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Dew Drop – October 23, 2012 (#1,427)

ISBN: 1449320104
ISBN-13: 9781449320102

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Dew Drop – October 3, 2012 (#1,414)

Web Development

Using JavaScript to Submit UTC Dates To The ColdFusion Server (Ben Nadel)
Introducing TypeScript (Rob Eisenberg)
My thoughts on Typescript (Scott Barnes)
Thinking About Tent (Mike Gunderloy)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0.2 released (Alexey Gopachenko)
JavaScript: __proto__ (Axel Rauschmayer)
Learn jQuery Part4: Increasing and Decreasing font of paragraph text using jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
Revealing Module Pattern: Structuring JavaScript Code – Part III (Dan Wahlin)
Mocking jQuery AJAX with AmplifyJS Request (Elijah Manor)
The ASP.NET MVC 4 Book Is Available! (Phil Haack)
Building Backbone Applications with TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)
Ah, the wonders of DHTML… (Jeff Blankenburg)
Building a non-native mobile HTML5 App (Jimmy Bogard)
Node.js specific diagnostics for Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Web API with Castle Windsor (Mark Seemann)
Computer science and JavaScript: Merge sort (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Using TypeScript in ASP.NET MVC Projects (Shiju Varghese)
Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Final (Todd Parker)
CSScomb: Sorting CSS Properties, The Better Way // Free Tool (Vyacheslav Oliyanchuk)
TypeScript (or the obligatory post about it) (Shawn Wildermuth)
Chrome Dev Tools: Markup and Style (Umar Hansa)
#Ebook Deal/Day: RESTful Web Services Cookbook – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Extending Objects in Ext JS (Chris Missal)

XAML

WinRT app guide: Step 10: Adding a lightweight database (SQLite) and CRUD support + two-way element binding (Iris Classon)
2000 WPF Things #660 – Changing the Double-Click Speed in Windows 8 (Sean Sexton)
Windows Store App Development Snack: Localised Resources & the Store (Robert MacLean)
Walkthrough: Capturing Photos in your Windows 8 App (Jerry Nixon)
A WinRT behavior to start a storyboard on an event (Joost van Schaik)

Miscellaneous .NET

Codeplex upgraded to TFS 2012 (Brian Harry)
EasyNetQ Cluster Support (Mike Hadlow)
Iterate Over Enumeration Values in C# (Toni Petrina)
IntelliTrace Debugging Deep Dive Session is Available for Download (Zain Naboulsi)
Reflector Version 7.7 – tidying up (Nick Harrison)
Beware mixing List.Sort() and Thread.Abort() (Patrick Smacchia)

Design / Methodology / Testing

5 ways to do source control really, really wrong (Troy Hunt)
Analysis Paralysis (Rinat Abdullin)
Project Managers are Change Masters (Jesse Fewell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 070: John Hodgman returns (Mark Frauenfelder)
Episode 203 – PowerScripting Podcast – June Blender from Microsoft talks about getting help (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The Nerdist Podcast – Rich Sommer returns (Chris Hardwick)
Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 186: Noted (Gareth)
Design is about working within constraints (Paul Boag)
Ping 156: Bing Maps, SQL database update, Kinect in the movies, Coding marathon | Ping! (Laura Foy)
People Talking Tech Episode 005 – Lara Rubbelke (Denny Cherry)
Engadget HD Podcast 318 – 10.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
The Paint Bucket in paint.net 4.0 (video) (Rick Brewster)

Community / Events

Upcoming Windows 8 Office Hours (G. Andrew Duthie)
Sign Up for Free Windows Azure Developer Camp Near You (Sept – Nov 2012) (Zhiming Xue)
Lili Cheng on Building Tomorrow (Steve Clayton)
Experience in Omaha on the .NET Rocks Road show (Bill Wagner)
Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Enterprise Library Validation Application Block (Paul Ballard)
Start Your Own Pluralsight Study Group! (Steve Woolley)

Database

How to add Reporting Services to an existing SQL Server Clustered Instance (Manvendra Singh)
SQL SERVER – Identify Most Resource Intensive Queries – SQL in Sixty Seconds #028 – Video (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

What’s New with SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (Beth Massi)
First Look at the New MCSE SharePoint Certification (Joel Oleson)
SharePoint 2010 Service Application Development 101 – Base Solution (Matt Cowan)
SP2010 Continuous Integration – pt 6: Integrating SPDisposeCheck and other tools into the build (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

AdventureWorks Tabular PowerShell 2012 test script (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

How to Make Your Own App Promo Cards (Mike Swanson)
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Reviews Windows 8: Elegant, Innovative And Puzzling (Frederic Lardinois)
Windows Store – Developer Registration Tips (Katrien de Graeve)
Microspeak: Granular (Raymond Chen)
Microsoft does indeed have their own Windows Phone in the works and Nokia’s custom audio equalizer gets pictured for Windows Phone 8 (Daniel Rubino)
A Microsoft Windows Phone? Rumors are flying (Kip Kniskern)

The Geek Shelf

Balsamiq Wireframes Quickstart Guide: Faranello Scott: 9781849693523: Books

ISBN: 1849693528
ISBN-13: 9781849693523

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Dew Drop – May 4, 2012 (#1,320)

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ on the command-line (CodingBruce)
Create Games for Windows 8 using Physamajig! (Andy Beaulieu)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Repeat() Static Method (James Michael Hare)
How Do I Detect When A Client Thread Exits? Make The Client Tell You. (Mike Hadlow)
Pinpointing Memory Leaks with CLR Profiler Heap Graphs (Sasha Goldshtein)
METRO APP DIARY–this is a must follow… (Joel Reyes)
Kinect’ing to a Rocket Launcher? Oh yeah… and The first step in gestating a Metro app… Cocoon and From Zero to MEF’tastic… (Or Dummies Guide To MEF Or Learn to MEF in 21 [or less] Pages) (Greg Duncan)
Unity: Passing Constructor Parameters to Resolve and WinRT: XAML Image Binding Compared to Windows Phone 7 (Mikael Koskinen)

Web Development

Scripting NuGet Package Updates (ASP.NET MVC 4) (Geoff Hudik)
Request Filtering, URLScan With Windows Azure Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
Tweet Package for Sublime Text 2 (Elijah Manor)
Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic (Chris Coyier)
Adding Twilio’s Voice and Messaging Services to your Windows Azure Apps (Zhiming Xue)
CSS for the XAML Guy – Positional Selectors (Shawn Wildermuth)
Amazon Product Advertising API SOAP Namespace Changes (Rick Strahl)
Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms (Robert Brauer)
What Is The Best Browser for Developers? (Paul Ballard)
Infragistics Announces Reduced Pricing for Mobile & Web Products (Nick Landry)
Integrating Twilio with @Home with Windows Azure (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Nancy : Now with Mono builds on every commit (Andreas Håkansson)
Annual Poll: Which Isolation framework do you use if any? (Roy Osherove)
Listening to users with Iterative Design (Marshal Datkowitz)
The Forward-Looking Development Organization (Gabriel Torok)
Limits of performance optimization (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Porting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Background agents (11 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
From Code-Behind to MVVM, a three part series… (Greg Duncan)
XAML Spy Preview 2 (Koen Zwikstra)
Bonus Surprises in NetAdvantage for WPF, Silverlight and Ultimate (Nick Landry)
2000 WPF Things #551 – Resources Are Listed under the Resources Tab in Blend (Sean Sexton)
WPF Sliding Controls Collection – Part 1: Sliding Image Control (Tefik Becirovic)
Adding Storage Capability to your Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac Apps using Microsoft SkyDrive APIs (Zhiming Xue)
Silverlight Double Animation Helper (Kirill Chilingarashvili)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #186: Finishing SaveAsDialog Extraction (James Shore)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery UK 2012, CoffeeScript bang methods, Cubism (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Yet Another Podcast #64–John Papa & Javascript (Jesse Liberty)
Inside Windows Phone #37 | Anatomy of a Successful WP Game – Taptitude (Larry Lieberman)
Video: Make Your Windows 8 Metro App Data Zoom (Paul Ballard)
Boagworld – Making web forms conversational (Paul Boag)
RadioTFS – What Was The Question? (Martin Woodward)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Ryan Dorrell (Ryan Parsley)
Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Schedule Builder (Mark DeFalco)

Community / Events

Just Added: Training at SF jQuery Conference! (Leah Silber)
Upcoming Events in Arizona (Joseph Guadagno)
Highlights from Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups (Laura Dobrzynski)
I’ll be at GOTO CPH and QCON NYC spreading the node.js love (Glenn Block)
The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is Back For a Spring Fling! (Himanshu Singh)

Database

SQL SERVER – Identify Columnstore Index Usage from Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
SQL Azure How To Rebuild A Clustered Index (Denis Gobo)
Free book "Expert Oracle Database Architecture, 2nd Edition" (Tatworth)
New version of SSDT Power Tools are available – but with a caveat (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

Displaying an Android Device’s Screen on your Desktop (Chris Love)
Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny (Kim Spilker)
Microsoft Advertising rebrands, too, and Xbox drops “Inside Xbox” (What a week we’re having!) and So what about Windows Live Writer? (Kip Kniskern)
Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java (Kris Ragh)
Making Windows Media Center available in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
New Windows 8 screenshots leak, reveal new Activate Windows and tutorial screens (Zac)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

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