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Top Links

• The easy way to set up NuGet to restore packages (David Ebbo)
• Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• "BECAUSE WE’RE ALL PERSONS": EMPATHY AND OPEN SOURCE (Mattt Thompson)
• I’m a phony. Are you? (Scott Hanselman)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 5 of n – Application: Poker (Steffen Forkmann)
• Real World .NET 4 and C# (Christian Nagel)
• Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse (Telerik Team Pulse)
• MVVM your Kinect code (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore Expression Lab tool window for observing the parsed source code trees (Alex Skorkin)
• Clojure and the CLR (K. Scott Allen)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
• Mono.Addins – Release: v0.6.2 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm (Derek Johnson)
• Dealing with singular plural phrasing (Phil Haack)
• An Issue with Area in ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB.NET) (Imran Baloch)
• ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD246 (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Storage Libraries in Many Languages and Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• CSS3: Animations vs. Transitions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to execute/run a shell script as root from a PHP script? (Svetoslav Marinov)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The process (John Rayner)
• Understanding Enterprise Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Agile Innovation Games (Peter Saddington)
• Are Workflows Really That Bad? (Hint: Maybe They Aren’t) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Technical Debt (Charles Max Wood)
• Macto: Looking at warrants (Oren Eini)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Beginners How to: Programmatically set common Control properties and How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight testing framework support in the Unit Testing Service (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows 8 and the Death of Silverlight (Chris Eargle)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #366 – Binding a Calendar Control’s SelectedDate Property to a Nullable DateTime (Sean Sexton)
• On a path to a generic About page (Andrej Tozon)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 03 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 (MS Podcasts)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 74: Mobile Web Is Not What The Other Guys Say It Is (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 158 – PowerScripting Podcast – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse Talk NuGet and PSGet (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 261 – 08.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 1 – Pilot (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Community / Events

• Let Critical Path Training send you to the SharePoint Conference 2011! (Andrew Connell)
• Will Microsoft reveal a new IDE at the BUILD conference? (Daniel Fisher)
• Get Trained on Sweet, Sweet Mango! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Author news: Sign up for Mango Jump Start August 23-24 (Kim Spilker)
• Empathy and Open Source (Joe Mayo)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (Glenn Berry)
• Deleting Data in Small Chunks on SQL Server (Jason Crider)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Sparse Data and Space Used by Sparse Data – Day 17 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Copy Results with Headers – Management Studio (Vishal)
• T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause (Henrik Sjang Davidse)
• Adding custom folders to your SSMS Object Explorer with this free addin… (Greg Duncan)
• Knowing what your doing with NOLOCK… (Greg Duncan)
• Calculate table size with existing data (Jack Vamvas)
• Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today (Jason Brimhall)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing (Mary Jo Foley)
• The anatomy of Xcode’s project window (O’Reilly Media)
• Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 206 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Today’s Links (8/16/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #918 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_29 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

 

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

 

 

Top Links

• Writing an ASP.NET MVC Controller Inspector (Phil Haack)
• C# Performance Pitfall – Interop Scenarios Change the Rules (Reed Copsey)
• NuGet Support for Visual Studio 2008 (Scott Hanselman)
• HTML5 Boilerplate hits 2.0! (Paul Irish)
• MonoCross – A cross-platform MVC pattern for mobile development in .NET/C# and Mono (Google Code)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• nHibernate LINQ workaround for System.NotSupportedException (Jag Reehal)
• Enable Address Level Debugging in Visual Studio and What is the use of IsBackground property of Thread? (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Automatic File Recovery (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack (Daniel Mohl)
• Visual Studio and Orphan Child Window–How to Fix the Issue (Derik Whittaker)
• Dynamic in C# is Broken (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• How to get DTE from Visual Studio process ID? (Kirill Osenkov)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part VII (Luca Bolognese)
• Running Visual Studio (and Resharper) on a Mac (Peter van Ooijen)
• Configuring a TFS Environment with Test Controller, Test Agent, and Build Server (Kirk Evans)
• Code Metrics: Code Metrics Results Exporting (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip: Access to modified variable in closures (Arian Kulp)
• Lambdas for Junior Developers and Building a Tree Class (Chris Eargle)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 1 Released! (Eric Smith)
• Windows Server AppFabric adds Read-Through and Write-Behind Support (Jonathan Allen)
• Photo Mosaics Part 3: Blobs (Jim O’Neil)
• I Get NuGet. You Get NuGet? (Jeff Handley)
• A Wide Array of New Features in Windows Azure Tools 1.4 (Jenni Ripley)
• Total Commander SkyDrive File System Plugin 0.8.9b (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• The Backbone.js Todo List Sample, Refactored – Part 1 (Rob Conery)
• A simple pattern for AJAX with MVC (Avi Pilosof)
• HTML5 WebCamp Lab Setup Instruction (Doris Chen)
• jWorldmaps: The Anatomy of a jQuery Mapping Plugin (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developing Rich Applications for the Diverse Internet (Joe Stagner)
• How to Implement 2-Step Verification in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Making HTML tables easier on the eye- CSS Structural Pseudo-classes (Phil Factor)
• ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Universal Map of Resources (Rick Anderson)
• HTML 5 Updates for .NET 4 (Scott Hunter)
• Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure (Mark Berryman)
• Hardening PHP: SQL injection – Complete walkthrough (Krzysztof Kotowicz)
• IE Microsoft JScript runtime error: ‘JSON’ is undefined (Raghav Khunger)
• Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey (Sarah Perez)
• Video encoder and metadata reading by using Windows Media Foundation (Tamir Khason)
• Windows Azure Inter-Role Communication Using Service Bus (Valery Mizonov)
• A Simple Example For Backbone.ModelBinding (Derick Bailey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Having Trouble Adopting Agile? (Phil Japikse)
• Creating a command line tool for source code metrics analysis (Alex Skorkin)
• Why is mercurial hanging during adding file changes? (Anne Epstein)
• The LOB Chronicles – Exploring User Experience (UX) (Evan Hutnick)
• Do yourself a favor… Trust No One (Paul S. Randal)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MathConverter – How to Do Math in XAML (Ivan Krivyakov)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Index] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone Pivot and loading content (Andrej Tozon)
• TouchDevelop – Getting Started (Jonathan de Halleux)
• WPF: Dictionary Value Converter (Arik Poznanski)
• How can you detect Browser Information in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #362 – Changing the Text on a ToggleButton When a User Clicks On It and #363 – Calendar Control Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Using on View Ready in Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
• FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx (Mike Taulty)
• Get List of all Control Types in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Detecting a Windows Phone physical drop – Part 1 – Intro and theory (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Show a minimized panorama application bar (Håkan Reis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Space Out! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 118: Paul Betts on SassAndCoffee (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 112: ESPN & Xbox LIVE, Foy works for Windows Phone, G mail man, IE Hoax (Laura Foy)
• SE Podcast #15 (Alex Miller)
• Thomas Fennel and Windows Phone Mango’s Push Notifications and Live Tile Support (Robert Hess)
• Silverlight TV 81: Four Great Windows Phone UX Tips (John Papa)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• This Developer’s Life 2.0.4 Taste (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – David Kelley Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Boagworld – The big decisions about design and how to make them (Paul Boag)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 029 – “Aussie Kids Are Weet-Bix Kids” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Hot Apps: Cro-Mag Rally, Numerix, Wild West, Activity Roulette, HoloPhone 3D (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Someone is selling my Foundations of Programming ebook on Amazon.com (and it isn’t me) (Karl Seguin)
• FubuMVC Webinar: F102 – FubuMVC In Action (Josh Arnold)
• MVPs Bring Together Hundreds of Developers to Hack Kinect and Build Games in Sydney (Nick Ellery)
• Google + Hangouts (Grant Fritchey)
• I Blame Brent Ozar (Mike Hillwig)
• The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program Distilled (Mike Walker)

 

Database

• Viewing SQL statements created by Entity Framework with SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server “Denali”: Distributed Replay (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Advanced Aggregates with the Over Clause – Day 11 of 35 and SQL SERVER – SafePeak – The Plug and Play Immediate Acceleration Solution and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Ranking Functions – RANK( ), DENSE_RANK( ), and ROW_NUMBER( ) – Day 12 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #21 – A trigger can do that! (Ted Krueger)
• Query window custom colouring now works properly [SSMS] (Jamie Thomson)
• When was the Last Time You Removed an Index Because it was Never Used? (Brad M. McGehee)
• Reset Identity Column in SQL (Bradley Schacht)
• We Are TOTALLY Amused: A T-SQL Error (Jen McCown)

 

Miscellaneous

• Steal Ideas From These psake Scripts (Pete Seale)
• OneNote tip: getting OneNote to prompt you for where to store stuff (John Guin)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Functional Programming for Java Developers – Only $8.49 w/code DD241 (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 115 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2011 — #1129 and Silverlight Cream for August 11, 2011 — #1130 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_27 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) and Weekly Links– 2010_28 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Today’s Links (8/10/2011) and Today’s Links (8/11/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #914 and The Morning Brew #915 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 9-Aug-2011 and 10-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading August 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 10th and Link dump for August 11th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily Links 11/08/2011 (Jax)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders & Pitfalls: The Complete Collection (so far…) (James Michael Hare)

 

The Geek Shelf

Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman

 

 

Top Links

• MonoTouch: Past, Present, and Future (Brent Schooley)
• And we are back: Mono 2.10.3 (Miguel de Icaza)
• A bit more details on compiler Roslyn plans… (Patrick Smacchia)
• Coding4Fun: Where’s My Car? (Arian Kulp)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 4 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A brighter TFS future? (Jimmy Bogard)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part VI (Luca Bolognese)
• VS2010 – Debugging not working (Peter Gfader)
• How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching in a Windows Azure-hosted application (Paolo Salvatori)
• C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
• RadControls for WinForms Step-by-step tutorial: Updated (Telerik WinForms Team)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Update 1, Backward Compatibility and Microsoft (Oren Eini)
• Robosapien, I Kinect you… (Greg Duncan)
• dotCover 1.1.1 and dotTrace Performance 4.5.1 Released (Hadi Hariri)

 

Web Development

• Metro Skin for ASP.NET AJAX is now available (Senthil Kumar)
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Brad Wilson)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Returns Garbage (Chris Eargle)
• Integrating MVC routes and Web API routes (Glenn Block)
• HTML5 Part 4: Using HTML5 while retaining support for older browsers (Jennifer Marsman)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.3.0 SP1 (CodePlex)
• Playing with the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics Features (Steve Marx)
• Multiple URL Binding with IIS Express (Abhijit Jana)
• Connecting Web Apps with Web Intents (Google Chrome Blog)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: SemanticConflict (Martin Fowler)
• Article: Agile Strategy Manifesto (Yogesh Kumar)
• Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
• Enterprise Architecture Goes To College, EA Becoming Academically Recognized and Offered (Mike Walker)
• Translating Code Smells in Server Smells (Patrick Debois)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to: Search for a Contact and get Contact Picture in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
• WP7 Contrib – Bing Maps Rest API Wrapper Part III Search (Richard Griffin)
• Bing Maps Task (Jesse Liberty)
• 2000 WPF Things #358 – Binding a RadioButton to an Enumerated Type (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 – A developer review and Invoke the Windows Phone emulator console window without using the registry and How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image) (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Rapid Business Application Development with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
• How to Retrieve WPF Visual Tree Programmatically ? and Writing a Stretchable ContentControl in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Using Range Sliders (Part 2) (Mihail Mateev)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Hey, why is my ViewModelLocator not being called when creating a view? (Derik Whittaker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Peter Torr and Application Multi-Tasking on Windows Phone "Mango" (Robert Hess)
• Silverlight TV 80: Reactive Extensions (John Papa)
• Video – What is Enterprise Architecture According to Industry Thought Leaders (Mike Walker)
• Deep Dive video: PowerShell Modules by Dan Harman (Dmitry Sotnikov)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday in DC 8/11-8/13/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• August 11th at Agile 2011: "Agile Tech Tree" Workshop and August 11th at Agile 2011: "Slackers and Debtors" Hands-On Session (James Shore)
• NRW Conf 2011 community conference: The doors are open (Daniel Fisher)
• Monospace, diary of an organizer (Louis Salin)
• Sample DBA Resumes (Brent Ozar)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server: Retreive all records between Two Rows of a Table without a Numeric Primary Key (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding un-matching Records – Day 5 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – ALTER COLUMN – Management Studio v. T-SQL (Vishal)
• "Select Top 1000 Rows" Doesn’t Show SPARSE Columns? (Larry Leonard)

 

SharePoint

• Continuous Integration for SharePoint 2010 (Mike Morton)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Start Using VIM (Victor Savkin)
• Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Antonio Hernandez)
• Thankyou Mr. Russinovich – Process Explorer 15 adds GPU monitoring (LearnWPF)
• How to publish your application to Android Installer (O’Reilly Media)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Google Power Search – Only $4.49 w/code DDWRS (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET PSD Plugin – Release v2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Windows Phone “Tango” to feature universal search? (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for July 25 – 31, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2011 — #1124 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #910 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/4/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 08/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 3-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading August 4, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft by Eric Brechner