Dew Drop – September 7, 2011
Top Links
- Become a Good Programmer in Six Really Hard Steps (Mike Lewis)
- Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 (Mike Taulty)
- NerdDinner 3.0 released (John Petersen)
- Autoscaling Application Block – reactive rule semantics (Grigori Melnik)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Setting up Policies for Extensible Parts in MEF (Abhishek Sur)
- Exceptions and Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
- Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 4 (Daniel Mohl)
- New book: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
- A Review of Beginning C# Object-oriented Programming (srpsco)
- First Look at the New C++ IDE Productivity Features in the Next Version of Visual Studio (Cont’d…) (vcblog)
- Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio — Getting the Appendix (Zain Naboulsi)
- Using BugAid to flatten class hierarchies while debugging (Omer Raviv)
- Why MyGet uses Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
- Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
- parallel_for_each from amp.h – part 1 (Daniel Moth)
- From Normal Collections to Generic Collections (Paul Sheriff)
- Managing Concurrency in Windows Azure with Leases and Building a Task Scheduler in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
Web Development
- Test-Driving Backbone Views With JQuery Templates, The Jasmine Gem, and Jasmine-JQuery (Derick Bailey)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Magic Number with Symbolic Constant (Giorgio Sironi)
- APress Deal of the Day – 7/Sept/2011 – jQuery Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
- JavaScript OMG! #1 to #5 and JavaScript OMG! #6 to #10 and JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15 and JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20 (Mike Taulty)
- Overview of Command Line Deployment and Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 5 Reasons Why Unit Testing is fun–and Important (J. Boyer)
- Agile software development recommendations for users and new adopters (Andrea Salvadore)
- Building Better Software Through Collaboration: Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (Rian van der Merwe)
- Shiny new commit styles (Kyle Neath)
- Pair Programming: The disadvantages of 100% pairing (Mark Needham)
- Leveraging MSBuild for Ruthless Productivity (Michael B. McLaughlin)
- Why Some Companies Execute Better (JD Meier)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics (Justin Angel)
- Windows Phone Toolkit ExpanderView in depth| Part1: key concepts and API and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Connection Strings (Windows Phone Geek)
- Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps (taabello)
- MoXAML goes MefXAML (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Nvidia: Windows Phone 7 Apps Will Run On Windows 8 (Ron Fosner)
- Periodic Agents on Windows Phone 7.1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- 2000 WPF Things #381 – Loading .rtf Files Into a RichTextBox (Sean Sexton)
- Telerik RadChartControl for LightSwitch Application – Day 3 – Giveaway Contest (Kunal Chowdhury)
- DataBinding to Custom Properties (Jesse Liberty)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Engadget HD Podcast 264 – 09.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Let’s Play TDD #137: How Many Frames? (James Shore)
- Video: Kirk Munro – Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Community / Events
- CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to Redmond! (Brendan Tompkins)
- RavenDB Webinar (Oren Eini)
- Reminder–Speaking at the NYC and Boston SharePoint User Groups this week (Andrew Connell)
- WindowsPhoneGeek Forums are LIVE! (Windows Phone Geek)
Database
- New LOGICAL functions in SQL Server Denali (Martin Schmidt)
- Using the SSIS Merge Join (Mike Davis)
- SQL SERVER – A Guide to Integrating SQL Server with XML, C#, and PowerShell – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Denali – Conversion Function – TRY_PARSE() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
- Parallelizing Slow Parts of the Data Flow – Part 1 – Preparation (Todd McDermid)
- Red Gate Schema Compare For Oracle (Geoff Hudik)
SharePoint
- Business Connectivity Service Associations using Oracle Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
Miscellaneous
- The Python Standard Library By Example (Tom Brander)
- Kinect Quiz, one teacher’s story… (Greg Duncan)
- Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter (Kip Kniskern)
- Microsoft’s Mediaroom 2.0 IPTV platform: A codename update (Mary Jo Foley)
- Learning Unix (Miguel de Icaza)
- The Software IP Detective’s Handbook (Mylene Reiners)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Windows Client Developer Roundup 081 for 9/6/2011 (Pete Brown)
- The Morning Brew #932 (Chris Alcock)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 09.01 ~ 09.06 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – September 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Geek Reading September 6, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Daily News Digest 09/06/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 6-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Today’s Links (9/6/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- Acceleration Links #1 (Adam Feber)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Aug 29 – Sept 4 (Silverlight Show)
- Double Shot #703 (Mike Gunderloy)
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