Dew Drop – April 29, 2013 (#1,536)

Top Links

• Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK (Scott Guthrie)
• Free Video: SPA Primer with Durandal, Knockout and Breeze (John Papa)
• Next Xbox Code Named “Durango” To Be Officially Announced As The Xbox Infinity? (MBGW)
• Introducing ToolbarJS – A HTML5 JavaScript Library to Implement the Windows Phone AppBar Functionality (Chris Love)

 

Web Development

• Creating Computed Macros in ember.js (Paul Cowan)
• Zero friction parallel self hosting of ASP.NET Web API and static files using OWIN and Katana (Alexander Zeitler)
• Building Single Page Applications with Backbone.js and Express.js (Alexander Beletsky)
• Few Modern JavaScript Inconsistencies (Andrea Giammarchi)
• JavaScript quirk 4: unknown variable names create global variables (Axel Rauschmayer)
• ASP.NET Web API and greedy query string parameter binding (Filip W)
• Unit Testing an ASP.NET MVC 4 Controller using MS Test, Rhino Mocks, AutoMapper and Dependency Injection (Frez)
• Customizing a knockout validation message (Jef Claes)
• The Windows Azure SDK for Ruby (Larry Franks)
• How to Build an Instagram-like Photo Sharing App with HTML5: Part 2 (Rajasekharan Vengalil)
• CSS3 Transitions: Thank God We Have A Specification! (Rodney Rehm)
• Handlebars.js in a Nutshell (Senthamizh Chelvi Kaliyaperumal)
• Lifecycle of an ASP.NET Web API Message (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Basic projections in the EventStore (Rob Ashton)
• Virtual Network adds new capabilities for cross-premises connectivity (Venkat Gattamneni)
• Getting Web Platform installer working with SQL Express (Charles Sterling)
• Make Client Side Data Available Server Side (Chris Coyier)
• Publishing to Azure Web Sites from any git/hg repo (David Ebbo)

 

XAML

• Adding Keyboard Shortcut Support to the WPF XamOutlookBar (Brian Lagunas)
• WinRT Business Apps with Prism: App State Management (Brian Noyes)
• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #808 – How Shape Elements Are Positioned within a Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Caveats with elements (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Prism for Windows Runtime: Integrating a Dependency Injection Container (Francis Cheung)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Disabling Namespaces on folders in Visual Studio (Phillip Haydon)
• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XVIII–Summary (Oren Eini)
• Interrogating Printers with PrinterSettings (Richard Carr)
• WPF Layout Controls – Viewbox (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio Tools for Git Update available (Brian Harry)
• .NET Gadgeteer Core gets VS2012 support in v2.42.700 (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet for C++ (Jennifer Leaf)
• What’s Wrong With This Code 2: Windows Forms Application (Paul Ballard)
• File New Now What? The SDK Examples From Telerik Will Ramp You Up Quickly (Phil Japikse)
• Another way to create a process with attributes, maybe worse maybe better (Raymond Chen)
• Unity – Part 3: Aspect Oriented Programming (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #832 – The Sequence in Which Finalizers Are Called (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development (Paul Hammant)
• How To Deal With Making Mistakes (John Sonmez)
• Queries, Patterns, and Search – food for thought (Udi Dahan)
• Do Trust and Faith belong in Software Development? Not Really! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Future of Testing and Quality (Mitch Pronschinske)
• You are doing it wrong if you are not using test first (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Open Data backed by Source-Control (Paul Hammant)
• Saga alternatives – routing slips (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unusual Microsoft Download of the Day: "Cancelling a project (without cancelling your career)" (Greg Duncan)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Hello Maps: A Five Minute iOS App with the Google Maps SDK and Using the Google Maps Android API (Eric Gregory)
• Using Multiple ViewControllers on a Single Screen in iOS (Jaco Pretorius)
• Setting the Default Emulator Image in Xamarin.Android (Michael Crump)
• Android DevBytes: RequestDuringLayout (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 092: Cartoonist Lucy Knisley (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 263: Shawn Weisfeld on UserGroup.tv (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 473: #XboxReveal (Larry Hyrb)
• Video: Making A List And Checking It Twice in Java on Android (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Weekly 309: On the Catwalk (Paul Thurrott)
• The Tablet Show – Scott Allen Builds SPAs for Mobile (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Marc Maron #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 075 – April 25th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 178 – 04.26.13 and Engadget Podcast 341 – 04.26.13 (James Trew)
• Defrag: Keyboard Fail, Search Auto-Suggest, Wider CMD Window | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Chad Beeder)
• Episode 1 – FailSafe Core Concepts, Part I | FailSafe: Building Scalable, Resilient Cloud Services and Episode 2 – FailSafe Core Concepts, Part II | FailSafe: Building Scalable, Resilient Cloud Services and Episode 3 – Scalability and Deployment | FailSafe: Building Scalable, Resilient Cloud Services (Ulrich Homann & Marc Mercuri)
• Countdown to TechEd: All about the Atmosphere | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• Joe Belfiore planning something for the Windows Phone community (Rich Edmonds)
• Windows Azure – Discover the Cloud and Win Cash! (Jim O’Neil)
• Visit Telerik booth at GIDS 2013 and win tablets (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Test the Web Forward – Seattle 2013 (John Jansen, Kris Krueger, Arron Eicholz & Jacob Rossi)
• Launching AzureAustin user group May 13, 2013 (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Download PowerPivot or PowerView enabled Workbook Optimizer – Download SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop and SQL SERVER – Disable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database – Enable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Where to find the xtype info for SQL Server in a table (Denis Gobo)
• Raven’s Storage: Building a Sorted String Table (Oren Eini)

 

Miscellaneous

• Walking While Working (Steve Smith)
• How Microsoft is using Yammer inside the company (Mary Jo Foley)
• New Bing, Skype and Yammer logo design concepts revealed (damaster)
• The Art Of Teaching (Filip Ekberg)
• Test-Driving Shell Scripts (Patkos Csaba)
• Introduction To Go: Buffered Channels (Karl Seguin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 28, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 29, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, April 26th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading April 26, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1117 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – April 26, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #61 (Mary Lou)
• Pie in the Sky (April 26, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 29, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/29/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading list (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1345 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: April 19 to April 25 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 11 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #026 (Pinal Dave)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 26 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 26 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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