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Dew Drop – December 19, 2012 (#1,466)

Posted on December 19, 2012 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Team Explorer Everywhere Update 1 (Brian Harry)
How to Await Just About Anything (Jonathan Allen)
Windows 8 Development Tips #6: Be great at something (Brent Schooley)
The Future of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Development (Jeremy Likness)

Web Development

JavaScript Tutorial, part 2 – functions and closures (Piotr Kwapin)
PhpStorm 6 EAP build 124.295 (Alexey Gopachenko)
‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (Anand Paranjape)
The future of JavaScript: a CoffeeScript-like workflow (Axel Rauschmayer)
HTML5 is Feature Complete. Hello HTML5.1! (Craig Buckler)
Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors: Structural Pseudo-Classes (Emily Lewis)
Use WinJS to post a message from an iFrame to your Win8 App (Jon Antoine)
Realtime Node.js App: A Stress Testing Story (Mike Pennisi)
Now available: Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript (beta) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Announcing the HTML5 is Ready App Contest (Paul Kopacki)
Article: Developing Motoric Games with HTML5 – The Making of VeloMaze (Raimo Tuisku)
My Super Simple Node Twitter Re-Tweeter (Mike Hadlow)
The simpler, yet more powerful new YouTube Data API (Scott Knaster)
Dart’s Web UI library is ready for testing (Seth Ladd)
Conditional loading of resources with mediaqueries (Christian Heilmann)
So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project (Chris Coyier)
FloraJS (Kevin Sweeney)

XAML

Test Your Windows Store Apps Using the Windows App Certification Kit (ACK) (Zhiming Xue)
Cooking up a great Windows Store app (Antoine Leblond)
How to Crop an Image based on a Shape or Path control? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

Windows Store Game Development with Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit (Anand Narayanaswamy)
Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.6.0 with VS Package and F# PowerPack with F# Compiler for F# 3.0 + .NET 4.x + VS2010 (CodePlex)
"Introduction to Microsoft Kinect" (Greg Duncan)
Tpl Dataflow TOC (Bnaya Eshet)
Processing trees with F# zipper computation (Tomas Petricek)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How to Cost Agile Projects (David J. Bland)
Are Estimations Harmful? (Gil Zilberfeld)
TeamPulse R6 2012 is here: Customer Feedback Portal updates (TeamPulse Product Blog)
Team Foundation Server 2012 Teams without Areas (Martin Hinshelwood)
Establishing a Successful Programming Culture (Ron Lichty & Mickey Mantle)
Understanding the Decorator Pattern (Abul Kayes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Venkat Subramaniam Talks Modern Development (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Inside Windows 8: Greg Colombo – Heap Manager | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
Episode 11 of the Guild is here! Nothin’ like disappointing your… (Felicia Day)
The Engadget Show 39: Holiday Spectacular with Jonathan Coulton, John Roderick and Ben Heck (Brian Heater)
Engadget HD Podcast 329 – 12.18.2012 (James Trew)
People Talking Tech Episode 016 – Ben Miller (Denny Cherry)
Boagworld: You have no control over your content (Paul Boag)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 190: Lean (Software) Development (SE-Radio Team)
Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: Windows Ecosystem & Cocktail Flow apps case study | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Laura Foy)
Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 201: Composition | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, Laura Foy & Jared T. Potter)
Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 201: Controls & API’s | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Welcome to Winter Bash 2012! (Aarthi Devanathan)
Rumor: Nokia to introduce Windows 8 tablet at Mobile World Congress (Sam Sabri)
Introducing GeekWire 200: Seattle’s Startup Leaderboard (Todd Bishop)
Women Techmakers for social good (Scott Knaster)
Meet the Author: Marcel de Vries on Intellitrace (Paul Ballard)
Looks like I’ll be speaking at DataTjej (‘ComputerGirl’) Conference 2013 (Iris Classon)
Dev of the Week: Matt Lacey (Eric Gregory)
Brian Lagunas – 2012 Year In Review (Brian Lagunas)
Trip Report: Eastern Canada LightSwitch Speaking Tour (Beth Massi)
Rock Paper Azure Redux (Chris Koenig)
Aidan’s "Beginners Guide To The MVP Summit" (Greg Duncan)

Database

SSIS still a goto tool (Bob Horkay)
SSIS Precedence Constraint (Katie & Emil)
SQL Server Encryption To Block DBAs Data Access (K. Brian Kelley)
Get powers of 2 with Sql Server 2012 (Mika Wendelius)
Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly in the SQL Server Compact Toolbox (Erik EJ)
SQL SERVER – Select and Delete Duplicate Records – SQL in Sixty Seconds #036 – Video (Pinal Dave)
SQL Advent 2012 Day 18: Stay relevant and marketable (Denis Gobo)

PowerShell

PowerShell Community Extensions 2.1.1 Production (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Rasbery Pi Gets An App Store (Harry Fairhead)
All I Want For Christmas (A Developer’s Wishlist) (Andrew Burgess)
AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 OS update begins tomorrow, Dec 19th (Daniel Rubino)
Tanks Game – Small Basic Featured Program (Ed Price)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Weekly Links 12-18-2012 (Matthias Shapiro)
Double Shot #1026 (Mike Gunderloy)
Geek Reading December 18, 2012 (Rob Diana)
The Morning Brew #1257 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-19 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: December 19, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 18 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 18 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# (9781933988924): Tomas Petricek, Jon Skeet: Books

ISBN: 1933988924
ISBN-13: 9781933988924

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Dew Drop – November 15, 2012 (#1,443)

Posted on November 15, 2012 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #15: The On-Screen Keyboard (Jeff Blankenburg)
Creating A Windows 8 Application From Scratch (Jesse Liberty)
Respect and the 40-hour work week (Jimmy Bogard)
Using SQLite in Windows Store Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Windows 8 Development + Blendability (Braulio Diez)

Web Development

ASP.NET Web API and dependencies in request scope (Filip W)
Creative CSS Loading Animations (Hugo Giraudel)
HTML5 game developer feels IE10 lacks important features (John Callaham)
Unable to Edit and Continue in Windows Azure Web Roles (Kevin Griffin)
Unit Testing your JavaScript (Alex Staveley)
Using Routers in Backbone.js (Sagar H. Ganatra)
Finding Elements In The DOM Using querySelector and Storing and Retrieving an Array from Local Storage (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Running IISNode on Windows 8 x64 (Per Ökvist)
How and why to avoid mixing your mark-up and server-side code (Rachel Andrew)
Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes (Matt Rakow)
Increasing Productivity: Using The Texture Panel In Adobe Fireworks (Matt Curtis)
Responsive Grids With Susy (Gabriel Manricks)

XAML

Sending In-Application Toast Notifications in WinRT for C# (Derik Whittaker)
Taking a Look at Registering a new Windows Phone 8 Device and Syncing Content (Michael Crump)
Update on Windows Phone 8 support for Rx v2.0 (Rx Team)
2000 WPF Things #691 – IsMouseCaptured Indicates Whether Mouse Is Currently Captured (Sean Sexton)
Common Windows Store certification errors: 3.8 App must meet the basic performance criteria on a low-power computer (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous .NET

Using WinMerge with VS2012 (Rory Primrose)
Simple Setup Engine for KinectContrib Templates (Dennis Delimarsky)
ReSharper 7.1 update (Tatworth)
Paraffin Bug Fix and Future Ideas (John Robbins)
Native Development Experience in Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Eric Battalio)
Sharing files across projects by linking in VS (Iris Classon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Methodologies – The Missing Path (Mohamed Kishawy)
Design patterns in the test of time: Proxy (Oren Eini)
Extending Load Testing With A Custom Plugin (Stoil Stoichev)
Are 20% projects profitable? (Craig Buckler)
How to use Git and Github for Windows from within a Windows auth proxy network. (Eric Hexter)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android SDK Tools, Revision 21 (Xavier Ducrohet & Angana Ghosh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Udi Dahan Talks CQRS, Agile and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
XAMLflix presents RadPivotGrid for WPF and Silverlight (Michael Crump)
Web Dev Radio Episode 104: A few infrastructure services and version control (Michael Kimsal)
The JavaScript Show – Getting Started with Knockout.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Core technologies for Windows 8 games | Build 2012 (Chas Boyd)
Hot Apps: Roll In The Hole, Akinator, Space Tube FREE, Shoot 1UP, Archer | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
Video: Code Your Way to Riches with Windows 8 App Paid Features (Paul Ballard)
Dude, What’s My Role? – Cloud-Driven Changes (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

Geek Graduates: Interns help ship Windows 8 (MS JobsBlog)
5 Important SharePoint Conference 2012 Announcements You Can’t Miss… #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
Geek of the Week: Katie Sweeney, Writer and Broken Umbrellarazzi (Michaelangelo Ilagan)

Database

SQL Server TCP Port Number (Vinoth NM)
SQL Server || Compress & UnComprees Backups in one MediaFile (Rohit Garg)
How to restore a SQL Server database to a lower version (Basit Farooq)
SQL SERVER – Concurrency Basics – Guest Post by Vinod Kumar (Pinal Dave)
15 SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips for Database Developers (Sajid Wasim)
Is being a DBA still sexy? (Jes Schultz Borland)

Miscellaneous

Why Windows 8 is a compelling choice for clinicians around the world (Bill Crounse)
Exclusive excerpt from The Walking Dead novel – The Road to Woodbury (Mark Frauenfelder)
The Computer Backup Rule of Three (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading November 14, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #1001 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly Links (11-12-12) (Matthias Shapiro)
The Morning Brew #1233 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: November 14, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 15, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 11/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Async in C# 5.0: Alex Davies: Kindle Store

ASIN: B0099BJ4DU

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Dew Drop – July 17, 2012 (#1,365)

Posted on July 17, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Microsoft’s new Office: The cloud finally takes center stage and A new Microsoft Office, a new Microsoft Office division (Mary Jo Foley)
Article: Cut off wrong dependencies in your .NET code (Patrick Smacchia)
Team Foundation Service Updates 7/16 (Brian Harry)
Wow: Google’s Marissa Mayer is Yahoo’s new CEO (Todd Bishop)

.NET / Visual Studio

Console Application Cursor Position (Richard Carr)
TFS Integration Tools: TF237165: The Team Foundation Server could not update the work item and Migrating data from FogBugz to TFS 2012 using the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
Fluent Interfaces in C# – Extension Methods (Dror Helper)
APress deal of the day 17/Jul/2012 – Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming (Tatworth)
Improved Toolbox Performance Delivers Highly Responsive Visual Studio 2012 (Chuck England & Duke Kamstra)
C# Code Searcher – Using Roslyn (woutercx)
Template Argument Deduction – Core C++, Part 2 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
Entity Framework Code First From Microsoft, Best and Worst Practices (Peter Kellner)
RavenDB… What am I persisting, what am I querying? (part 2) (Phillip Haydon)
Better Tracing And Instrumentation For .NET Apps (Roopesh Shenoy)
CodeRush: ‘Friction Free’ mode and Setting Schemes (Rory Becker)
Windows 8 metro: Win as one with search and share contracts (Andrea Boschin)
First impressions of Telerik RadControls for Metro… very nice. #TelerikMetro (Eric Nelson)

Web Development

Building a Simple HTML5 Video Player (Robert Crowther, Joe Lennon & Ash Blue)
A Survey of JavaScript Timers on Mobile (Michael Mullany)
Lighten your website’s load with HTML Cleaner (Mike Williams)
How Do You Mark Up A Single Link or Button? (Louis Lazaris)
Self-Host with Web API (Ugo Lattanzi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Agile Project Manager — What’s the Big Deal about Commitment? (Bob Galen)
Implications of design decisions: Read Striping (Oren Eini)
The Cost of Design. (Scott Barnes)
Review: TypeMock Isolator 7 (Tim Murphy)
Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline! (Leon Bambrick)
Why I Think the Metro Style is Important to Understand (Andrew Conlisk)
Taking Risks Requires Practice (Aaron Stannard)
The Builder Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
Developers – Stop Doing QA’s Job (Eli Lopian)
Outliers – The Story of Success (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Ultimate About Dialog (Windows Phone Geek)
8 New Platform Features Coming to Windows Phone 8 (Keith Mayer)
Communicating Windows Phone 7.1 with WebAPI to perform Create and Read Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
OAuth With RestSharp in Windows Phone (Mohamed Haamdi)
2000 WPF Things #604 – Defining a New Routed Event (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Lucian Wischik Enlightens Us on Async and Parallelism (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
DevRadio Episode: #beatthegu at TechEd (Brian Hitney)
Video: How to Start Using Project Online in 10 Mins #office365 #msproject #sharepoint #officepreview (Dux Raymond Sy)
ShopTalk Episode 25 (Chris Coyier)
Video: Set RhinoMocks Loose on Your Tests! (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

Maker Camp on the Google Homepage! (Gareth Branwyn)
Windows 8 Developer Double Headers (Jim O’Neil)
Get Involved in Web IDE Community! (Alexey Korsun)
Upcoming Speaking Engagements About Mobile Web and Single Page Applications (Chris Love)

Database

SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
Managing SQL Server Extended Events in Management Studio (Brady Upton)
Crystal Reports DataDate in SSRS (Mike Davis)
New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (Kim Spilker)
Contained Databases in SQL Server 2012 (Artemakis Artemiou)
PowerPivot for Excel 2013 (Bradley Schacht)
T-SQL Tuesday: Taking it to the MAX – Aggregate Functions (Nick Haslam)

SharePoint

Downloadable eBook: Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 Preview (MS Downloads)
SharePoint 2013 – What you need to know and Understanding SharePoint 2013 Apps (aka: Apps 101) and SP2013 WCM: Forget Everything You Knew About SharePoint WCM! and SharePoint 2013 Developer & IT Pro Training Available on MSDN & TechNet (Andrew Connell)
SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

Tandem PowerShell Sessions (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Office 2013: Editions at a glance and FAQ (Ed Bott)
Who will buy Windows 8? (Joe Wilcox)
OneNote Tip: Tagging more than one line of text with a single tag (John Guin)
Office 15 – is the end near for Windows Live Writer? and Office 15: Quick links and quick first impressions and More on Windows Live Writer, Office 2013, and reading the tea leaves and OneNote “MX”, the new Windows 8 app, is now available in the Windows Store (Kip Kniskern)
Welcome to the Office 2013 Public Preview (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft unveils OneNote Metro style app for Windows 8 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading July 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
The Morning Brew #1147 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-17 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 7/16/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 July 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Double Shot #916 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food: Jeff Potter: Kindle Store

ASIN: B003XDUCIG

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