Dev Buzz #1 - Bookmarks - 19 JUN 2013

ASP.NET/MVC/Web

• 4 new single page application templates
• Deploying an Azure website from Source Control
• Collaborative route planner with SignalR, Knockout.JS and Google Maps
• Using Require.JS in an ASP.NET MVC application
• Getting started with Glimpse in ASP.NET MVC
• Five essential front-end tools that should be used with modern MVC projects

JQuery

• JWERTY – Awesome handling of keyboard events
• JustGage - JustGage is a handy JavaScript plugin for generating and animating nice & clean gauges
• Spritely.NET – Best parallax plugin for jQuery
• DropKick – A jquery plugin for beautiful dropdowns
• Tipsy – Facebook-style tooltip plugin for jQuery

Visual Studio

• Farticus – When a build fails, it plays the fart sound
• Voice Commands – Control Visual Studio with your voice
• Color Theme Editor – Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor
• Zen Coding in Visual Studio 2012

Open Source

• Windows 8 App design templates - More than 70 app design templates
• MahApps – Make your WPF app look like Windows 8 app
• MUI – Build Win8 like apps using this library in WPF
• ModerUICharts – Modern UI (Metro) Charts for Windows 8, WPF, Silverlight
• Dapper – A simple object mapper in .NET – Micro ORM
• Mini-Profiler – A simple but effective min-profiler for .NET & Ruby

Misc

• ZenCoding - A new way of writing HTML and CSS
• CORS Test – Use this page to test CORS requests
• JSON2Csharp – Generate C# classes from JSON
• LINQtoWiki – Library for accessing MediaWiki wikis (including Wikipedia) (Source)
• ModernUIIcons - Set of awesome icons for WP8 and Win8