Dew Drop – January 22, 2012 (#1,484)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 0.8.2 (Jonathan Turner)
• Naming Roslyn concepts (Kirill Osenkov)
• TypeScript Modules – Part 4 (John Papa)
• Nullable micro-optimizations, part eight (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Using CSS Pseudo Elements :before And :after (Ben Nadel)
• Lingering Misconceptions on CSS Preprocessors and Coding Q&A: CSS Performance, Debugging, Naming Conventions and Don’t Stop The Music: Links on Pages Playing Audio (Chris Coyier)
• What’s New in jQuery 1.9 (Craig Buckler)
• The 5 Emotional Stages of a jQuery Upgrade (Elijah Manor)
• Parsley.js – Powerful, UX Aware & Dead Simple JavaScript Forms Validation Library (Hirvesh Munogee)
• A New Streaming API for Node.js (James Campos)
• Exploring WinJS.Class Patterns, Part 1: Defining Classes and Object Construction and Array Enumeration in JavaScript and WinJS.Application.onerror vs. window.onerror (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Getting started with OData services in ASP.NET Web API (Piotr Walat)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Modules (Ricardo Peres)
• Full Control LightSwitch (ServerApplicationContext And Generic File Handlers And Ajax Calls) (Michael Washington)
• Defending Presentational Class Names (Philip Walton)
• On the styling of forms (Bruce Lawson)
• First Look at Ext JS 4.2 Grid (Arthur Kay)

 

XAML

• Introducing PhoneNameResolver–a lib to decipher Windows Phone models (Alan Mendelevich)
• Crypto Obfuscator .Net v2013 with Portable Class Library and WinRT (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Windows 8 Development Tips #7: Get creative with grid item sizes (Brent Schooley)
• Migrating iOS MVC Apps to Windows Phone 8 (Bruno Terkaly)
• Tips for Building a BO for Silverlight and RIA (Deborah Kurata)
• How to use the Gyrometer Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications (Derik Whittaker)
• A Windows Phone 8 Project Template Without the Fluff (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #739 – Handling Touch Input at Different Levels (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Presentation Foundation (Richard Carr)
• Part 2 of 9: Planning (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• Windows Store App Walkthrough for OData Service for Team Foundation Server (Nisha Singh)
• Traits of a good Windows Store app privacy policy (Pete Brown)
• Building the Bing apps for Windows 8 (Jigar Thakkar)
• How to Create Email with Attachment in a Windows 8 App? (Zhiming Xue)
• Optimize Windows Store application startup with a waiting splash screen (Andrea Boschin)
• Using the Grid App Template in Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Announcing: Literate programming tools for F# (Tomas Petricek)
• Testing async Methods in C# 5 (Bill Wagner)
• Stand-alone installer for TFS object model and Team Foundation Service Update – Jan 21 (Brian Harry)
• Linq performance with Count() and Any() (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• [Sample Of Jan 21st] Create TFS Source Browser using TreeView in WinForm (Philip Fu)
• IDisposable and Class Hierarchies (Peter Ritchie)
• .net SmokeTest for Reflector (Wesley Steiner)
• Quickly start developing apps with the new “0-60” developer experience (Humberto Lezama)
• Free .NET and Workflow chapter "The Workflow Programming Language" (Jim Minatel)
• What is AutoMapper and How to map two objects using AutoMapper? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Martin Fowler on Rigorous Agile (Martin Fowler)
• Independent Refactoring is Irresponsible (Patrick Kua)
• Managing through disagreement (Steven Sinofsky)
• The High Cost of Interruptions (Jonathan Allen)
• Version Control Systems Support: Basic Concepts (Mikhail Vink)
• Github for Windows connected to Bitbucket (M. Lang)
• Microspeak: pivot (Raymond Chen)
• You Are Not Paid To Write Software (Derick Bailey)
• Avoid Errors When Defining Resources with the Ignite UI Loader (Craig Shoemaker)
• How Does the Cloud Change a Systems Architect’s Job? (Buck Woody)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Custom Typeface in Android (Andreas Nilsson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside Windows 8: Prashant Ratanchandani – Telemetry and Performance (Charles Torre)
• Ping 165: HelpBridge, Microsoft PLAY, 9 year old wiz kid, Windows Phone silenced | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Teach Windows Azure to Scale Your Way (Paul Ballard)
• Yet Another Podcast #90–Phil Japikse on Windows 8 & WinJS (Jesse Liberty)
• New ASP.NET MVC Templates, More CLI Goodness, and WheresMy8 | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Live from Twin Cities! (Chris Hardwick)
• SDU Show 53 with guest Grant Paisley (Greg Low)
• Monday Brief: More BB10 leaks, The Galaxy Note 8.0, and more! (Ashley Esqueda)
• Defrag Tools: #24 – WinDbg – Critical Sections | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• People Talking Tech Episode 019 – Jared Shockley (Denny Cherry)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 21st, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• iOS6 with .NET, C#, & MonoTouch Seminar (Wally McClure)
• MSDN Features You Need to Know About: Answers to Just About Any Technical Question (Zain Naboulsi)
• Nerd Nite No. 21! February 6, 2013 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Cancer (Scott Hanselman)
• In The Community: Meet Kate Gregory (Eric Battalio)

 

Database

• Troubleshooting SQL Server Replication (Derek Colley)
• The OLE DB Source and the Oracle Date Literal (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #3 : locate the rowversion column in a table (Erik EJ)
• RavenDB Founder On .NET, ACID with NoSQL, Upcoming Features (Roopesh Shenoy)
• NDatabase 3.3 (CodePlex)
• Database Designing With Performance In Mind (Ted Krueger)
• Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor (Sam Vanga)
• Index Your Database, Like a Boss (Anders Janmyr)
• Why avoiding multiple code blocks in a Stored Procedure (Axel Achten)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 – Apps Advantages (Jean Paul)

 

Miscellaneous

• The End of Ragequitting (Jeff Atwood)
• Geek Grads: 3 Ways to Make Your Scholarship Application Shine (MS JobsBlog)
• Microsoft announces Surface Pro coming Feburary 9th (Daniel Rubino)
• Extension Function Literals in Kotlin or How to enforce restrictions in your DSL (Hadi Hariri)
• Stupid Question 132: What is jailbreaking? (Iris Classon)
• On reading Sinofsky: thoughts (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing the Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone! (Stormy Peters)
• On Functional Programming in Java (Ted Neward)
• DZone App in the Windows Store (William Soprano)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Maker Geek Roundup 017 for 1/22/2013 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #1049 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/22/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 22, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1278 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 22nd (Rob Caron)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Top 10 for the week of January 13-20, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)

 

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