Dew Drop – November 10, 2011
Top Links
- New F# Windows Phone Library Project Template (Daniel Mohl)
- Async Programming in Visual Studio 2010 (Bill Wagner)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #10: Network Information (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Getting a Quick Feel for a New Software Team (Peter Ritchie)
- Bill Gates on Natural User Interfaces (Steve Clayton)
.NET / Visual Studio
- PyKinect (Yep, Python and Kinect, in Visual Studio yet!) (Greg Duncan)
- ReSharper 6.1 EAP for Visual Studio 2011 (Hadi Hariri)
- New Entity Framework Book(s) Status (Julie Lerman)
- Docking External Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
- Pyvot for Excel (Mike Stall)
- MapWindow GIS v4.8.6 – Final Release – 64Bit (CodePlex)
- Further Tales of the Keyboard Ninja (Just* Team)
- How to access Service Configuration settings in Windows Azure Startup Task (Avkash Chauhan)
- POLAR – Creating a Virtual Machine in .NET (Paulo Zemek)
- Building a .NET Quality Control Tool for Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies (Kevin Ha)
Web Development
- Refactoring MVC Routes (Deran Schilling)
- ASP.NET MVC: Converting business objects to select list items (Gunnar Peipman)
- Backbone.js: Object Literals, Views Events, jQuery, and `el` (Derick Bailey)
- 6 for 5… Six lesson class for HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
- Announcing JesCov – JavaScript code coverage (Ola Bini)
- Web applications with the Play framework (Giorgio Sironi)
- Improving the JavaScript typeof operator (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Adobe puts full support behind HTML5, leaves Flash to standalone mobile apps (Tim Conneally)
- Recipe for a Brittle Data Service (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Web sites vs Web apps (Rockford Lhotka)
- Your users don’t care if you use Web Sockets (Scott Hanselman)
- Programming for the future of mobile (Jef Claes)
- Learn from my Express.js HTTP status code blunder (Dave Ward)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.359 (Alexey Gopachenko)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
- People, NOT Technology (Peter Saddington)
- Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop (Steve Schoeffel)
- Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 3: NDbUnit (Thomas Weller)
- Code Analysis for All (Tim Burrell)
- New Article: Best Practices for Performance Improvements Using Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Ruppert Koch)
- TDD With Roy Osherove (Rob Conery)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Readable Code – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Is Implementing Continuous Delivery the key to success? (Paul Stack)
- Getting your App Continuously Tested (Maria Marcano)
- Sound vs. Valid Argument (Mark Pearl)
- Arity (Chris Eargle)
- MSpec Runnner Available for ReSharper 6.1 EAP (Hadi Hariri)
- The last vestiges of Hungarian notation (Jimmy Bogard)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- The New "ListPicker Learning Pack" : Solution to all your ListPicker problems and GART Geo AR Toolkit and Getting Started with Windows Phone Reminders (Windows Phone Geek)
- Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 feedback – The Future of Windows 8 Development (Benjamin Laffont)
- Inside Windows Phone Apps – IMDb (Sara Allison)
- 2000 WPF Things #427 – Changing Margins from Within Blend (Sean Sexton)
- The differences between IE9 on the desktop and IE9 on WP7 (Martin Beeby)
- Styling Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Tim Murphy)
- WP7: Northern Lights WP7 Toolkit v0.0.1 (Bjorn Kuiper)
- Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
- Putting back functionality left out of VB Core – ( If you can’t live without Mid when writing WP7 apps
) (VBTeam) - What if “Microsoft” were in our shoes? About Windows Phone (Vijaya Malla)
- How to Control Screen Layouts in LightSwitch (Chris D.)
- Live Tiles in WP Mango (Daniel Egan)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Mix Kinect and Metro (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- SPLASH 2011: Gilad Bracha – Dart, Newspeak, and More and Microsoft DevCamps: Free, Fun, No-Fluff Events for Developers (Charles Torre)
- Information Integration – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Verge Mobile Podcast 001 – 11.09.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- What The Tech 92: Just Like RIM (Paul Thurrott)
- There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Kendra Little)
- SE Podcast #26 (Alex Miller)
- Toji: The Psake Based, Nuget Powered Canned Build of Awesome (Bobby Johnson)
Community / Events
- VS Live Orlando in December (Rockford Lhotka)
- A Coder Interview With Al-Farooque Shubho (The Code Project)
- TEDxPhilly 2011: The City [Recap] (Bianca)
Database
- Why does my SSIS package run slower in BIDS than DTEXEC? (James Serra)
- SQL SERVER – OVER clause with FIRST _VALUE and LAST_VALUE – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 – ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING (Pinal Dave)
- Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed (Eric Humphrey)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- What is Bill Gates reading? 5 books on helping world’s poor (Michele Matassa Flores)
- Microsoft Download Manager (MS Downloads)
- Yesterday’s Patch Tuesday delivers some OneNote 2010 goodness too. Free update to improve OneNote 2010′s SkyDrive and sync features… (Greg Duncan)
- Samsung jumps on the ‘Windows 8 in second half of 2012′ bandwagon (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Links of the week #163 (David Vidmar)
- Daily News Digest 11/9/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #978 (Chris Alcock)
- Weekly Links– 2011_35 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
- Daily WP7 Development News 9 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Double Shot #748 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Geek Shelf
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Head First C#, 2E: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides) by Andrew Stellman |
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