Dew Drop – August 16, 2011
Top Links
- Welcome to Building Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
- NHibernate Work-Around is not really a Work-Around… (Phillip Haydon)
- Book Reviews: CoffeeScript and JavaScript Web Applications (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules (Jeremy Likness)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Some special monads in F# – Part 1 of n – InfinityMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 2 of n – UndoMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 3 of n – DistributionMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 4 of n – Application: The Monty Hall problem (Steffen Forkmann)
- Parallel For Loop (Richard Carr)
- Downloading file as byte array from AZURE BLOB storage in WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Code Metrics – Creating Work Items from Code Metrics Results (Zain Naboulsi)
- Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution? (Mark Berryman)
- Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 6, Hiding Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Answer: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
- DXCore standard string providers list and How to specify the CodeRush user information and use it inside text expansions (Alex Skorkin)
- Code Kata Answers to Calculating averages (Mal)
- Photo Mosaics Part 4: Tables (Jim O’Neil)
- What’s Wrong With This Code? (#28) (K. Scott Allen)
- Lego my Robotics Developer Studio… "Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio" book now available for purchase and Along came a spider… a .NET Gadgeteer FEZ Spider! and NUI Racing – Using Kinect (and C++) to drive TrackMaina (Greg Duncan)
- Annual SQL Connectivity Survey (Raghu Ram)
- Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
Web Development
- Building the Account at a Glance HTML5/jQuery Application (Dan Wahlin)
- What is the correct media type for JavaScript source code? (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Running ClamAV (Antivirus Software) in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD271 (O’Reilly Media)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- IT projects; if you can’t beat them, change the game (Simon Brown)
- Think of Yourself as a Thinker (J.D. Meier)
- Creatively Thrashing With TDD (Rob Conery)
- Inversion of Control Course Published on Pluralsight (John Sonmez)
- Monsters Built Using Kanban (Peter Saddington)
- Rails Misapprehensions: The Dependency Injection Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
- How Microsoft Is Changing Version Control for Images (Rowan Puttergill)
- Thoughts on Mocking (Part 1 of 2) and (Part 2 of 2) (Gregory Brown)
- New book: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
- Technical Debt and Open Source (Joe Mayo)
- One Year since TeamPulse V1 (Joel Semeniuk)
- Planning for a new level of verifications in automation (John Guin)
- Use, Reuse, and Architectures (Kyle Szklenski)
- Microsoft Visio 2010 Template: Application Architecture Pivot Diagrams (MS Downloads)
- Advantages Of Being A Polyglot Programmer (Davy Brion)
- Lessons in Software Reliability (Jim Bird)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Mango Custom application Theme Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
- Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
- Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S (Surf4Fun)
- What happens when I publish a Windows Phone ‘Mango’ application update? (Todd Brix)
- Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
- 2000 WPF Things #365 – SelectedDate and SelectedDates Properties of Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
- System.Threading.Tasks and updating the UI thread (Geoff Hudik)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker Talks A Little DNN 6 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Building Web Parts-Episode 65 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- Surface 2.0 Stress Test Robot – PaTTY (Nic Fillingham)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 66 – A Chat About ALM (Richard Banks)
- Ping 113: 3D Human face, Windows 7, Microsoft Fashion, Excel Challenge (Laura Foy)
- New Async Programming Videos (Spotty)
Community / Events
- Coffee Talk: Introduction to Scrum – webcast event this Friday! (Martin Hinshelwood)
- SQLAuthority News – Pluralsight Giving Away Free Subscription to Quiz Participants (Pinal Dave)
- GirlDevelopIt Brings Affordable Programming Classes to Philly (Nicole Kline)
- Cricket brought me back to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog
)
Database
- Major update to SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 available (Erik EJ)
- Using SSIS lookup transformation editor with millions of rows (James Serra)
- SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – System and Time Data Types – Day 16 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
- How I Scrapped MySQL for MongoDB in Three Hours (Mike Borozdin)
Miscellaneous
- Gorilla vs. Shark (Jeff Atwood)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 08.08 ~ 08.16 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Geek Reading August 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Today’s Links (8/15/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #917 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Client Developer Roundup 078 for 8/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
- Daily News Digest 08/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Link dump for August 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Links of the week #158 (David Vidmar)
- Daily WP7 Development News 15 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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