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Dew Drop – December 13, 2012 (#1,462)

Posted on December 13, 2012 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Indigo Studio Design Rationale – An Interaction Design Tool (Ambrose Little)
Announcing Visual Studio Achievements For Windows 8 App Development (Karsten Januszewski)
Expanding our commitment to Windows Store games (Antoine Leblond)
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web Development

HTML5 canvas performance: Drawing circles (Daniel Davis)
PhpStorm 6 EAP build 124.237 (Alexey Gopachenko)
Using Underscore.js’s debounce() to filter double-clicks (Amy Lee)
Ant Task to Validate JavaScript (Ariya Hidayat)
JavaScript puzzle: equal, but not the same (Axel Rauschmayer)
Installing Windows Azure SDK on Visual Studio 2012 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Show More pagination with angular.js (Jef Claes)
Responsive Patterns, automatic jQuery app tester, RESTClient for debugging – Hacks Weekly (Robert Nyman)
Writing JavaScript That Implements The Binding Pattern In Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
"HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts." Series (Greg Duncan)
Using meta viewport (Pete LePage)
Indulging in Futurology: How will we build web applications in the future? (Ian Cooper)
Node Application Server with CouchDB (Keyhole Software)
Ignite UI Tree Drag & Drop (Damyan Petev)
Moving Applications to the Cloud, 3rd Edition – Book Download (MS Downloads)
YUI 3.8.0 – Y.Color, Templates, and more! (Andrew Wooldridge)

XAML

Just Released: WPF Diagrams 3.0! (Jason Fauchelle)
Windows 8 XAML Video Player: Easy Globalization / Translations (Jon Antoine)
Enumerating Cameras and Camera Locations on Your Surface RT (Jeff Prosise)
Reason: Telerik RadHtmlPlaceholder control for Silverlight refuses to open certain Websites (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows Phone StringFormat Binding And Blend (Matthias Shapiro)
Robot Work – Reducing the Windows Phone Localization Friction a bit (Rene Schulte)
2000 WPF Things #711 – Changing the Mouse Cursor While Dragging (Sean Sexton)
Working With Static NFC Cards on Windows Phone 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Building Great apps step 1 : Refining your app idea (Susan Ibach)
App Certification Holiday Schedule: Open for Business (Todd Brix)
Sharing from your app (Ishita Kapur)
Windows 8: Adding An AppBar to Conference Buddy (Jesse Liberty)
LightSpeed 5 beta is out! (John-Daniel Trask)
OSMinVersion must have value 6.2.1 or higher in Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)

Miscellaneous .NET

Sidekicks is available for TFS 2012 (Brian Harry)
Visual Studio 2012 Presentation Mode (Nathan Totten)
Refresh Database–Speed up Your Development Cycles (Rob Reynolds)
NuGet Package Restore from a secured feed and NuGet Package Restore using solution-specific NuGet.config (Xavier Decoster)
How am I supposed to free the information returned by the GetSecurityInfo function? (Raymond Chen)
Process.Start() and ShellExecute() fail with URLs on Windows 8 (Rick Strahl)
Stupid Question 101: Are there any coding standards documents for .Net? (Iris Classon)
.NET Framework 4.5 Multi-Threaded Globalization (Eric Vogel)
Way to Lambda (Florian Rappl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Code Reviews: Understanding and Breaking the Stigma (Zac Gery)
The danger of large releases: Trenord case study (Giorgio Sironi)
The Art of Productivity (Dan Wahlin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 078: Joshuah Bearman and ARGO (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Faster Development Cycles at Better Software (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Video: Bind Your Way with DataConverters in JavaScript and HTML Apps for Windows 8 (Paul Ballard)
The Nerdist Podcast – Malcolm McDowell (Chris Hardwick)
The Verge Mobile Show 029 – December 11th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
Boagworld – Volia vs Skitch, Hammer vs Mixture, Mailchimp and CarTunes (Paul Boag)
DevOps and Continuous Integration: The Basics (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

I’m Presenting at the SharePoint 2013 Evolution Conference (Andrew Connell)
Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers agenda (free streaming event) (Iris Classon)
Inside Microsoft Research: Grudin Joins Ranks of ACM Fellows (Rob Knies)

Database

SQL Server Clustering Myths (Burt King)
SQL Advent 2012 Day 12: Proactive notifications (Denis Gobo)
RavenDB indexing optimizations, Step II–Pre Fetching (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2013 Drag and Drop Load Test Results and a Few Tips (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

An update to the Microsoft Camera Codec pack is available (Aaron Bregel)
Author news: A call for authors and technical editors (Kim Spilker)
Looking for that Google app for your Windows Phone? Don’t hold your breath (Sam Sabri)
What’s new for gamers in Windows Phone 8 (Alex Weingart)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Talking about .NET in the Community Press (Brandon Bray)
Geek Reading December 12, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #1022 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 12/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1253 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-13 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: December 13, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Windows (9780735671768): Charles Petzold: Books

ISBN: 0735671761
ISBN-13: 9780735671768

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Dew Drop – May 1, 2012 (#1,317)

Posted on May 1, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

DevLabs: C++, Cloud Services, and You (S.Somasegar)
GUID guide, part two (Eric Lippert)
Filling in the UX Gaps in Metro style Apps – TechBash Edition (Brent Schooley)
A New Look for CodePlex (Mark Groves)

.NET / Visual Studio

And sometimes Things Just Works (Oren Eini)
TFSPreview update (Brian Harry)
Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges (Gill Cleeren)
Run Your Own Group Chat with AppHarbor and JabbR (AppHarbor)
Making Mayhem with Volume Control (Eli White)
Announcing Casablanca, a native library to access the cloud from C++ (Casablanca Team)
Announcing Casablanca, a Native Library to Access the Cloud From C++ (Vikas Bhatia)
Marshaling native arrays back as managed arrays without copying (Rick Brewster)
Entity Framework 4.3.1 Migrations and non English locale (Simone Chiaretta)
Context-Aware Dialogue with Kinect: Part 2 of our Q&A with Leland Holmquest (Michael Desmond)
Development Based on C + + Runtime in the Windows 8 Metro Interface News Reader (Cheng Yin)
Knowing your Metro Style App package details (Arun Mahendrakar)
RavenDB CRUD – How To (Gregor Suttie)

Web Development

Simple JavaScript Notifications with toastr (John Papa)
Learning HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery interactively via WebGrid (Greg Duncan)
Fluid CSS3 Slideshow with Parallax Effect (Ring Wing)
Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.49 (CodePlex)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Backbone.js Applications – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
node.js Version 0.6.16 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
Dissecting 3.5.0 DataTable, Part 1 (Luke Smith)
Google Drive API: It’s Kind of a Big Deal (Curtis C. Chen)
Web Performance Tip: Make Sure You Have a FavIcon (Chris Love)
Render Action (Christopher Bennage)
Why you should care about CSS page performance (Doug Stewart)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Building Better UX Using Patterns (Ambrose Little)
Achievements: An Agile Whitepaper (Peter Saddington)
The architect as a leader, and other specialists and You’re not self organizing if you have a go-to architect and Grow your "feature teams" into just "teams" and Do new startup leaders need to grow their teams? (Roy Osherove)
Hired help (Eric Brechner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Need get a GW-Basic fix? Here’s GW-Basic running in Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #548 – Change the Offset of a Gradient Stop in Blend (Sean Sexton)
Building A Test Texting System On Windows Phone With TextBelt API and Getting The Flights Above You, And Much More, On Windows Phone, With WolframAlpha (Den Delimarsky)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.4 (CodePlex)
Four ways we’re improving Marketplace (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

GoingNative 8: Introducing Casablanca – A Modern C++ API for Connected Computing (Charles Torre)
Video Demo: Overview of XAML authoring features in Blend and Visual Studio (Joanna Mason)
Video: Chaining Down Unruly JavaScript (Paul Ballard)
Firefox work week Windows 8 talk (Brian Bondy)
Project Mayhem – an overview (Clint Rutkas)
Project Mayhem – Creating a module (Clint Rutkas & Eli White)
On The Verge, Episode 005: Tony Fadell and Chris Grant (Creighton DeSimone)

Community / Events

Free Windows Phone Game Training in Portland – 5/11 (Kelly White)
Best of Luck to Derek! (Robby Ingebretsen)
Vote for the Imagine Cup People’s Choice Award (Peter Laudati)
May Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
Upcoming Web Camps (Jon Galloway)
Great Place to Work: turning ideas into technology at "The Garage" (Liz)

Database

Thank God I Chose SQL Server part II: How to Improperly Install Oracle 11gR2 (Stevan Bolton)
SQL Server source control from Visual Studio (David Atkinson)
SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house (Jorge Segarra)
SQL SERVER – Maximum Allowable Length of Characters for Temp Objects is 116 – Guest Post by Balmukund Lakhani (Pinal Dave)
You need to run DBCC CheckDB regularly and Creating a Sequence in SQL Server 2012 (Steve Jones)
How to Configure Database mail (geniiius)
The most unappreciated feature in Sql Server 2008? (Emil Tabakov)

SharePoint

Product Review: Real Time Collaboration on SharePoint with Sazneo (Joel Oleson)
How to: Hide the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 (Rajeswari Mohandas)

Miscellaneous

Making Animations over the Canvas for Android (Carlos Sessa)
Generalizing Code Through Functional Programming (John Lindal)
Barnes & Noble to spin off digital Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million into it (Vlad Savov)

More Link Collections

Daily WP7 Development News 30 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Interesting Finds: May 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Double Shot #870 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading Notes #44 (Frank)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-01 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 04/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Dev News for April 29, 2012 – #0076 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and JavaScript by Adam Freeman

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Dew Drop – April 10, 2012 (#1,303)

Posted on April 10, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

New is Glue (Steve Smith)
Project Detroit: OBD-II Manager and Project Detroit: How to Read Your Car’s Engine Data with OBD-II (Brian Peek & Dan Fernandez)
WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM Release (Turker Keskinpala)
The rumours of my demise have been exaggerated. (Pete O’Hanlon)
EF Power Tools Beta 2 Available (Brice Lambson)

.NET / Visual Studio

Write Faster Code by Adding VIM to Visual Studio (Ian Davis)
GridView SelectedItem Binding Gotcha in WinRT (Derik Whittaker)
Lab Management walkthrough using Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Virtual Machine (Charles Sterling)
My Favorite Things in OData v3 and WCF Data Services 5.0 (Glenn Gailey)
Data Driven Coded UI Test using Visual Studio 11 (Gouri Sohoni)
Windows 8 Metro style simple music app example (Mike Taulty)
Test-Drive the Shiny New WCF Interop Bindings (Yaron Naveh)
NDepend Evaluation: Part 3 (Anthony Trudeau)
DevForce and Second Level Caching (Ward Bell)
Lazy Programming for Smarties (JustCode Team)
A Refactoring Experiment (K. Scott Allen)
Olav’s tale of three .Net Version Numbers. The Assembly Version, File Version and Information Version (Papa bear, Mama and Baby) and Another free (email-ware) eBook courtesy of Red Gate – "Practical Performance Profiling:Improving the efficiency of .NET Code" (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

Adding Client-Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Peter Vogel)
node.js Version 0.6.15 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
Writing Your Own JavaScript Library – Enums (Gil Fink)
Getting Started With ASP.NET Web Stack Source on Codeplex (Henrik F. Nielsen)
Add HTML5 Audio to your App (Joe Stagner)
Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2 (Paul Hammant)
Preloading Images and Creating a Basic Particle System (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Windows Azure Learning Path and WebMatrix: Creating CMS Websites is Easy with the Orchard Template (Zhiming Xue)
iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences (Rey Bango)
Building Super Fast Web Apps with PJAX (Nathan Totten)
How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App, Part 3 (Jorge Ramon)
Better CoffeeScript Testing With Mocha (Andrew Burgess)
On :target (Chris Coyier)
Windows Azure Service Bus Splitter and Aggregator (Alan Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Lokad.CQRS is not (Rinat Abdullin)
Software versions, the necessary evil (Giorgio Sironi)
Security decisions: Separate Operations & Queries (Oren Eini)
Ideas vs. Time: how long does an idea take to develop? (Scott Berkun)
Just Observe (Mark Needham)
Test Studio 2012 R1 is Here (Soon!) (Jim Holmes)
A UI based automation test is failing (John Guin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Update to Windows Phone Control Kit – ZuneCard (Den Delimarsky)
Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 4: Contracts in WinRT/Windows 8 (Gill Cleeren)
How to Save Phone Number in WP7 using the SavePhoneNumberTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | XAML has a new home (4 of 12) (Peter von Lochow)
Silverlight Tree View with Multiple Levels (Paul Sheriff)
2000 WPF Things #533 – Using the Gradient Tool to Modify a Radial Gradient (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 181 – PowerScripting Podcast – Karl Prosser on Portable PowerShell and v3 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more) (Anders Hejlsberg, Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, Martin Odersky & Peter Alvaro)
Yet Another Podcast #63–Windows 8 with Shawn Wildermuth (Jesse Liberty)
It’s not what you read, it’s what you ignore – Video of Scott Hanselman’s Personal Productivity Tips (Scott Hanselman)
Video: Format Your PowerShell Output with Hashtables (Paul Ballard)
.NET Rocks! – Web App Design Shootout at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: Dan Wahlin on Structuring JavaScript Code (Paul Ballard)
Visual Studio Live! in NYC: May 14-17, 2012 – User Group Discount Available! (Peter Laudati)
Want to win $20,000 with Windows Phone? Check out Dream.Build.Play! (Dave Isbitski)
Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83 (Steve C. Rowe)
GitHub Drinkup in Portland, OR (Alex Malinovich)
Microsoft Research’s Jennifer Chayes: 5 Projects for the Future of Computing (Gregory T. Huang)

Database

SSAS development quick tip (James Serra)
Amazon coupon: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant–25% off (Kim Spilker)
Would you be interested in an information section for SQLCop? (Denis Gobo)
Columnstore Index Basics (Ted Krueger)

PowerShell

Miscellaneous

Microsoft all but buys Netscape with AOL patent acqusition (Ed Oswald)
Google’s Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser (Frederic Lardinois)
Dr. Strangeloop or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Functional Programming (John Lindal)
Use Digital IDs (Certificates) to prove your identity in Outlook email transactions (Manu Philip)
A Faster Emulator with Better Hardware Support (Tim Bray) – Android emulator update.
A plea for slow (Peter Kuhn)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Reading Notes #41 (Frank)
The Morning Brew #1081 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News 9 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers (Animal Guide) by

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