Dew Drop – September 19, 2012 (#1,404)

Top Links

• WebMatrix 2 – Front End Web Developers take note (ASP.NET, PHP, node.js and more) (Scott Hanselman)
• Things in C# you might have missed (Filip Ekberg)
• Roslyn September CTP 2012 Overview – API Changes, Using Modified APIs for C# Script Execution, Embedding C# as a scripting language (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• AT&T eyes October 21st for the Nokia Lumia 920 (Daniel Rubino)

 

Web Development

• Create an Overlapping Figure Caption Using Basic CSS (Chris Love)
• Announcing the New Windows Azure Web Sites Shared Scaling Tier (Clint Edmonson)
• Using Notifications for Non-Modal Messages–for C# and Javascript Windows 8 (David Catuhe)
• Structuring JavaScript Code – Part I (Dan Wahlin)
• Simple Drop Down Panel jQuery Widget (Evren Yortuçboylu)
• Guest Post: What’s the Big Deal with AppDynamics Windows Azure Monitoring? (Himanshu Singh)
• Creating STA COM compatible ASP.NET Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Free eBook on ASP.NET MVC 4 (Tatworth)
• Continuous Deployment from GitHub to Windows Azure (Vishal R. Joshi)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 7 – Optimizing Animations (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Exposing A Mouse Service For Click Events In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• fastJSON v2.0.5 (CodePlex)
• Sublime Text 2 Project Bliss (Remy Bach)
• Introducing Gith – GitHub WebHooks For Node (Dan Heberden)
• Announcing YUI 3.7.0 (Andrew Wooldridge)
• ACE, a Web-based Code Editor, Reaches 1.0 (Abel Avram)

 

XAML

• Introduction to Telerik RadSlideView Control for Windows Phone (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How to tell if a Windows Store app is XAML or HTML/JavaScript (Matthew Baxter-Reynolds)
• Dealing with a Windows Phone App "Unspecified Error" (Matteo Pagani)
• Now Available…Windows 8 Camp In a Box for RTM (G. Andrew Duthie)
• What’s new in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate (Georgi Atanasov)
• 2000 WPF Things #650 – Getting Information About Keyboard Keys from Any Method (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• From the MVPs: F# 3.0 Type Providers (Rick Minerich)
• Telerik’s Microsoft Platform Guidance 2012 (Hristo Kosev)
• The "Windows 8 Store Apps Starter Kit" comes in what programming language? Ha! Wrong! VB.Net! (Greg Duncan)
• Experimenting with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Mike Taulty)
• As the Microsoft developer world turns: Guidance for the perplexed (Mary Jo Foley)
• Resource Management in C++ (Diego Dagum)
• VS 2012 Code Review – Before Check In OR After Check In? (Tarun Arora)
• APress Deal of the Day 19/Sept/2012 – Pro .NET Best Practices (Tatworth)
• System.Web.Helpers.Chart Custom Themes (Cori Drew)
• Runtime Representation of Generics—Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Stupid Question 46: Static readonly VS Const, which one to use? (Iris Classon)
• What is the difference between a company vs. individual account for the Windows Store? (Jennifer Marsman)
• Visual Studio Icon Patcher Version 1.5.1 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Enterprise Architects Must Drive Cloud Strategy and Planning (Mike Walker)
• Hooray! Here’s all 316 pages of the Windows 8 UX Guidelines in one cool PDF (Jerry Nixon)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Sencha Touch 2 Models – hasMany Associations, C# Example (Jorge Ramon)
• Article: Mobile Application Architecture with HTML5 and Javascript (David Pitt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 067: Eugene Mirman, the world’s greatest podcast co-host (Mark Frauenfelder)
• C++ and Beyond 2012: Alexandrescu, Meyers, and Sutter – Ask Us Anything | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Episode 201 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Helmick on the PowerShell Summit and his upcoming IIS book (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Evolutions and SharePoint 2013 Infrastructure with Steve Smith-Episode 74 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Anna Kendrick (Chris Hardwick)
• People Talking Tech Episode 002 – Tim Ford (Denny Cherry)
• Engadget HD Podcast 316 – 09.18.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: Matt Milner on HTML Forms (Paul Ballard)
• Windows 8 DevCamp: Raleigh (Brian Hitney)
• Windows 8 DevDays & Hackathons (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Techapalooza – Troy, New York – September 20th (Jim O’Neil)
• Build. Apps. Day and Night. Join us for Windows 8 App-a-thon September 28 at Microsoft Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
• Nashville Drinkup (Kevin R. Barnes)
• Microsoft Interns in the Clouds (Arjmand Samuel)

 

Database

• Microsoft® ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server® – SUSE Linux Community Technology Preview (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Effect of Collation on Resultset – SQL in Sixty Seconds #026 – Video (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Preparing for the Firefox for Windows 8 Metro preview, status update 7 (Brian Bondy)
• Coding for Kids #1. The Beginning. (Brian Hitney)
• Xbox Music to offer free-to-user streaming, locker service and more? (Brad Sams)
• Goodbye Microsoft Network Monitor… Hello Microsoft Message Analyzer! (Greg Duncan)
• Nokia Beta Labs: Nokia Suite 3.5 Beta for Windows (Now Supports Lumias) and AT&T to Bring ‘Push to Talk’ in November – Available on Windows Phone 8 (Antonio Hernandez)
• Kickstarter Alert: GoldieBlox Hits a Sweet Spot for Getting Girls Excited About Engineering (Ken Denmead)
• Is it really all broken, or is just just broken in a different way? (Scott Koon)
• 13 iPad apps needed on Windows RT tablets (James Kendrick)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 18, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #961 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1192 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-19 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 9/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 18 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 18 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Development for Beginners (Resources) (Louis Lazaris)

 

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