Dew Drop – October 17, 2012 (#1,423)

Top Links

• Windows Azure Mobile Services: New support for iOS apps, Facebook/Twitter/Google identity, Emails, SMS, Blobs, Service Bus and more (Scott Guthrie)
• Surface pricing announced: Too high, or just right? (Kip Kniskern)
• An inside look at Microsoft’s Surface RT (Ed Bott)
• How To “Completely” Set-Up TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012 (Ryan Hayes)
• Understanding Text Encoding in ASP.NET MVC (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) (Michael Kennedy)

 

Web Development

• How to get started with jQuery Grid Unbound Columns and jQuery Grid Unbound Column: How to make the most of it (Damyan Petev)
• Using the Trial API in your WinJS Game (Alice Pang)
• JavaScript: parallel programming via River Trail coming to Firefox (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Day 3 (Billy McCafferty)
• Getting Error Info for PHP Sites in Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
• Knockout.js Added to the F#/C# MVC 4 Single Page Application Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Roost – A JavaScript Training Conference from Bocoup (Darius Kazemi)
• Getting Started with the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
• Send text messages (SMS) from Web API using Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
• Does JavaScript need classes? (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Article: New Book: JQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs and ASP.NET Anti-Forgery Tokens With JSON Payloads (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Adding type annotations to JavaScript (Scott Koon)
• Bring Your Charts to Life with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Celebrating Dart’s birthday with the first release of the Dart SDK (Seth Ladd)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Web Designer’s Roadmap – $14.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML

• Professional Windows 8 Programming with C# and XAML (Doug Holland)
• Windows 8 Metro: Discovering the Application Bars (Andrea Boschin)
• WPF: Running code when Window rendering is completed (Ilya Verbitskiy)
• XAML Binding Basics 101 (Jerry Nixon)
• Document Toolkit October 2012 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• 3 Icon Packs for Windows Phone and Windows 8 and Writing a Windows Phone App Bar in Code (CodeSnippet) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Windows Developer Dashboard now FULLY support Windows Phone 8 (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #669 – Retrieving the Mouse’s Current Position in an Event Handler and #670 – Getting the Mouse Position Relative to a Specific Element (Sean Sexton)
• Building a custom control using XAML and C# (Aaron Wroblewski)
• Diagnosing Memory Leaks in Managed Windows Store Apps (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Who cares about application analytics? Lots of people for lots of reasons… (Sebastian Holst)
• Windows Store App Development Snack: Simulator Tips and Tricks (Robert MacLean)
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 4) – Navigate between Pages (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using ProcDump to Monitor Windows 8 Store Apps (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications (Jim O’Neil)
• Callisto + Caliburn.Micro + these Dialog Helpers = Happy Windows RT Dev Camper (Greg Duncan)
• Data Exchange with Infragistics XamGantt Control – Import/Export to Microsoft Project (Part 2) (Mihail Mateev)
• Windows Store apps: the case of missing StringFormat or Binding on the Run (Andrej Tozon)
• Data Binding 101: The Converter Attribute (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• NuGet or Not for Telerik? (Chris Eargle)
• Is C# a strongly typed or a weakly typed language? (Eric Lippert)
• Support for Visual Studio 2012 Themes in JustCode 2012 Q2 Service Pack 2 (Philip Japikse)
• Inside the Kinect for Windows SDK Update… and WiX up a quick add-in install with with this "Wix Addin Installer Project Template" (Greg Duncan)
• Kinect for Windows SDK Update and What it Means for Developers (Jackie)
• 6 Lessons to learn Small Basic and graduate to Visual Basic! (Ed Price)
• More Q&A for the C++ AMP book (Eric Battalio)
• C++ AMP Extras: String Reversal (Ade Miller)
• NP .NET Profiler (MS Downloads)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are You Making These ScrumMaster Mistakes? (Faisal Mahmood)
• Agile Results in Evernote with One Notebook (JD Meier)
• TDD: Is There Really Any Debate Any Longer? (Joseph Eames)
• Multi threaded design guidelines for libraries: Part II (Oren Eini)
• Leadership Pitfalls and the Technical Manager (Davee LaBay)
• Refactoring FizzBuzz (Mark Pearl)
• Slow Down to Speed up EA Results (Mike Walker)
• Introducing Traffic Light (Joel Ross)
• How to Use Git With FTP (Jeffrey Way)
• How do you estimate with Story Points and determine Velocity when you’ve not done it before? (John Petersen)
• Commands with dependencies (Jef Claes)
• Free your Typemock… New Typemock Isolator Basic is now available and free (Updated Typemock Isolator Essential & Typemock Isolator Complete also available) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Design Style – The real new name and 10 things you should know about designing for Windows 8 (Brent Schooley)
• Locking and git-tf and… danger? (Charles Sterling)
• Technical debt is like ketchup (Dave Ward)
• Good Design with Typemock (Eli Lopian)
• Dealing with Code Complexity (Filip Ekberg)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Team Foundation Server and Xcode projects with git-tf (Charles Sterling)
• Pre-Order Now And Save 20%: The Brand New Printed Smashing Book: “The Mobile Book” (Smashing Editorial)
• Building the PhoneGap Extension for Brackets (Terrence Ryan)
• How to detect Device is connected to Internet using Cordova (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Google Play Developer Console Available to Everyone (Eva-Lotta Lamm, Riccardo Govoni & Ellie Powers)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Alan Stevens and Leon Gersing Discuss Leading Developers (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Lars Bak and Steve Lucco: Chakra, V8, JavaScript, Open Source | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 153 – Matt Wrock on RequestReduce, Chocolatey and BoxStarter (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• .NET Framework 4.5 Support in Windows Azure Web Sites | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Larry King (Chris Hardwick)
• The Guild Episode 3 is up! (Felicia Day)
• SE Podcast #33 – It’s Back! (Alex Miller)
• How to identify CLR threads in a dump – 08 | .NET Debugging for the Production Environment (Brad L.)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 188: MobileManDan (Gareth)
• Yet Another Podcast #78–Rey Bango on IE10 (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #12 – TaskMgr and ResMon | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 158: Ballmer talks the future, Microsofties hit High School, Stocking the Windows Store, Microsoft Gives | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 007 – Jason Strate (Denny Cherry)
• Screencast: Inspecting Code Quality and Code Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• Video: Right Sizing Your Startup (Paul Ballard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 65 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget HD Podcast 320 – 10.16.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows 8 version of OneNote shown off in video (John Callaham)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Wrox Authors Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2013 (Jim Minatel)
• Meet the Author: Joe Sack on SQL Server: Transact-SQL Basic Data Retrieval (Paul Ballard)
• Syme Times Two: Father of F# at NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Visual Studio product planners to do a road trip and visit YOU (Charles Sterling)
• Announcing new changes to the Microsoft Community Contributor community (MS Community Contributor Team)
• Jobs in IT: Geek Out with Hot Tech Jobs at Cosmos (MS JobsBlog)
• Small Basic – New TechNet Wiki Contest!!! (Ed Price)
• OpenStack Summit – Fall 2012: My Expectations (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Seattle GiveCamp this Weekend (Stephen Walther)

 

Database

• Execute Dynamic SQL commands in SQL Server (Greg Robidoux)
• Script to create dynamic PIVOT queries in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 4 (Glenn Berry)
• Should we be able to deploy a single package to the SSIS Catalog? (Jamie Thomson)
• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (Kim Spilker)
• Why Tune Queries? (Grant Fritchey)
• A review of SQL Interoperability / Joes 2 Pros Volume 5 by Rick A Morelan (Kenneth Fisher)
• Sorry Guys, it’s not just about Big Data (Treasure Data Team)
• Querying database usage (Matt Bowler)
• Plan Explorer Pro – First Glance (Ted Krueger)
• Who’s testing your restores? No, really – who’s testing your restores? (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

PowerShell

• Disable or Enable SQL Server Agent Jobs using PowerShell (Edwin Sarmiento)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office for Windows RT: How to move to a commercial-use license (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft explains why they chose 1366×768 resolution for the Surface RT (Brad Sams)
• Reimagining Clinical Computing (Bill Crounse)
• MVP Monday – Hyper-V Blitz (hv_blitz) Inventory Tool (Nathan Lasnoski)
• Microsoft Surface: Pricing and Availability (Paul Thurrott)
• Tablet Fight: Surface vs. iPad vs. Kindle Fire HD [CHART] (Samantha Murphy)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 10.08 ~ 10.16 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading October 15, 2012 and Geek Reading October 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #980 and Double Shot #981 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 17 Oct 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/15/2012 and Daily News Digest 10/16/2012 and Daily News Digest 10/17/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1211 and The Morning Brew #1212 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-16 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 15 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• MS Stack Affliate Program for vNext (David J. Kelley)

 

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