Dew Drop – December 30, 2012 (#1,472)

Top Links

• TypeScript Templates for Windows 8 (Chris Sells)
• Yet Another Podcast #87–Rob Eisenberg and Caliburn (Jesse Liberty)
• When is a reference a reference? (David Starr)
• Building a better .NET Application Configuration Class – revisited (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Websites and PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Introducing Backbone.ComputedFields (Alexander Beletsky)
• CodeMirror 3.0 Released (James Campos)
• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 124.373 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services with Push Notifications Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Migrating from Ember.js to AngularJS (Cédric Beust)
• Dart support in WebStorm 6 (Fedor Korotkov)
• Windows Azure at a Glance (JD Meier)
• Get Started with ASP.Net AJAX Controls: Project Introduction and Navigation (Jeff Fritz)
• ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication (Lenny Kean)
• Using Dashes in URLs in MVC4 (Markus Pope)
• A JavaScript Quiz and a JavaScript Quiz Engine (Alex Staveley)
• Using Blend to Design HTML5 Windows 8 Apps (Chris Caldwell)
• CSS Filters (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Progressive jpegs: a new best practice (Ann Robson)
• SignalR And Knockout In ASP.NET Web Pages Using WebMatrix (Mike Brind)
• Python Extension for WinDbg – PYKD 0.2.0.11 (CodePlex)
• Build a Twitter Clone From Scratch: The Design (Maciej Sopyło)
• Generating your own ZUMO auth token (Day 8) and Fetching a basic user profile in Mobile Services (Day 9) (Josh Twist)
• Propping Up WordPress on Azure and Tips for WordPress on Azure (John Papa)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Enterprise Development (Peter Kuhn)
• Updating the live tiles when the exits: WP8 weirdness (Jeremy Alles)
• Silverlight Spy December 2012 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• A Workaround to Use SQLite in a Windows Phone 8 Application (Matteo Pagani)
• 2000 WPF Things #722 – Get a Free Copy of Visual Studio 2012 (Sean Sexton)
• Using Promises In Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
• How To: Keep Windows 8 Device Screen On While User Away (Shai Raiten)
• Windows 8–Conference Buddy. Reading JSON From A File and Windows 8 Theme Transitions (Jesse Liberty)
• How to Retrieve Remaining Battery Status of WP8 Programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reading Fixed-Width Data and A Lazily Loaded Weakly Referenced Cache (Richard Carr)
• Extending Team Explorer 2012 – Detecting Connection and using MVVM [2 of N] (Toni Petrina)
• Power Tools Update 1 for TFS 2012 with Backup and Restore Tool (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Building your own building block game with the now open sourced C# Voxeliq game library (Greg Duncan)
• Building Type Providers for F# (Jonathan Allen)
• Simple Installer for Windows Service using Visual Studio 2012 and Debugging a Windows Service application without installation (M. Lang)
• T4 Toolbox for Visual Studio 2012 (Oleg Sych)
• .NET Micro Framework Toolbox v0.1 (CodePlex)
• Quick Test for Entity Framework DBContext (Kevin)
• How To Make Your System Slower With WMI (Alois Kraus)
• What is so special about the instance handle 0x10000000? (Raymond Chen)
• Book: Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide from Abhijit Jana (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! (Dylan Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• nCrunch review – TDD on steroids (Dror Helper)
• Build Patterns: Script Injection (Roy Osherove)
• What are the most significant impediments to effective agile adoption in your organization? (Shane Hastie)
• Where do you stand in this debate? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Getting Permission to Coach (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Don’t Make Facebook’s Mistake, Architect for the Modern World (Chris Love)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Understanding NancyFX with Richard Cirerol (Scott Hanselman)
• Video: Get Better SQL Server Recovery by Grabbing The Log By The Tail and Video: Use History as a Data Source with Event Sourcing (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Weekly 292: The Best of 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• 040 JSJ Conferences (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 73 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 059 – December 28th, 2012 (Ross Miller)
• PASS Summit 2012 session videos online (James Serra)

 

Community / Events

• How to be an Agile2013 Speaker? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• It’s Another 24 Hours of PASS (Jason Strate)
• Should Microsoft be at CES? (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – NuoDB RC2 Available to Download – General Availability in Near Future and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: The conversion returned status value 2 and status text “The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.”. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard) (Pinal Dave)
• XQuery Lab 67 – Reading blog data exported from blogger.com in TSQL using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)

 

SharePoint

• Up the creek without a paddle: Taking over a deserted SharePoint 2007 installation (Tom Hearn)

 

Miscellaneous

• Stupid Question 115: What is the connection between C, C++, objective C and C#? (Iris Classon)
• What’s the right response to a cloud outage? (Ed Bott)
• Looping through your XML with NAnt (G. Filkov)
• Outlook 2013 Changed/Removed Feature Table (Lots of entries, one simple table…) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Explained: Making Sense of the Microsoft Platform Story and Office 365 at a Glance (JD Meier)
• Seven out of 10 will buy Surface Pro (Joe Wilcox)
• In Praise Of Dangerous Toys (John Biggs)
• Tip: printing long documents to OneNote (John Guin)
• Save.Me takes clipboard management to a whole new level (Mike Williams)
• Windows Phone 8 – The best smartphone OS (Windows Phone Geek)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 187 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1262 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading December 27, 2012 and Geek Reading December 28, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• API Digest – A weekly (or so) email of the best API news and links (John Sheehan)
• Collective #44 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1032 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/28/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: December 21 to December 27 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 28 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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