Dew Drop – January 20, 2011
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Top Links
- Announcing Portable Library Tools CTP (Justin Van Patten)
- Announcing Native Extensions 1.0 for Microsoft Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
- Software craftsmanship … I want it all (Simon Brown)
- Help us test Mono 2.10 (Miguel de Icaza)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Natural User Interfaces in .NET book update (Josh Blake)
- Notepad++ with the C# compiler – you can do it (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Online IDEs – perspectives? (Dennis Delimarsky)
- LINQ to Entities business objects (Ed Guzman)
- 10 Interesting .NET Micro Framework Demos and Applications (Pete Brown)
- Porting CSLA 4 to MonoDroid (Rockford Lhotka)
- CodeRush Template – Creating Virtual Methods (Rory Becker)
- 11 Killer Open Source Projects I Found with NuGet (Michael Kennedy)
- Decorator Support in Autofac 2.4 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
- Adding Metadata to Entities in The Data Model (Gil Fink)
- Code samples and Slide Deck from Philly Dot Net MSpec/Fluent Validation Presentation (John V. Petersen)
- Refactorings – Move Type to File (Alex Skorkin)
Web Development
- Details explanation on Compression Enabled Session for SQL Server and State Sever Session Mode in ASP.NET 4.0 and How to Display “Yes” or “No” Instead of Checkbox while binding Boolean value with GridView ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Implementing Drag in ASP.NET Grid using JQuery (Hima)
- HTML5 is moving to an unversioned model (Marco Casario)
- jQuery performance tips and tricks 2011 (Martin Beeby)
- Building Reusable Widgets with YUI 3 (Ryan Grove)
- Subtext Skin Bonanza (Simone Chiaretta)
- Configurable Action Filter Provider (K. Scott Allen)
- How to: Restrict Access to Data within WebMatrix Applications (Bruce Kyle)
- HowTo: map your own domains on Windows Azure Applications (*.cloudapp.net) (Code Inside Team)
- Cripple the Google CDN’s caching with a single character (Dave Ward)
- The Setup: DBVT.COM Now Running Sueetie v3.0 and .NET 4.0 (Dave Burke)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Say Hello To Behavior Driven Development (BDD)- Part 1 (Mahmudul Haque Azad)
- Measuring Simplicity in TDD (Roy Osherove)
- Stardate 2011.19.1: Domain Events – Powerful, Stupidly Named (Kyle Szklenski)
- Coding: Spike Driven Development (Mark Needham)
- Reinventing Retrospectives (Jurgen Appelo)
- Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text (Anthony)
- New century, old mistakes (Brett Schuchert)
- Code navigation – quick tip (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Is “Agile” a Misused IT Word? – Or Just Misunderstood? (Peter Saddington)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Loosely Coupled Silverlight 4 applications using Prism 4 and Commanding (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Windows Phone 7 Console Window on 64 bit machine (Nick Randolph)
- A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services – Part 2 (Weidong Shen)
- Intro to WP7 Development: #1 Understanding the Platform and Intro to WP7 Development: #2 Choosing the right Framework and WP7 working with VisualStates: How to make a ToggleSwitch from CheckBox and Building Touch Interfaces for Windows Phones, Part 3 (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- DotNetRocks and JavaPosse Together at CodeMash (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Microsoft Campus Tours – Channel 9 Behind The Scenes (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
- Community Video Picks (Josh Topal)
- Career Factor: The reality show (Kim Spilker)
- Six Free Entity Framework 4 Video Tutorials (Frank La Vigne)
- Recording of my RavenDB talk for E-VAN (Oren Eini)
- Community Megaphone Show #22 Software Craftsmanship Panel at NoVa CC (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
- Agile Palooza DC 2010 – Sanjiv Augustine – Intrinsic Motivation and Agile Performance Management (Agile Toolkit)
Community / Events
- NYC GiveCamp 2011: A Successful Charity Event! (Rachel Appel
) - MVP Lead PJ Forgione Talks CES 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
- "SQLBits 8 – beside the seaside" registration opened (Martin Bell)
- Free Typemock Webinar: Starting Unit Testing in C++ with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
- MvcConf 2– February 8th, 2011 (Javier G. Lozano)
- Building with HTML5 Tech Talk (David Recordon)
Database
- String Concatenation/Aggregation in SSRS column or row group (Chintak Chhapia)
- 31 Days of SSIS – DTSConfig Configuration (19/31) (Jason Strate)
- New Book: Introduction to SQL Server (K. Brian Kelley)
- SQLAuthority News – Scaling Up Your Data Warehouse with SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
- Ridiculously Unnormalized Database Schemas – Part One (Michael Swart)
SharePoint
- Finding out more information when Debugging BCS Errors–BCS Error and The TypeDescriptors incompletely define where the Identifiers of Entity ‘X’ are to be read–BCS Error (Lightning Tools)
Miscellaneous
- Attack Surface Analyzer BETA (MS Downloads)
- Kinect Support For Windows PCs Coming This Summer! (ICEMAN)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Confessions of a Public Speaker – Only $6.99 w/Code DDCPK (O’Reilly Media)
- Accepting MIDI Serial Input with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #774 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for January 19, 2011 — #1031 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily News Digest 01/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Geek Shelf
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