Dew Drop – January 26, 2012 (#1,251)
Top Links
- PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code (Jeff Wilcox)
- Is Programming Less Exciting Today? (Ted Neward)
- Avoid the volatile Modifier (Peter Ritchie)
- MVVM on MVC: HTML is not XAML (Jeremy Likness)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion (Oren Eini)
- Visual Studio 2010 Overview – A day in the life of … Plan, Code & Test (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Windows Forms Toolkit 0.3 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 7 (CodePlex)
- A Smarter Infrastructure: Automatically filtering an EF 4.1 DbSet (Matt Hidinger)
- "Building a large text file editor" Series – Part 1 of x (Greg Duncan)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: NFeature (Jason Jarrett)
- New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database (Glenn Gailey)
- Quick NLog Tip: Getting the Log Filename (Geoff Hudik)
- Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 2 (Bill Osuch)
Web Development
- Exploring Client-Side MVC with Backbone.js (Christopher Smith)
- Binding UI controls using Fluent API (Yosif Yosifov)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
- Book Review: ASP.NET MVC 3 In Action (Chad Haney)
- Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
- Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views (Simon J. Ince)
- Windows Azure Service Bus Queues vs. Windows Azure Queues (Peter Laudati)
- Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
- Node.js and Windows Azure: Creating a blog application using Node.JS and Windows Azure Table & Blob Storage Part 1 (Avkash Chauhan)
- Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts (Brian Swan)
- Debugging IndexedDB Applications (Israel Hilerio)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
- Finding with Git (Anders Janmyr)
- Software Release Management – Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version (Rob Reynolds)
- Programming & Barries to Entry (Cori Drew)
- An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Shipped: xUnit.net 1.9 (Brad Wilson)
- How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Fresh WPF Elements 5 Features – DataGrid Grouping and Exporting! (Callum G.)
- Windows Phone: App Config Settings – Thinking Outside the Box (Geoff Hudik)
- "New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database" for Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
- Tutorial: Logging Into Facebook with Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
- Using CSLA 4: Windows Phone ebook available (Rockford Lhotka)
- 2000 WPF Things #481 – You Can Draw On an InkCanvas Control with the Mouse (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – John Petersen Talks About SOPA, Piracy, and Intellectual Property (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 2 (Robert Green)
- Visual Studio for Business Analysts (MS Podcasts)
- The Verge Mobile Podcast 011 – 01.25.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Hot Apps: Z0MB1ES, ARMED!, Groupon, NewEgg, Lumia Music (Laura Foy)
- Web Camps TV #12 – Vishal Joshi Talks about WebMatrix v2 (Drew Robbins & Brady Gaster)
- The Engadget Show 29: Red Cameras, MakerBot and the coolest gadgets of CES 2012 (Brian Heater)
Community / Events
- SQLAuthority News – Interview with Book Authors after 2 Months of Book Released (Pinal Dave)
- Meet Andrey Korshikov – SQL Server MVP from Russia (Ali Raza Shaikh)
- A Coder Interview With Michael Dunn (The Code Project)
Database
- A early look at the "SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book" (Think "Work in progress") (Greg Duncan)
- SQL SERVER – Different Aspect of Policy Based Management – Quiz – Puzzle – 25 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- Improving cube processing time (James Serra)
- Rebuild Your Indexes Online (When You Can) (Michael Swart)
- Thoughts on Test Driven Database Development (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
- Loading Reference Data from a SharePoint List using SSIS (Nick Haslam)
Miscellaneous
- The best way to list skills on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
- Let Alice help you teach and learn programming… (Greg Duncan)
- Open WebOS 1.0 announced (Jason Kennedy)
- When are servers not servers? (Ted Neward)
- Installing and Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 (Vishal Mody)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Maker Geek Roundup 006 for 1/25/2012 (Pete Brown)
- Double Shot #804 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1030 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-25 (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 25 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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