Dew Drop – September 30, 2011
Top Links
- Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview (James Conard)
- First look at Windows Simulator (Navneet Gupta)
- New Debugging Book – Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands (Roberto Alexis Farah)
- Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap (Colin Eberhardt)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99(Save 50%) and FINAL DAY: Back to School Special – *Free to Choose* – Save 50% All Ebooks & Videos – Use code: B2SDEAL (O’Reilly Media)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers (Abhishek Lohani)
- Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Some fundamentals (Nishant Sivakumar)
- AutoMapper 2.0 – Nested/Child Containers (Jimmy Bogard)
- Local workspaces (Gian Maria Ricci)
- A Simple AppSettings Type Provider (Daniel Mohl)
- Microsoft HealthVault SDK v2 released (Greg Duncan)
- Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest (Andrej Tozon)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC 3 for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (MS Downloads)
- VisualStudio 2010 JavaScript & CSS Outlining – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)
- Getting Touch Support in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps Now (Carl Bergenhem)
- CSS3 text-shadow in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
- Tips for Speeding Up Octopress Site Generation (Pavan Podila)
- A convention for using CoffeeScript in Rails (Marko Anastasov)
- Stack Exchange API Usage Stats and API 2.0 Plans (Jeff Atwood)
- How to prevent the user to post page twice, by using refresh (Jeroen Bourdeaud’hui)
- A PHP on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Brian Swan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Pretotyping: a complete example (Giorgio Sironi)
- Document based modeling: Auctions & Bids (Oren Eini)
- Model-View-What? (Stacy Vicknair)
- Delegation Poker (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
- Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7: Updated all "Mango" posts (Peter Kuhn)
- Pinworthy: 5 apps to try with Windows Phone 7.5 (Andy Colley)
- New SilverlightShow Ebook: "Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies" (Silverlight Show)
- Why the Frame Rate Counter is not Available in my WP7 Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Behind the XAML of the Windows Phone Silverlight Game – Numbertap (Luke Lowrey)
- A word on WPF4 manipulations. (Luis Cabrera)
- 2000 WPF Things #398 – WrapPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
- SurfCube on Mango Part 5 – Getting email addresses for Beta testers and SurfCube on Mango Part 6 – Join SurfCube V4 Beta! Here’s what’s coming (András Velvárt)
- Taking a Tougher Stance on Bulk App Publishing (Todd Brix)
- New Extension Introduces Microsoft Office to LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
- The LOB Chronicles Episode 8: Solving a MEF Dilemma (Evan Hutnick)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 019: Mail Order Mysteries (Mark Frauenfelder)
- How Do I: Internet Explorer 8 – Selectors API (MS Podcasts)
- GoingNative Live at BUILD: Herb Sutter, Joanna Mason, Tony Goodhew and GoingNative 2: C++ at BUILD, Windows Runtime Library(WRL), Meet Tarek and Sridhar (Charles Torre)
- Let’s Play TDD #144: Cost vs. Benefit (James Shore)
- The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.7 beta 1, Toggler, Face Detection (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- What The Tech 86: Topical Paul (Paul Thurrott)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast: SendGrid Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- "Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK" TechEd Session (Greg Duncan)
Community / Events
- Announcing the Revival of the Blenders SIG (Don Burnett)
- FREE Software Process & Scrum On-line Event Series by Northwest Cadence in October and November! (Angela Dugan)
- MVP in Residence Helps with BUILD Demo (MVP Award Program)
- Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!! (Jim Moscater)
Database
- SQL Server: Removing Deprecated Code and Future Proofing your Queries (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume and SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System (Pinal Dave)
- Getting Started with SQL Azure Development (Zhiming Xue)
SharePoint
- SharePoint is NOT Dropbox: But User Beware! (Joel Oleson)
- New book: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)
PowerShell
- Threading in PowerShell (Oliver Mantl)
Miscellaneous
- Code your own Mult-User Private Git Server (with ruby) (Richard Taylor)
- Time Off, Vacations and Sabbaticals for Programmers (Krishna Kumar)
- Zune expands to Canada, drops Zune Pass price in US (Michael Stroh)
- Android’s HTTP Clients (Tim Bray)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading September 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 09.26 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – September 30 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #720 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Link dump for September 29th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- The Morning Brew #949 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 09/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 28-Sep-2011 and 29-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/29/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- SilverlightShow for Sept 19 – 25, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 — #1152 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Links– 2010_33 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
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