Dew Drop – July 29, 2011
Top Links
- Code First Migrations: Walkthrough of August 2011 CTP (Rowan Miller)
- Another Helping of Mango for Devs (Cliff Simpkins)
- Node.js on Windows (or JavaScript for the backend) (Christopher Bennage)
- Request for Comments: Issues with .NET and Microsoft Product Versioning (Scott Hanselman)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Speech Recognition (Richard Carr)
- Getting Started with igDataSource and WCF and Getting Started with igGrid, OData, and WCF Data Services (Aaron Marisi)
- C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Default Parameters are Compile-Time Substitutions (James Michael Hare)
- Interactive Extensions for LINQ to Objects (Jonathan Allen)
- Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part V (Luca Bolognese)
- Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha – NuGet Package of the Week #10 (Scott Hanselman)
- Start an application on boot with Mono for Android #Android #monodroid (Wally McClure)
- Stephen Toub says, "I’ve got your Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET… right here…" and Can the Kinect "know" what you are doing? and Media Player I NUI you well… (Greg Duncan)
- Working with the Master Category List–EWS edition (Henning Krause)
- Code First Migrations: August 2011 CTP Released (EF Team)
- Entity Framework v4.1 update 1, the Kill-The-Tool-Eco-system version (Frans Bouma)
- Preprocessor? .NET don’t need no stinkin’ preprocessor! [DebugEx.Assert provides meaningful assertion failure messages automagically!] (David Anson)
- Now Available: The June CTP of Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus REST API from Java, PHP (Alessandro Catorcini)
- Node.cs (Oren Eini)
- Do you know how to upgrade a process template but still keep your data intact? (Martin Hinshelwood)
Web Development
- Book Reivew: JavaScript Enlightenment (Elijah Manor)
- HTML5 Drag and Drop in IE10 PPB2 (Sharon Newman)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Inline Class (Giorgio Sironi)
- OOP JavaScript: Accessing Public Methods in Private Methods and PHP Strings: How to Get the Extension of a File (Stoimen Popov)
- HTML 5: Add an audio player to your webpage for Free! (Surf4Fun)
- ECMAScript.next: Array.from() and Array.of() (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Shortening URLs from PHP with Bit.ly (Lorna Wilson)
- YUI 3.4.0 Preview Release 3 Now Available on CDN (George Puckett)
- Windows Azure SDK for PHP 4 released (Maarten Balliauw)
- Future Orchard Part 2: more Tokens (Bertrand Le Roy)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: FrequencyReducesDifficulty (Martin Fowler)
- A Survival Guide for New Agile Coaches – Believe in It (Dave Rooney)
- How not to do TDD (Roy Osherove)
- How Rigid is Scrum? (Vikas Hazrati)
- How to fix Subversion merge (Jimmy Bogard)
- Architecture of Tankster– Scale (Part 2) (Nathan Totten)
- Macto: And it goes on your permanent record, too! (Oren Eini)
- Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Unified Text Fields (Anthony)
- Where the Focus Goes (JD Meier)
- Khan Exercise Rewrite (John Resig)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- MVVM in real life Windows Phone applications Part2 and Using Sockets in WP 7.1 (Mango Beta 2) (Windows Phone Geek)
- Creating an application like Google Desktop in WPF and C# (Chris P.)
- Announcing NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
- Custom accelerometer motions for the Windows Phone emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Hosting a Windows Forms control inside a WPF and Difference between a UserControl and a CustomControl and Accessing local assemblies in XAML (Abhijit Jana)
- Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit (MS Downloads)
- Replaceable resources in Silverlight (John Rayner)
- My eBook and articles series on OData for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 is complete. (Michael Crump)
- Posting Twitter Status Update from Windows Phone (Nick)
- WP7Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part II – Route (Richard Griffin)
- LightSwitch Farm: A Story In The Not So Distant Future (Michael Washington)
- Page State–Step by Step (Jesse Liberty)
- Using XamTimeline and XamDataChart to build an annotated view of your time-series data (Kiril Matev)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Pete Brown Has Fun With Silverlight and More! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- GoingNative 0: Help us fly this plane, Some modern C++, Meet Ale Contenti and Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Introducing Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Charles Torre)
- SE Podcast #13 (Alex Miller)
- Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Engadget Show – 023: We tour a headphone factory, talk record labels, and look at They Might Be Giants’ favorite gadgets (Brian Heater)
- ScriptTD: So You Want To Build a Tower Defense Game? and Defrag: 3TB limit, Forced Shutdowns, Optimizing Win7 for Netbooks (Larry Larsen)
- Hot Apps: Tentacles, Birds & Beaks, Who’s Near Me, Pin To Start, Executive Caddie (Laura Foy)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Eric Boyd Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Let’s Play TDD #127: Yearly Spending Field (James Shore)
Community / Events
- Andre Artis: Influencing the next generation of Black Technologists (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - Speaking engagement: Progressive .NET, London, September 7th (Jon Skeet)
- Want to Improve/Change Your Career? Get Hooked up in the Community! (Jim Holmes)
- What’s in your laptop bag? (Jeff Blankenburg)
- What’s In Your Laptop Bag? and Progressive .NET Tutorials–London Sept 5-7 (Jesse Liberty)
- What’s restricting the expansion of telework? (Jessica Stillman)
Database
- SQL Server does not script indexes by default (James Serra)
- SQL Server: Top 10 Cached Queries and SQL Server: Behavioral Change in Union Operator (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Latest expressor Data Integration Platform Posts and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Nakul Vachhrajani – Day 28 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Feodor Georgiev – Day 29 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Injection Pocket Reference for MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle (Denis Gobo)
- Lookup functions in SSRS 2008 R2 – II (Vinay Pugalia)
- SQL Server – "Denali" – Analytic Functions – LAG() and LEAD() (Vishal)
- T-SQL refactoring (Jakub Dvorak)
SharePoint
- My Experience Upgrading SharePoint with FAB 40 (Joel Oleson)
- WCF to the rescue: Fixing bad performing BDC connectors in SharePoint (Mark Kendall)
Miscellaneous
- The Technology Hype Cycle and why you should bet your Software Career on the Cloud (Frank Kelly)
- Mango Build 7712 for Developers: What’s New? (Antonio Hernandez)
- OneNote Spy (omspy) for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
- Java SE Goes to 7 (Oracle Tech Net)
- How to connect to a Wireless WIFI Network from the Command line in Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
- Android: New Tools For Managing Screen Sizes (Tim Bray)
- Just Announced: Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Now Supports Access Control Service, Includes Cloud Ready Packages (Windows Azure Team)
- Dilbert’s Scott Adams accepts the Windows Phone Challenge (Doug Holland)
- Updated build of Windows Phone “Mango” now supports music streaming from SkyDrive (damaster)
- Windows Phone: The one where sharing photos via SkyDrive…doesn’t (Kip Kniskern)
- Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 Observations (Richard Hay)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – July 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily Links 28/07/2011 (Jax)
- The Morning Brew #904 and The Morning Brew #905 (Chris Alcock)
- Link dump for July 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Daily News Digest 07/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 26-Jul-2011 and 27-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Today’s Links (7/27/2011) and Today’s Links (7/28/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 27 July 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 28 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2011 — #1121 and Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2011 — #1122 (Dave Campbell)
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