Dew Drop – February 26, 2013 (#1,505)

Top Links

• Using CallerMemberName for property change notification in XAML apps (Pete Brown)
• Monads, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Barbarian IOC (Sacha Barber)
• IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses (Rob Mauceri)

 

Web Development

• Building Cross-Platform Apps with HTML5 and DXTREME (Jon Gallant)
• Running CakePHP2 Unit Tests in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Client-side MVC is not a silver bullet (Thomas Fuchs)
• Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly (Nick Harrison)
• Select from Drop-Down with Hierarchical Data via Telerik’s RadDropDownTree for ASP.NET AJAX (Peter Filipov)
• New CSS tests – fonts and text (Peter-Paul Koch)
• HTML5 forms introduction and new attributes (Richard Clark)
• Node v0.8.21 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• The Breeze Server: "Have it your way" (Ward Bell)
• IE10 on Windows 7: Happiness for the Web (Ryan Hayes)
• RELEASED – Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Installing Rails — Both 3.2 and 4.0 with Ruby 2.0 (Daniel Kehoe)
• Search with Filters Responsive Design Pattern (Chris Coyier)

 

XAML

• Preparing Your Windows Phone 8 App For Submission to the Windows Phone Marketplace (Doug Rathbone)
• "Basic Navigation in Kinect using WPF" (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #764 – Current Culture Is Used When Converting Data to A String (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store App with Caliburn.Micro – Binding Converters (Phillip Haydon)
• Prototyping for Windows 8: Creating the Start and Splash screens (Brent Schooley)
• Lessons Learned in Windows 8 App Certification (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Store Certification Tip #9: Can you submit an app in multiple categories? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# Smorgasbord ebook limited-time offer now only €4.99! (Filip Ekberg)
• Creating Collections of Entity Objects using LINQ and Field Method (Paul Sheriff)
• Using a different unit of measure in task planning in TFS (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Lambda patterns in C#? (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What is Telerik JustDecompile? (Senthil Kumar)
• Book Reviewed – Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide By Abhijit Jana (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Ultimate Coder – Week 2: Blog posting (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Translating OData queries to HQL (raghuramn)
• 2000 C# Things #788 – A Backing Field Stores Data for a Property (Sean Sexton)
• Native debugging for ARM dumps (Abubakar A. Khaliq)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Estimation and Fluency (James Shore)
• Sample software guidebook and sketches (Simon Brown)
• The Art of the Agile Retrospective (JD Meier)
• Converting NUnit to MS Test and the birth of a new project on CodePlex. (Tatworth)
• Pomodoros and the To-Do list (Mark Needham)
• Adventures in Git-land (Rockford Lhotka)
• "We Accept Pull Requests" (Ted Neward)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available (Clint Edmonson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vishwas Lele Builds Apps in Sharepoint 2013 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Mick Foley (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #29 – WinDbg – ETW Logging | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 108: New Ruby, Regex and my Framework Security Rant(tm) (Michael Kimsal)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for February 25th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Interview: Todd Anglin on the Kendo UI Developer Survey (February 2013) (Ian Jacobs)
• Five of our favorite Twitter lists (DevToolsGuy)
• How I Spent My Summit: The Microsoft MVP Summit 2013 (Don Burnett)
• Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Summit 2013 Wrap Up (Richard Hay)
• Teach Your Kid to Code – BaltoMSDN (Steve Michelotti)

 

Database

• A Generic SQL Server Compression Utility (Ian Stirk)
• SSRS Properties – Chart Series Tooltip and SSRS Properties – Chart Series Label Visibility (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL Server Change Management: 3 Best Practices (video) (Kendra Little)
• Some SQL Server Compact Toolbox usage graphs (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL 2012 – Aggregation Functions – Abstract from Joes 2 Pros Volume 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Sparklines and Conditional Formatiing in SSRS (Sam Vanga)
• RavenDB And Not Having Foreign Keys and RavenDB Course on DVD (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft "Data Explorer" Preview for Excel (MS Downloads)

 

SharePoint

• MVP Monday – eDiscovery in SharePoint 2013 (Paul Olenick)

 

PowerShell

• WintellectPowerShell: Create NGEN PDBs for Easier Profiling on Win8/Server 2012 (John Robbins)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lifestyle: The game-changing power of technology (MS JobsBlog)
• Becoming a Rubyist (Jonathan Pichot)
• More Than A Week With The Surface Pro – Very Happy (Chris Love)

 

More Link Collections

• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: February 4th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 25th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1074 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1303 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #21 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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