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)

 

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