Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Top Links

• Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps (Steven Sinofsky)
• Prince of Persia Source Code — Posted! (Jordan Mechner)
• Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch (Andrea Boschin)
• Shrinking Kinect for Mobile: Q&A with Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research (Katie Scott)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The RavenDB indexing process: Optimization (Oren Eini)
• Reflecting Inherited Member Information (Richard Carr)
• Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the Api (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• Better Together: TFS 2010 and System Center 2012 (Jason Zander)
• String Matching in LINQ (Telerik OpenAccess Team)
• Getting started with Background Workers: Error Handling and Output Capturing and Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify by Justin Rusbatch (John Sheehan)
• Windows 8 Background Networking Whitepaper and Wondering what the .Net in a Metro world story is? Here’s a chapter… (Greg Duncan)
• Using Parallel.ForEach To Aggregate Results From JSON Files Stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage (Karsten Januszewski)
• Go with the dataflow (Ivan Towlson)
• Windows Portable Devices: Transfer Content To A Device (Christophe Geers)
• JSON Light Sample Payloads (Mark)

 

Web Development

• Sencha Architect 2: A WYSIWYG IDE for Building Desktop and Mobile HTML5 App (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• Using Cassette to minify assets in an MVC3 app (Jonathan Creamer)
• Hexagonal architecture in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Is Javascript code always so full of bugs? (Don Syme)
• Leaving Your Mark (Rob Conery)
• WebStorm 4.0: HTML5 Boilerplate and other Web Application Templates (Sergey Simonchik)
• Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D (Tom Giannattasio)
• How to use WCF DS 5.0 in a Web Site project and JSON Light Sample Payloads (WCF Team)
• Simple music player (Stoyan Stefanov)
• Appcelerator Now Offers Cloud Services and Mobile Web SDK (Romin Irani)
• Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy (Scott Knaster)
• Thinking about the offline web (Pete LePage)
• Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0) (Peter Kellner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Daily Standup/Scrum is not for the Scrum Master (Anand Vishwanath)
• Management Skills Replaces Kanban – Is Kanban Failing Japan? (Peter Saddington)
• Learning Is More Important Than Knowing (Karl Seguin)
• Pro Tip: Don’t Push Binaries To Source Control, Use NuGet Wisely Instead (Itamar Syn-hershko)
• APress Deal of the Day 18/Apr/2012 – Design Driven Testing (Tatworth)
• Communication struggles at a small company (Stephen Forte)
• Spend $100 to Prioritize Your Opportunities (JD Meier)
• Some Servicelocator pattern stinks (Jef Claes)
• Isolator V7 for …. free? Get rid of your legacy software. (Avi Kaye)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro and Compiling Same Code on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 Metro (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Flurry Phone Fun… Flurry Analytics on WP7 (Greg Duncan)
• Workaround for CA0055 Error with Silverlight Projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session I and Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session II (Joel Reyes)
• WPF: A Simple Color Picker With Preview (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #539 – Adding Text-Based Elements in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• WPF ComboBox initial selection (Tim Hibbard)
• Slides and source code for my past talks this year (Laurent Bugnion)
• Handle Feature Reductions (Mike Battista)
• LightSwitch Companion Client Examples using OData (Beth Massi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 182 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joel Bennett on PowerShell v3 and PoshCode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Tulips and TechExpo (Mark DeFalco)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 165: HTC One V (Gareth Myles & James Richardson)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 17th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• UI for Geeks at Dallas ASP.NET (Chris Koenig)
• Azure, Mobility, and the Enterprise: NYC Windows Azure User Group 4-18-2012 (Peter Laudati)
• Nokia Bounty Hunter Challenge May 10 through June 12 at 13 Locations (MS Public Sector Team)
• Code Warriors being unleashed onto the Marketplace to build missing apps (Rich Edmonds)
• Talking Cloud Tuesday: Windows Azure MVP Ming Chung Chu (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQLAuthority News – Select the Best SQL in Sixty Seconds Episode – Help us Improve (Pinal Dave)
• Listing SQL Instances on a machine (or list of machines) (Martin Catherall)
• Bug: reverting from a database snapshot shrinks the transaction log to 0.5MB (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Multilingual Sites – Determine Top 10 Languages to Deploy (Joel Oleson)
• Install Sharepoint Foundation on Workstation error: the user does not exists or is not unique (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

Miscellaneous

• Happy Birthday Apple ][ (David Pollak)
• Amazon shows developers how to obscure code to avoid cloning (Andrew Webster)
• Thoughts on name collision (Brent Schooley)
• What exactly do you get with Windows 8 Pro? (Ed Bott)
• Windows Phone 8 coming to all current phones, says evangelist and Windows Phone 8 to all current Windows Phones? Not so fast (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #861 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1087 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 4/18/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 9-15, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Dev News for April 17, 2012 – #0068 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer

 

Top Links

• Odoyule Rules Engine for .NET (Chris Patterson)
• WinRT: App Activation, Resume and Suspend (Bill Wagner)
• Moving fast requires good communication (Simon Brown)
• Using LINQ to SQL with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (yes, you can!) (Erik EJ)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a Build Definition in TFS (Mickey Gousset)
• Explain this code (Oren Eini)
• Preemptive Analytics in Visual Studio and TFS 11 (Brian Harry)
• Actions in WCF Data Services – Part2: How IDataServiceActionProvider works (Alex James)
• What happened to application/json in WCF DS 5.0? (WCF Data Services Team)
• Modest Proposal for C# (Miguel de Icaza)
• TFS API The All New Team Project Picker – Beautiful! (Tarun Arora)
• Improving Find & Replace in Visual Studio 11 Beta (Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha)
• Multi-Targeting Guidelines for Tools for Managed Code (Mircea)
• Team Foundation Service whitepaper has shipped! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Unit Testable Enum Parsing with C# (Andy Schwam)
• C# compiler improvements and .NET Gadgeteer Core 2.42.550 (BETA) and LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.24 and Json.NET 4.5 Release 2 (CodePlex)
• Hello World, WinRT ! (Jeremy Alles)
• Which ORM is the Best for .NET? (Paul Ballard)
• Get Started with .Net and Apache Cassandra (Sazzad Hossain)
• Auto-hydrate your objects with ADO.NET (Jake Rutherford)
• New Asynchronous Features Enhance .NET Framework 4.5 (Jenni Konrad)

 

Web Development

• Beyond Role Based Authorization in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Smith)
• jQuery Resize Event (Justin B. Meyer)
• Updated: The Current State of HTML5 Forms (Chris Coyier)
• Big boost to DOM performance – WebKit’s innerHTML is 240% faster (Sam Dutton)
• Toying With the HTML5 File System API (Ivaylo Gerchev)
• Marshmallow People and HTML5 come together in new arcade style game (Jason McConnell)
• Animated Content Tabs with CSS3 (Ring Wing)
• Tracking Scroll Depth with jQuery and Google Analytics (Rob Flaherty)
• JavaScript Unit Testing with Code Coverage (Sergey Simonchik)
• Create the Illusion of Stacked Elements with CSS3 Pseudo-Elements (Tom Kenny)
• Kendo UI ASP.NET Sample Applications (2012-04-11) (CodePlex)
• Sueetie Friends Features Taking Shape (Dave Burke)
• Walk the path to the cloud – learn Windows Azure (Jennifer Marsman)
• If you’re doing Amazon Web Services development, here’s 43 (and counting) free Kindle ebooks for you (from the Amazon Web Services team) (Greg Duncan)
• 3rd Party ISV Tools for Windows Azure Application Monitoring and Load Testing (Hanu Kommalapati)
• What’s new in Web Workbench 3.2 (Ivan Towlson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What BDD has taught me (Hadi Hariri)
• Write Things Down and How Tos for Personal Development, Leadership, and More (JD Meier)
• On the road to BDD… Or… to see the light (Peter Gfader)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator 3.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Communication struggles at a small company (Stephen Forte)
• What Project Managers Say and What They Really Mean (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 3 (Peter Kuhn)
• How to Call a Number in WP7 using the PhoneCallTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | HttpClient vs. HttpWebRequest (5 of 12) (Peter von Lochow)
• 2000 WPF Things #535 – Drawing Symmetrical Shapes in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Creating the ZuneCard Control for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Validate a Property Against a Parent Collection (Brian Lagunas)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The State of the Cloud at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Behind the scenes: Designing Microsoft’s reinvented certifications (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 138 – Lightning Round with Douglas Crockford and Herding Code 139 – Lightning Round with Roy Osherove on his new book, Notes to a software team leader and Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Morten Kromberg on APL and Herding Code 141 – Lightning Round with Hadi Hariri (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 023 – 04.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: Let NHibernate Map The Way (Paul Ballard)
• Defrag: Side By Side Office, Changing Look of Folders, Cycling Windows (Larry Larsen)
• Developer Diaries II: Mangesh Deshpande (Laura Foy)
• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages (Herb Sutter, Martyn Lovell, Andrei Alexandrescu, Robert Griesemer & Walter Bright)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScript (Robert Green)
• Agile Project Management with Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 (MS Podcasts)

 

Community / Events

• Free End User Webinar: Tips & Tricks – Manage Events Using SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• TECHbash 2012 NEPA – April 28 (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows Phone Unleashed Events (Joseph Guadagno)
• Windows Phone Unleashed (David Kelley)

 

Database

• More Good News for SQL Server Developers (David Ramel)
• Breaking News: Changes to Microsoft SQL Server Certifications (Kendra Little)
• Is Power View meant to replace ReportBuilder? (Jen Stirrup)
• What is Database Continuous Integration? (David Atkinson)
• Deleting a row from self-referencing table (Jake Rutherford)

 

Miscellaneous

• Metro-styled Windows Live web services coming soon, with screenshots (damaster)
• Code isn’t physical property under the definition of National Stolen Property Act, US court rules (Dante D’Orazio)
• Rumor: Kinect coming to Windows Phone 8 (Tim Schiesser)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 04.01 ~ 04.12 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #857 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-11 and Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for April 11, 2012 – #0066 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 2 – 8, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #1083 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed by Daniel Vaughan

 

Back after a few days. I found out yesterday that I have been awarded as a Visual C# MVP for the 3rd time (4th MVP award overall). Thanks to the MVP Award program & C# Team and congrats to the other new and renewed MVPs out there!

Top Links

• Touch hardware and Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) open source announcements (Jon Galloway)
• Knockout.js Performance Gotcha #1–if/with bindings are not always cheap (Ryan Niemeyer)
• TWC9: VS Ultimate Roadmap, MVC/Web API/Razor Open Source, WP SDK 7.1.1 and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Compare and contrast: Performance implications of method signatures (Oren Eini)
• A LINQ Style Range Generator (Richard Carr)
• Session summary: New Features in Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 beta (Zubair Ahmed)
• Using the Implicit Operator in C# for Maximum Nerdy Good Times (Bobby Johnson)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Skip() and Take() (James Michael Hare)
• A Simpler MapReduce with MongoDB and C# (K. Scott Allen)
• And One More Thing About 1.5… (Kinect for Windows Team)
• Writing functional code in C++ II – Function composition (Luca Bolognese)
• Talk: Async Part 1 – the message-loop, and the Task type and Talk: What’s new in VB11 (VS11 Beta) (Lucian Wischik)
• TFS Service Credential Viewer and TFS Field Annotator (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS (Mike Taulty)
• Team Foundation Server (TFS) 11 – Exploring Local Workspace Concept in TEE 11 (Subodh Sohoni)
• How to get distinct values from the List<T> with LINQ (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Moles – Troubleshooting in Visual Studio 11 / .NET 4.5 (MS Research)
• LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.7 and JSON Toolkit 3.1 (CodePlex)
• WebSocket Support In Windows 8 and Is IQueryable A Bad Choice For APIs? (Roopesh Shenoy)
• A Quick Overview of .NET Reflector (Adam Driscoll)
• .NET and Metro: The Windows Runtime and the CLR on Windows 8 (Jeremy Likness)
• CoreImage with MonoTouch (example) (Craig Dunn)
• INotifyPropertyChanged, The .NET 4.5 Way – Revisited (Dan Rigby)
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Exchange Types and RabbitMQ for Windows: Direct Exchanges (Derek Greer)
• Migrating VSIX Extensions To Dev11 (Karsten Januszewski)
• Teaching .NET Gadgeteering and Missing Macros in VS11 getting you down? John Robbins shows us how to use NuGet and PowerShell as an replacement (Greg Duncan)
• Transform app.config and web.config (Mehdi Khalili)
• Date Issue in Excel Export (Michael Sync)
• JustCode Extension Improvements in 2012 Q1 SP (JustCode Team)

 

Web Development

• Fluent Security – Getting Started (Kristoffer Ahl)
• 3 Quick JavaScript Tips for .NET Developers (John Papa)
• Implementing an XML-RPC Service with ASP.NET MVC (Charles Cook)
• CSS layout gets smarter with calc() (Alex Danilo)
• The JavaScript “Ah ha!” Moment (Chris Coyier)
• People of HTML5: Andrew Betts on building the FT.com HTML5 app (Chris Heilmann)
• HTML 5 Games, Tooling & 3D (Code Inside Team)
• Proxies And Decorators In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Fun with ASP.NET Web API – push-like messaging from one application to multiple subscriber applications (Filip W)
• Building your first HTML Metro Style app with the Style Smooth Streaming Player walk through (Greg Duncan)
• ASP.NET MVC Now Accepting Pull Requests (Phil Haack)
• Adding AjaxOnly Filter in ASP.NET Web API (Imran Baloch)
• JavascriptHelper–Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC (James Curran)
• Phaxio integration using HttpClient & ASP.NET MVC (Jarod Ferguson)
• How to fork the ASP.NET Web Stack to GitHub (Jimmy Bogard)
• New in 4.0: Easier JavaScript Library Scope Configuration (Konstantin Ulitin)
• The AT&T API Platform SDK for HTML5 (Michael Mullany)
• Building ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages source code (Michael Sync)
• ASP.Net WebAPI (Mike Stall)
• CSS: fast to load, easy to maintain (Scott Knaster)
• Introducing Grunt (Ben Alman)
• ZenGallery: a minimalist image gallery for Orchard and Overriding the Pager rendering in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Web API Design Book – Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love (Bienvenido David III)
• Moving Applications to the Cloud, 2nd Edition – Book Download and Project Silk – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript’s two zeros (Axel Rauchmayer)
• Service logging in JSON with Bunyan (Trent Mick)
• Detecting Touch Hardware in IE 10 (Steve Lydford)
• Redesigning my blog for adaptive layout (Tim Heuer)
• OAuth 2.0 Playground: new features (Scott Knaster)
• Getting Cozy With Underscore.js (Siddharth)
• firstImpression.js: A micro-library for detecting new visitors (Rob Flaherty)
• Codename Antares: A new Microsoft hosting platform for Web apps (Mary Jo Foley)
• Defining Dynamic Assets – PHP Project pt. I and Constructing Dynamic Assets – PHP Project pt. I (Josh Adell)
• Node.js – The objective is absolutely fast I/O (J. Vaughan)
• Web Workbench and your automated build process (Ivan Towlson)
• Just release: Azure User Management Console – AUMC (Frank)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My Rants on Scrum (Ankush Bansal)
• Learn How to Start Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• TDD Best Practices: Don’t Mock Others (Derek Greer)
• Unit Testing against the Team Foundation Server 11 API (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Is Agile Stifling Introverts? (Todd Charron)
• A CQRS Journey – with and without Microsoft and P&P CQRS Journey Post Clarification (Udi Dahan)
• Inversion Of Control: An Architect’s Version of Global Variables (Rob Conery)
• “Done”. “Done Done”. When is a feature really done? (Vassil Terziev)
• Visualizing Code to Fail Faster (Jeff Atwood)
• The confusion around QA: why doesn’t the industry agree? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Don’t be a tool (Eric Brechner)
• Practice Code Kata’s And Learn (Gregor Suttie)
• Design is Resize (Alex Giron)
• Continuous Testing (Greg Young)
• Gmail as an issue tracking system (Davor Crnomat)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Working with the Windows Phone Application Bar (Nick Randolph)
• Porting a Windows Phone application to Windows 8 – A Look from 10,000 Feet Above and Fixing a Streaming Issue in ShoutStreamSource on Windows Phone and Using the Coding4Fun ChatBubble and ChatBubbleTextBox in a Windows Phone Application and Porting Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone to Windows 8 Article Series (Den Delimarsky)
• Things I Missed So You Won’t Have To – WP7 SDK (Doug Rathbone)
• MVVM and Animations in Silverlight (Kevin Logan)
• Displaying Large Text Files in Windows Phone Apps (Bil Simser)
• The Animated Pie Slice in Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
• Lives Tiles in XAML based Windows 8 Metro Application and Isolated Storage Helper For C# and XAML based Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #7: Marketplace tricks (Glen Gordon)
• Make Your Windows Phone Vibrate with PhoneGap (Senthil Kumar)
• How to Retrieve Contact Information in WP7 using the AddressChooserTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVVM Light V4b1 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (with installer) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone 7/7.5 + Phonegap = ???? (Michael Sync)
• Attached behaviors for Windows 8 Metro Style XAML and Porting the DragFlickBehavior from Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro Style (Joost van Schaik)
• Released: New Version of Expression Blend for Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• Handling Authenticated Zip Files in Windows Phone (samidip)
• 2000 WPF Things #526 – Use Adobe Kuler to Create Color Themes and #527 – Colorful Expression Add-in Connects to Adobe Kuler (Sean Sexton)
• Extended WPF Toolkit – 1.6.0 (CodePlex)
• Marketplace now open in 13 new markets. Are your apps available? (Todd Brix)
• Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)
• LightSwitch IIS Deployment Enhancements in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)
• Working with Tiles for Windows Metro Applications (Derik Whittaker)
• Difference between Application created using Metro UI guidelines and Real Windows 8 Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out on Solar Power (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Lucian Wischik: What’s New in VB11 (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 203: Malcolm Sheridan on MVC Lessons Learnt From Being Burnt (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 061 – “Students Support Magenta Phones” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Herding Code 137 – Mass Assignment, New New iPad, JavaScript libraries, Windows 8, Visual Studio, and Sad Trombones (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 434: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, Battlefield 3 and PAX East (Larry Hyrb)
• Bytes by MSDN: Peter Isensee and Jerry Nixon on Windows 8 and Xbox Live (MS Podcasts)
• Let’s Play TDD #177: The Time is Worthwhile (James Shore)
• Agile2011 – Adam Sroka – Jokes, JavaScript and My first Employee (Agile Toolkit)
• Inside Windows Phone # 35 | Ali Heron from Microsoft Advertising talks Ads (Larry Lieberman)
• Windows Phone Minute: Group your pals (Laura Foy)
• Jeff Sandquist Shows off Project Detroit (Don Burnett)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Chad Miller (Ryan Parsley)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 12: LMAX (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Defrag: Moving My Docs, BluRay Troubleshooting, Change Default File Type in Paint. (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Weekly 254: The SKU Spew (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 46 (Richard Hay)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 021 – 03.28.2012 and Engadget Podcast 287 – 03.29.2012 and The Vergecast 024 – 03.30.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 132 – 03.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 74 – Autoscaling and Endpoint Protection in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• C++: A Language for Modern Times (Robert Hess)
• On The Verge, Episode 004: Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Nilay Patel)
• Nokia Lumia 900 advert (Steve Clayton)

 

Community / Events

• Great Places to Work: Microsoft Employees Always First to Use New Software (MS JobsBlog)
• What you need to know about the Microsoft MVP Award (Rachel Appel)
• Indy Hall 3.0 – The Future of Indy Hall (Alex Hillman)
• The HackReady.Phone WebCast Series (Bob Familiar)
• eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile (Wally McClure)
• Code Academy: the student developers building the Windows Phone ecosystem (Tom Warren)
• Build apps with the experts at Windows 8 Dev Camps (Neil Hutson)
• Get (Hack)Ready to Develop for Windows Phone (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between DATABASEPROPERTY and DATABASEPROPERTYEX and SQL SERVER – Online Index Rebuilding Index Improvement in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – sp_describe_first_result_set New System Stored Procedure in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Illusion – Confusion – April Fools’ Day and SQL SERVER – Use ROLL UP Clause instead of COMPUTE BY (Pinal Dave)
• You don’t need to shrink a database to get a smaller backup (Denis Gobo)
• Automated SSRS deployment with the RS utility (Stacy Vicknair)
• Improve SQL Performance – Know Your Statistics (Ian Stirk)
• Truncating Tables in SQL Server (Richard Carr)
• Let’s Talk About Joins (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Introducing SharePointR (Bil Simser)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade – Important Updates (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010: Connecting to SQL Server Using the External Content Type Feature (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Updates to Retrieve Distribution Groups, Update User Addresses, and More (Josh T.)

 

Miscellaneous

• Skills Cloud Résumé (Derek Greer)
• Don’t cry for me, Steve Ballmer (Joe Wilcox)
• Sneak Preview – New CodePlex UI (Mark Groves)
• The Windows 8 Power Users Guide Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon (Mike Halsey)
• If your software matters, you will write it in C++ (Chris Smith)
• Software is not epic (Scott Berkun)
• Who and What makes a Good Customer? (Wally McClure)
• How to Avoid the Common Pitfalls of Mobile App Development (Christine Erickson)
• Why Arrays Normally Start At Zero (Karl Seguin)
• Microsoft Looks to Create App-parity Between Windows Phone and iOS (Jason Lefevers)
• Official and unofficial apps in the iOS, WP7, and Android marketplaces (Bil Simser)
• How to control access to apps on your kid’s Windows Phone (Jac Fitzgerald)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 30, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 31, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 03.23 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 148 (Scott Banwart)
• Maker Geek Roundup 010 for 4/1/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #847 and Double Shot #848 and Double Shot #849 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: March 30, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Monthly Summary – March 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pie in the Sky (March 30, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #12) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 3/29/2012 and Daily News Digest 3/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1075 and The Morning Brew #1076 and The Morning Brew #1077 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for March 28, 2012 – #0060 and Windows Dev News for March 29, 2012 – #0061 and Windows Dev News for March 30, 2012 – #0062 (Dave Campbell)
• Re-blog – March 23 – March 29 (Jason Strate)
• Retrospective 78 – CAO, Certified Agile, Tester, RIP (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland