Dew Drop – October 22, 2012 (#1,426)

Top Links

• Windows 8 is the new XP (Ed Bott)
• XAML Applications on Windows 8 with DXTREME (James Newton-King)
• Create CoffeeScript using Visual Studio and the Web Essentials Add-On (Gregor Suttie)
• XamOutlookBar–Data Bind your Groups and Menu Items from your ViewModel (WPF) (Brian Lagunas)
• Create Your Own Extendible JavaScript Module like jQuery (Chris Love)

 

Web Development

• Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros (Abel Avram)
• Ignite UI for Building jQuery Apps (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Building a Scalable App With Backbone.js (Andrew Thorp)
• File Attachments using MVC and Entity Framework (Matt Hamilton)
• New Web Optimization Pre-Release Package on NuGet (Howard Dierking)
• The making of DevReach.com – Part 4, Integration with PayPal Checkout Express (Емил Табаков)
• Firebug 1.11 alpha 5 (Jan Odvarko)
• 16 of the Most Common WordPress Mistakes (Hugo Velasco)
• Web Performance: When millisecond resolution just isn’t enough (Jatinder Mann)
• ECMAScript.next: TC39’s September 2012 meeting (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Writing an unthemed view while still using Orchard shapes and helpers (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Orchard 1.6 RC Released (David Hayden)

 

XAML

• XAML Support Refresh in ReSharper 7.1 (Alexander Shvedov)
• XAML to Image/PDF converter with the open source "Xaml Image Converter" (with help from ImageMagick) (Greg Duncan)
• New Windows Phone 8 Emulator Preview and Windows Phone 8 SDK leak..The Sequel (MBGW)
• Follow Up: Andrew Whitechapel on Developing for Windows Phone and iOS (Michael Desmond)
• 2000 WPF Things #673 – Mapping Mouse Position to Color (Sean Sexton)
• Introducing RadDataForm for Windows Phone (Windows Phone Team)
• A TextBox With Rounded Corners Through WPF XAML (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows 8 submission trials and tribulations (Simon Jackson)
• Windows Store App Development: What Do You Get From Being A Lock Screen App? and Windows Store App Development Snack: Dealing with Async Warnings (Robert MacLean)
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 5) – Know about LayoutAwarePage (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Developing Janksy: A developer’s Windows 8 experience (Liam)
• Using the Microsoft Ad SDK in Windows 8 (Matt Harrington)
• Windows Store Tips: Run the Windows App Certification Kit frequently and on a low spec computer (Eric Nelson)
• Creating a custom Tile to link to your website (Charles Morris)
• Shortcut Key Handling in Windows Store Apps (Morten Nielsen)
• Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 7 (Samidip Basu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Async in C# 5.0 Book Review (David Hayden)
• Uber Prof V2.0 is now in Public Beta (Oren Eini)
• Effectively Using TFS Workspaces (Adam Driscoll)
• New Entity Framework in the Enterprise Course on Pluralsight (Julie Lerman)
• ANTS CLR and Memory Profiler In Depth Review (Part 1 of 2 – CLR Profiler) (ToStringTheory)
• Using WM_COPYDATA to marshal message parameters since the window manager otherwise doesn’t know how (Raymond Chen)
• More on Multicore JIT (Rick Brewster)
• Team Foundation Build 2012 Issue – The target CleanWorkspacePackageTempDir does not exist (Martin Hinshelwood)
• C++/CX Part 4 of [n]: Static Member Functions (James McNellis)
• A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Engine (Jonathan Wood)
• How to determine the number of ‘Wednesday’s’ in a given date range (Fun Code) (Derik Whittaker)
• Weak Pointers and Circular References in C++ 11 (Diego Dagum)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Executing NUnit Tests using the Visual Studio 2012 Test Runner (David Paquette)
• Article: How To Not Destroy your Agile Team with Metrics (Sean McHugh)
• Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 (MS Downloads)
• Divisions in Testing, Slotting People – How bad is idea of schools? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Introducing Lokad Data Platform and Scalability targets of Lokad Data Platform (Rinat Abdullin)
• Book review: Think Like a Programmer (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• The Sophisticated Procrastinator – Volume 1 (Miguel de Icaza)
• The Best Debater May Not Be the Best Enterprise Architect (Mike Walker)
• How we’re using story points (Mark Needham)
• Auto Mocking using JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Clarifying AMQP (Kelly Sommers)
• Personal Development Quotes (JD Meier)
• A Thought on Starting and Growing Your Practice (David Starr)
• There Are Only Two Roles of Code (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Deploy Test Studio for iOS to the Simulator (Anthony Rinaldi)
• I Want A Surface Keyboard for My iPad (Charlie Kindel)
• Save 20% on iOS Programming for .NET Developers this month (Josh Smith)
• Cloudify your Windows 8 and iOS apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Katrien de Graeve)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 235: Ian Felton on Marching Mountains (David Giard)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Using Blend to Help Design Your Windows 8 Apps (Part 3) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Episode 91 – Windows Azure Mobile Services Updates | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Video: Put Node.js In The Fast Lane with ExpressJS (Paul Ballard)
• 032 JSJ Angular.js (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• The JavaScript Show – JavaScript Classes (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Yet Another Podcast #79–HTML5 for .NET Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• The Tablet Show – Jeff Wilcox Explores the Cloud Side of Phone Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Cambell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Andrew Lincoln and The Nerdist Podcast – NY Comic Con (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 051 – October 18th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Homo Sapiens 1.0, Windows 8 & Surface Pre-orders, IE10, VS Love and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• The Big Web Show Episode #74 (Chris Coyier)
• SitePoint Podcast #184: JSPro.com with Colin Ihrig (Karn Broad)
• What The Tech 137: The Way We’re Used To and Windows Weekly 283: Being Ignored is Good… or is it? (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 314 – 10.19.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 155 – 10.21.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference 2012: Activity Planner #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
• Full Day Entity Framework Workshop Nov 2 at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)
• MonkeySpace shines a light on the future of .NET OSS (Phil Haack)
• Why Microsoft is building one of North America’s largest tents on its campus (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• Column and block text selection using SQL Server Management Studio (Tibor Nagy)
• SQL Server 2012 Best Practices – The Book (The SQL Corner)
• SQL Server Locking Overview (Basit Farooq)
• Ways to compare and find differences for SQL Server tables and data (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQLAuthority News – Windows Azure Training Kit Updated October 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Richard’s Way: Four Easy Steps To Create Complex SQL That Runs Fast (Michael Washington)
• SQL Server Object Explorer in VS 2012 and Adding a New Database with SSDT and Adding Tables with SSDT (Deborah Kurata)
• New Option in the RavenDB Studio–Patching (Daniel Dar)
• Red Gate log shipping (Chuck Boyce Jr.)

 

SharePoint

• Introducing the new Visual Designer (Sam Chung)

 

PowerShell

• Advanced Debugging Scenarios using PowerGUI VSX (Adam Driscoll)
• PowerShell PowerUser Tips: The Hash TabExpansion (Joel Bennett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Mouse and Keyboard Center 2.0 (formerly IntelliPoint and IntelliType Pro) (MS Downloads)
• Updates: Coreinfo v3.1, Desktops v2.0, Livekd v5.3, PsPasswd v1.23, Testlimit v5.22, Whois v1.11 (safarr)
• The Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Continued (Steve Smith)
• The first ARM Chromebook (Alex Chitu)
• Revisiting the Mullet: Why Surface is not a MS Business (Charlie Kindel)
• Small Basic Tutorial: A Simple Savings Calculator For Kids (Ed Price)
• Stupid Question 62: Generation n00b, how do we measure experience anyway? and Stupid Question 63: ’Regular Expression’ syntax, are there variations? (Iris Classon)
• Who will buy Microsoft Surface RT? Could be you (Joe Wilcox)
• VirtualBox 4.2.2 maintenance release squashes bugs (Nick Peers)
• A ten-year-old’s excitement over Windows 8 and more (Pete Brown)
• Steven Sinofsky’s controversial strategy for launching Windows 8 (Sam Byford)
• George Carlin-Style Software Career (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 177 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #984 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – October 19, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #34 (Mary Lou)
• Reading Notes #67 (Frank)
• Daily News Digest 10/19/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/19/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Afternoon Tea – 19th October 2012 – DDD North 2 Special and The Morning Brew #1215 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for October 21, 2012 – #0136 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for October 08 – 14, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 42/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Weekly Windows Phone Development News 15 Oct – 19 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #41) (Himanshu Singh)
• Pie in the Sky (October 19, 2012) (Larry Franks)

 

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