Day: January 10, 2013

Top Links

• New OSS VM Image Depot for Windows Azure – A big step for VM kind (Glenn Block)
• The First Ever Tuts+ Premium Sale (Jeffrey Way)
• NuGet Package(s) of the Week #12 – Accessing Google Spreadsheets with GData from C# *and* hosting Razor Templates to generate HTML from a Console App (Scott Hanselman)
• Using PhoneGap in Windows 8 Phone Applications (Mihail Mateev)

 

Web Development

• Cache busting in ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
• Jeffrey Richter: Foreword for upcoming Windows Azure book (Devon Musgrave)
• jQuery 1.9 RC1 and Migrate RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Pulling into the Windows Azure VM Depot (lots of VM’s, even Linux, all ready to be Azured) (Greg Duncan)
• Image Picker – A jQuery Plugin That Transforms A Select Element Into An Image Picker (Hirvesh Munogee)
• New Windows Azure Mobile Services Getting Started Content (James Conard)
• jQuery UI 1.10 Release Candidate (RC1) (Jörn Zaefferer)
• My Current JavaScript Design Pattern (Louis Lazaris)
• Node v0.8.17 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Ten Tricks for Razor Views (K. Scott Allen)
• ECMAScript.next: array comprehensions and generator comprehensions (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Making JSON Web Requests easier with async and await (Bill Reiss)
• Introduction to TypeScript Language and Tooling (Keyhole Software)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #731 – The Idea of Multi-Touch (Sean Sexton)
• Localization made easy for WPF (Vincent Piel)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Feature Request for Visual Studio v.Next (Jim Christopher)
• Detecting a System Time Change (Richard Carr)
• Visualizing TFS Source History with the free TFS Source Control History Visualization extension (with source) and There’s a new book in town… "Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide" (Greg Duncan)
• HttpClient Verses WebClient with .Net and C# (Peter Kellner)
• Role Interface Role Hint (Mark Seemann)
• ToolClickManager for Infragistics (Markus Pope)
• GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using Expression Trees (Steve Wilkes)
• MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 3 (Fluent import constructor) (Bnaya Eshet)
• Renaming your Team Foundation Service account (Brian Harry)
• Finding and Fixing Performance and Memory Issues Episode I (Elena Pundjeva)
• I didnt know how to do that in C++ ! (Josh Reuben)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Natural User Interfaces Part 3: The Kinect Effect (Steve Clayton)
• 10 Design Challenges of the Mobile Web – Part 1 (Kim Logan)
• Task Lists in GFM: Issues/Pulls, Comments (Matt Todd)
• Don’t Make Your Team Say No To You (Charlie Kindel)
• Making +1 mean what it really means (Hadi Hariri)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Real Scenario: folder deployment scenarios with MSDeploy (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Beating the Android Fragmentation Monster with .NET, C#, and Mono for Android – Article (Wally McClure)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Reynolds Builds Chocolatey (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Anthony Jeselnik (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 147: CES 2013 (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 164 – CES special – 01.09.13 show 1 and Engadget HD Podcast 331 – CES special show 1 01.09.13 (James Trew)
• Felicia Day Is Geek Icon, Closet Math Genius (Lance Ulanoff)
• Hot Apps: Mush, Christmas Ringtones, Ragdoll Run, Super Voltage, Windows 8 Ringtones | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Video: Automate Your Sandbagging with PowerShell (Paul Ballard)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Startup Challenge (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Welcome, Michael Cummings, Technical Evangelist (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL Server Partition Wizard (Brady Upton)
• Locked out of Sysdmin? Regain Sysadmin on a SQL Server 2012 Cluster (Dan Quinones)
• Get to Know SQL Server 2012’s SQL Server Data Tools [article published] (Jamie Thomson)
• Day 9 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Use All the Checksums (Robert Davis)
• Getting started with Execution Plans (Axel Achten)
• Determine all foreign keys in a database (Jake Rutherford)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Internals Curriculum Resource Kit (CRK) Labs. Nine short level 300+ labs and videos on Win OS internals (Greg Duncan)
• Stupid Question 123: What is a polyglot programmer and should we be one? (Iris Classon)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 (Valerie Woolley)
• Windows Phone users: You’ve got Google Maps access (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 9, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1270 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 9th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1041 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/10/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)

 

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