Dew Drop – April 19, 2013 (#1,531)

Top Links

• jQuery 2.0 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Creating Windows-8-like 3D animations with CSS3 and jQuery (Sara Soueidan)
• Producing permutations, part two (Eric Lippert)
• New tool to play with: SemanticMerge (Jon Skeet)

 

Web Development

• Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself Node.js in 24 Hours (Ian Elliot)
• DHTMLX 3.6 Released with New Great Features (DHTMLX Team)
• My Journey with Asp.Net MVC and RavenDB – Introduction to Tournament (Adam Storr)
• Beta HTML Prototype Viewer (Ambrose Little)
• ASP.NET Web API parameter binding part 1 – Understanding binding from URI (Filip W)
• Django now available on Windows Azure (Mark Brown)
• Reactive Charts with D3 and Reactive.js (Matt Baker)
• Creating PHPUnit Tests in PhpStorm (Mikhail Vink)
• Reflection in PHP (Patkos Csaba)
• APress Deal of the Day 19/Apr/2013 – Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 (Tatworth)
• jqMobi Becomes Intel App Framework (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A WebAPI Basic Authentication Authorization Filter (Rick Strahl)
• Just published: Modularizing AngularJS Applications (Ingo Rammer)
• Building apps integrated with Facebook using Sencha Touch (Aditya Bansod)

 

XAML

• Easily create a Modern UI with RadControls for WPF using RadTileList – Part 2 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1–geocoding, tombstoning–and testing (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #802 – Transforms Do Not Affect an Element’s Margins (Sean Sexton)
• Develop a cutting edge app with NFC (Priya Dandawate)
• Behavior of Windows.System.Display.displayRequest.requestActive applies only to the foreground app (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Tile Properties (Geek Champ)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• TFS 2012 Issue: TF215097 an error occurred while initializing a build for build definition and New un-versioned repository in TFS 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 2000 C# Things #826 – Deep Copies (Sean Sexton)
• New book: Supplement to Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, 2nd Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• How can I figure out which user modified a file? (Raymond Chen)
• Unity – Part 2: Dependency Injection (Ricardo Peres)
• The Kinectinator (Think "Kinect Powered Nerf Turret") (Greg Duncan)
• Facebook SDK for .NET Released (Keith Ward)
• Facebook SDK for .NET – Featured in the Facebook Technology Partner program (Adam Denning)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership for Self-Organized Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• Article: The Seven Information Smells of Domain Modelling (Kent McDonald & Chris Matts)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Hi Performance Json Parsing in Android (Donn Felker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 090: Melissa McEwen, food blogger (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Setting up a Command (MVVM) in Windows Phone 8 Video Tutorial (Michael Crump)
• Video: Getting started with RadDataGrid in XAML based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 056 JSJ Marionette.js with Derick Bailey (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• What the Tech 161: A New Start with Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Listen to Me Talk to Carl & Richard about the Surface Pro, Mobile Development and More (Chris Love)
• Windows Store Weekly: Northern Tale, Museums of the World, Bejeweled LIVE, Fotor Color Splash Studio, WonderWall | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• Video: Make Sure Search Engines Can Find Your Site with IIS SEO Toolkit (Paul Ballard)
• Penny Pinching Video: Moving an Azure Website between data centers (Scott Hanselman)

 

Community / Events

• GeekWire Awards: Vote here for App of the Year (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• Monitoring SQL Server Disk Space (Mike Eastland)
• RavenDB Indexing: An off the cuff stat (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Developer Must-Have: 125+ Apps for Office and SharePoint Code Samples (Ricardo Loo)

 

Miscellaneous

• The importance of personal branding – How to represent yourself (MS JobsBlog)
• Parsing those pesky filtering functions in OData (Rob Ashton)
• Nokia CEO hints at new Lumia ‘later this quarter’ ahead of ‘new product introductions’ (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 19, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 18th (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1339 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1110 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 19, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/19/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 18 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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