Dew Drop – January 2, 2012 (#1,231)
Top Links
- Windows Phone Native Series – Enumerating drivers (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Tech Predictions, 2012 Edition (Ted Neward)
- 31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design | #1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language (Arturo Toledo)
- Structuring Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
- Structuring your Unit Tests, why? (Oren Eini)
- New MVVM Light templates with bug fixes (Laurent Bugnion)
.NET / Visual Studio
- AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method and Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread (Richard Carr)
- Regions and navigation bar for F# in Visual Studio (Tomas P.)
- Be Hip in 2012 with Sublime Theme/Colors for Visual Studio (Ryan Lowdermilk)
- A lazy evaluation of F# Seq.groupBy for sorted sequences and Hadoop Binary Streaming and PDF File Inclusion (Carl Nolan)
- Moving UIElements around in Metro (Dave Campbell)
- ESE C#/C++ Toolkit v1.2 for Microsoft Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) (ESE is the database engine that’s been in the box since Windows 2000) (Greg Duncan)
- Start Here!™ Learn Microsoft® Visual C#® 2010 by John Paul Mueller; O’Reilly Media (Mark Pearl)
- Your First Metro style App in JavaScript (Chris Sells)
- XmlWriter and lower ASCII characters (Rick Strahl)
- Implementing Custom TPL Dataflow Blocks (Jonathan Allen)
- A generic repository (Nathan Gloyn)
Web Development
- Why Use jQuery for Simple JavaScript Tutorials? (Louis Lazaris)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Constructor Body (Giorgio Sironi)
- HTML 5 Geo-Location in ASP.NET MVC Web Apps (Part 1) (Sumit Maitra)
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 8 – Hadoop Map/Reduce Administration from command line in Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
- Using the Geolocation API (Rob Larsen)
- Day 8 – Photo fun with CamanJS (Paul Neave)
- Reducing Backbone Routers To Nothing More Than Configuration (Derick Bailey)
- Create Hosted Service using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile’s Coming of Age (David Starr)
- Best Time To Write Code – Not the Holidays (Peter Saddington)
- Microsoft Test Manager stuck in "waiting for test controller" state (Gautam Goenka)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.1 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Phone’s Achilles’ Heel (Peter Kuhn)
- Building a Windows Phone 7 App with Phone Gap (Don Burnett)
- Microsoft to quash homebrew on Windows Phone? Not so fast (Mary Jo Foley)
- WPF Language Translator (Meshack Musundi)
- Windows Phone Developers: Get Your Metro Design Hats On (Paul Thurrott)
- WP7 updates are cumulative, really? (Rohit Sharma)
- 2000 WPF Things #463 – Multiple Parallel GridSplitters (Sean Sexton)
- 2011 in review for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
- StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Herding Code 130: Dave Weaver on Loggr – a realtime analytics service built with MVC MongoDB and SignalR (Jon Galloway)
- YOW! 2011: Aslak Hellesøy – Web Sockets and Webbit and YOW! 2011: Bjorn Freeman-Benson – Software Psychology (Charles Torre)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 80: Learn What You Need to Know about WinRT (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Geekadelphia_ The Podcast Episode 1 – Eric Smith Interview.mp3 (Dan & Jo)
- The Tablet Show – Ronan Cremin Detects Mobile Devices (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Community / Events
- Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
- Congratulations to the First New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees of 2012! (MVP Award Program)
Database
- Implementing SQL Server solutions using Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects – a compendium of project experiences (Jamie Thomson)
- January 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist (Jason Strate)
- A Better Way to Work with SSIS Variable Expressions (Melissa Coates)
- SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Perspectives of an Author and SQL SERVER – Importance of ANSI ISOLATION Levels in SQL Server Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 1 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Significance of Various Kinds of Triggers- Quiz – Puzzle – 2 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server Auditing: Managing Your Audits (SQLArcher)
- Scripting data in SQL Server 2012 (Denis Gobo)
- Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes? (Thomas LaRock)
- Creating dynamic pivot reports on SQL Server (Gunnar Peipman)
- Survey results: How cluster key size can lead to GBs of wasted space (Paul S. Randal)
- Displaying and Saving Unicode data in Visual FoxPro desktop application (Naomi Nosonovsky)
- SQL Index Fragmentation and sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (Jack Vamvas)
SharePoint
- Product Review: harmon.ie for SharePoint – Increase Adoption and Simplify User Experience (Joel Oleson)
- HTML 5: Predictions for the Future of Silverlight in SharePoint (Becky Isserman)
Miscellaneous
- Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators and A magic means to exit Windows Explorer without using Task Manager (or command line) (Greg Duncan)
- MAME ported to Google Chrome (Jamie Keene)
- Building the same app for iOS and Android (Billy Coover)
- Learning Android: ‘Unable to start service Intent not found’ and Learning Android: Authenticating with Twitter using OAuth (Mark Needham)
- Rise of the Popped Collar Programmer (Aaron Stannard)
- Why Should You Become A Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
- 30 Free Programming Books (Tatworth)
- Windows Phone Running on a 10 Inch Tablet (Antonio Hernandez)
- Rails Has Turned Me Into a Cannibalizing Idiot (Rob Conery)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 12.29 ~ 12.31 (yuanjian)
- Double Shot #786 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Catch Up on a Full Year of MVP Mondays (MVP Award Program)
- Daily News Digest 01/02/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #27 (Franky)
- Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-December-2011 to 31-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
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