Dew Drop – September 20, 2012 (#1,405)

Top Links

• Make your HTML/JavaScript app accessible (Jennifer Norberg)
• Adding Notifications to Your Windows 8 Game (Jim O’Neil)
• Avoid shooting yourself in the foot with Tasks and Async (Filip Ekberg)
• Article: Jason Zander on Visual Studio’s Past, Present, and Future (Jeff Martin)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Editors: Rich client experience (Damyan Petev)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0.2 EAP 121.252 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• JavaScript’s Future Class Syntax in Today’s Browsers with Esprima and Harmonizr (Ariya Hidayat)
• New hands-on labs for jQuery Fundamentals (Fritz Onion)
• An ASP.NET Open Source How-To Decoder Ring (Link) (Henrik F. Neilsen)
• Fullscreen Video Slideshow with BigVideo.js (John Polacek)
• Easy Form Validation using HTML5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Continuous Deployment with Windows Azure Web Sites (Larry Franks)
• Configuring your ASP.NET application for Microsoft OAuth account (Pranav Rastogi)
• New jQuery Mobile Logo (Todd Parker)
• Web Sites with Embedded Command Lines: You got your Command Line in my Internet (Scott Hanselman)
• WordPress Plugins I Use (Chris Coyier)
• Live Web Audio Input Enabled! (Chris Wilson)
• A harsh reminder about the importance of debug=”false” (Dave Ward)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #651 – Using Static Members of the Keyboard Class (Sean Sexton)
• Metro Studio – Your Modern UI Style Icons Paradise (Toni Petrina)
• W8WIL #3: Pinch-to-Zoom and Rotate in the Simulator (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Books (Beth Massi)
• Got Windows 8? The Multilingual App Toolkit is released! (Michael S. Kaplan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Checking if the Operating System is 64-bit (Richard Carr)
• KinectContrib Templates now available via Nuget (Greg Duncan)
• Highlight Word add-in for Visual Studio 2010 [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)
• VS2012: Improvements for ALM and Web Developers (Jeff Martin)
• Exploring .NET 4.5 Parallel Dataflow – Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• Does the CopyFile function verify that the data reached its final destination successfully? (Raymond Chen)
• Dot Net Gotcha #1 – List versus Collection constructor (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Team Foundation Service: Process template changes (Gregg Boer)
• Asynchronous WMI Queries: Stay Away From Them (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Feedback driven development – it’s like yoga for my apps (Sebastian Holst)
• UX Sketching And Wireframing Templates For Mobile Projects // Free Download (Sven Lennartz, Vitaly Friedman, Iris Ljesnjanin, Jan Constantin & Esther Arends)
• Architecture Diagram for Windows 8 Development (Robert Maclean)
• The Miracle of Multitasking (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Article: Continuous Integration with MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 1 (Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introducing ReportPlus: Building Enterprise Dashboards on the iPad (Gabriel Lopez)
• Handling Phone events in Android programs. (krasnoff)
• Xamarin releases same-day support for iOS 6 (Ryan Paul)
• ZTE Launching Firefox OS Phone In 2013 (Vygantas)
• The All New Sencha Cmd (Don Griffin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ian Felton Aids School Marching Bands with Technology (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• WPCentral 149 – Special HTC 8X and 8S with Windows Phone 8 edition (Daniel Rubino)
• Getting Started with Windows Azure | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Verge Mobile Show 017 – September 18th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• John Sheehan: Windows 8 Platform (Chris Caldwell)
• Casablanca: C++ on Azure | TechEd Australia 2012 (John Azariah & Mahesh Krishnan)
• Video: Secure Your Services No Matter Where They Are With Windows Identity Foundation (Paul Ballard)
• Edge Show 36 – High-Availability & Clustering enhancement in Windows Server 2012 | Edge (Symon Perriman)

 

Community / Events

• The First Ever Microsoft Student Partner Nationwide Online Meet-up with New TE (Meah Imtiaz Z.)
• New Team, New Challenges (Jason Zander)
• Join us for the Upcoming Test Studio Release Webinar! (Jim Holmes)
• Stupid Question 47: In RE to programming, is it normal to feel more stupid the more you learn? (Iris Classon)

 

Database

• Importing Data From Excel Using SSIS – Part 1 (Arshad Ali)
• New book: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – 2 T-SQL Puzzles and Win USD 50 worth Amazon Gift Card and 25 Other Prizes (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Updates to Windows Azure SQL Database (Gregory Leake)
• Creating a User Defined Table Type (Steve Jones)

 

SharePoint

• SharePlus: What’s New in Latest 3.5 Release (Anand Raja)

 

PowerShell

• Running PowerShell from within SharePoint (Reidar Husmo)

 

Miscellaneous

• Unboxing and First Impressions of New Intel Ultrabook (Steve Smith)
• Dear JobsBlog: How do I figure out if I will like a job? (MS JobsBlog)
• First Look at 3rd Generation Intel Ivy Bridge Ultrabook (John Papa)
• Kickstarter Alert: GoldieBlox Hits a Sweet Spot for Getting Girls Excited About Engineering (Ken Denmead)
• Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Keyboard Re-Invents Backspace [REVIEW] (Peter Pachal)
• Review: Windows 8 – Initial Experience (Tim Murphy)
• Announcing HTC’s new Windows Phone 8 lineup (Terry Myerson)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 19, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Daily News Digest 9/19/2012 and Daily News Digest 9/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1193 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 19 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Best Of: September Windows Phone Links! (William Soprano)

 

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