Dew Drop – April 8, 2013 (#1,522)

Top Links

• "Craftsmanship", by another name (Ted Neward)
• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Green Bird – Mocking (Elijah Manor)
• Comparing KendoUI and Knockout (with a bit of jQueryMobile on the side) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Working With Visual Studio: Developers and Functional Testing and Working With Visual Studio: A Familiar Environment (Jim Holmes)
• 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues: The Next Generation (Michaela Murray)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Media Services Poster (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft’s latest pitch to business: Make Windows Azure ‘your datacenter’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ember.js – Calling a handlebars helper from another handlebars helper (Paul Cowan)
• Deep dive into HTML5 Input types (Abhishek Narain)
• Windows Azure is Cheaper for Windows Virtual Machines! (Alexandre Brisebois)
• HTML Prototype Viewer Sneak Peek (Ambrose Little)
• Javascript Conditionals (Anders Janmyr)
• Automagic Removal of JavaScript Logging (Ariya Hidayat)
• JavaScript quirk 1: implicit conversion of values and 12 JavaScript quirks (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 Is Ready For the Big Time, Are You? (Chris Love)
• The Star Wars intro in pure CSS3 thanks to 3D transform & animations (David Rousset)
• Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse with HTML5 and SVG, Part 2: Text, Paths and Basic Animation (HTML5 Partners)
• Video Highlight #9: Modern JavaScript (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Scaling Out Socket.IO with Windows Azure Service Bus (Nathan Totten)
• WebSharper MVC Template (Taha Hachana)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services "Rent a Home" Sample, Part 3: Authentication (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Nodejs vs php (Sathya Narayanan Srinivasan)
• Tweak Touch Behavior in Internet Explorer with User Style Sheets (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Raygun.io – a few features that I love (Phillip Haydon)
• Body Border, Rounded Inside (Chris Coyier)
• Firebug 1.12 alpha 4 (Jan Odvarko)
• Mashape Launches Official Mashape API (Janet Wagner)
• Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes? (Scott Forsyth)
• Streaming Diagnostics Trace Logging from the Azure Command Line (plus Glimpse!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Mozilla And Samsung To Develop A New Rendering Engine (Vygantas)

 

XAML

• Silverlight Gets Some VS12 Love, Users Want More (David Ramel)
• Applying Styles to Windows Phone Text in Visual Studio 2012 (Bill Reiss)
• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Layout elements into the page. (Andrea Boschin)
• Windows Phone Next App Star: The final four apps and the developers behind them (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Windows Phone Dev Center – changes! (Maciej Grabek)
• Network Communications in Windows Phone 8 (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #793 – Matrix Multiplication, Part III – Procedure (Sean Sexton)
• Tip of The Day: Know The Fast Way To Scan Codes With Silverlight ZXing on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• [WPDev] CustomMessageBox + OnNavigatedTo + Navigate = Exception ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• More Dev Center features – we’re listening (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Windows 7 without Service Pack 1 is out; Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is in (Mary Jo Foley)
• Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 11.0 (MS Downloads)
• Reviewing RavenDB: Part XII–Reading an SST (Oren Eini)
• New book: Build Windows 8 Apps with Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• F# testimonials on fsharp.org (Don Syme)
• Getting Started with WCF Data Services 5.4, OData v3 and JSON Light (Julie Lerman)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Take and Where Order in LINQ Queries (Ricardo Peres)
• .NET Memory Allocation Profiling (Daniel Moth)
• .NET Shell Extensions – Shell Property Sheets (Dave Kerr)
• Easy Error Tracking in Your Applications (Filip Ekberg)
• LLBLGen Pro v4.0 released! (Frans Bouma)
• Version 1.1 of the Windows Store DirectX Game Template is out! (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• A Recipe for Integrating the XNA GS Content Pipeline project outputs into your MonoGame projects (Michael Cummings)
• Working within a single Team Project with Team Foundation Server 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Complexity extension is now compatible with VS 2012 (Elisha)
• Using MongoDB via .NET (Sarfraz Khan)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: DateTime Type Loses Milliseconds (Ricardo Peres)
• Parsing OData – nested resource paths (Rob Ashton)
• 2000 C# Things #817 – What Happens When a Static Constructor Throws an Exception (Sean Sexton)
• Code Snippets (Bonnie)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mapping software architecture to code (Simon Brown)
• My Work Kanban Support in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (David Starr)
• Customize your kanban board columns in Team Foundation Service/Server. (Gregg Boer)
• Bad Advice: “Stop Working So Hard” (John Sonmez)
• Building an application using design patterns and principles in C# (jw56578)
• A builder pattern implementation in Javascript (Patrick Kua)
• 11 Tips for Getting Testing Done in the Sprint (Clemens Reijnen)
• What is Trunk Based Development? (Paul Hammant)
• Choosing Aggregate Boundaries – Consistency (Dylan Smith)
• Converting Subversion to Mercurial/Git (Jason Young)
• Designing entities: immutability first (Jef Claes)
• How to configure AutoMoq to set up all properties and How to automatically populate properties with AutoMoq (Mark Seemann)
• Functional Principles for Object Oriented Development (Rohit Sharma)
• Forking responsibly (Steven Sinofsky)
• Review: AppMock by Telerik For Designing Windows 8 Apps (Tim Murphy)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Computing Device Tilt in iOS (Alex Curylo)
• Capture a Signature on iOS (Scott Leber)
• Google Glass The Mirror API – How It Works (Mike James)
• Using Open Data in mobile apps: lessons learned (Andrei Marukovich)
• In-App Purchase and Mobile Services (Josh Twist)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 260: Brady Gaster on Azure Web Sites (David Giard)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 111 – “Ryan Lost and Admits It” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Hanselminutes – PhoneGap/Cordova – Is HTML a reasonable app solution? With Steve Sanderson (Scott Hanselman)
• Video: Bring the Power of SharePoint 2013 To Your Client App (Paul Ballard)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 RTW’s, BUILD, modern.IE and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• IWP52 | Clint on the Coding For Fun Toolkit | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Hot Apps: Windows Phone Next App Star- Special Edition! | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Episode 104: Building cross platform Android and Windows Store apps using Windows Azure Mobile Services | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• The Tablet Show – Todd Anglin Helps Us Build Mobile Apps with HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – A Talking Cat?! and The Nerdist Podcast – Stand Up Cluster 2013 (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget Podcast 338 – 04.05.13 (James Trew)
• Edge Show 57: Windows 8 Enterprise Applications | Edge (Joey Snow)
• Radio TFS – VS 2012 Update 2 (Martin Woodward)

 

Community / Events

• More info points to May 21st next Xbox reveal (Tim Schiesser)
• Why Aren’t There More Women in Technology? (Cori Drew)
• Philly Tech Week Spotlight: Apps: From Concept To App Store (David Goodman)
• Where in the World is John Resig? (Rey Bango)
• Two workshops on Beautiful Builds and Refactoring and Design Skills (Roy Osherove)

 

Database

• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #11 : detect if SQL Server Compact is available (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #023 and SQL SERVER – Pass One Stored Procedure’s Result as Another Stored Procedure’s Parameter and SQL SERVER – The procedure attempted to return a status of NULL, which is not allowed. A status of 0 will be returned instead. (Pinal Dave)
• Using a Dedicated Administrator Connection via SSMS (Denis Gobo)
• A plug for Red Gate SQL Search, better than me running scripts (Kevin Shyr)
• MySQL: Repairing broken tables/indices (Mark Needham)

 

PowerShell

• WPF is to PowerShell as the PowerShell ISE is to Extensibility (Think "Extending the PowerShell ISE is as easy as 1, 2, DLL…") (Greg Duncan)
• Use delegated session configuration in Powershell 3.0 (James Xu)
• Quick Tip: View or Export Lync Response Group Agents via PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft, Google, and Apple: Which one faces doom in 2017? (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft (and others) take digs against Facebook phone’s unoriginality (Daniel Rubino)
• Welcome to the People Party (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Challenge addiction (Kelly Sommers)
• Save: Microsoft Press books with coupons at Amazon.com (Kim Spilker)
• An Evernote backed Journal using Vim/Emacs (Ryan Svihla)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 6, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, April 5th (Rob Caron)
• Friday Five – April 5, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #1102 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #58 (Mary Lou)
• Pie in the Sky (April 5, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 6, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 8, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/8/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1330 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links – 05/04/2013 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 8 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Quick Hits Issue #6: Gr8 St8 Appathon, Unity Event, and more (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The F# Weekly #13 (Don Syme)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 5 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 5 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #61) (Craig Kitterman)

 

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