Dew Drop – May 1, 2013 (#1,538)

Top Links

• Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• XMAS Came Early For All Windows Azure Developers! (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Windows Azure Training Kit – April 2013 Available (Zhiming Xue)
• CDNs fail, but your scripts don’t have to – fallback from CDN to local jQuery (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Even Better In-Browser Mockups with Node.js and Node at Work: A Walkthrough (Garann Means)
• Localization in Action, part 3 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 11 (Austin King)
• CSS Architectures: Scalable and Modular Approaches (Denise Jacobs)
• Inheritance issue w/ Typescript (JavaScript) and MVC Bundling Ordering (Derik Whittaker)
• Integrating AngularJS with SignalR Hubs (Ingo Rammer)
• Using resources in background tasks (it’s OK, but not with WinJS) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Text Opening Sequence with CSS Animations (Mary Lou)
• Recording of the Webinar – Quality Assurance for PHP Projects Using PhpStorm with Michelangelo van Dam and PhpStorm 6.0.2 EAP build 129.394 (Mikhail Vink)
• Sending and Receiving Messages in Windows Azure Storage Queue with JavaScript Serializer (Shiju Varghese)
• Seeking Feedback on Alternative Formats for ASP.NET MVC and Deployment Content Maps (Tom Dykstra)
• Introducing the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks for ASP.NET on Pluralsight (Troy Hunt)
• Consider Using UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) When Designing REST APIs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Using ngResource with AngularJS (Jaco Pretorius)
• REST lesson learned: Avoid 204 responses (Mark Seemann)
• Getting Into Ember: Part 4 (Rey Bango)
• Creating a projection per stream in the EventStore (Rob Ashton)
• Angular Abstractions: The Application (K. Scott Allen)
• April 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• New Windows 8 Leak Hints At Updated IE11 Developer Tools (Vygantas Lipskas)
• Using Nancy to Remotely Control a Desktop Application (Roland Weigelt)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #810 – Setting Foreground and Background Properties from Code (Sean Sexton)
• The XamRichTextEditor CTP is Now Available for Download! (Brian Lagunas)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Limiting Parallelism with Parallel.Invoke (Richard Carr)
• How to batch clean up the Visual Studio solution folder? (bin, obj etc.) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook Review and Querying Entity Framework Code First Inheritance (Ricardo Peres)
• A ReSharper plugin to detect suspicious semicolons in Razor views (Xavier Decoster)
• Obfuscar, The Open Source Obfuscator for .NET Applications 2.0 RC and Fluent Validation for .NET 4.0 (CodePlex)
• Finding the .NET Assembly Entry Point (Elena Pundjeva)
• 2000 C# Things #834 – Use a Generic List to Store a Collection of Objects (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• To Build a Great UI, Test the Experience, Not the Code (Peter Vogel)
• Compare Files with Git Diff Tool (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Evil assumptions (Eric Brechner)
• Innovation Quotes (JD Meier)
• 4 Design Apps that are actually useful (Megan Isaak)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Debugging PhoneGap with the Android Console (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 92: Discussing Metaprogramming with Kevin Hazzard (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Herding Code 165: Mark Seemann on AutoFixture and Unit Testing (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 106 – Scott Guthrie Discusses Windows Azure SDK 2.0 | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Scott Guthrie, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Aunt Sloppy (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget HD Podcast 347 – 04.30.13 (James Trew)
• Ping 175: Wp app for Droids, Forbes Wifi, Next Xbox, Bing Offers | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• What’s new in the Service Bus .NET SDK 2.0 (Clemens Vasters)

 

Community / Events

• Take Up Windows Azure Developer Challenge Compete for Great Prizes and TechEd 2013 North America and Europe Registration Open Now (Zhiming Xue)
• May 2013 Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• Register now for the App Builder Virtual Summit (Windows Store Team)

 

Database

• SQL Server Analysis Services Partition Maintenance and Processing (Scott Murray)
• Fixing a SQL Server could not spawn FRunCM thread error (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Hey, I just downloaded you and this is crazy, but here’s my SharePoint so… dashboard maybe (Gabriel Lopez)

 

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Magazine May Issue Preview (Michael Desmond)
• More on Types (Ted Neward)
• Join the Facebook for Windows Phone Beta app program (Michael Stroh)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2013 04.17 ~ 04.30 (yuanjian)
• Resources for Developing Windows Store apps and SharePoint on Windows Azure Resources (Zhiming Xue)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, April 30th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading April 30, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1118 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 30 April 2013 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1347 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-01 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 1, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 30 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 30 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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