Dew Drop – May 20, 2013 (#1,550)

Top Links

• Doing view-model first approach with Caliburn-Micro and Unity, the right way (Rohit Sharma)
• Getting Started With Glimpse In ASP.NET MVC (John Sonmez)
• Coming to Angular from something else (Paul Hammant)
• A step by step guide to installing an F# REPL environment on Windows (Matthew Adams)

 

Web Development

• Asp.net MVC Output Caching During Development (Adam Storr)
• Codrops – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• Introducing the new HTML5 template Tag and Even Better CSS3 Toggle Switches! (Craig Buckler)
• Replace the Image in an ‘img’ with CSS (Marcel Shields)
• Auto-install Node.js and npm from Makefile (Hugo Josefson)
• Simple JavaScript Testing with QUnit (Leigh Shevchik)
• Using system.js in MongoDB (From C#) (K. Scott Allen)
• Knockout-ES5: a plugin to simplify your syntax (Steve Sanderson)
• Hosting your ASP.NET Web API Services without IIS and Connect to MongoDB from .NET using Web API (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Keep your Windows Azure applications running with custom health checks (Tom Hollander)
• LightSwitch HTML Client For The Desktop Web Browser (Michael Washington)
• Your login form posts to HTTPS, but you blew it when you loaded it over HTTP (Troy Hunt)
• Node v0.10.7 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet (Peter Kellner)
• Performance and Responsive Web Design (Zach Leatherman)
• Visible Whitespace in Sublime Text 2 (Bobby Johnson)
• NancyFX – Revisiting Content Negotiation APIs (Part 3) (Phillip Haydon)
• Google’s Polymer and the future of web UI frameworks (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Slider with Sliding Backgrounds (Chris Coyier)
• Google Introduces Portable Native Client, Makes It Easier For Developers To Add C And C++ Code To Their Web Apps (Frederic Lardinois)
• New Firebug feature: Use in Command Line (Honza)
• Things to Watch out for with a Production system in Microsoft Azure (Ryan Abrahamson)

 

XAML

• XAudio2 Performance and Battery Considerations for Windows Phone 8 (Adam Denning)
• Showing the XamDialogWindow from a ViewModel in Silverlight and WPF (Brian Lagunas)
• Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest (Charles Sterling)
• Windows Phone: Time for Microsoft to Put the Pedal to the Metal (Lance Ulanoff)
• How to Specify the Startup Page in Windows Phone (Michael Crump)
• Extending the Windows Phone Pivot (Nico Vermeir)
• ObservableCollection is the pain point of WPF (Rohit Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #823 – Setting a Cursor from XAML (Sean Sexton)
• Using Viewbox for Automatic Control Scaling in Windows Phone (Toni Petrina)
• Android to Windows 8: Working with a SQL Database (Adam Grocholski)
• Thoughts on Monetization #5: Multiple Apps and Monetizing Web APIs (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Disposable Progress Indicators (Nigel Sampson)
• Just released – Prism for Windows Runtime (Blaine Wastell)
• Stupid Question 186 – 187: Is ForEach missing from List for Windows Store Apps? If so why? (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Setting the Foreground Window (Richard Carr)
• Traversing the GC Heap with ClrMd (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #847 – How the Call Stack Works (Sean Sexton)
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 May 2013 Update (MS Downloads)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture for developers Google Group (Simon Brown)
• How To Rebrand Yourself at Work (J.D. Meier)
• Transform Your Agile Process with Kanban Thinking (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Testing in one week sprints, hierarchy backlog items and test coverage. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Slack, the missing concept (Giorgio Sironi)
• Thinking Together for Release Planning (Dean Stevens)
• The joy of being a programmer (Patrick Smacchia)
• How to disagree elegantly and learn something in the process … (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Test Studio Web Portal: The Time Has Come (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Quality assurance fail (Eric Lippert)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin platform setup gotchas (Pascal Arnould)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 266: Jeff Fritz on MVC vs Web Forms (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 476: Video Gaming Industry Numbers and Star Trek Into Darkness (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 107 – Service Bus updates in Windows Azure SDK 2.0 | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten, Nick Harris & Abhishek Lal)
• The Tablet Show – Rob Bazinet Builds iOS Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 059 JSJ jQuery Mobile with Todd Parker (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• What the Tech 165: Google I/O and Windows Weekly 312: Paw Friendly (Paul Thurrott)
• The Changelog 89: Doing incredible things with linux containers and Docker with Solomon Hykes (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• TWC9: New Win Dev Center, Charles Petzold, ALM Rangers and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• GeekWire Radio: Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager spreads the startup gospel (GeekWire)
• Engadget Podcast 344: Google I/O edition – 05.17.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 002: Fitnesse And Nutrition Tips For a Busy Schedule (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Edge Show 62 – Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster Deployment Using Free Tools | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kyle Kinane (Chris Hardwick)

 

Community / Events

• Jump Starts: Two new Visual Studio events coming up at the end of May (Kim Spilker)
• Free Webinar May 29th: PhpStorm Best Practices – The Perfect Workflow for PHP Developers (Mikhail Vink)
• The Week Ahead: May 20th, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Microsoft Stores to live stream, give prizes for Xbox reveal (John Callaham)

 

Database

• Indexes – Understanding basic types and their components (Steve Hood)

 

SharePoint

• Utah SharePoint Business Value Workshop 2013 and Art of the Possible (Joel Oleson)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Idiosyncrasy Explained (Dov Trietsch)
• Installing commands into the NuGet PowerShell profile (Xavier Decoster)
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 Adds New PowerShell cmdlets with Enhancements for Storage and Service Bus (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Deploying Database Changes with PowerShell (Eli Weinstock-Herman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox gets a new official blog: The Wire (Kip Kniskern)
• Learning To Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Two (Matthew Adams)
• Microsoft planning Xbox dashboard UI and tile changes in preparation for next-gen console (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 19, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 20, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 207 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 17th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 17, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (May 17, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #64 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1131 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 20, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/17/2013 and Daily News Digest 5/20/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/18/2013) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #95 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1359 (Chris Alcock)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #029 (Pinal Dave)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 17 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #66) (Mark Brown)

 

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