September 2012 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – September 28, 2012 (#1,411)

Top Links

Project Austin Part 2 of 6: Page Curling (Eric Brumer)
Modern Web and Desktop App Development (Jeremy Likness)
Invoking NuGet Services from inside Visual Studio (Luan Nguyen)
Modern UI Data Visualization Toolkit (Mahmoud Medhat Moussa)

Web Development

Using jQuery Deferred.notify() To Provide Locally Cached Data (Ben Nadel)
Using Startup Task with command line redirection in Windows Azure Role (Avkash Chauhan)
Extending Objects with JavaScript and Extending Objects in jQuery (Chris Missal)
All About Mocking with PHPUnit (Csaba Patkos)
A Single Page App with Backbone.js, ASP.NET Web API, and F# (Daniel Mohl)
Dependency Injection and Lifetime Management with ASP.NET Web API (Mark Seemann)
Book Review: Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns by Scott Millett (Sam Abraham)
Useful JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins (Smashing Editorial)
Keeping Current With CSS (Trent Walton)
When to Not Use Observable in KnockoutJS (Shawn Wildermuth)
Discovering your Web API and Web API Help Page and XML Comments (Deborah Kurata)
Building a Windows 8 App with HTML5: completing our small RSS reader (David Rousset)
Taking the Fear Out of Commitment; New Offer For the Way You Build in The Cloud (Steven Martin)
More Details on the “Closing Tag Problem” (Mads Kristensen)
Bind a Wijmo Grid to Salesforce.com Through the Salesforce OData Connector (dataintegration)
Braindump: Feature Control Keys and URLActions (Eric Law)
Orchard CMS Forum Best Practices (David Hayden)

XAML

Medical image visualization using WPF (Bernhard Kügle)
2000 WPF Things #657 – Detecting Double Clicks in User Interface Elements (Sean Sexton)
Windows 8 is coming – are you ready to publish your app? (Sara Allison)
Only 2000 apps in the Windows 8 Store, where’s the interest? (Bill Reiss)
Implementing Search Contract in Windows 8 application (Arun Mahendrakar)

Miscellaneous .NET

Locking for Thread Synchronisation (Richard Carr)
Debugging WCF messages before serialization (Adam)
Quick Navigation inside Visual Studio using CodeRush and Advanced CodeRush Quick Navigation customization (Alex Skorkin)
Entity Framework Spatial Part 2: Querying data (AppHarbor Team)
Why aren’t environment variables being expanded in my RGS file? (Raymond Chen)
Entity Framework 5 First Steps–Mapping (Ricci Gian Maria)
Guest post: .NET SmokeTest for Reflector (Roger Hart)
Merging Symbol Servers (John Robbins)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Beyond Scrum: Introducing Simple Scalable Agile Development [Video] (Jon Friedman)
A quick guide to Registration-Free COM in .Net–and how to Unit Test it (Samuel Jack)
Kanban Boards and Microsoft TFS 2012 support in TeamPulse R5 2012 (TeamPulse Team)
The Flow Impact (Karl Scotland)
Let’s write better software and Friday with Filip – Being productive (Filip Ekberg)
Stupid Question 53: Composite applications and nesting, when do you have to many Russian dolls? (Iris Classon)
Testing shortcut keys shows a power user tip for heavy outliners (John Guin)

Other Mobile Platforms

Resolution vs. Density vs. Pixel Ratios (Thomas Fuchs)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Migrating the Khan Academy Windows Phone app to Windows 8 (Dan Fernandez & Rick Barraza)
Follow the action: OTN’s YouTube Channel (Bob Rhubart)
The Verge Mobile Show 018 – September 26th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
ShopTalk Episode 36 (Chris Coyier)
EdgeShow 37 – Server Manager and Microsoft Design Principles with Mike Pell | Edge (David Tesar & Rick)

Database

SQL Server: Part 4 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issue and SQL SERVER : How to List All Email Subscription configured in SSRS ? (Nelson Aloor)
Handling a Large Number of Categories in a SQL Server Reporting Services Pie Chart (Dattatrey Sindol)
Pagination – SQL Server Vs MySQL‏ (Madhivanan)

SharePoint

How to create a Quick Step and Custom Action to start SharePoint 2013 workflow (JongHwa Lim)

Miscellaneous

First look at the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook (Jon Gallant)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 28, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading September 27, 2012 (Rob Diana)
The Morning Brew #1199 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-28 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 9/28/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Dev News for September 27, 2012 – #0127 (Dave Campbell)
Double Shot #968 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 8 Secrets: Paul Thurrott,Rafael Rivera: 9781118204139: Books

ISBN: 1118204131
ISBN-13: 9781118204139

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Dew Drop – September 27, 2012 (#1,410)

Top Links

Near Field Communication in Windows 8: Part 1 (Walter Ferrari)
Book Download: Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing (MS Downloads)
Will Windows Phone 7 apps “just work” in Windows Phone 8? (Kip Kniskern)
AT&T planning Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 launch, training dates set (Daniel Rubino)

Web Development

PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0.2 EAP 121.272 (Alexey Gopachenko)
Store DB Connection Info in Windows Azure Web Sites App Settings (Brian Swan)
Scripting Web API self host with Roslyn CTP – Part 1 (Filip W)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 4 is out! (Jon Galloway)
Showing Geolocation in Browser using HTML5 and JavaScript (Kunal Chowdhury)
Backbone.js and Client-side Web Applications (Liam McLennan)
Workaround for HTML closing tag problem (Mads Kristensen)
Location Awareness in about 2 minutes with Windows 8–HTML (Michael Crump)
WCF Duplex Bi-directional Streaming with WebSocket Transport (James Osborne)
Experimenting with Windows Azure Mobiles Services (Round 2) (Mike Taulty)
MVC Boostrap 0.5.1 (CodePlex)
Using Azure Web Sites to market your Windows App (Tim Heuer)
Making HTTP requests from Scripts in Mobile Services (Josh Twist)
Viewing Azure Blob Storage Containers (Mark Berryman)

XAML

How I price my Windows Phone apps (Bernardo Zamora)
Refinement of a XAML ListBox empty template (Bill)
2000 WPF Things #656 – Data Available to Mouse Button Event Handlers (Sean Sexton)
Windows 8 is coming – are you ready to publish your app? (Sara Allison)

Miscellaneous .NET

WCF Data Services 5.1 Tools Installer (RC) (MS Downloads)
C# wrapper for Diablo III API (Charles Ju)
Using Live SDK in Windows 8 – C# (Shai Raiten)
Get Func-y v2.0 (Phubar Baz)
Sabotaging yourself: Closing a handle and then using it (Raymond Chen)
Entity Framework 5 First Steps–Mapping (Ricci Gian Maria)
Exporting CSV files in .NET (Michael Georgiou)
Entity Framework Spatial Part 1: Loading data (AppHarbor Team)
StyleCop Custom Rules (Kevin)
Use Structs Instead of Classes to Pass Data Uniquely (Peter Vogel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter (Charles Sterling)
Things we learned from production, part III–singleton thinking makes long queues (Oren Eini)
Running Your Unit Tests Continuously (Deborah Kurata)
Code Better or Code Less? (Pawel Brodzinski)
UI Wars: Episode 28807 – Attack of the Dark Patterns (Alex Bulat)
Copy Paste Programming (Brendan Enrick)
Designing for Windows 8 Webinar Follow-up (Brent Schooley)

Other Mobile Platforms

Google Play services and OAuth Identity Tools (Tim Bray)
Just Got a New Phone? Time to Download the Bing App (The Bing Mobile Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 069: Ned Vizzini, author of The Other Normals and writer for Last Resort (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Dr. Yngve Falck-Ytter talks Medicine and Software (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GoingNative 11: Inside Fresh Paint – A C++ + XAML + DirectX Windows Store App | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
Video: Add Browser Automation to Your Unit Tests With Selenium (Paul Ballard)
Hands-On Unit Testing With PHPUnit (Jeffrey Way)
Video: Pluralsight uses Selenium – you should too! (Keith Brown)
Defrag: Defrag RSS, Reconstructing Accounts, CL Printing | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

Music Art Food Drink: Oracle Social Plaza – Tues 10/2 (Bob Rhubart)
2013 North American PowerShell Summit (Aaron Nelson)
Geek of the Week: Melissa Ward of the Cupcake Friday Project (Colleen Reese)
Office Hours: Get Help Building Windows 8 Applications (Jim O’Neil)
Please join us on October 1st for the Capital Area Software Testing Forum! (MS Public Sector Team)
Web.NET European Conference: sold out in 2hrs and now the agenda is available (Simone Chiaretta)
PuppetConf Drinkup (San Francisco) (Will Farrington)
Apptivate.ms: A Windows 8 App Development Contest (Lauren Gundrum)

Database

SQL Server Data Tools Updated for Visual Studio 2012 (David Ramel)
Running a document database on Sql Server (Peter Skoglund)
SQL Server: Part 4 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issue (Nelson Aloor)
SQL SERVER – Not Possible – Delete From Multiple Table – Update Multiple Table in Single Statement (Pinal Dave)
A Quick SQL Challenge (Michael Swart)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Service Application Development 101 – Logical Components (Matt J. Cowan)

Miscellaneous

From the lab: Lumia 920 low-light shootout with Nokia 808, iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III (Zach Honig)
Dear JobsBlog: What are common interview mistakes (Colleen Canney)
The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: Playing with Sensors (Alvin Ashcraft)
New Xbox Music Pass info leaked or just the same old Zune Pass? (Daniel Rubino)
Be smart with this "Windows 8 Shortcut Keys" Work Smart guide (Greg Duncan)
Recruiter email etiquette (James Johnson)
Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Review (Tim Boland)
Ballmer on a quest for apps as Windows 8 approaches (Todd Bishop)
Windows Phone 8: Are there still any real surprises left? (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading September 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #967 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1198 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-27 (Dan Rigby)
Windows Dev News for September 26, 2012 – #0126 and A Few Things to Check Out on 09/26/12 (Dave Campbell)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 26 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 26 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Daily News Digest 9/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C#: Adam Freeman: 9781430244912: Books

ISBN: 1430244917
ISBN-13: 9781430244912

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