Dew Drop – December 21, 2012 (#1,468)

Top Links

• Microsoft Expression News (Lori Dirks) – There is a misconception going around that this post states that the Blend functionality is being absorbed into VS2012 and Blend is being killed off. That is not true. Blend for VS2012 will be bundled with the VS2012 installer and include the ability to work with Win 8 apps (XAML and WinJS), WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow. This will be included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.
• Stupid Question 107: Shhh… Harassment. Not a problem? Strong content warning (Iris Classon) – Sickening.
• Knockout.js and Kendo UI – a Potent Duo (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Nullable micro-optimizations, part one (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Tutorial, Part 3 – Dev setup, tooling, learning resources (Piotr Kwapin)
• Complexity Analysis of JavaScript Code (Ariya Hidayat)
• Touchy.js: a polyfill for supporting pointer events on every browser (David Catuhe)
• Asp.Net Web Api MediaTypeFormatter Error for x-www-formurlencoded data (Derik Whittaker)
• Cutter.js – A Library For Truncating HTML Code By Word Number Without Losing Markup (Hirvesh Munogee)
• New Book: Learning CSS3 Animations (Louis Lazaris)
• Hosting Multiple WordPress Sites for Free on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
• Turning you ASP.Net Hyperlinks into images buttons using CSS and jQuery (Steve Naughton)
• New Tutorial Series and Sample Application for ASP.NET MVC 4 with Windows Azure Tables, Blobs, and Queues (Tom Dykstra)
• MVVM in WinJS Part 2 – Observable Collections (Phil Japikse)
• Top Azure Tips and Best Practices (Rick Anderson)
• jQuery Core 1.9 Upgrade Guide (jQuery Team)
• Apptivate.MS: the results are in! (Abby T. Miller)
• New MS Open Tech Prototype of the HTTP/2.0 initial draft in an Apache HTTP server module (Adalberto Foresti)
• A Tale of Animation Performance (Chris Coyier)
• Infinite Canvas: Moving Beyond the Page (Nathan Peretic)
• A New Streaming API for Node v0.10 (Isaac Z. Schlueter)

 

XAML

• Building MVVM HTML5/JS Apps Follow Up: Answers to Submitted Questions (Anand Raja)
• Tips for Passing Microsoft Certification Exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Metro style Apps (Samidip Basu)
• Network Monitoring for Windows Phone Apps (Jonathan Lyons)
• Testing a WinRT app on a Surface RT (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #717 – Drag-and-Drop with Touch on Windows 7 (Sean Sexton)
• Using MEF in a Windows Store App (Eric Vogel)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Keyboard Bindings (David Starr)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Parallel.Invoke() Method (James Michael Hare)
• What’s New in TFS 2012? – Team Explorer (Mohamed Radwan)
• Kinect for Windows v1.6 Released – 2012/10/08 (Rob Relyea)
• C++ Templates: Not a General Case of Generics (Diego Dagum)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Study the Flow of Work with Kanban Cards (Benjamin Mitchell)
• The Cost of Stories (Gregg Boer)
• A Sack of Gifts by the Secret Agilista (Team Pulse Team)
• Today is the last day to innovate before tomorrow … (James Ashley)
• Messaging Semantics: Ownership (Jimmy Bogard)
• Who Do You Promote Into Management? (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Localize your Promotional Graphics on Google Play (llie Powers)
• Introducing PropertyCross – Helping you select a cross-platform mobile framework (Colin Eberhardt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brian Randell Does DevOps on the Microsoft Stack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2012: Dave Thomas – On YOW!, Objects, Functions, Software Fashion, and More and YOW! 2012: Jafar Husain – Rx and Netflix, A Match Made in Composable Asynchrony and YOW! 2012: Mike Lee – New Lemurs, Chemistry, Transdimensional Portal, Object-Oriented Audio (Charles Torre)
• Design differences between iOS and Windows 8 | Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers (Bart Claeys)
• Video: Drill Into Semantic Zoom in Windows 8 with XAML and C# (Paul Ballard)
• Mash This Podcast – Fiddler with Eric Lawrence (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
• Windows Weekly 291: The Year in Review (Paul Thurrott)
• EdgeShow 47 Unified Mobile Device Management | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 193: Jingle Balls (Gareth Myles, James Richardson, Matt Davis & Dan Carter)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 162 – 12.21.2012 (James Trew)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 72 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Which SQL Server MVP Has Two Thumbs and a Hadoop Certification? (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Celebrating a Tremendous Year for Technology and Community (Mike Hickman)

 

Database

• Restore SQL Server Databases using DateTime functions (Brady Upton )
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 20: Use the new features (Denis Gobo)
• Practical Azure #7: SQL Database Federations (Jim O’Neil)

 

PowerShell

• BizTalk Host Creation Script (Scott Banwart)

 

Miscellaneous

• Last-Minute Gifts for Beginning Coders (Eric Gregory)
• A Geek Christmas Quiz (Mike Hadlow)
• The Mixed Bag of Windows 8 Chips (Jeremy Likness)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 186 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1259 (Chris Alcock)
• The Doomsday Six Pack: December 21, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Geek Reading December 20, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1027 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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