Dew Drop – November 19, 2012 (#1,445)

Top Links

• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #17: The Clipboard and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #18: File Associations & App Contracts and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #19: File Picker (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Xbox 720 (Durango) Revealed? (Images and Specs) (Antonio Hernandez)
• .NET Compact Framework 3.9 with Visual Studio 2012 Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4; the template nuget package for ASP.Net MVC4 projects (Eric Hexter)

 

Web Development

• Moscrif – Cross Platform Mobile Development with JavaScript (Abel Avram)
• PHP 5.4 available in Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
• Stupid Question 84: What is the difference between hex, rgb and hsl color declarations in CSS? (Iris Classon)
• Using CSS/HTML to Make a Responsive Website in 3 Easy Steps (jbj)
• Automated testing with FubuMVC, StoryTeller, and Serenity (Josh Arnold)
• Capturing Unhandled Exceptions in ASP.NET Web API’s with ELMAH (Mark Berryman)
• KendoUI and Pokki living in symbiosis (Емил Табаков)
• Code Editor Thunderdome (Rob Conery)
• Use Visual Event To Explore JavaScript Events In Your Application (Stoil Stoichev)
• A First Look at the HTML5 History API (Umar Hansa)
• Production issue: ASP.Net Cache kills the application (Oren Eini)
• A proposal for using Canvas in web workers (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Released Nancy.AspNetSprites.Razor (Jef Claes)
• Responsive Web Design is So More than Just a Few Breakpoints (Tom Kenny)
• Firebug 1.11 beta 2 and Firebug Tip: Styled Logging (Jan Odvarko)
• Build smoother web apps with Chrome Developer Tools (Andrey Kosyakov)

 

XAML

• Eight reasons why the new Windows Phone is great (Admin)
• My Windows 8 App Monetization (Andy Beaulieu)
• Windows Phone 8: Introduction to the Platform (Peter Kuhn)
• Live Connect Single Sign-On from Windows Phone 8 for Mobile Services (Glenn Gailey)
• Stupid Question 83: What does the HTML5 Command tag do, and is this similar to commands in XAML? (Iris Classon)
• Metro++ | Is that text clickable or not? (John Kneeland)
• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Create Great Experience with LiveTile for your WinRT applications (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Displaying the Saved Pictures in the Windows Phone 8 emulator (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone 8 Iconic Tile Image Size Comparison (Mikael Koskinen)
• Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone 8 and the 2001 submission error (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #693 – TextBox Control Supports Drag-and-Drop (Sean Sexton)
• Expression Blend + Sketchflow Preview for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (Teresa Burger)
• Enabling great Play To experiences from your Windows 8 apps (and websites!) (Gabe Frost & Analy Otero)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Don’t Forget Block Selection Using Alt in Visual Studio (Steve Smith)
• Harvey, a .net chat server built with RabbitMQ (Leon Bambrick)
• When The VPN Doesn’t Work to my TFS-Using Client (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Some of my favorite Visual Studio 2012 things–Teams (Aaron Kowall)
• Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices (Etienne Tremblay)
• Stupid Question 85: What does the ‘Obsolete’ attribute in C# do? (Iris Classon)
• Digging in to Multi-Tenant Migrations with EF6 Alpha (Julie Lerman)
• JustCode Code Style Settings for C#, Part 1 (JustCode Team)
• Generating C# code for .proto files using Roslyn and F# (Cameron Taggart)
• PLINQ and Int32.MaxValue (Stephen Toub)
• ANTS CLR and Memory Profiler In Depth Review (Part 2 of 2 – Memory Profiler) (ToStringTheory)
• Why you should never use a boolean field (use an Enum instead) (Simone Chiaretta)
• Install Quartz.Net as a windows service and Test installation and Quartz.Net Writing your first Hello World Job (Tarun Arora)
• Implementing Dictionary.RemoveAll (Michiel du Toit)
• How do I forward an exported function to an ordinal in another DLL? (Raymond Chen)
• SkyDrive adds new SDK, too (Kip Kniskern)
• Notifications and Settings in Telerik Control Panel (Chris Eargle)
• Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – I – Conceptual view (Luca Bolognese)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mini book: Agile Transition (Andrea Tomasini & Martin Kearns)
• Article: An Alternative to Agile Coaching (Phil Abernathy)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Command (Oren Eini)
• What’s preferable: Exceptions or explicit error testing? (Stack Exchange)
• xunitcontrib-resharper 0.7 (RS 7.1, 6.1.1) and BugNET Issue Tracker 1.2 (CodePlex)
• Is it Worth Automating? (Rob Galanakis)
• The build process failed validation. Details: .. (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Build Bullet #1 – Use Version Aware Build Scripts and Build Bullets #2–Avoid XML Facing Build Tools and Build Bullet #3– Start Products with an Empty Build and Deploy Pipeline (Roy Osherove)
• Problem Solving vs. Solution Finding (Ryan Abrahamson)
• Buy vs Build: Driving from the problem and Incremental/iterative development: Breaking down work (Mark Needham)
• Windows 8 wireframe templates for PowerPoint for free (Greg Duncan)
• How To Lead High-Performance Distributed Teams (JD Meier)
• Debunking Management Myths (Johanna Rothman)
• The Agile Pocket Guide Book – Published! (Peter Saddington)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• A Multicast Delegate Pattern for iOS Controls (Colin Eberhardt)
• Building Sencha Touch Custom Components, Part 3 (Andrea Cammarata)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 240: Jimmy Bogard on Composite UIs (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 458: Xbox LIVE turns 10 (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 287: Group Therapy Session (Paul Thurrott)
• The Tablet Show – Kate Gregory Programs Windows 8 with C++ (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Nov 16 02.08 LIDNUG & John Papa Single Page Apps Jump-Start (LIDNUG Team)
• TWC9: Azure Conf, Unit Test, High Perf JavaScript, Inside WinRT, Kinect Browser | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Vergecast 055 – November 15th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• 035 JSJ node-webkit (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• SitePoint Podcast #188: The Art of Explanation with Lee LeFever (Karn Broad)
• Defrag Tools: #15 – WinDbg – Bugchecks (BSOD) | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 189: Eric Lubow on Polyglot Persistence (SE-Radio Team)
• Leslie Bradshaw: 7 Talks to Inspire Female Leaders (TED Talks)
• The Microsoft design language | Build 2012 (Will Tschumy)

 

Community / Events

• 3 SharePoint Events You Can’t Miss Next Week in Melbourne, Australia #share4biz #mspug #AvePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)
• DevIntersection Conference Dec 9th-12th (Scott Guthrie)
• Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start (Bob Familiar)
• 2013 Software Craftsmanship Calendar (Steve Smith)
• Stupid Question 86: Who would hire you w just 15 months experience, and is it just because are a woman? (Iris Classon)

 

Database

• Steps to add Log Shipping monitor into an existing SQL Server (Jugal Shah)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data-Tier Application Framework (November 2012) (MS Downloads)
• Understanding the SQL Server 2012 BI Semantic Model (BISM) (Arshad Ali)
• Connect to localdb using Sql Server management studio (Magnus Karlsson)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Released (SP1) and SQL SERVER – Removing Leading Zeros From Column in Table (Pinal Dave)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syslogins (Jason Strate)
• Dropping MS SQL Tables that have a Prefix using T-SQL (Jason Gaylord)
• Backup Databases on Creation (Denny Cherry)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 ‘Apps’ – Step Forward or Confusing Message (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint Apps and Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell.org, powering PowerShell learning, sharing and community by the community for the community (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• From iPad to Surface – Favorite Fridays >> Google App (Nick Landry)
• OOF checklist (Daniel Moth)
• Audio of the Original Xbox dashboard and The official list of Xbox Black Friday Deals (Larry Hryb)
• Is Woz right? Apple co-founder worries that Microsoft is getting more innovative (Todd Bishop)
• Paint.NET PSD Plugin 2.2.0 (CodePlex)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 18, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 11.01 ~ 11.18 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading November 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #38 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1004 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – November 16, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (November 16, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 17, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 18, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: November 19, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Friday Miscellany #1 (Eric Battalio)
• Reading Notes #71 (Frank)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1235 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 46/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/16/2012) and Daily News Digest 11/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #45) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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