying to Windows Azure Web Sites (Maarten Balliauw)
• Inserting HTML Using CreateDocumentFragment Instead of using jQuery (Chris Love)
• RoughDraft.js – A jQuery Plugin To Create & Prototype A Full Interactive HTML Mock-Up and howler.js – A Modern Web Audio JavaScript Library (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Using WinJS.log (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Windows Azure Most Valuable Professional Of The Year 2012 (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Web standards aren’t just about HTML and CSS (Paul Boag)
• HTML 5 is irrelevant (Scott Koon)
• Getting started with ASP.NET WebAPI OData in 3 simple steps (Youssef Moussaoui)
• Centering a Div Horizontally (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Google APIs finetuning Cloud Storage JSON API (Ajay Ohri)
• Adaptive/Responsive Web Design – Don’t Neglect The Users (Ambrose Little)
• Azure Vault Storage in HDInsight: A Robust and Low Cost Storage Solution (Brad Severtson)
• What You Might Not Know About JSON.stringify() (Jim Cowart)
• Using WebDAV with ARR (Scott Forsyth)
• Why I Can Never Leave ORCSWeb as My Web Hosting Company (Peter Kellner)
• Trying the Latest TypeScript Build (Ryan Cavanaugh)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Protocol and File Type Associations (Peter Kuhn)
• Stupid Question 138: In RE to WinRT development what is the hardest bit to grasp/interesting for an iOS dev? (Iris Classon)
• What is the use of Dispatcher object in XAML Technology? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #745 – The Basics of Inertia (Sean Sexton)
• Portable MVVM Light – Move Your View Models and Part 2 (Shayne P Boyer)
• Jeff’s Top 5 XAML Tools (Jeffrey Smith)
• Windows 8 Tips Part 13 – Four Ways To Close Windows 8 Apps (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows 8 : Fun with sensors (Sacha Barber)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to make NLog create separate log per service thread (Gunnar Peipman)
• More on Symbol Improvements in VS2012 Update 1 (Dmitri Leonov)
• Visual Studio 2012 – Phone Deployment Target Missing from Toolbar (Kevin D. Wolf)
• Need to discover, access, analyze and visualize big and broad data? Try F#. (Olivier Bloch)
• DistinctBy in Linq (Find Distinct Object by Property) (Pranay Rana)
• Use ProfilerIntegration static class in order to hook into the profiler (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
• Autofac and Quartz.NET (Nicolas Humann)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.5: New DB2 SchemaProvider (Blake Niemyjski)
• Line-by-line profiling with dotTrace Performance (Maarten Balliauw)
• Building Collections of Entity Classes and Building Collections of Entity Classes using a DataReader (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 C# Things #769 – Pattern – Call a Base Class Method When You Override It (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8 LOB deployment ‘story’ (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Hibernating Rhinos Practices: Intro (Oren Eini)
• Exploratory Tests Auto Created from Product Backlog Item Acceptance Criteria (Charles Sterling)
• Greg Young on using Event Store as a Read Model (Jan Stenberg)
• Who Decides What Is A “Best Practice”? (Paul Ballard)
• How is Mentorship Perceived in Software Craftsmanship? (Sandro Mancuso)
• Using Something You Can’t Implement Yourself (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Picking the Right Tools for Your Project (Shayne P Boyer)
• Planning Your Web Design with Sketches (Steven White)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• The Core iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook and Beginning iOS 6 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK (yffaria)
• MonoTouch Update for iOS 6.1 (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jamie Wright has Rails for .NET Developers (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Bruce Worthington: Power Efficiency in Windows 8 and Beyond (Charles Torre)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Grohl (Chris Hardwick)
• Yet Another Podcast #91–Pete Brown on Creating Great Windows 8 Applications (Jesse Liberty)
• People Talking Tech Episode 020 – Matt Griffin (Denny Cherry)

 

Community / Events

• Startup Accelerator for Windows Azure: Demo Day (Scott Guthrie)

 

Database

• Using WITH ROWCOUNT and PAGECOUNT option of SQL Server UPDATE STATISTICS (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL Server – Attach Database with MDF file only (Vishal Gajjar)
• A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 5: The Neural Network Algorithm (Steve Bolton)
• SQL SERVER – Autocomplete and Code Formatting Tool – SQL in Sixty Seconds #041 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Define Microsoft Business Intelligence for me? (Ted Krueger)
• Lex.db: A New Database Storage Solution for Windows 8 (Matteo Pagani)
• Change the Maxsize and Filegrowth of a datafile and a logfile (remko)

 

PowerShell

• PoshInternals – Get-Dll (Adam Driscoll)
• PowerShell Workflows: Using Parameters (Richard Siddaway)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Surface Hard Drive Size Is Not An Issue (Jason Gaylord)
• Plex is the media center software ecosystem I’ve been waiting for (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage (Tom Warren)
• How Microsoft can save Xbox games for Windows Phone: Part 2 (Paul Acevedo)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 29, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1284 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 30, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/30/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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