Dew Drop – August 25, 2011
Top Links
- News Flash: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Paul Thurrott)
- Interactive Tutorial on Async Functions – just released (Joe Albahari)
- NodeJS on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
- How we use your PerfWatson data to identify Unresponsive areas (Shibani Basava)
.NET / Visual Studio
- F# Compiler IL Optimizations (Robert Pickering)
- Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Web Platform Tools and Microsoft Visio 2010 Developer Training (MS Downloads)
- Install a shared Assembly to the GAC as post build event from Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
- WCF Web API: Role based access control with basic authentication (Alexander Zeitler)
- Mixing some Dynamic-ness with IronJS in .NET 4 (Chris Pietschmann)
- Static Code Analysis – Understanding the Predefined Rules (Zain Naboulsi)
- IRC you with IRC.NET and Open source Kinect gesture recognition project, Kinect DTW (Greg Duncan)
- Native NuGet Support in TeamCity (Hadi Hariri)
- Exchange WebService ItemIds are case-sensitive (Henning Krause)
- Facebook C# SDK – Release v5.2.1 and .NET JSON parser & deserializer Beta 2 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- jQuery Mobile & Rails (Ken Collins)
- Play Sound in HTML5 and cross browser support with backward compatability. (Joe Stagner)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
- Learning about Progressive Enhancement – Supporting Mobile Browsers with CSS3 Media Queries (Scott Hanselman)
- Working with SimpleMembership outside of ASP.NET (Steve Smith)
- Getting Started with Ruby on Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
- “Pragmatic Guide to Sass” is in Beta! (Joey deVilla)
- Explaining Drupal to Others – What is this Drew-paul thing you do? (Luke)
- DotNetNuke Community Edition – Release v6.00.01 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Why MSTest is the IE6 of unit test frameworks (Roy Osherove)
- SDL Threat Modeling Tool 3.1.8 (MS Downloads)
- 5 signs your conversation is about to turn toxic (Benjamin Mitchell)
- Testing your games: Survey for Game Usability (Surf4Fun)
- Changing People’s Barriers (Jurgen Appelo)
- The Three Phases of OOP Matter (K. Scott Allen)
- How we learn to write code (Scott Koon)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part2: Data Binding and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database mapping and Data Binding Images in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
- A helpful hand-up with MVVM with the Introduction to MVVM Hands On Lab for Visual Studio 2010 (Greg Duncan)
- Analog Clock DataTemplate for System.DateTime added to learnwpf samples project (LearnWPF)
- Windows Phone Network Analysis – where the Xbox Live app gets game metadata? and Accessing Microsoft Office in the locked Windows Phone Emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
- 2000 WPF Things #372 – Defining Tooltips for GUI Elements (Sean Sexton)
- WPFSpark v0.7 (CodePlex)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Emily Lewis Builds the Web One MicroFormat at a Time (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter: C++ and Beyond and GoingNative 1: VC++ vNext, CRT, C++ and Beyond (Charles Torre)
- Let’s Play TDD #130: The Great Negative Color Debacle (James Shore)
- Dimecasts Episode #200 is Launched (Derik Whittaker)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: JScript Editor Extensions (Robert Green)
- Developer Smackdown Musing #58: A few beers and JavaScript with Brandon Satrom (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
- Hot Apps: Plants vs Zombies, Taptitude, LiveFrom, Brain Cube, PhotoFunia (Laura Foy)
- My Intern Life 3 – Episode 7 (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - Video: How to Use the Denali Windowing Functions (Jeremiah Peschka)
Community / Events
- Supporting Facebook Developers on Stack Overflow (Will Liu)
- Announcing facebook.stackoverflow.com (Alex Miller)
- Upcoming 3 and 5 day TDD classes (Roy Osherove)
- MVPs Help Others Play Hard at Rehabilitation (MVP Award Program)
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop CTP1 (Greg Duncan)
- SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Table-Valued Store Procedure Parameters – Day 25 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Author’s Book is Available in India and USA (Pinal Dave)
- Even Simple Changes Can Cause Trouble: A Tale of TempDb (Kendra Little)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Unencrypted IMAP connection? Bad idea – here’s why. (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Microsoft Small Basic (James Serra)
- Further Down the Rabbit Hole: PowerShell Modules and Encapsulation (Michael Sorens)
- Friends don’t send friends to Download.com for software (Steven Hodson)
- Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” supports WiFi internet sharing/tethering (damaster)
- Microsoft shows off Lync Mobile for Windows Phone (Owen Williams)
- Send a bookmark to Instapaper from Internet Explorer Mobile (Matthieu Guyonnet-Duluc)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading August 24, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Today’s Links (8/24/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #924 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 08/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 23-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Link dump for August 24th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 24 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShow for August 14 – 21, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
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