Dew Drop – November 16, 2012 (#1,444)

Top Links

• Happy Birthday Xbox LIVE and Audio of the Original Xbox dashboard (Larry Hryb)
• Bring on the AWESOME!!! Caliburn.Micro v1.4 Released (Rob Eisenberg)
• Debug With TypeScript 0.8.1 (John Papa)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #16: Context Menus (Jeff Blankenburg)

 

Web Development

• Optimizing JavaScript Windows 8 application: Using the Visual Studio performance analysis tool (profiler) (David Catuhe)
• What is Namespace in WinJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A high level look at the FubuMVC Ecosystem (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ASP.NET WebForms Model Binding – Overview (Pranav Rastogi)
• Install NPM Packages Automatically for Node.js on Windows Azure Web Site (Shaun Xu)
• Creating a shortcut to console.log in Sublime Text 2 (Veera Sundar)
• LinkAP, typed, SCXML Simulation (Alex Young)
• Content Security Policy 1.0 is officially awesome. (Mike West)
• Adapting your WebKit-optimized site for Internet Explorer 10 (Charles Morris)
• Better Repro Playback with Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)

 

XAML

• WinRT app guide: Step 15: Exporting data as a text file (Iris Classon)
• 2000 WPF Things #692 – Common Controls Typically Do Not Capture the Mouse (Sean Sexton)
• Common Windows Store certification errors: 4.1 Your app must comply with privacy requirements (Jennifer Marsman)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Waiting for a Process to Exit (Richard Carr)
• RTM’d today: CLR via C#, Fourth Edition (Carol Vu)
• Visual Studio Little Wonders: Quick Launch / Quick Access (James Michael Hare)
• Making your way around the Open Source Entity Framework CodePlex Site (Julie Lerman)
• A C# .NET Client Proxy For The RabbitMQ Management API (Mike Hadlow)
• Dynamic Querying with LINQ-to-Entities and Expressions (Todd Sprang)
• "Team Foundation Server 2012 Illustrated Install Guide v1.0" from the field… (i.e. someone doing it all the time…) (Greg Duncan)
• If you’re going to write your own allocator, you need to respect the MEMORY_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT (Raymond Chen)
• Tool Review: Telerik JustDecompile (Sam Abraham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 40% off Signature Series Promotion (Martin Fowler)
• Abstractions, Patterns, and Interfaces (K. Scott Allen)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Chain of responsibility (Oren Eini)
• Faking the Rest: Detouring Properties, Shimming Parameters and More (Peter Vogel)
• Design Language: The Organic Ambigram (Maggie Macnab)
• What’s the Culture on Your Project? (Johanna Rothman)
• Weekly Poll: The CI Landscape (Bill Armstrong)
• An Alternative to Agile Coaching (Phil Abernathy)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator (Kevin Dangoor)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – World Class Climbing with Audrey Sniezek (Scott Hanselman)
• Herding Code 154 – Aaron Stannard on MarkedUp, founding a startup, and Windows 8 development (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• IWP47 | New Developer Features in WP8 | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• What the Tech 141: Sayonara, Sinofsky (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Donkey Sauce (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 025 – November 14th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Boagworld – Jack of all trades or specialist? (Paul Boag)
• Bringing existing C++ code to Windows Store apps | Build 2012 (Tarek Madkour)
• Peter Gabriel: 13 Surprising Talks That Will Stand the Test of Time (TED Talks)
• Behind the scenes of Fresh Paint on Windows 8 (Steve Clayton)

 

Community / Events

• The Agile Tour is coming to Hong Kong! (Stephen Forte)
• Being a Microsoft MVP for 10 Years (Jason Gaylord)
• PSBJ’s Women of Influence honored (Becky Monk)
• The Philadelphia Film Fest: A Q&A With Robert Zemeckis (Dan)
• JetBrains Session at Desert Code Camp 2012 (Mikhail Vink)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Introduction to 2D Game Programming with XNA (Paul Ballard)
• A Coder Interview With Cary Bran (The Code Project)
• Microsoft To Host Free App Labs For Windows 8 Developers In 30 Cities Around The World (Frederic Lardinois)
• Get a jump on development with Windows Store App Labs (Antoine Leblond)

 

Database

• Steps to add Log Shipping monitor into an existing SQL Server (Jugal Shah)
• Computed Columns in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieving Random Rows from Table Using NEWID() (Pinal Dave)
• Short-Throw-Away T-SQL (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• Apply CSS styles to SharePoint Web parts (Eranda Ketawalage)

 

Miscellaneous

• Halo 4 companion game coming to Windows Phone (after iOS and Android) (Paul Acevedo)
• Why Haskell? (Gabriel Manricks)
• Stupid Question 82: What does x86 stand for? And why do we use x86 to represent 32-bit? (Iris Classon)
• Selective sync comes to SkyDrive, update released today (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 181 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #1002 and Double Shot #1003 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading November 15, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 16, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/16/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1234 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 15 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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