Dew Drop – September 25, 2012 (#1,408)

Top Links

• Code Monkey Kung Fu – A web comic by a programmer with a bunch of kids. (Dane Morgridge)
• Announcing the F# 3.0 Open Source Code Drop (Don Syme)
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Nick Randolph)
• A Bug Report is a Gift (Scott Hanselman)
• CSLA 4 version 4.5 beta 1 released (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 Support in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Control the Complexity of Your JavaScript Functions with JSHint (Elijah Manor)
• Hello Blog Reader Sample for the Windows Store in C#, Visual Basic.Net, JavaScript and even C++! (Greg Duncan)
• How to handle tooltip events in the Infragistics jQuery Map (Jordan Tsankov)
• Perils of the MVC4 AccountController (K. Scott Allen)
• Default CSS Display Values for Different HTML Elements (Louis Lazaris)
• Location Awareness in about 2 minutes with Windows 8–HTML (Michael Crump)
• Adding Simple Exception Handling to your Web API Service (Deborah Kurata)
• Make Beautiful APIs with Rails (Corey Ehmke)
• JSLint for Visual Studio 2010 v1.4.0 (CodePlex)
• A browser benchmark that has your back: RoboHornet (Paul Irish)
• Towards Interoperable Pointer Events: Evolving Input Events for Multiple Devices (Adrian Bateman & Jacob Rossi)
• Decorating Scope Methods In The AngularJS Prototype Chain (Ben Nadel)
• Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text: Free Course! (Jeffrey Way)

 

XAML

• Metro Elements: Area Charts and Custom Styling (Jason Fauchelle)
• 2000 WPF Things #654 – Mouse Events for Button Presses (Sean Sexton)
• How to Build a Picture Gallery app for Windows Phone – Part 2 (Telerik Windows Phone Team)
• Creating A Live Tile (Jesse Liberty)
• Future proofing your apps (Andrew Whitechapel)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• File and Folder Timestamps (Richard Carr)
• Opening Pluralsight Single Page Application course code in VS2010 (Adam)
• Visual Studio 2012 – Operation Taking Longer Than Expected (Bill)
• The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample: Queries for Presidents, Books and Stars and The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample: Some Info on Queries (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio 2012–News (iPhone, Web Test Management, 260 Limit and more) (Shai Raiten)
• .NET Framework 4.5 Poster from the Community (Zain Naboulsi)
• I brought this process into the world, and I can take it out! (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework 5.0, first steps and impressions (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Profiling from the Command Line using dotTrace Performance (James Kovacs)
• Feedback Requested: Usability Of The Remarks Section In Reference Topics (Paulo Morgado)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TFS/Agile PM: Configuring so your tasks are estimated in story points (Gregg Boer)
• Elevating Performance, Sanity, and Humanity (Peter Saddington)
• Authentically digital – Metro Design Series Part 5 (Brent Schooley)
• Version Control with Git Book Review (David Hayden)
• Testing in the modern application lifecycle (Martin Hinshelwood)
• How we ship GitHub for Windows (Adam Roben)
• Creating an alternative UI for YouTrack (Hadi Hariri)
• Organize your thoughts (Filip Ekberg)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Brief overview of Auto Layout in iOS 6 (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Sells and Hanselman Together in Portland on the Road Trip (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 152 – Josh Twist on Azure Mobile Services (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• John Montgomery: Building HTML and JavaScript Windows 8 Apps with Visual Studio 2012 (Chris Caldwell)
• Announcing Windows Azure Web Sites Shared Plan, CodePlex, and GitHub | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Video: Hook Up At The Android ActionBar (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Dork Fork Thing (Chris Hardwick)
• ADP West 2012 – Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan – Cucumber, Ruby Gems and Software Craftsmanship (Bob Payne)
• Defrag Tools: #9 – ProcDump | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Aaron Skonnard on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson (Paul Ballard)
• On The Verge, Episode 009: Microsoft’s Andy Wilson and a trip to Industrial Light & Magic (Ross Miller)

 

Community / Events

• User Groups – What do you want from them? (Shayne Boyer)
• Is it getting harder for young web designers to enter the field? (Liam)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Part 3 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issue (Nelson John)
• Configuring permissions for SQL Server Analysis Services (Scott Murray)
• SQL SERVER – Basic Calculation and PEMDAS Order of Operation (Pinal Dave)
• More SSMS Tips (Shaun Stuart)
• The State of Self-Service Reporting (Paul Turley)
• Multiple log files and why they’re bad (Paul S. Randal)
• Using IndexedDB in your Windows 8 Game (Jim O’Neil)
• Stupid Question 51: Stored procedures or not? And does size and/or complexity of app/data matter? (Iris Classon)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell script to find files that are consuming the most disk space (Jugal Shah)
• Open Sourcing POSH-NPM, a set of Powershell scripts to enable tab-completion for NPM commands (Claudio Caldato)

 

Miscellaneous

• Spotify-like App Stores (Alan Mendelevich)
• Microsoft Research: It All Starts with Touch (Gavin Clarke)
• Apple Maps vs Nokia Maps – iPhone 5 vs Lumia 900 showdown (Nirave Gondhia)
• Users Attract New Users to WorldWide Telescope (Yan Xu)
• Dear JobsBlog: How do I list my technical skills on a resume? (MS JobsBlog)
• Watch Pluralsight on Your XBox 360! (Aaron Skonnard)
• The GitHub hiring experience (Coby Chapple)
• Keeping Your Organization Safe with the new Exchange (Gray Knowlton)
• Dan Appleman has found his next Visual Basic? (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Shows Off New WP Wallet Hub, NFC (images) (Antonio Hernandez)
• A great OneNote guide (John Guin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 24, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 24, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #965 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (Belated September 21, 2012 edition) (Larry Franks)
• The Morning Brew #1196 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-25 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 24 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 24 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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