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Dew Drop – July 11, 2013 (#1,583)

Top Links

Petition seeks to bring back Xbox One policies (Michelle Starr)
InRelease for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available (S.Somasegar)
New hints on what’s coming next for Microsoft Surface, Skype, Windows Phone and Microsoft to add VPN support to Windows Phone 8 in 2014 (Mary Jo Foley)
Building Spotify remote control service with ASP.NET Web API and SignalR (Filip W)

Web Development

If Kerouac wrote JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
Changes in the Web Deployment Project (Dave M. Bush)
Moving a WordPress Blog to Windows Azure, Part 1 and Moving a WordPress Blog to Windows Azure – Transferring Your Content (Dave Bost)
Deleting Properties of JavaScript object (Dhananjay Kumar)
PhpStorm 7 Early Access Program started (Mikhail Vink)
Stressing SignalR by Crank-ing it up (Suprotim Agarwal)
jQuery and WinJS working together in Windows Store apps (Eric Schmidt)
How does VS determine which version of Razor engine to use when editing razor webpage files (Xinyang Qiu)
Performance optimizations and for loops (Axel Rauschmayer)
Brackets Sprint 27 available (I. Haynes)
How OAuth 2 trumps Basic authentication (Jason Harmon)
AngularJS Drag and Drop Photo Directive (K. Scott Allen)
A quick look at Dropbox’s new Datastore API (Zack Gramana)

XAML

XAML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013 (Charles Sterling)
Private App Stores for Windows Phone and WinRT (Jonathan Allen)
Making Windows Phone an even better choice for business (Robert Hoover)
Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #7: Perf, Perf, Perf (Kraig Brockschmidt)
How to Terminate WP8 Application Programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

Visual Studio 2013 Simplifies Windows Store Apps with Improved Exception Reporting (Anand Narayanaswamy)
Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013 (Charles Sterling)
Viewing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger (Visual Studio F# Team)
Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview – Upgrade FAQ (Andrea)
InRelease Acquisition is complete and Team Foundation Service Update – July 9 (Brian Harry)
New ALM Partner Hands-on-Labs: inteGREAT (Brian Keller)
Is This a Reference? (David Starr)
HttpClient 2.2 is now RC (Immo Landwerth)
Use the Disposed Object View in JustTrace to Find the Zombies in Your Code (James Bender)
Intercepting HTTP Request/Response using C++ Rest HTTP Library (Kavya Kotacherry)
2000 C# Things #885 – Getting Information about the Method that Threw an Exception (Sean Sexton)
AIDE for LightSwitch General Release (Xpert360)

Design / Methodology / Testing

SQL – Agile Software Development Methodology vs Waterfall Software Development Methodology (Pinal Dave)
Pattern: Value Driven Documentation (Wes McClure)
Instrumenting Your Application to Measure its Performance Part 6 Injecting EventSource Using AOP (Dan Moyer)
Show local commits with Git-Svn (Jaco Pretorius)
hgs: Manage Lots of Mercurial Projects Simultaneously (Leon Bambrick)
Does your company culture resemble Survivor? (Martin Hinshelwood)
CodePlex integrates with Zapier (Rick Marron)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android & iOS Developers Needed For The Future (DevToolsGuy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – .NET Gadgeteer Update with G. Andrew Duthie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 232 – PowerScripting Podcast – Thomas Kisner on Lync and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Asynchronous Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Videos and Training on Windows Azure IaaS from TechEd New Orleans (Buck Woody)
Video: Query Plans with Stored Procedures (Manya Susoev)
Engadget HD Podcast 357 – 07.09.13 (Joe Pollicino)
The Nerdist Podcast – Charlie Day (Chris Hardwick)
Mrityunjay Bhadauria CEO of EduKinect | Imagine Cup World Finals 2013 (Channel 9)
What the Tech 173: TV As We Know It (Paul Thurrott)

Database

Understanding the SQL Server HASHBYTES hashing algorithms (K. Brian Kelley)
Microsoft Releases Best Practices for Virtualizing SQL Server 2012 (Paul Ballard)
Pick of the Shelf – SQL Server 2012 (Kay Ewbank)
Simplifying Repetitive Queries with IN (Richard Carr)
World’s Smallest No SQL Database: Concurrency (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

Welcoming Dropbox Datastore (Eric Sink)
Beginning Microsoft Small Basic – Review by “Courtney Six” (Ed Price)
Why is the syntax for touching a file from the command prompt so strange? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 10, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 10, 2013 (Jian Zhen)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 10th (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading July 10, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1159 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily Links 10 Jul 2013 (Jax)
The Morning Brew #1396 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-11 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: July 11, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 July 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 July 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management (9780978739249): Johanna Rothman: Books

ISBN: 0978739248
ISBN-13: 9780978739249

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Dew Drop – January 21, 2013 (#1,483)

Top Links

Making Instant C# Viable – Full projects (Eric Maupin)
Caliburn.Micro v1.4.1 Released (Rob Eisenberg)
Copying Nokia’s Photobeamer with SignalR and WP8 (Nico Vermeir)
The Dispose Pattern as an anti-pattern (Peter Ritchie)

Web Development

Client-Side MVC Roundup (Paul Hammant)
Dealing with Expired Channels in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Brian Hitney)
Basket.js: A JavaScript Loader With LocalStorage-based Script Caching (Devon Govett)
Hello World with KnockoutJs–Code Restructure (Adam Storr)
Neat and modern header sections with CSS3 (Andrey Prikaznov)
Categorizing values in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
Using Drupal on Windows Azure to create an OData repository (Brian Benz)
JSBasic – A BASIC to JavaScript Compiler (Daniel Flower)
Deploy and Configure ASP.Net website on host live WebServer (Des Raj Chauhan)
ASP.Net Web Config Transform Console Utility released on nuget (Eric Hexter)
Image Retrieval using ASP.NET MVC 4.0 WebAPI with HttpResponseMessage (Mahesh Sabnis)
Project Silk for all your HTML web application needs (Merrick Chaffer)
JavaScript, Go With the Flow! (Peter Kellner)
[Sample Of Jan 19th] Stop postback in javascript (Philip Fu)
Taking Windows Azure Media Services on a Real-World Spin (Sasha Goldshtein)
Deploying a MongoDB powered Node.js app on Windows Azure: my slides (Simone Chiaretta)
jQuery Mobile Advanced – More jQuery Mobile and jQuery Mobile Themes (Wally McClure)
Using Fiddler with an iPhone/iPad (Paul Ballard)
Using Razor engine together with Asp.Net Web API to create a Hypermedia API (Fredrik Normen)
Exploring Directives, $scope, DOM Rendering, And Timing In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Orchard Training and Twitter Bootstrap Carousel Module (David Hayden)
Sneak Peek Into The Future: Selectors, Level 4 (Andrzej Mazur)
Using Casting in TypeScript (Gil Fink)
Teach your Azure Website new deployment tricks with azure-cli 1 of XXX: Running Mocha Tests (Glenn Block)
Node v0.8.18 (Stable) (node.js Team)

XAML

Snoop – Firebug for WPF applications (Code Inside Team)
“Programming Windows” 6th Edition Final Ebook Now Available (Charles Petzold)
8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps (JC Cimetiere)
Making DataContractSerializer play nice with UpdateControls (Joe White)
WinRtAuthorizer–A Better Way to do OAuth with LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 (Joe Mayo)
Silverlight Show Webinar on the New Features in the WP8 SDK Part 2 (Michael Crump)
Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone Toolkit: A Winning Team (Matteo Pagani)
2000 WPF Things #738 – Sample Code – Drawing and Moving Circles at Touch Points (Sean Sexton)
Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone – Part 3 – Viewing Image Details (Dennis Delimarsky)
Creating A Virtual Windows Store App Development Environment and Creating Windows Store Apps Using Store Ready Templates (Zhiming Xue)
Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device (Rockford Lhotka)
Binding to a Windows Store AppBar button text (Loek van den Ouweland)
Quick news: Update on sample code for Programming Windows, Sixth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
Connecting your website to your Windows Store App with meta tags and The Windows Store App margin guidelines cheat sheet (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous .NET

C# Optional Parameters in Library Code (Richard Carr)
Book Review: C# 5.0 Pocket Reference (Ian Elliot)
Internationalization in Visual Studio 2012 (Anand Narayanaswamy)
F# Emacs Integration (Don Syme)
Async File Copy in C# (George Nistor)
TFS Build: Running Static Code Analysis for Specific Configuration (Jakob Ehn)
A Quick Thank you and At-A-Program For Resharper and Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
Implicit and Explicit Conversion Operators in C# (John Sonmez)
WPF Dispatcher.Invoke style UI element update for WinForm applications in C# (Rupam Das)
Telerik Reporting to drop .NET2.x, .NET3.0, VS2005 and VS2008 support in Q2 2013 (Vassil Petev)
Interacting with Console Application (Neetu P.)
Proposed StructureMap 2.7 Release (Jeremy D. Miller)
Jumping into C++ (Eric Battalio)
.NET Shell Extensions – Shell Drop Handlers (Dave Kerr)
Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate – Part 8 of 8 Coding Fetches and Persistent Objects (Anand Lakshminarasimhan)
Using The GeoCoordinateReactiveService (Paulo Morgado)
Rapid File Creation with File Templates (Mikhail Vink)
Building a Repository Pattern against an EF 5 EDMX Model – Part 2 (Juan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Adding additional states onto the Agile Task Board in TFS2012 (Colin Beales)
How To Inspire Others to Help You with Your Vision (J.D. Meier)
Lokad.CQRS Event Store is Slow (Rinat Abdullin)
Agile Documentation – Part II: Guiding Questions (Steve Rogalsky)
ReSharper plugins for unit testing – MSpec, xUnit.net and Silverlight (Matt Ellis)
Build Pattern: Location Agnostic Script and Build Pattern: Fill In the Blanks and Build Pattern: Extract Script and Build Pattern: Gated Commit and Tests and Builds are Made to be Broken (Roy Osherove)
UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design (Kayla Knight)
Are You Design-Driven? Probably Not. (Kevin Richardson)
On Testing: Why write tests? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Separating command data from logic and sending it on a bus (Jef Claes)
An Evolutionary Approach to Implementing XP (Tom Howlett)
How to Improve Your Web Design Mock-Ups With lorempixel (Craig Buckler)
On Code Review (David Humphrey)
Candy Driven Development (David J. Bland)
Interaction Design with Clutter Free UI (Ambrose Little)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 249: Sharon Cichelli on Arduino (David Giard)
Herding Code 156: Catching up with Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx (Jon Galloway & Co.)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 463.2: Sir Hammerlock and Ron Gilbert (Larry Hyrb)
The Nerdist Podcast – Amber Benson (Chris Hardwick)
Windows Weekly 295: Uncle Fester on Steroids (Paul Thurrott)
The Vergecast 061 – January 17th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
TWC9: Skin Switching, Maps, Entity Framework, Mocks and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 166 – 1.16.2013 and Engadget Podcast 327 – 01.17.2013 and Engadget HD Podcast 333 – 01.17.2013 (Joe Pollicino)
Boagworld: Are you wasting the potential of the web? (Paul Boag)
GeekWire Podcast: Can Facebook really challenge Google in online search? (Todd Bishop)
Introduction to the Windows Azure Media Player Framework for iOS | Windows Azure Media Services Tutorials (Bullrider, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
The Tablet Show – Rey Bango Talks Javascript, IE and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

Boston Area Geek Dinner: Tuesday January 22, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Publish an App 12/28/2012-2/28/2013 and Get Free Windows Store or Windows Phone Store Account and More… (Zhiming Xue)

Database

Silent Truncation of SQL Server Data Inserts and Variable Scope in SQL Server (Timothy A. Wiseman)
What’s on your SQL Server wish list? (Jeremy Kadlec)
SQL Server Reporting Services Using Multi-value Parameters (Scott Murray)
SQL Server SESSIONPROPERTY (Madhivanan)
SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Introducing the BI Semantic Model in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Best Practices to Store the SQL Server Backups (Pinal Dave)
Indexes in MongoDB: A quick overview and Multidocument updates with MongoDB (Denis Gobo)
Refcardz: MongoDB – Flexible NoSQL for Humongous Data (Kristina Chodorow)
Using the scheduler to backup your Mobile Service database (Josh Twist)
Creating statistics manually – Duplicate Statistics (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

Using JSLink to change the UI of a SharePoint list/view (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

SCCM 2012 SP1 – Welcome PowerShell on board! (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)
Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Tools For Windows PowerShell (Matthias Marschall)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft inches closer to delivering Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (Mary Jo Foley)
Web IDE The Easiest Way To Program Raspberry Pi (Harry Fairhead)
How Apple used its money and muscle to kill an iTunes competitor (Ed Bott)
Stupid Question 131: What is the difference between a simulator and an emulator? (Iris Classon)
Unlocking Windows 8 "God Mode" – A Useful Trick but also Mysterious Nonsense (Scott Hanselman)
Intel Ultrabook Final Review (Tim Boland)
Introduction To Go: Channels (Again) (Karl Seguin)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 18, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 19, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2013 01.01 ~ 01.20 (yuanjian)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, January 18th (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading January 18, 2013 (Rob Diana)
Collective #47 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1048 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five – January 18, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
The Daily Six Pack: January 19, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 1/18/2013 and Daily News Digest 1/21/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/18/2013) (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #78 (Frank)
Pie in the Sky (January 19, 2013) (Brian Swan)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1277 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-21 (Dan Rigby)
Reblog: January 11 to January 17 (Jason Strate)
Visual Studio ALM Links–Week 3/2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #51) (Craig Kitterman)

The Geek Shelf

Pro JavaScript Techniques: John Resig: Kindle Store

ASIN: B0015R3OHI

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Dew Drop – December 11, 2012 (#1,460)

Top Links

Getting Typescript setup on your build server (Derik Whittaker)
Best practices for using push notifications, SMS and email in your mobile app (Kirill Gavrylyuk)
Running SignalR on Mono (Filip Ekberg)
EF6 Alpha 2 Available on NuGet (Rowan Miller)

Web Development

Amazon SDK for Node.js (Kay Ewbank)
Introduction to AJAX in JQuery (Amir)
Windows Azure Storage New Pricing Structure Revealed (Anand Narayanaswamy)
Best Practices When Working With JavaScript Templates (Andrew Burgess)
I Could Sure Use Some Windows Azure Code Samples… (Buck Woody)
Get Started with Three.js (Jess Genevieve Brown)
Restoring a LocalDB within an MVC web application (Marc Brooks)
CSS3 Image Filters (Paul Underwood)
Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself Node.js In 24 Hours (Michael J. Ross)
Fullscreen Pageflip Layout (Manoela Ilic)
GitHub system status API (Wynn Netherland)

XAML

Like the new VS2012 UI style? Here’s how you can use like styles in your WPF app.. and Jeff takes off the cover of his CoverFlow Control for Windows 8 & Windows RT (Greg Duncan)
Windows 8 / Windows Phone Code Sharing: HttpWebRequest GetResponseAsync (Matthias Shapiro)
The importance of app submission notes in the Windows Store (Pete Brown)
How to Deal with WebView and Overlaying Elements in Windows 8 (Matteo Pagani)
MVP Monday – Put Your Windows 8 Apps on Cloud 9 (David Pallman)
2000 WPF Things #709 – Changing the Cursor (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

TFS 2012 Management Pack Available (Brian Harry)
WCF RIA Services Now Supports EF 5.0 (Colin Blair)
"Sync Block Edit" a Visual Studio 2010/2012 extension to sync multiple duplicate text blocks (Greg Duncan)
Using NuGet to simplify remote profiling with dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
Hacking Windows 8 Games (Justin Angel)
How am I going to find out if .NET 4.5 is installed on my system? (Code Inside Team)
Editor’s Holiday Pick: Special offer on select Microsoft Press ebooks at oreilly.com (Kim Spilker)
Creating NGEN PDBs for Profiling Reports (Andrew B. Hall)
Automatically Updating .SLN files to VS 2012 (John Robbins)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Asynchronous calls in C++ Windows Store Unit Tests (Mathew Aniyan)
Preserving Privacy in a Big Data World – Part 3 (Vincent Huang)
Team Foundation Service Update – Dec 10 (Brian Harry)
Wireframe Sketcher: A Must Have For UI Developers (James Sugrue)
Lessons learned from the Code Retreat (Giorgio Sironi)

Other Mobile Platforms

C# to Objective-C – Part 10 : Events (Stephen Zaharuk)
Android In-App Billing Version 3 (Bruno Oliveira)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Matt Nunn Talks Modern Apps and the Modern App Lifecycle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
C++ and Beyond 2012: Andrei Alexandrescu – Systematic Error Handling in C++ | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
Windows Phone Design Bootcamp: The System | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy & Jared T. Potter)
Episode 94 – Opscode demonstrate Chef an integration framework for Cloud Automation | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
The Nerdist Podcast – Judd Apatow (Chris Hardwick)
Stupid Question 100: Are we in a new tech bubble? (and what is that anyway?) (Iris Classon)
Yet Another Podcast #85–Fritz Onion of pluralsight (Jesse Liberty)
Defrag Tools: #18 – WinDbg – Driver Verifier – Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
"Generation App" video makes a case for making Windows 8 apps (John Callaham)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for December 10th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
iOS developer curious about Windows Store App development? Free two day event! (Iris Classon)
Attending DevIntersection? Griff’s Picks (Kevin Griffin)
UPDATE: London Drinkup – 12/12/12 (Jenifer Duke)
Announcing the Apptivate.MS competition semi-finals (Abby T. Miller)

Database

How to Automate SQL Server Restores for a Test Server (K. Brian Kelley)
SQL SERVER – Asynchronous Update and Timestamp – Check if Row Values are Changed Since Last Retrieve (Pinal Dave)
SQL Advent 2012 Day 10: SQL Server Maintenance (Denis Gobo)
Inserting Multiple Rows in SQL Server 2008 (Richard Carr)
T-SQL Tuesday #37: Join me in a month of Joins (Koen Verbeeck)
Editing sqlcmdvariable nodes in SSDT Publish Profile files using msbuild (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

New Windows Phone 8 OS update Portico brings SMS drafts and call reject with it (Daniel Rubino)
Microsoft’s Bing Augmented Reality team readies framework, Windows 8 tablet apps (Mary Jo Foley)
10 Best Tips to Ace your Internship: Your insider guide to success (MS JobsBlog)
Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing “Potentially Life Threatening” Misdirection (Catherine Shu)
Microsoft releases SkyDrive app for Xbox 360 (damaster)
Small Basic Code Block Generator: How to format a Code Block (Ed Price)
Why do some shortcuts not support editing the command line and other properties? (Raymond Chen)
Microsoft needs reimagine Live to be alive. (Scott Barnes)
Responsiveness, China and the “m” word: new blog meta post (Troy Hunt)
How I set up my new Windows Phone—and what I learned that can help you (Lisa Stratton)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1020 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1251 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: December 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading December 10, 2012 (Rob Diana)
The Daily Six Pack: December 11, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 12/11/2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Pro jQuery: Adam Freeman: 9781430240952: Books

ISBN: 1430240954
ISBN-13: 9781430240952

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