Dew Drop – November 6, 2012 (#1,437)

Top Links

• Roslyn Code Quoter updated to work with September 2012 CTP (Kirill Osenkov)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #6: Search Contract (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Recommended: IntelliCommand for Visual Studio 2010/2012 (Roland Weigelt)
• Architecture for a SignalR Synchronized Webpage Application (Eric Hexter)

 

Web Development

• Reach further with IgniteUI jQuery Mobile controls and ASP.NET MVC (Damyan Petev)
• Creating Ignite UI Cloud Applications – Publishing Applications in Windows Azure (Part 2) (Mihail Mateev)
• Performance: Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript (Addy Osmani)
• Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – November 2012 Preview (M. Sawicki)
• The Whens and Whys for PHP Design Patterns (Patkos Csaba)
• Javascript Inheritance Part 2 (Phubar Baz)
• Navigation Patterns: Exploration Of Single-Page Websites (Steven Bradley)
• How Firefox’s Developer Toolbar is useful to regular users (Martin Brinkmann)
• Advance Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) 1.0 approved as an OASIS Standard (Doug Mahugh)

 

XAML

• How To Install Windows Phone Toolkit – October 2012 (8.0 SDK) via NuGet (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 1) (Andrea Boschin)
• Fun with the Accelerometer on Your Surface RT (Jeff Prosise)
• Windows Phone 8 developer platform highlights (Kevin Gallo)
• 2000 WPF Things #684 – Mouse Events Occur for the Element That the Mouse Is Over (Sean Sexton)
• DirectX and XAML in Windows (Phone) 8: Part 0 of N (Toni Petrina)
• Introducing revamped ChartDataSource for WPF and Silverlight (Telerik XAML Team)
• Justin Angel releases SDK for Bluetooth mind reading device connectivity (Rich Edmonds)
• Accessing controls inside a ListView (ThisCouldBeUseful)
• XamTreeGrid, or Hierarhical Data Presentation in a Flat Layout (Kiril Matev)
• Styling windows 8 – 3 Implicit and explicit styling (Håkan Reis)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSharper SDK Adventures Part 6 — Read-only inteface generator (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Featured Article – Small Basic: How to Create an Extension Using C# (Ed Price)
• Visual Studio Tips (Juri Strumpflohner)
• JustCode Q3 – Typing Assistance Improvements (JustCode Team)
• Simple framerate counter for MonoGame games (Piotr Walat)
• Kinect Fusion Coming to Kinect for Windows (Chris White)
• Making string based method strongly typed (Dror Helper)
• Dynamic contagion, part one (Eric Lippert)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design patterns in the test of time: Composite (Oren Eini)
• Faking it Well: Effective Mocking with the Fakes Framework (Peter Vogel)
• Implementing Continuous Delivery is Easy… Isn’t It? (Roger Hughes)
• When to use a DI Container (Mark Seemann)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 100K Android Apps in Google Play Are ‘Suspicious’ [INFOGRAPHIC] (Anita Li)
• How to trace and debug an iOS crash (Part 1) (Markos Charatzas)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rocky Lhotka Brings CSLA to Windows 8 and Beyond (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Deploy SQL Server Analysis Service Cubes Like An Expert (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kevin Bacon (Chris Hardwick)
• StumbleUpon: Building for Windows 8 (Dan Fernandez & BJ Thompson)
• Hackathon Finals- BUILD 2012 (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for November 5th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Videos of talks from the 2012 BUILD Conference – Angle Brackets and Curly Braces (Scott Hanselman)
• Community for F# Online Meetup – "The F# Foundation" with Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford – Thursday Nov 8 2012 (Don Syme)
• It’s a Wrap on Windows Phone at BUILD 2012 (Larry Lieberman)
• The Last Nerd Nite of 2012: This Wednesday @ Frankford Hall! and Freaks & (Storytelling) Geeks: 11th Annual First Person Arts Festival Kicks Off This Week (Eric Smith)
• Great Events in November 2012 (Joe Guadagno)
• BUILD 2012– MVPs Recap (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Introduction to SQL Server Data Tools (Ray Barley)
• SSIS Reporting Pack – a performance tip (Jamie Thomson)
• Announcing: New Dynamic Management Views for Windows Azure SQL Database (Gregory Leake)

 

Miscellaneous

• From iPad to Surface – Day 7: Screen Quality Face-off (Nick Landry)
• BizTalk Server 2013 Beta (bink.nu)
• The University Interview Process: A Must-Read Guide Part II (MS JobsBlog)
• Microsoft to retire Messenger, says The Verge and Is “Cloud TV” coming to Microsoft? (Kip Kniskern)
• Developer Fitness (Peter Ritchie)
• Khan Academy is in the Windows Store (Steve Clayton)
• Intel Ultrabook–Looking Closer (Tim Boland)
• RTM’d today: Windows 8 Inside Out (Valerie Woolley)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 5, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly Links (11-05-12) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Daily Links 05 Nov 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 11/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1226 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-11-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 5 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 5 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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