Dew Drop – October 31, 2011
Top Links
- Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors (Steven Sinofsky)
- Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET 4.5 (Grigori Melnik)
- Getting Started with JavaScript… again (Christopher Bennage)
- Calling F# Libraries from Metro Style Apps (Daniel Mohl)
- Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target and Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#) (Derik Whittaker)
- What’s new in MEF ‘version 2’ Preview 4? (Alok & Nick)
- Phree Book Reader Now Available (Charles Petzold)
.NET / Visual Studio
- WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.8.5 Now Available (Rene Schulte)
- LINQ to XML in a Nutshell (Dhananjay Kumar)
- WCF Data Services October CTP Updates OData Libraries, Adds Spatial Data Types (Jenni Konrad)
- F# under the covers XIV — Match expressions : Does my complexity look big in this? and F# — where has our Roslyn been? (Steve Gilham)
- Inner Fields and Lazy Initialization in C# (Steve Smith)
- .NET Framework 4 Now Supports LocalDB (Abel Avram)
- MEF 101 – Part2 (Abhijeet Patel)
- Understanding basic WinRT Metro Applications and Application Capabilities and Layout adjustments Snapping and OrientationChanges in Metro Applications (Abhishek Sur)
- Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus Relay Load Balancing (Scale & Availability Feature) and Whats new in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 – Packages are no longer encrypted and How to upgrade only one specific role from your Windows Azure Application and Communication between Windows Azure Roles (Avkash Chauhan)
- VS11DP Microsoft Parallel Visualization Pack (Greg Duncan)
- OpenWrap 2.0.1–a better way to look at dependencies (Sebastien Lambla)
- Building a .NET Gadgeteer Compatible Hardware and Software Module: Der BlinkenLED (Pete Brown)
- Three .NET "tools" that I use every day and you want to know about (Dror Helper)
- Convention-based part registration available in a new MEF preview! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
- Fluent Assertions is finally gaining some momentum (Dennis Doomen)
- 5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic GC Collections (Michael McLaughlin)
- Enterprise Library Contrib – 5.0 (Oct 2011) (CodePlex)
- Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
Web Development
- HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers (Daniel Kehoe)
- ASP.NET MVC: Expression Trees as Parameter to Simplify Query (SummiG)
- HTML5 canvas – Creating Your Own Paint Program (Aramis GC)
- Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github (Phil Haack)
- Codeigniter + HTML5 Boilerplate = win (John Esposito)
- Razor and CSS in JustCode (Just* Team)
- Simple Membership MVC3 1.2 available on NuGet (Kevin LaBranche)
- Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
- HTMLApplicationHost Framework Posted to Codeplex (David Kelley)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
- JavaScript: Why the hatred for strict mode? (Acel Rauschmayer)
- Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers (Vitaly Friedman)
- JavaScript YouTube Downloader–The Compact Edition (Shai Raiten)
- Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
- Embrace Authorship – The importance of rel=me and rel=author on your content’s SEO and Google (Scott Hanselman)
- Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? (Peter Kellner)
- New PHP formatting options in PhpStorm 3.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
- Deploying Node.js Applications to Windows Azure via Blobs or Git Sync (Steve Marx)
- Best Practices for Getting Started with SVG (Jennifer Yu)
- A Best Practice for Programming with Vendor Prefixes (John Hrvatin)
- Guide to Claims-based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition) (Jimmy Larkin)
- CoffeeScript’s for loops don’t work on strings (despite appearances to the contrary) (Joe White)
- Piwik ≤ 1.5.1 multiple XSS vulnerabilities (Krzysztof Kotowicz)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Simple Design with Design Patterns (Cory Foy)
- Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained and Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party Windows Forms controls–How to? (Shubhra Maji)
- Getting Started with Getting Results Free eBook (JD Meier)
- The gift of legacy (Jef Claes)
- Software Development as Risk Management (Christopher Goldsbury)
- Are Project Managers Living a Lie? (Peter Saddington)
- A case study in responsive design (Dan Sheerman)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
- Commands in MVVM (Dave Kerr)
- Getting Started with Windows Phone Alarms (Windows Phone Geek)
- Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (1) (Anders Poulsen)
- Grouping & CheckBoxes in RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 (Deyan Ginev)
- Microsoft: Windows Phone Mango now being delivered to ’100 percent’ of compatible devices (Donald Melanson)
- HTML5 Mobile and Windows Phone 7 (Doris Chen)
- WPF 4: Changing DataGrid Cell Appearance on Mouse Events (Mahesh Sabnis)
- 2000 WPF Things #418 – Star Sizing Allows Setting Row and Column Sizes Relative to Each Other and #419 – How Cell Sizes are Calculated when Using Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
- Custom Versioning Strategy on TFS 2010 for Windows Phone (Henry Lee)
- 31 Days of Mango (Jeff Blankenburg)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 180: Brian Korzinski on Codeslingers (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 417: BF3, Kinect Sports Season 2, Goldeneye 007: Reloaded (Larry Hyrb)
- Episode 164 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Web Dev Radio Episode 91: Zendcon 2011 – Jeff Kibler interview (Michael Kimsal)
- Engadget Podcast 262 – 10.28.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 110 – 10.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Migrating to the Cloud – Part 3/3 (Bob Rhubart)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 74 – Mahesh Krishnan on Azure (Richard Banks)
- Windows Weekly 232: Mango Is To Tango (Paul Thurrott)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Robert Collazo Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Cloud Cover Episode 63 – Securely Sharing Files with Windows Azure (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
- This is my next Podcast 030 – 10.30.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
- Kinect to Kill: A Channel 9 Halloween Special (Laura Foy)
- Video on How to Start developing for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to change Theme and Skin of Windows Phone 7 Emulator and Video on How to work with Orientation Changes in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Community / Events
- SQLAuthority News – Online Webcast How to Identify Resource Bottlenecks – Wait Types and Queues (Pinal Dave)
- Announcing a new user group (Andrej Tozon)
- ALM Events in Redmond by Northwest Cadence and Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr Nov 3rd at ODNC and free bonus sessions at DevTeach (Charles Sterling)
- Get in the game! Announcing a round of free, HTML5 game camps from Microsoft (Dave Isbitski)
- Silverlight in the Enterprise Training at MS NYC (Dani Diaz)
- WordPress Geeks Rejoice, WordCamp Philly 2011 Scheduled For November 6th (Joe Ross)
- KolkataGeeks Pleased to Announce Developer Conference 2011 (#DevConKol2011) (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Microsoft holding Windows Phone press event in NYC Nov. 7 (John Callaham)
- November Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
Database
- Updatable Subscriptions Deprecated in SQL Server 2012 (Brandon Williams)
- SQL SERVER – Fundamentals of Columnstore Index and SQL SERVER – How to Ignore Columnstore Index Usage in Query and SQL SERVER – Database Dynamic Caching by Automatic SQL Server Performance Acceleration (Pinal Dave)
- Add Client Name in SQL Profiler Results (Madhivanan)
- Creating a Table Report with Dynamic Columns (Paul Turley)
- Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table) (sognibene)
- Installing the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database content and Installing the AdventureWorks OLAP Sample Database (Enrique Lima)
- How To Estimate Data Utilization (Michelle Ufford)
SharePoint
- Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – About this Series… and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – How I do MVVM and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – My favorite MVVM toolkit : MVVM Light Toolkit and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Commands and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Messages and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Dialogs and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the Business Logic and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the User Interface and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Using Data Services (Andrew Connell)
- How do I – Resolve the Powershell New-SPConfigurationDatabase command error – The pipeline has been stopped, This SharePoint farm currently has pending upgrades (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
- A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Windows 7: Using the Farm Configuration Wizard Part 1 of 2 (Enrique Lima)
- New book: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
PowerShell
- My Favorite PowerShell Script: Reading Log Files (Jes Schultz Borland)
Miscellaneous
- The Great Place to Work Institute Names Microsoft World’s Best Workplace (MS JobsBlog)
- Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth (Joe Ferris)
- RubyMine, Part 4. Editing Code (Victor Savkin)
- Control Your Vim Editor (Dalibor Nasevic)
- CodePlex Activity Stream (Jahmai OSullivan)
- Windows Azure Special offer for MSDN Subscribers (PubSec)
- Google TV gets generally more ‘Googly’ with Android apps, new YouTube (Tim Conneally)
- So what about Windows Phone 7 adoption rates? (Joost van Schaik)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 28, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 126 (Scott Banwart)
- Interesting .NET Links – October 31 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Bi-Weekly Link Post 212 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Geek Reading October 28, 2011 and Geek Reading October 29, 2011 and Geek Reading October 30, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #740 and Double Shot #741 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP Friday Five: October 28, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
- Friday Links 2011-10-28 (JD Meier)
- The Morning Brew #969 and The Morning Brew #970 (Chris Alcock)
- Pie in the Sky (October 28, 2011) (Brian Swan)
- Daily News Digest 10/28/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/28/2011) (Silverlight Show)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 23-October-2011 to 29-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Web Dev Tweets 26-Oct-2011 and 27-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Reading Notes #18 (Franky)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Retrospective 56 – #CTO #Blog and #SEO #Giveaway (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 28 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
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