Dew Drop – November 8, 2011
Top Links
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #8: Contacts API (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started (Brian Noyes)
- Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 1 (Jorge Ramon)
- Useful Visual Studio Extension – Web Essentials from Mads Kristensen (Scott Hanselman)
.NET / Visual Studio
- MonoDevelop User Voice: Vote for Full F# Support (Don Syme)
- An F# Web Server From Sockets and Up (Anton Tayanovskyy)
- A Generic Circular Buffer (Richard Carr)
- Asynchronous Processing in Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
- F# Parallel Execution and Future Tasks (Carl Nolan)
- Visual Studio Tools and Tricks (Patrick Liekhus)
- Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview – Project Backward Compatibility (Round-Tripping) (Zain Naboulsi)
- The Rx Framework By Example (Phil Martin)
- OData Service Validation Tool Update: 19 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
- Windows Azure Drive Snapshot and Updating Azure Drive (Avkash Chauhan)
- Netduino Controlled LED Cube (Mark Stevens)
- Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration (Marko Apfel)
- Windows Azure for Social Applications (Larry Franks)
- The life story of the SwitchToThisWindow function (Raymond Chen)
- Improve HealthVault query efficiency with final transforms… (Eric Gunnerson)
- Breaking changes and named arguments (Eric Lippert)
- Real world feedback on a .Net to Mono migration (Patrick Smacchia)
- Azure: What is wrong with the Partition Key value? (Dhananjay Kumar)
Web Development
- jQuery mouseover expanding menu (John Whish)
- Auto wiring parts in ASP.NET MVC with MEF 2 (Per Ökvist)
- Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
- Introducing the pinning wizard – a more interactive website in 5 minutes (Justin Garrett)
- What’s your checklist for starting a new Rails application? (Daniel Kehoe)
- Rocking YUI on Node.js and Mobile (Dav Glass)
- SVG Tutorial: Rotating Wheel Interface (with Clipping Paths and Scalable 2D Motion Graphics) (John Esposito)
- GoogleMap Control 6.0 (CodePlex)
- 25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools (Andi Smith)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Me on TDD/BDD/Pairing and Jason Fried’s TED Talk and “why work isn’t done in the office…” (Adron Hall)
- Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 2: Typemock (Thomas Weller)
- How to improve your site using stakeholder interviews (Paul Boag)
- Carve Out Time for What’s Important (JD Meier)
- Troubleshooting Record and Playback issues in Coded UI Test (Mathew Aniyan)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Design Templates and Bewise Phone Controls Toolkit (Windows Phone Geek)
- iOS UIPickerView-like control in WPF (Mike Heydlauf)
- Windows Phone: Are you Game? Part 1 (Espen Harlinn)
- JavaScript, MVVM and Silverlight – Papa’s Perspective (John Papa)
- Achievement unlocked: Windows Phone 7 and WireShark combo (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Introducing The Podcast App Starter Kit for Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
- 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 5 of 10) (Michael Crump)
- How to Load Image that is set as Embedded Resource in BuildAction in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
- How to use PlaySoundAction Behavior in WP7 Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Could and should Microsoft change the heart of Windows Phone? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Inside Windows Phone Apps – Facebook and Inside Windows Phone Apps – Twitter (Sara Allison)
- 2000 WPF Things #425 – SharedSizeGroup Allows Sharing Column Sizes Across Different Grids (Sean Sexton)
- Introduction to Infragistics Geographic Map (Mihail Mateev)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- SPLASH 2011: Brendan Eich – JavaScript Today and Tomorrow (Charles Torre)
- Technology & Friends Episode 181: Joe Kunk on Windows 8 (David Giard)
- SQL SERVER – Video – Performance Improvement in Columnstore Index (Pinal Dave)
- The Tablet Show – Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Combine Kinect and Metro (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Ping 123: Microsoft and the White House, New MS store, Holodesk, YouTube hacked and Spotify launches for Windows Phone TODAY (Laura Foy)
- 5 Minutes on The Verge: Microsoft’s Frank X. Shaw (Joshua Topolsky)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 75 – Sailing With This Ship of Tools (Richard Banks)
- The LOB Chronicles Episode 13: Extending RadScheduleView (Evan Hutnick)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for November 7th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Critical Path Training – SharePoint 2010 Developer Training in Oslo, Norway! (Andrew Connell)
- Open Government Data: From the Cloud to the Phone–Dev Dinner Event Nov. 17, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
- New Windows Phones hit U.S. stores; Revealing our big NYC surprise and Recap: Big Windows Phone wows New York City (Michael Stroh)
- Windows Phone Wants to Feature Your App!!! (Doug Holland)
Database
- Delegated SQL Server Administration with Powershell (Chad Miller)
- SQL Server 2012: New Certifications (James Serra)
- Amazon/Microsoft Deal Expanded to Include BizSpark and SQL Server 2012 (Jonathan Allen)
- SQL Server Denali CTP 3 – Dockable Windows! (Mike Parks)
- SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.5–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
- SQL Server: Find Common Rows in Tables using INTERSECT (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Introduction to CUME_DIST – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 and SQLAuthority News – Updates on Contests, Books and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
- MongoDB’s Reliability Questioned (Jonathan Allen)
- Add-In for searching object in SSMS without touching mouse (Jakub Dvorak)
SharePoint
- How do I solve – This view cannot be displayed because the number of lookup and workflow status columns it contains exceeds the threshold enforced by the administrator? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- The General Problem (xkcd.com)
- Poll: What is the Coolest Non-Gaming Use for the Kinect Technology? (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Use note tag colors to prioritize information on a OneNote page (John Guin)
- BizTalk 2010 Schema mapping issues (Jon Fancey)
- Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire vs Nook Color vs iPad 2 comparison (Thomas Ricker)
- The Tweaker – The real genius of Steve Jobs. (Malcolm Gladwell)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 11.01 ~ 11.07 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – November 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Maker Geek Roundup 003 for 11/7/2011 (Pete Brown)
- The Morning Brew #975 and The Morning Brew #976 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #746 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 11/7/2011 and Weekly article digest 11/7/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily Links 07/11/2011 (Jax)
- Reading Notes #19 (Franky)
- Silverlight Cream for November 06, 2011 — #1163 and Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2011 — #1164 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 7 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 30-October-2011 to 05-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
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