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Dew Drop – January 17, 2013 (#1,481)

Posted on January 17, 2013 | by Alvin A. | 2 Comments

Top Links

Working on TypeScript 0.8.2 (Jonathan Turner)
Nullable micro-optimizations, part six (Eric Lippert)
MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 5 (Fluent export properties) and MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 6 (Composition scoping and lifetime management) (Bnaya Eshet)
jQuery 1.9 final, jQuery 2.0 beta, Migrate final released (Dave Methvin)

Web Development

Node Roundup: 0.8.17, 0.9.6, gelf-node, jsong, Stuff.js (Alex Young)
The ASP.NET developer checklist (Mads Kristensen)
Voxel.js: A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node (Devon Govett)
Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry (Adam J. Sontag)
Setting a var property in the JavaScript Revealing Module Pattern requires a setter (Kevin)
Cross-Post: Tutorial Series and Sample Application for ASP.NET MVC 4 with Windows Azure Tables, Blobs and Queues (Craig Kitterman)
How to work with Navigation App Template in Windows Store App with JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
The Magic of the jQuery 1.9 Source Map and Don’t Hot-fix IE6-8, Upgrade to IE9-10 Instead (Elijah Manor)
Magical Web API action selector – HTTP-verb and action name dispatching in a single controller (Filip W)
Why 2013 is the Year of PHP (Gabriel Manricks)
Debugging mocha unit tests with WebStorm step by step (Glenn Block)
Understanding the CSS Clip Property (Hugo Giraudel)
Stupid Question 127: What is strict mode in Javascript? (Iris Classon)
i18n Module for Node and Express.js (John Resig)
Building A Node.JS Server That Won’t Melt – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 5 (Lloyd Hilaiel)
Putting CSS Clip to Work: Expanding Overlay Effect (Mary Lou)
3 Open-Source Validation Projects for ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kennedy)
Obfuscate.js: clean sensitive information out from web page screenshots (Mikko Ohtamaa)
Handing MVC paths with dots in the path (Scott Forsyth)
Advanced CSS3 2D and 3D Transform Techniques (Syed Fazle Rahman)
Adding Multi Column Sort to Dynamic Data List Page (Steve Naughton)
The problem with website security is us! (Troy Hunt)
YUI 3.9.0pr1 – Charts, JSONP, and Responsive Grids (Andrew Wooldridge)
Responsive web design versus adaptive web design (Axel Rauschmayer)
One step closer to full support for Redis on Windows, MS Open Tech releases 64-bit and Azure installer (Claudio Caldato)
Modern Lifecycle on the Cloud OS (Brian Harry)
KeyboardJS 0.4.1 released (Callum Macrae)
Who can beat Amazon at IaaS? (Joe Masters Emison)

XAML

Creating Spinning progress Animation in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
Should Windows Phone Developers Target Both 7 and 8? (Keith Ward)
App submission tips for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 (Bernardo Zamora)
How to use the Light Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications (Derik Whittaker)
What Is New In WPF 4.5 (DevToolsGuy)
Windows Phone 8: Contacts Integration (Peter Kuhn)
How to be Windows Phone’s Next App Star (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
Want to ILMerge but you’re building a WPF app? Resource them baby! (Greg Duncan)
Comparing Web Storage and WinRT AppData/Settings APIs and My Take on HTML/JS vs. C#/XAML vs. C++/DirectX (choosing a language for a Windows Store app) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
32feet.NET for Windows Phone (Peter Foot)
Liven up app development with the Windows Phone 8 Emulator skin switcher (Rich Edmonds)
A simple WPF Text Clock Gadget for Windows (Sanjay)
2000 WPF Things #735 – System Applet Indicates Maximum Number of Touch Points and #736 – Finding the Maximum Number of Touch Points at Run-time (Sean Sexton)
PhoneGap and Why I’ve Been Busy (Shawn Wildermuth)
How To: Merge assemblies into WPF application (Vladimir Enchev)
Outlook-Like Navigation Pane WPF Control v1.0.4764.30675 and WPF Composites Version 3.5.0(CodePlex)
Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone – Part 2 – Infinite Image Scroll (Dennis Delimarsky)
PhoneGap Sample – Shake to Roll (Raymond Camden)
Free Windows 8 Design Templates are now Available for all Developers (Doris Chen)
How to Launch WP8 built-in Apps using URI Schemes? and A Quick Solution to Resolve a WP App Deployment Issue (Kunal Chowdhury)
Developer Series: Building Windows Store Applications with Dr. “Z” (Zhiming Xue)
A Reusable INotifyPropertyChanged Extension Method (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

R2P: A General-Purpose ReSharper Plugin (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Converting Between Unix Time And DateTime (Mike Hadlow)
Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Quick Launch and Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Solution Explorer Scope (Andy Schwam)
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (KB2707250): New Features (Zain Naboulsi)
Windows Workflow and Timeouts (Peter Vogel)
Entity Framework Profiler support for Entity Framework 6 alpha 2 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator Upcoming Feature: Bracket Highlighting (Blake Niemyjski)
Xamarin for Java Developers (Craig Dunn)
WinForms MVP – An MVP Framework for Winforms (David Rogers)
What does async & await generate? (Filip Ekberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum and multiple project teams (Bill Wagner)
How to do Unit Test using NUnit : Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
MindMup is live: Mind Mapping will never be the same (Gojko Adzic)
Managing Programs With Agile and Traditional Projects (Johanna Rothman)
Design patterns in the test of time: Interpreter (Oren Eini)
Code Today’s Requirements Today (Ken Downs)

Other Mobile Platforms

Mobile, Tablet and Desktop Development All at The Same Time (Doug Rathbone)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Erik Meijer, Immo Landwerth, and Andrew Arnott: Immutable Collections for .NET (Charles Torre)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 100 – “Good for Your Cholesterol” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Video: Viewing Data Through a Window in SQL Server 2012 (Paul Ballard)
Yet Another Podcast #89–Laurent Bugnion on MVVM and Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.9 rc1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
The Nerdist Podcast – Sick Ray (Chris Hardwick)
Ping 164: IllumiRoom, Skype, Ballmer & Basketball, Surface Pro | Ping! (Laura Foy)
People Talking Tech Episode 018 – Troy Hunt (Denny Cherry)

Community / Events

UBELLY IGNITE 21st JAN – MEET OUR SPEAKERS (Tom Rouse)
Publish an app in the Windows Store or the Windows Phone Store and win crazy prizes/get store registration refunded! and Windows 8 Unleashed events in Ann Arbor and Columbus (Jennifer Marsman)
A former OneNote tester is writing a book and you can help! (John Guin)
Announcing the Windows Startup Challenge (Antoine Leblond)

Database

Using the Data Profiling SQL Server Integration Services SSIS task (Ben Snaidero)
SSIS Top 10 Best Practices Basics (Katie & Emil)
SQL Server ODBC Driver 11 and Command Line Utilities 11 for released (Greg Duncan)
SQL SERVER – Send Email From SQL Server – Configure Database Mail – SQL in Sixty Seconds #039 – Video and SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 4 (Pinal Dave)
What is going on with Database Mail in SQL Server and MongoDB, how to sort results (Denis Gobo)
Day 14 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Fixing a Corrupt Tempdb and Day 15 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Running DBCC CheckTable in Parallel Jobs (Robert Davis)
All Software Development is Schema Management (Ken Downs)
Database mirroring: avoiding ‘cannot obtain a LOCK resource’ problems (Paul Randal)
Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues (Sam Vanga)
More SSDT naming confusion (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

SharePoint folders and OneNote for WinRT (Rockford Lhotka)
SharePoint Solution Deployer 4.1 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Jobs in IT: What does “diversity and inclusion” mean at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
My Experience Migrating to Office 365 (Andrew Connell)
Executify’s Vision (Nick Berardi)
How do I create a TaskDialog with a progress bar but no cancel button? (Raymond Chen)
Female Nerds Who Altered The Course Of History [Infographic] (Richard Darell)
How to get from an idea to a book (Scott Berkun)
Picking the Right Tools for Your Project (Shayne Boyer)
Creating a photo book with your Windows Phone (Lisa Stratton)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 15th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 16th (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading January 15, 2013 and Geek Reading January 16, 2013 (Rob Diana)
Weekly Links, January 15 2013 (Matthias Shapiro)
Double Shot #1045 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily Links 16 Jan 2013 (Jax)
The Morning Brew #1274 and The Morning Brew #1275 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: January 16, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 1/15/2013 and Daily News Digest 1/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Most Popular LightSwitch Team Blog Posts of 2012 (Beth Massi)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
Entity Framework Links #3 (Rowan Miller)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Effective Use Cases (9780201702255): Alistair Cockburn: Books

ISBN: 0201702258
ISBN-13: 9780201702255

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Dew Drop – January 7, 2013 (#1,476)

Posted on January 7, 2013 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Review: Metaprogramming in .NET (Ted Neward)
iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? (Scott Hanselman)
MVVM Light V4.1.26 change log (Laurent Bugnion)
TypeScript Classes and Interfaces (John Papa)

Web Development

The JavaScript DSP API, RiverTrail, and the Future of JavaScript Parallelization (Devon Govett)
Visualizing the Client-Side MVC race (Paul Hammant)
Handling enum values with type converters in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Adam Hoffman)
Knockout Js and External MVC cshtml templates (Kevin)
Brace styles and JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
Two common tasks using jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
Replace JSON.NET with ServiceStack.Text in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
ControlDeck.js – Control HTML5 Presentations Remotely With Node.js (Hirvesh Munogee)
ASP.NET Bundling/Minification and Embedded Resources (Imran Baloch)
[Sample Of Jan 6th] How to use Bing Translator API in Windows Azure (Philip Fu)
Capturing HTML 5 Video To An Image (K. Scott Allen)
Creating A Desktop Experience Using Wijmo Grid In LightSwitch HTML Client and Saving Data In The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Including Automatic Saves) (Michael Washington)
Refactoring >14,000 lines of CSS into Sass (Grant Palin)
RequireJS is the Spring Framework of Javascript (Patrick Kua)
Getting the Mouse Click Position and Switch Statements in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
MVC Boostrap 0.6.1 (CodePlex)
Creating A Custom Show / Hide Directive In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Style Injection is for Winners (Chris Coyier)
Keeping your AppHarbor application pool alive (Jef Claes)
Trying out TypeScript (Cameron Taggart)

XAML

A Lap Around the Windows Phone 8 Platform (Nick Randolph)
Windows Phone 8: Localization (Peter Kuhn)
Example WinRT: Changing existing style resource at runtime in code using databindings (Iris Classon)
WinRT’s default “save on suspend” isn’t good enough (Joe White)
Windows Phone: How to Easily Store User Settings (Mikael Koskinen)
[Sample Of Jan 5th] Convert live camera feed to bytes in Windows Phone 8 (Philip Fu)
2000 WPF Things #728 – Using the Clipboard to Transfer Other Types of Data (Sean Sexton)
Modifying the MSDN WIC Sample for Windows 8 To Add FillOpacityMask Support (Dennis Delimarsky)
WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.3.5.2 (CodePlex)
Design your Windows 8 app with ads in mind and Windows was unable to communicate with the target application (Loek van den Ouweland)
How to detect that your app is running in Kid’s Corner (Peter Torr)
Tips for Passing Microsoft Certification Exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps (Samidip Basu)
Security and Access to SMS (Matt Lacey)

Miscellaneous .NET

Review (in advance): F# Deep Dives (Ted Neward)
Obtaining Caller Information (Richard Carr)
Bugs in TFS Update 1 (Brian Harry)
Are Roaming Settings Coming in Visual Studio vNext? (Elena Pundjeva)
Stupid Question 119: Do we have pointers in C#? (Iris Classon)
How to connect Telerik TeamPulse with Visual Studio TFS on Cloud? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Mitigate The Billion Dollar Mistake with Aspects (Phil Haack)
SimpleDeploy.Net – An FTP Style Wrapper for the MS Deploy API (Doug Rathbone)
Timestamp to String (Anthony Trudeau)
Ultrabook Sensors on Desktop App (Anup Kumar Verma)
MEF 2.0 TOC and MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 2 (Fluent and Conventional Export) (Bnaya Eshet)
Entity Framework CRUD Operations Using Stored Procedures and Implementing CRUD operations in MySQL using Entity Framework (Dorababu)
Threading threading safely with the Immutable Collections Preview from the BCL Team (Greg Duncan)
Unbox the 1st New Year Gift from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework (Jialiang Ge)
Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window (Steve Wilkes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Using sql compact for integration tests with entity framework. (Eric Hexter)
Single Responsibility Principle, Object Orientation & Active Code (Oren Eini)
The User Interface Design Process (Peter Vogel)
Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Preparing For A Front-End Job Interview (Jake Bresnehan)
Freebie: Gemicon Icon Set (600 PNG Icons + PSD Source) (Smashing Editorial)
How to Become a Software Architect (Dan Mohl)

Other Mobile Platforms

Deciding between native iOS and Xamarin (MonoTouch) (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter – Concurrency and Parallelism | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 462: Our favorite games of 2012. Plus Adam Sessler drops by (Larry Hyrb)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 098 – “JavaScript Might Fix Travis’s Voice” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.9 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
TWC9: Welcome to 2013! C# is #1, TypeScript Templates, TPL Samples and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan)
Web Dev Radio Episode 106: Freelancing interview with Matchist.com founders (Michael Kimsal)
Windows Weekly 293: 40 Beers in 30 Days (Paul Thurrott)
The Tablet Show – Luke Wroblewski Builds Mobile UI! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Nerdist Podcast – Warren Ellis and The Nerdist Podcast – Timothy Olyphant (Chris Hardwick)
The Vergecast 060 – January 5th, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
ShopTalk Episode 49 (Chris Coyier)
Mobile Nations 20: CES 2013 preview! (Daniel Rubino)
Yet Another Podcast #88–Chris Bowen on Game Development for Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
Podcast: Nook vs. Kindle, future of Xbox, and settling in with our new devices (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Tuesday (Jan 9th) (Scott Guthrie)
RobMen has left the building. (Rob Mensching)
CodeProject MVP 2013 (Colin Eberhardt)
Data Science and Big Data User Group (Orlando, FL) (Lillian Pierson)

Database

Working With Multi-Select Parameters for SSRS Reports (Mickey Stuewe)
Microsoft advocates checkpoints – proceed with caution [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
Creating MongoDB as a service on Windows 8 and Differences between Oracle and SQL Server when working with NULL and blank values and What is the Dual table in Oracle and why do I need it? and Truncate rollback differences between SQL Server and Oracle (Denis Gobo)
Row of nonclustered index page (James Xu)
Day 5 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in a Nonclustered Index and Day 6 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in Allocation Pages (Robert Davis)
“Add as object” or “Add as script”? [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

Calling SharePoint search using REST (e.g. from JavaScript or an app) (Chris O’Brien)
Installing and Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Farm on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

A new year, a new Microsoft roadmap: Stepping up the delivery pace (Mary Jo Foley)
Functional programming in C (Luca Bolognese)
Best Lumia apps of 2012 (Tom Hall)
Misspelling “Windows Phone” Makes Google Maps Work (Explained) (Matthias Shapiro)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 6, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 188 (Scott Banwart)
Geek Reading January 4, 2013 (Rob Diana)
Collective #45 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1037 and Double Shot #1038 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five – January 4, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
Daily News Digest 1/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
The Daily Six Pack: January 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Pie in the Sky (January 4, 2013) (Brian Swan)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1267 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Dev News for January 03, 2012 – #0139 and Windows Dev News for January 05, 2012 – #0140 and Windows Dev News for January 06, 2012 – #0141 (Dave Campbell)
Reblog: December 28 to January 3 (Jason Strate)
Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 04, 2013 (Denny Cherry)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The Book of CSS3: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design: Peter Gasston: 9781593272869: Books

ISBN: 1593272863
ISBN-13: 9781593272869

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Dew Drop – December 4, 2012 (#1,475)

Posted on January 4, 2013 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

CodeProject Article on Xamarin Cross Platform Development (Colin Eberhardt)
Evaluating Certificates in Fiddler and FiddlerCore (Eric Lawrence)
Nullable micro-optimization, part three (Eric Lippert)
C# is the “Language of the Year” (Brandon Bray)

Web Development

My Experience With AngularJS – The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework (Ben Nadel)
Working with Windows Azure command line tools from within Visual Studio (Maarten Balliauw)
JavaScript terminology: the two prototypes (Axel Rauschmayer)
Using Memcache to access a Windows Azure Dedicated Cache–Take 2 (Brian Swan)
All You Need to Know About CSS Transitions (Chris Coyier)
Asynchronously streaming video with ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
Building Ribbit in PHP (Gabriel Manricks)
Supermodel.js – Minimal Model Tracking For Backbone.js (Hirvesh Munogee)
Web Sites Using Knockout.js (John Papa)
Realtime Node.js App: Stress Testing Procedure (Mike Pennisi)
CSS gradients (Peter-Paul Koch)
Building and Deploying Windows Azure Web Site with Node.js and MongoDB by using Microsoft WebMatrix (Shiju Varghese)
Reuse and Recycle: The Canvas 2D API (Rob Larsen)

XAML

Windows Store App – Tiled Background using Mindscape Metro Elements (Phillip Haydon)
Live Tiles in Windows Phone 8: Part 1 Tile Templates (Windows Phone Geek)
Did ya get the memo? Let me send you another copy… Windows Phone 8 Delightful Design Memo (aka Cheat Sheet) (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #727 – Getting a List of Files from the Clipboard (Sean Sexton)
APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 – Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# (Tatworth)
Windows Runtime–what’s supported where? (Jim O’Neil)
Windows Store App: Live tiles and toast- a simple example (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous .NET

Introducing DirectX Factor (Charles Petzold)
Lazy<T> in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 1 (Bnaya Eshet)
Windows Workflow Foundation Case Studies (Jurgen Willis)
Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks (Marko Apfel)
Why does my program run really slow or even crash (or stop crashing, or crash differently) if running under a debugger? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Things you can Check when Adopting Agile (Ben Linders)
MyGet build services now integrated with CodePlex (Mark Groves)
Gartner on New Skills Required For Enterprise Architects (Mike Walker)
A Nod to Professionalism (Jim Cooper)
How to add updating to the Ignite UI Tree’s Drag & Drop (Damyan Petev)

Other Mobile Platforms

Localizing iOS6 Storyboards with MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
How to create, remove and manage geofence reminders in iOS programmatically with Xcode (Tim Hibbard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Video: Add a Bit of Dash to Your Data with jQuery and MVC 4 (Paul Ballard)
The Nerdist Podcast – Warren Ellis (Chris Hardwick)
The Verge Mobile Show 031 – January 2nd, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
041 JSJ Single Page Applications (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell, Merrick Christensen)
Mobile Nations 20: CES 2013 preview! (Daniel Rubino)
Engadget HD Podcast 330 – 01.03.2013 (James Trew)
Watch This: Geek & Sundry’s TableTop Returns With Alhambra (Matt Blum)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 74 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

April Conferences Where I’ll be Teaching, Plus a Workshop (Julie Lerman)
A career in technology at Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
Interview: Erik Meijer on Big Data, Types of Data Stores and Reactive Programming (InfoQ)

Database

Standardizing SQL Server CRUD Templates with Rollback Plans (Derek Colley)
SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
Moving OdeToCode to Azure – The Database (K. Scott Allen)

PowerShell

Pseudo-Polymorphism in PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Jobs in IT: Cheers to a new year–and a new you. Our top 6 job-search tips (MS JobsBlog)
Microsoft counts down to what? (Joe Wilcox)
Review: Surface with Windows RT (Andy Schwam)
Welcome to “Learning by Shipping” (Steven Sinofsky)
Can Windows Phone Survive? (Damon Payne)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 188 (Scott Banwart)
Geek Reading January 3, 2013 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #1036 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 1/3/2013 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1266 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Dev News for January 03, 2012 – #0139 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software: Charles Petzold: 0790145113191: Books

ISBN: 0735611319
ISBN-13: 9780735611313

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