Dew Drop – June 16, 2011
I will be on vacation starting tomorrow. The Dew Drops will be sporadic until I return on Monday, June 27th.
Top Links
- Announcing the Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor (Scott Hanselman)
- Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Web Standards Update – behind the scenes (Mads Kristensen)
- Microsoft Kinect gets more awesome = Win SDK (xpert360)
- Composite Services Guidance–Release Candidate and Composite Services Guidance: External Routing Configuration sample (Francis Cheung)
- Introducing The MVC Wijmo CTP (Kevin Griffin)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Using __arglist to send parameters to a Method and Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Abhijit Jana)
- Portable Library Tools Now RTM – VS2010 RTM SP1 (Don Burnett)
- Entity Framework 4.1: Code First and WCF Data Services (Glen Gailey)
- LINQ Intersect() 2.7x faster with HashSet (Patrick Smacchia)
- Debugger Canvas and Code Bubbles (Zain Naboulsi)
- Safer asynchronous workflows for GUI programming (Tomáš Petříček)
- New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
- Microsoft Platform Ready Website Updated to Include Office 365 (Wes Yanaga)
- Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Pranay Rana)
- Portable Library Tools RTW (think "One library binary, many platforms") (Greg Duncan)
- C++ AMP Provides Massive Parallelism (Abel Avram)
Web Development
- jQuery Plugin: FunkyFocus v1.1 (Deran Schilling)
- jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ? and Replacing the ACT PagingBulletedList with the jQuery ListNav Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
- Using HTML App Host Tasks from the ECMA Script Context (David Kelley)
- Equality in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Book Review: Drupal Web Services (Michael J. Ross)
- The Rise Of The API, The Future Of The Web (Rob Diana)
- Network capture with Internet Explorer (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- Official boat-load, as in supertanker, sized OpenXML content list (Insert "One OpenXML content list to rule them all" here) (Greg Duncan)
- Binding A Backbone View To A Model, To Enable and Disable A Button and Solving Backbone’s “this.model.view” Problem With Underscore.js (Derick Bailey)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Clean Coder – sharpen your professional skills (Gojko Adzic)
- The Challenge of Personal Change (J.D. Meier)
- Free Version of YouTRACK Issue and Bug Tracker from JetBrains (David Hayden)
- Agile and Architecture Conflict (Vikas Hazrati)
- Automated code reviews for PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
- Unit Testing Raised Events (Richard Carr)
- Collective note taking – More value from your test notes? (Sigurdur Birgisson)
- Why the New YouTrack Matters (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Should we get this tool? (Jef Claes)
- Why Your Form Checkboxes Should Always Use Label Tags (Anthony)
- Testing Chromium: AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector. (Kostya Serebryany)
- Caching, the funny way (Oren Eini)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Silverlight Drag and Drop for Business Applications (Michael Varey)
- In-app purchase coming to Windows Phone "Mango" and Windows Phone "Mango" developer handsets for serious developers only, available next week (damaster)
- Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 13 – What is Tombstoning? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Michael Crump)
- Windows Phone Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game using Sockets in XNA (Ricky Tan)
- Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 (Surf4Fun)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Aspect Oriented Programming at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- ICSE 2011: John Rushby – Formal Methods, Verification and Some Computing History (Charles Torre)
- Hot Apps: Doodle Jump, Lo-Mob, NBA GameTime 2011, PotatoGrid, Alchemy (Laura Foy)
- Let’s Play TDD #115: Wrapping Up the Icon Spike (James Shore)
- The Thirsty Developer 102: These are Exciting Times (Dave Bost)
- AppFabric.tv – How To Build Workflow Services with a Database Respository (Ron Jacobs)
Community / Events
- Looking Forward to Next Week’s SQL Server JumpIn! Camp (Brian Swan)
- Join Us Tomorrow For A Special Channel 9 Live Kinect Event (Nic Fillingham) – That’s today.
Database
- New Microsoft SSIS transform (James Serra)
- SQL SERVER – Free Online Training on .net and SQL (Pinal Dave)
- Dark color theme for SQL Server Management Studio (Raghav Khunger)
- SSIS: The Ninth Circle of Merge Hell (Russell Ball)
- Help us select the new RavenDB logo (Oren Eini)
- Things That Should Be In TSQL (Don Halloran)
SharePoint
- Recapping my webinar w/Idera: Understanding SharePoint Server 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)
Miscellaneous
- Office 2010 is One Year Old Today (Paul Thurrott)
- You probably won’t buy Google Chromebook, but should reconsider and When do you want Windows 8? (Joe Wilcox)
- TidyFS: Microsoft’s simpler distributed file system (Mary Jo Foley)
- Announcing Zoho Docs – Google Chromebook integration (Naveen Venkat)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Getting Started with the Internet of Things – Only $9.99 w/code DDGST (O’Reilly Media)
- What I look for in Peer Review Feedback at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
- Daily Dose: Microsoft Adding More Support for C++ (Ross Jernigan)
- Developer Week in Review: Are .NET programmers going extinct? – Microsoft embraces HTML5, selling a startup at 15, and a new version of Java looms. (James Turner)
- Selling More Shopify Apps, Part 1: The Decision-Making Process (Joey deVilla)
More Link Collections
- Link dump for June 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Daily News Digest 06/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 15-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #874 (Chris Alcock)
The Geek Shelf
 |
Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight (Patterns & Practices) by Bob Brumfield et al |
Technorati Tags: vs2010,html5,css,jquery,patterns & practices,youtrack,sharepoint,ssis,sql server,raven db,windows phone,silverlight,zoho,office 365,php
