Dew Drop – January 19, 2012 (#1,246)
Top Links
- Visual Studio Achievements – Remember Kids They’re Just For Fun (Bil Simser)
- Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta (Karsten Januszewski)
- Learning leadership from Congress (Seth Godin)
- Introducing ReSharper 6.1 SDK (Dmitri Nesteruk)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) (Maarten Balliauw)
- Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living? (Oren Eini)
- [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! – Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Visual Studio Achievements Widget (Geoffrey K.)
- TFS11 Scrum board update remaining work without opening the work item… (Clemens Reijnen)
- Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (Karsten Januszewski)
- An introduction to NDepend (Nathan Gloyn)
- Don’t try to allocate memory until there is only x% free (Raymond Chen)
- Querying an Uninitialized Collection with NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
- P/Invoke Stack Imbalance MDA (Sasha Goldshtein)
- async / await, some reasoning (Bnaya Eshet)
- "Beginner’s Guide to Kinect Programming," from download to demo (Greg Duncan)
- Per Project Settings or How to have different naming styles for my test project (Hadi Hariri)
- Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article (Sacha Barber)
Web Development
- jQuery Bootstrap 0.2 Brings ‘Beauty’ to Widgets (Christopher Smith)
- An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques (Scott Hanselman)
- 160 Music APIs (Wendell Santos)
- Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 – Paths and Text (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET (Joseph Guadagno)
- Under the Covers: Let It Snow… (Bogdan Brinza)
- HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC (Glenn Block)
- Format efficiency take 2: really clean JSON (Pablo Castro)
- Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address (Avkash Chauhan)
- Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability (Dilip Krishnan)
- Easing Functions in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care (Steve Smith)
- The next big thing is extremely small (Jimmy Nilsson)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug (Andy Wigley)
- wp7 skydrive upload (babaandthepigman)
- WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited (Colin Eberhardt)
- How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight (DawningTiger)
- How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone and Code to Share Status or Links on Social Media sites in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Comfortably numb… MVVM’ing Enums in ComboBox (Greg Duncan)
- 2000 WPF Things #476 – Set ZIndex Values for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
- New Ebook by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals (SilverlightShow)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Web Dev Radio Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
- The GeekDads Episode #107: And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is Evil and Bad and Wrong (Ken Denmead)
- Defrag: Gov’s Nest, Bitlocker Q’s, Win7 Defrag, (Larry Larsen)
- Hot Apps: Bug Village, Hasta La Muerte, PixelTV, Make Way, WeatherDuck (Laura Foy)
- The Verge Mobile Podcast 010 – 01.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements (Robert Green)
- New Videos Uploaded (Jesse Liberty)
- Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)
- .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells Unplugged! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Community / Events
- Microsoft-ComponentOne Hands-On-Workshops for Windows Phone Series – January 24th and 26th 2012 (MS Public Sector Team)
- Top 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer (Lori Lalonde)
- I have been awarded as Telerik MVP (Dhananjay Kumar)
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (MS Downloads)
- SQL SERVER – Importance of Resource Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Performance Tuning – optimizing for response time (Jack Vamvas)
Miscellaneous
- Translating Military Experience to Real World Jobs (Joe Wallis)
- Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn’t Enough (Jeff Atwood)
- New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) (Garr Reynolds)
- Learning RegEx – Grouping and Backlinks and Lots-O-emote’s in WPCentral’s complete WP7 emoticons list (Greg Duncan)
- Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? (Kip Kniskern)
- Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
- Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA (Todd Wasserman)
More Link Collections
- Cheatsheet: 2012 01.10 ~ 01.19 (yuanjian)
- Daily News Digest 1/18/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1025 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-18 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 – #00029 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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