Dew Drop – January 18, 2012 (#1,245)
Top Links
- Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Rachel Appel)
- Upcoming T-SQL Toolbar and Context menu changes (Sam Hughes)
- Very handy utility – hurl.it (Eric Nelson)
- Making testing in Visual Studio demon hot… New RedGate ".NET Demon" Visual Studio Extension beta (Greg Duncan)
- 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides (Jon Galloway)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Top Visual Studio Extensions (Prashant Khandelwal)
- Northwind Starter Kit Review: If you won’t respect the database, there will be pain (Oren Eini)
- How to use INTERNET_OPTION_SERVER_CERT_CHAIN_CONTEXT with InternetQueryOption in C# (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
- TFS11 on Azure January 2012 update – request feedback (Clemens Reijnen)
- New Article: Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues – Compared and Contrasted (Valery Mizonov)
- Mapping and Location with Monotouch on DevProConnections web site (Wally McClure)
- How Nuget could improve (Paul Stack)
- Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)
Web Development
- Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions (Ben Nadel)
- Working with HTML tables using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
- Style sheet strong arm: Reset.css versus Normalization.css (Eric Newton)
- Kinect, HTML5, WebSockets and Canvas (Greg Duncan)
- The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Interface (Giorgio Sironi)
- What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4: slides and demo are now online (Simone Chiaretta)
- URI segments, dots, REST, and a .NET bug (Christopher Smith)
- You Tube API – recall Video Meta files with .NET (Code Inside Team)
- jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
- New Web Workbench features (Ivan Towlson)
- The Principles of Web API Usage (Janet Wagner)
- How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure (Aaron Stannard)
- WebClient/WebRequest threading untangled (Andreas Hammar)
- One Azure Web Role, Multiple Websites (Brian Hitney)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- "Testing In An Agile World" Article Posted On Developer Fusion (Malcolm Anderson)
- What is the roll of the Project Manager in Scrum? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
- Git Cheat Sheet (Mark Curphey)
- Open Group Publishes its First Cloud and International SOA Standards (Mike Walker)
- FAQ: What is the difference between “Assigned To” and “Tester” in MTM? (Gautam Goenka)
- An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
- Testing framework is not just for writing… tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- 2000 WPF Things #475 – Child Elements in Canvas Can Overlap (Sean Sexton)
- Free ly: Using Expression Design with Expression Blend an XAML and Free Water Scroll Viewer for Expression (Surf4Fun)
- Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control (Morten Nielsen)
- Calling Navigate From The View Model (Jesse Liberty)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gillmor Gang 01.17.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
- Let’s Play TDD #159: How Do We Store Data? (James Shore)
- Boagworld: Create a consistent user experience across all online channels (Paul Boag)
- Start Up Success Podcast Show #130: Timo Rein, Cofounder of Pipedrive (Bob Walsh)
Community / Events
- Developing Windows Phone Apps Webcasts on Jan. 24 and Jan. 26, 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
- Thank you Nestor Portillo for your Years of Leadership and Service to the MVP Award Program (MVP Award Program)
- Welcome to My New Blog (Elijah Manor)
- Speaking at Hub City NUG Thursday Jan 19th 2012 (Keith Elder)
Database
- CTE command In Sql Server (Vivek Johari)
- Windows 8, ReFS and SQL Server (Denny Cherry)
- SQL SERVER – Various Ways to Create Constraints – Quiz – Puzzle – 17 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- ORAPOCO: ORM Light to work with Oracle (J. Torrecilla)
Miscellaneous
- IPv6: countdown to launch (Erik Kline)
- SkyDrive and Office: 7 tips for full-powered collaboration in the cloud across PCs and Macs (Anand Babu)
- New ReFS File System Will Debut in Windows Server 8, Not Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)
- Microspeak: Walls and ladders (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1024 (Chris Alcock)
- Weekly Badass JS Roundup #5 (Devon Govett)
- January 17th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
- Double Shot #798 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Geek Shelf
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Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad by Dan Pilone |
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