Dew Drop – May 22, 2013 (#1,552)

Top Links

• Regional Differences (Steve Smith)
• Benchmarking mistakes, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Introducing a New Generation of Xbox Live (Xbox Team)
• Introducing Xbox One and Xbox One and Used Games (Larry Hryb)

 

Xbox

• Microsoft bringing the new Kinect to Windows (Tim Schiesser)
• Xbox One lets households share one Xbox Live Gold subscription across multiple accounts (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft Xbox One: everything you need to know (Verge Staff)
• More Xbox One details emerge: TV integration, Second-hand play, more (Kip Kniskern)
• VIDEO: Xbox One revealed (Steve Clayton)
• Xbox One installs discs to the HDD, friends list capped at 1,000 (Ben Gilbert)

 

Web Development

• Web programming (HTML5/CSS3/jQuery) for beginners – the journey starts here… (Brent Schooley)
• Compiling to JavaScript, and Debugging with Source Maps (Nick Fitzgerald)
• How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line) (Scott Hanselman)
• Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23 (Rob Campbell)
• Dynamically Loading Controllers and Views with AngularJS and RequireJS (Dan Wahlin)
• Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Recommendations (Jatinder Mann)
• Take a Walk on the Client Side with WebAPI and WebForms – Part 2 (Jeff Fritz)
• The Right Way to Retinafy Your Websites (Allan Berger)

 

XAML

• Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2 (Adam Denning)
• Blend for Visual Studio 2012 nice touch #2 (Eric Nelson)
• ReversiEight – A Windows 8 Reversi Game (Colin Eberhardt)
• Extended WPF Toolkit gets all v2.0 and now includes AvalonDock too! (Greg Duncan)
• New version of Syncfusion Metro Studio V2 (I. Haynes)
• 2000 WPF Things #825 – Two Way Binding for a CheckBox (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Thread-Safe Queues with ConcurrentQueue (Richard Carr)
• Creating the Virtual Experiment Laboratory app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit (Roberto Sonnino)
• 2000 C# Things #849 – Using the Call Stack in Visual Studio to Navigate within Your Code (Sean Sexton)
• Rhino Mocks New Home (Mike Meisinger)
• Step-by-Step – Making Windows 8 Pong for a complete beginner (Susan Ibach)
• Getting the current system language (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Image Processing with C++ AMP and the .NET Framework (Eric Battalio)
• Cloning, inserting and deleting PowerPoint slides using OpenXML SDK (Jimmy Larkin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing with the Test Studio Framework (Phil Japikse)
• Never wireframe alone (Paul Boag)
• Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably (Derek Huether)
• Functional Testing with the Telerik Testing Framework (Jim Holmes)
• 3 Ways to Focus under Pressure (Brad Egeland)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Beginner’s Android Development Tutorial (Eric Genesky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 228 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Darren Mar-Elia talks Group Policy and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Pod Show – SharePoint Apps, Apps in general, and client side development with Bill Ayres-Episode 80 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Band of Horses (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget HD Podcast 350 – 05.21.13 (Joe Pollicino)

 

Community / Events

• Enter your app in the “Re-imagining Consumer Health with Windows 8 and HealthVault Challenge” (Ben Thompson)
• FubuMVC at Monkeyspaces (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Stay Connected with the Ch9 Events App (Mark DeFalco)
• Join me Wednesday for an Yahoo! Chat (Larry Hryb)
• Final ALM Certification Jumpstarts May 28th and May 29th (Charles Sterling)

 

Database

• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #15 : flush data to disk immediately (Erik EJ)

 

Miscellaneous

• Father of GIFs: ‘It’s Pronounced JIF’ (Brian Anthony Hernandez)
• How to turn up PluralSight video playback speed to 11! (Jon Gallant)
• Software Engineer Interview Questions (Marie Berdini)
• Meet the world’s smartest watch on Kickstarter: AGENT (Rich Edmonds)
• How is Small Basic different from QBASIC and VB.Net? (Ed Price)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 21st (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1133 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 22, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/22/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1361 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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