Dew Drop – February 3, 2012 (#1,258)
Top Links
- Windows Phone 8 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
- Setting Up Git on Windows in Four Easy Steps (Adam Feber)
- A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly (Rob Conery)
- Clean Up NuGet Dependencies With Chewie (Ian Davis)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way (Oren Eini)
- Retrieve and Update YouTube Content in C# (Amir Ahani)
- Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Rabb Moshe Plotkin)
- 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
- How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11 (Willy-Peter Schaub)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro (Jason Jarrett)
- Naming Conventions in JustCode (JustCode Team)
- Reviewing 70-562 .NET Framework 3.5 Preparation Kit from uCertify (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
- Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
- Rx – DistinctUntilChanged (Bnaya Eshet)
Web Development
- Node.js, Require and Exports (Karl Seguin)
- The Telerik Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features (Stefan Rahnev)
- HTML5 and the Web Audio API are BFFs! (Eric Bidelman)
- CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
- Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series (Molly E. Holzschlag)
- HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive (Peter Kellner)
- Creating a Vertical CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
- Umbraco v5 released (The "OMG, it’s really fast now" version) (Greg Duncan)
- Using PHP to Add Content to Plain Text (Scott Eiler)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer (Giles Davies)
- The Science of Kanban – Conclusions (Karl Scotland)
- Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)
- Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
- Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests (Piotr Solnica)
- Talking to Customers: What a Concept (Patrick Foley)
- How To: Get all test points assigned to you? (Gautam Goenka)
- A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development (Mike Cottmeyer)
- When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need the information for (Raymond Chen)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story… (Greg Duncan)
- Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2 (Rabeb Othmani)
- 2000 WPF Things #487 – Specify DrawingAttributes When Drawing to an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
- How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker (Andy Wigley)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 053 – “5.9″, QUAD CORE, NFC, 3D, LTE, 128GB Windows Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Let’s Play TDD #161: The UserEnteredDollars Value Object (James Shore)
- Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Larry Lieberman)
- Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available (Eric Nelson)
Community / Events
- MADExpo 2012 Call for Speakers is Open! (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
- I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 (Andrew Connell)
- Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do (Jeff Atwood)
- Sharpen your Ninja Skills with Telerik Webinars from Feb20 – Feb 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Database
- SQL Server – COPY TABLE from another SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
- Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude (Richard Erwin)
- SQL Server NOLOCK (Tom Stickel)
- Don’t Splint Your Database Server To Death (Mike Walsh)
- Sniff that Parameter (Chris Yates)
- Ready for SQL Azure? New Service Tells You (David Ramel)
- Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure (Herve Roggero)
SharePoint
- So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products – Happy Days (Joel Oleson)
- Using Twilio with SharePoint to send SMS messages (Nick Swan)
Miscellaneous
- Windows 8 consumer preview (Beta) installation screenshots leaked (Ankur Mittal)
- The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
- Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? (Ed Bott)
- I’m from the Cloud and I’m here to help… No really, trust me… Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" (Greg Duncan)
- New Social APIs in Android ICS (Tim Bray)
- Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! (Kent Nguyen)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – February 2 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #810 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1036 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-02 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for February 02, 2012 – #0035 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 2 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012 (Beth Massi)
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