Dew Drop – January 21, 2013 (#1,483)

Top Links

• Making Instant C# Viable – Full projects (Eric Maupin)
• Caliburn.Micro v1.4.1 Released (Rob Eisenberg)
• Copying Nokia’s Photobeamer with SignalR and WP8 (Nico Vermeir)
• The Dispose Pattern as an anti-pattern (Peter Ritchie)

 

Web Development

• Client-Side MVC Roundup (Paul Hammant)
• Dealing with Expired Channels in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Brian Hitney)
• Basket.js: A JavaScript Loader With LocalStorage-based Script Caching (Devon Govett)
• Hello World with KnockoutJs–Code Restructure (Adam Storr)
• Neat and modern header sections with CSS3 (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Categorizing values in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using Drupal on Windows Azure to create an OData repository (Brian Benz)
• JSBasic – A BASIC to JavaScript Compiler (Daniel Flower)
• Deploy and Configure ASP.Net website on host live WebServer (Des Raj Chauhan)
• ASP.Net Web Config Transform Console Utility released on nuget (Eric Hexter)
• Image Retrieval using ASP.NET MVC 4.0 WebAPI with HttpResponseMessage (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Project Silk for all your HTML web application needs (Merrick Chaffer)
• JavaScript, Go With the Flow! (Peter Kellner)
• [Sample Of Jan 19th] Stop postback in javascript (Philip Fu)
• Taking Windows Azure Media Services on a Real-World Spin (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Deploying a MongoDB powered Node.js app on Windows Azure: my slides (Simone Chiaretta)
• jQuery Mobile Advanced – More jQuery Mobile and jQuery Mobile Themes (Wally McClure)
• Using Fiddler with an iPhone/iPad (Paul Ballard)
• Using Razor engine together with Asp.Net Web API to create a Hypermedia API (Fredrik Normen)
• Exploring Directives, $scope, DOM Rendering, And Timing In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Orchard Training and Twitter Bootstrap Carousel Module (David Hayden)
• Sneak Peek Into The Future: Selectors, Level 4 (Andrzej Mazur)
• Using Casting in TypeScript (Gil Fink)
• Teach your Azure Website new deployment tricks with azure-cli 1 of XXX: Running Mocha Tests (Glenn Block)
• Node v0.8.18 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• Snoop – Firebug for WPF applications (Code Inside Team)
• “Programming Windows” 6th Edition Final Ebook Now Available (Charles Petzold)
• 8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps (JC Cimetiere)
• Making DataContractSerializer play nice with UpdateControls (Joe White)
• WinRtAuthorizer–A Better Way to do OAuth with LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 (Joe Mayo)
• Silverlight Show Webinar on the New Features in the WP8 SDK Part 2 (Michael Crump)
• Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone Toolkit: A Winning Team (Matteo Pagani)
• 2000 WPF Things #738 – Sample Code – Drawing and Moving Circles at Touch Points (Sean Sexton)
• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone – Part 3 – Viewing Image Details (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Creating A Virtual Windows Store App Development Environment and Creating Windows Store Apps Using Store Ready Templates (Zhiming Xue)
• Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device (Rockford Lhotka)
• Binding to a Windows Store AppBar button text (Loek van den Ouweland)
• Quick news: Update on sample code for Programming Windows, Sixth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Connecting your website to your Windows Store App with meta tags and The Windows Store App margin guidelines cheat sheet (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Optional Parameters in Library Code (Richard Carr)
• Book Review: C# 5.0 Pocket Reference (Ian Elliot)
• Internationalization in Visual Studio 2012 (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• F# Emacs Integration (Don Syme)
• Async File Copy in C# (George Nistor)
• TFS Build: Running Static Code Analysis for Specific Configuration (Jakob Ehn)
• A Quick Thank you and At-A-Program For Resharper and Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
• Implicit and Explicit Conversion Operators in C# (John Sonmez)
• WPF Dispatcher.Invoke style UI element update for WinForm applications in C# (Rupam Das)
• Telerik Reporting to drop .NET2.x, .NET3.0, VS2005 and VS2008 support in Q2 2013 (Vassil Petev)
• Interacting with Console Application (Neetu P.)
• Proposed StructureMap 2.7 Release (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Jumping into C++ (Eric Battalio)
• .NET Shell Extensions – Shell Drop Handlers (Dave Kerr)
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate – Part 8 of 8 Coding Fetches and Persistent Objects (Anand Lakshminarasimhan)
• Using The GeoCoordinateReactiveService (Paulo Morgado)
• Rapid File Creation with File Templates (Mikhail Vink)
• Building a Repository Pattern against an EF 5 EDMX Model – Part 2 (Juan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Adding additional states onto the Agile Task Board in TFS2012 (Colin Beales)
• How To Inspire Others to Help You with Your Vision (J.D. Meier)
• Lokad.CQRS Event Store is Slow (Rinat Abdullin)
• Agile Documentation – Part II: Guiding Questions (Steve Rogalsky)
• ReSharper plugins for unit testing – MSpec, xUnit.net and Silverlight (Matt Ellis)
• Build Pattern: Location Agnostic Script and Build Pattern: Fill In the Blanks and Build Pattern: Extract Script and Build Pattern: Gated Commit and Tests and Builds are Made to be Broken (Roy Osherove)
• UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design (Kayla Knight)
• Are You Design-Driven? Probably Not. (Kevin Richardson)
• On Testing: Why write tests? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Separating command data from logic and sending it on a bus (Jef Claes)
• An Evolutionary Approach to Implementing XP (Tom Howlett)
• How to Improve Your Web Design Mock-Ups With lorempixel (Craig Buckler)
• On Code Review (David Humphrey)
• Candy Driven Development (David J. Bland)
• Interaction Design with Clutter Free UI (Ambrose Little)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 249: Sharon Cichelli on Arduino (David Giard)
• Herding Code 156: Catching up with Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 463.2: Sir Hammerlock and Ron Gilbert (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Amber Benson (Chris Hardwick)
• Windows Weekly 295: Uncle Fester on Steroids (Paul Thurrott)
• The Vergecast 061 – January 17th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Skin Switching, Maps, Entity Framework, Mocks and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 166 – 1.16.2013 and Engadget Podcast 327 – 01.17.2013 and Engadget HD Podcast 333 – 01.17.2013 (Joe Pollicino)
• Boagworld: Are you wasting the potential of the web? (Paul Boag)
• GeekWire Podcast: Can Facebook really challenge Google in online search? (Todd Bishop)
• Introduction to the Windows Azure Media Player Framework for iOS | Windows Azure Media Services Tutorials (Bullrider, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• The Tablet Show – Rey Bango Talks Javascript, IE and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Community / Events

• Boston Area Geek Dinner: Tuesday January 22, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Publish an App 12/28/2012-2/28/2013 and Get Free Windows Store or Windows Phone Store Account and More… (Zhiming Xue)

 

Database

• Silent Truncation of SQL Server Data Inserts and Variable Scope in SQL Server (Timothy A. Wiseman)
• What’s on your SQL Server wish list? (Jeremy Kadlec)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Using Multi-value Parameters (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server SESSIONPROPERTY (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Introducing the BI Semantic Model in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Best Practices to Store the SQL Server Backups (Pinal Dave)
• Indexes in MongoDB: A quick overview and Multidocument updates with MongoDB (Denis Gobo)
• Refcardz: MongoDB – Flexible NoSQL for Humongous Data (Kristina Chodorow)
• Using the scheduler to backup your Mobile Service database (Josh Twist)
• Creating statistics manually – Duplicate Statistics (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• Using JSLink to change the UI of a SharePoint list/view (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• SCCM 2012 SP1 – Welcome PowerShell on board! (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)
• Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Tools For Windows PowerShell (Matthias Marschall)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft inches closer to delivering Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Web IDE The Easiest Way To Program Raspberry Pi (Harry Fairhead)
• How Apple used its money and muscle to kill an iTunes competitor (Ed Bott)
• Stupid Question 131: What is the difference between a simulator and an emulator? (Iris Classon)
• Unlocking Windows 8 "God Mode" – A Useful Trick but also Mysterious Nonsense (Scott Hanselman)
• Intel Ultrabook Final Review (Tim Boland)
• Introduction To Go: Channels (Again) (Karl Seguin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 19, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 01.01 ~ 01.20 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, January 18th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 18, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #47 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1048 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – January 18, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 19, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/18/2013 and Daily News Digest 1/21/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/18/2013) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #78 (Frank)
• Pie in the Sky (January 19, 2013) (Brian Swan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1277 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Reblog: January 11 to January 17 (Jason Strate)
• Visual Studio ALM Links–Week 3/2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #51) (Craig Kitterman)

 

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