Dew Drop – October 3, 2011
Top Links
- Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances (Somasegar)
- Analyzing SQL Server Compact queries using Visual Studio 2010 Premium/Ultimate (Erik EJ)
- Microsoft Windows Simulator Touch Emulation (Mynor Ivan Muralles)
- The Sweet Spot of Multiple Monitor Productivity: That Magical Third Monitor (Scott Hanselman)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C# Sizeof Keyword (Richard Carr)
- Visual Studio 11 ALM VM (Enrique Lima)
- Why NuGet for Visual Studio 2010 is so useful! (Harish Ranganathan)
- Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… (Peter Gfader)
- TFS SDK Get Groups Users Permissions using TFS API with Linqpad (Tarun Arora)
- Initial Review of APress "Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming" – ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3530-9 (Tatworth)
- 3 Tips to Improve Your Connection Strings and Working with Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Code First (Steve Smith)
- Metro Controls – Jump Viewer (Rich Griffin)
- CTP Version of The Developers Guide to AppFabric (Alan Smith)
- Moving to Azure: The Plan and Start and Moving to Azure: The Database (Michael C. Neel)
- Parsing Concerns–Part 2 (Jesse Taber)
- Check Windows Azure Roles instance running in Emulator? and .NET 4 for Enterprise Architects and Developers by Sudhanshu Hate (Dhananjay Kumar)
- MSDN Magazine Article: Authoring an F#/C# VSIX Project Template (Daniel Mohl)
Web Development
- MVC 3 HandleError Attribute and AJAX Forms (Jimmy Larkin)
- Client-Side Hierarchical DataBinding to OData with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX (Veli Pehlivanov)
- Getting started with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview with ASP.NET MVC4 (Bart Czernicki)
- New F#/C# ASP.NET MVC 3 Template (Daniel Mohl)
- Json.NET 4.0 Release 3 (CodePlex)
- JavaScript Has Built-In Mix-ins With ‘apply’ Or ‘call’ (Derick Bailey)
- HTML5 Dev Conference Presentation: Dive into HTML5: SVG and Canvas (Doris Chen)
- Keep your layouts DRY with Rails and jQuery Mobile (Jacob Orshalick)
- First Review of ASP. NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- Ninjecting MVC3 (Jef Claes)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Subclass with Fields (Giorgio Sironi)
- HTML For Babies: Give Your Toddler A Head Start (Richard Darell)
- JavaScript Reference group Dedicated Worker (Xinyang Qiu)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Planning and Managing Drupal Projects – $6.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- WebStorm/PhpStorm – New in 3.0: Xdebug profiler integration (Nikolay Matveev)
- What I learned from transferring my blog from WordPress to Orchard (Dennis Delimarsky)
- MiniTest::Spec setup with Capybara in Rails 3.1 (Jared Ning)
- New SPL Features in PHP 5.3 (Matthew Turland)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Retrospectives – A picture is worth a thousand words (Jag Reehal)
- Are Scrum Masters agents for change? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Why you should be using CQRS almost everywhere… (Udi Dahan)
- Three reasons not to have your own private office and Ten Things Distributed Team Leaders Should Do (Roy Osherove)
- The Specialist (Rob Conery)
- Three Virtual Sticky Note Boards, all free (mostly) (Greg Duncan)
- Master of your domain (Eric Brechner)
- Sharpening the sword (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
- A post about software craftmanship (stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before) (Christian Jacobsen)
- The Competition-Innovation Relationship We All Benefit From (Davy Brion)
- Creative Design Process (Stuart Mayhew)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- System Tray ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Expression Blend 4 does not start after installing the NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview (Rich Griffin)
- 2000 WPF Things #399 – WrapPanel Will Change Layout of its Children as its Size Changes (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone Online Conference–Beyond the tools (Andrew Spooner)
- Detecting if Zune is Connected From Your NoDo/Mango App and The Fastest Way to Switch Free/Paid and NoDo/Mango App Build in Visual Studio (Nokola)
- Expression Design September 2011 Preview now available (Pam Keesey)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 176: Kevin Griffin on jQuery Mobile (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 036 – “Champagne and Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 413: Gears Horde Mode tips, Spider-Man: Edge Of Time and NBA 2K12 (Larry Hyrb)
- Cloud Cover Episode 60 – Introducing the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
- Engadget Podcast 258 – 09.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Windows Phone Radio 44 (Brian Seitz)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 24 (Richard Hay)
- Windows Weekly 228: The Train Dance (Paul Thurrott)
- This is my next Podcast 026 – 10.02.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
- Keyvan.TV Episode 7: Web Standards in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- TWC9 September 30th 2011 (Clint Rutkas, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for September 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Speaking at DevReach 2011 (Steve Smith)
- Congratulations New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees! (MVP Award Program)
- YUIConf 2011 Early Bird Registration Is Now Open (Jenny Donnelly)
Database
- SSIS Variable and Expressions Followup (Bradley Schacht)
- SQL SERVER – CE – Samples Database for SQL CE 4.0 and SQL SERVER – CE – List of Information_Schema System Tables and SQL SERVER – SQL Backup and FTP – A Quick and Handy Tool (Pinal Dave)
- Troubleshooting SQL Server: A guide for the Accidental DBA and SQL Server Deep Dives Volume 2 (Ted Krueger)
- How to find out which Table is not having rows in SQL Server? (Vinay Pugalia)
- Dataset with Text or Stored Procedure (Brian McDonald)
- Sneak peek at the new RavenDB Studio (Oren Eini)
Miscellaneous
- What’s wrong with Microsoft ? (Joe Stagner)
- Practical Foundations for Programming Languages [Working Draft] free eBook – Think "586 pages of if I wanted to create a programming language I’d want to read this book…" or "It’s making my brain hurt… ouch.. ouCH… OUCH!" (Greg Duncan)
- The Weaknesses of Training Strategies for Programmers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Sources of Insight is Available on the Kindle (JD Meier)
- I’m giving up Google Chromebook (Joe Wilcox)
- Microsoft’s deals with Nokia and Skype: are we waiting for Godot? (Kip Kniskern)
- Microsoft Makes A Movie (Miguel Carrasco)
- Three Great Books for Lego Robotics and general Lego Motion Builders (Pete Brown)
- Paint.NET v3.5.9 is now available and A small bug in Paint.NET v3.5.9 with Ctrl+0 (Rick Brewster)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 1, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – October 1 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – October 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-September-2011 to 01-October-2011 and Monthly Summary – September 2011 – 26 Posts You May Want to Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Geek Reading September 30, 2011 and Geek Reading October 1, 2011 and Geek Reading October 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Pie in the Sky (September 30, 2011) (Brian Swan)
- The Morning Brew #950 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Retrospective 52 – Art of #Agile and Developer Mythbusters (Peter Saddington)
- Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 — #1153 and Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 – 2 — #1154 (Dave Campbell)
- Double Shot #721 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Link dump for September 30th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
The Geek Shelf
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