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July 21, 2011 No comments

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c#
infopath
parallel programming
php
reactive extensions
sharepoint
sql server
vs2010
windows azure
windows phone
wpf

Dew Drop – July 21, 2011

Database

SharePoint

Introduction to the Sharepoint Integration with Azure (chilakapati)
The question of Sharepoint and the Microsoft BI Strategy (Chris Webb)
Deleting SharePoint Orphans – Missing in SiteMap (Joel Oleson)
Project Crecent demo (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

Miscellaneous

Music Subscription Faceoff: How Does Spotify Measure Up? [INFOGRAPHIC] (Brenna Ehrlich)
Developers – Learn how to bring data from Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive to your mobile apps (Dare Obasanjo)
InfoPath Upgrade: How do I export an Admin InfoPath Form? (Joel Oleson)
Photo Mosaics Part 1: Application Workflow (Jim O’Neil)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide – Only $5.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDXNG (O’Reilly Media)
36 Resources To Help You Teach Kids Programming (Rob Diana)
Display Plus Sign in Excel if Value is Positive (Steve Smith)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn

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July 20, 2011 No comments

javascript
kinect
madexpo
powershell
prism
raven db
sharepoint
silverlight
sql compact
sql server
tdd
vs2010
windows phone

Dew Drop – July 20, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Creating a simple bootstrapper – Project template (Rory Primrose)
Installing Visual Studio Load Test Agents and Controllers (Steve Smith)
Opening the Internet Settings Dialog and using Windows Default Network Settings via Code (Rick Strahl)
Should my database calls be Asynchronous Part II (Rick Anderson)
Macto: Let’s CREATE an Inmate (Oren Eini)
How To Use a .NET 4 Based DLL From .NET 2 Based Application? (Arik Poznanski)
Display Kinect color image containing only players (aka background removal) (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Model Binders (Gil Fink)
Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch (Jen Gordon)
What new feature in PHP 5.4 is the most important to you? (Giorgio Sironi)
JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part 2 – Madness or just Insanity? (Scott Hanselman)
CoffeeScript in Visual Studio 2010 with Web Workbench (David Hayden)
WordPress.com Provides Pinning to 20 Million Bloggers! (Roger Capriotti)
Razor Helpers Syntax (Gil Fink)
Implementing Master and Detail grids in Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
First Steps With MongoDB, Mongoose and Jasmine-Node On Node.JS (Davy Brion)
References, Routing, And The Event Aggregator: Coordinating Views In Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

CodeRush Unit Testing Service overview (Alex Skorkin)
An Agile Approach to Building a Mac Application (Scott Densmore)
RoR Testing – One Thing To Do (I think) And One Thing Not To Do (I’m Sure) (Karl Seguin)
Are PMs worth more than game designers? (Scott Berkun)
Individuals Over People and The High-Level Test Whisperer (Jay Fields)
Misconceptions about Self-Organizing Teams (Esther Derby)
Continuous Delivery in Practice (James Betteley)
What would you give up to keep working remotely? (Jessica Stillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Table] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
Using Isolated Storage to save/load files on Windows Phone 7 (David Amador)
Code sample to access SkyDrive Photos API from WP7 (or any REST/OAuth/JSON enabled device/OS) (Greg Duncan)
Presentation: Silverlight 5 for Line of Business Applications (Jeremy Likness)
Windows Phone 7 users sure are satisfied (Joe Wilcox)
The extent of ringtone integration in Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
“Hacking” through Prism regions (or when to cross the lines with Prism) (Ariel Ben Horesh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #124: Constraints (James Shore)
Video–Ed Jezierski on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
Ping 109: Microsoft Stores, Halo & Kinect, XP Countdown, Windows 8, Mango (Laura Foy)
The Office Show: Office 365 – Part Two (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

Team Wins Imagine Cup 2011 in Software Design For Traffic Solution Built on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
RavenDB & NHibernate Training – August 15 – 16, Chattanooga, TN (Oren Eini)
MADExpo Additional Thanks (G. Andrew Duthie)
PowerShell Deep Dive Registration Info & Call for Session Proposals (Travis Jones)
ReMIX South 2011 (Jason Rainwater)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
SQL Server Denali Installation Change (Devin Knight)
SQL Server: Distinct Count across Multiple Tables (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 20 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server Denali CTP3 (Denis Gobo)
SQL Server – Denali – Management Studio – Restore Database (Vishal)
Windows Azure Storage – Creating a Hierarchy View (Buck Woody)
Denali–IIF and CHOOSE (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

SharePoint Developer Documentation Feed Reader App for the Windows Phone (Jim Crowley)
Working with the ECMAScript Client Object Model (JSOM) in SharePoint 2010–Part 3 (Nikhil Sachdeva)

Miscellaneous

New book: Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Devon Musgrave)
Microsoft opens up new Garage offices (John Callaham)
Random Khan Exercises (John Resig)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols – Only $7.49 w/code DDJ5N (O’Reilly Media)
A Cloudy Future (André Vrignaud)
Books I’ve Enjoyed and Recommend to You (Pete Brown)
The Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts (Scott Hanselman)
Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Wallace B. McClure

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July 19, 2011 No comments

ajax
asp.net mvc
buildwindows
css
jquery
lightswitch
monodroid
monotouch
sharepoint
silverlight
sql server
vs2010
wcf
windows phone

Dew Drop – July 19, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team Foundation Server® 2010, Service Pack 1 (MS Downloads)
Pitfalls of cancelling a VSIX project template in an IWizard and Creating a simple bootstrapper – Introduction and Creating a simple bootstrapper – Proof of concept (Rory Primrose)
LINQ to XlsX… Using VB.Net, LINQ, the OpenXML SDK and a little C# helper, to query an Excel XlsX and Kinecting with Robots – Kinect Services for the Microsoft Robotic Development Studio (Greg Duncan)
Replying with attachments to an email message with EWS (Henning Krause)
Status of Monotouch and Mono for Android #monotouch #monodroid (Wally McClure)
Developing a Windows Azure AppFabric Application (Vikram Desai)
Configuring, Deploying, and Monitoring Applications using AppFabric Application Manager (Adam)
Get List of Active Directory Domains (Paul Sheriff)
Mapping the Memory Usage of .NET Applications: Part 2, VMMap and MemoryDisplay (Sasha Goldshtein)
Xamarin welcomes MonoTouch and MonoDroid "home" (Craig Dunn)
Vote on the stories for the EntLib Azure Integration Pack! (Grigori Melnik)
Windows Azure Platform Management Portal Updates Now Available (Bharat Ahluwalia)

Web Development

RavenDB MVC Profiler Support (Oren Eini)
CSS Basics: The Box Model, Margin and Padding (Terrence Dorsey)
HTTP status code in WCF using error handling (Morten Faester)
So You Want to Be a jQuery AJAX Developer? Here are Some Must Read Books (Chris Love)
filterByData jQuery Plugin: Select by HTML5 Data Attr Value (Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC Model Binders (Gil Fink)
Overoptimizing my JavaScript stack implementation for fun (Jef Claes)
Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch (Jen Gordon)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.2 released! (Alexey Gopachenko)
PhpStorm: What makes a difference (Alexey Korsun)
Lucene.net is back on track (Simone Chiaretta)
MVC Controls Toolkit 1.2.0 RTW (CodePlex)
A Review of The Book of Ruby – Pleasant Prose Meets Car-Crash Code (Peter Cooper)
Using WCF and WIF to perform WS-Trust active claim requests (Alex Thissen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Recreating Scrum using Kanban and Explicit Policies (Cory Foy)
RTM’d today: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
Elevator Pitches for Projects (JD Meier)
How to focus on the wrong thing when writing code (John Rayner)
Effective Tests: Avoiding Context Obscurity (Derek Greer)
Breaking the Laws of Nature (Gil Zilberfeld)
Why Your Form Help Tips Should Open on Mouse Hover (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 0 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 1 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 2 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 3 (deanvmc)
Upload large file of size more than 5 MB from Silverlight to Server location using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
Nokia’s WP7 Support Begins with "Bubble Level Silverlight v1.0" Tools (Senthil Kumar)
An interesting “small tiles” concept for Windows Phone (Steven Hodson)
Using the Isolated Storage Explorer tool on WP7 Mango to export your .sdf file (Derik Whittaker)
Mad King DataGrid (Jacob Proffitt)
The Visual Studio LightSwitch Economy (Michael Washington)
31 Days of Mango Questions (Jeff Blankenburg)
Using Caliburn Micro as a Data Template Selector (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Rey Bango is all about Javascript and .NET Rocks! – Brad Abrams Builds Platforms for Google (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 154 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Heller From Cisco on PowerShell and UCS (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Path to Agility 2011 – Kelly Allen – Deming then, now and for the foreseeable future (Agile Toolkit)
Ping 109: Microsoft Stores, Halo & Kinect, XP Countdown, Windows 8, Mango (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for July 18th, 2011 and MADExpo Wrap-Up and HTML5 Web Camps Coming to Mid-Atlantic (and elsewhere) (G. Andrew Duthie)
Microsoft delays Mediaroom IPTV conference to 2012 (John Callaham)
Code Camp Times Two (Jim O’Neil)
We Work in Philly: A Community-Edited Guide to Philadelphia (David Goodman)
I’m doing the BUILD HIVE 2011 conference combo (Adam Kinney)
Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference (Mike Taulty)
Google+ Invite Form (Elijah Manor)
What’s new and cool in Drupal 7? (Angela Byron & Jeff Eaton)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
Configuring a VMWare clone for SSRS disaster recovery (John Pertell)
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – Denali CTP3 – DATEFROMPARTS() and TIMEFROMPARTS() (Vishal)
Windows Azure Table Storage in detail (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Denali SQLPS First Impressions (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

MVPs for Office 365: SharePoint Designer Workflow Tasks and InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Announces Simple Transfer of Health Data From Google Health Service to Microsoft HealthVault (MS PressPass)
Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting (Jeff Atwood)
One Billion Dots and Beyond – the Viral Phenomenon of World’s Biggest PAC-MAN (Carter Rabasa)
#Video Deal/Day: OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D – Only $9.99 w/code DDJ2N (O’Reilly Media)
New research shows Windows Phone is connecting with people (Brian Seitz)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

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