Dew Drop – July 8, 2011
Top Links
- appendTo Launches Free Developer Learning Center (appendTo Team)
- Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part II (Luca Bolognese)
- DropKick – a jQuery plugin for beautiful dropdowns (Jamie Lottering)
- The New and Improved Silverlight.net Site (Pete Brown)
.NET / Visual Studio
- F# Parallel Processing and the Command Pattern (Carl Nolan)
- Object hierarchy of NULL (Abhijit Jana)
- LINQ to HPC (formally DryadLINQ) Ships Beta 2 (Ade Miller)
- Portable Libraries for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Alex Thissen)
- FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 3 (Naeem Khedarun)
- Web Test Manager For TFS 2010 (Shai Raiten)
- A first look at Windows Azure AppFabric Applications (Maarten Balliauw)
- Next week: The Microsoft Surface SDK and other Tools and Resources will be available to you! (Luis Cabrera)
- Solution Wide Dependency Management for .NET (Vinayak Palankar)
- Yayyyyy Cloud, iPhone, and Android with Monotouch and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
- Now Available: Building blocks to help ISVs develop Multi-Tenant SaaS solutions on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
Web Development
- Building a Star Rating System with Rails and jQuery (Charles Max Wood)
- JavaScript for C# programmers: wrapping an existing function to add extra functionality (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Simple sorting in JavaScript (Jef Claes)
- HTML 5: Hot Stuff! (Surf4Fun)
- Behind the scenes at xbox.com – RSS enabling web marketplace (Damien Guard)
- WebCL Brings Parallelism to the Browser (Abel Avram)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Pair Programming (Peter Saddington)
- Distributed Bug Tracking Avoids Out-of-Sync Bugs and Code (Eric Sink)
- Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VI–Single responsibility principle is for idiots and morons (Oren Eini)
- StartMenu / Candescent NUI (Greg Duncan)
- The Visual Weight of Primary and Secondary Action Buttons (Anthony)
- Maven Release Plugin and Continuous Delivery (James Betteley)
- Innovation management with Intuit Brainstorm (Terri Griffith)
- Software Craftsmanship: The Art of the Performance (Rachel Hawley)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WP7 DrawingBoard sample: Drawing (Ink) made easy and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Linq to SQL (Windows Phone Geek)
- Optimizing Infragistics WPF Controls Startup Time (Kiril Matev)
- Using Ninject (with CommonServiceLocator) with Caliburn.Micro on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
- Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2 and Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application (Jeff Wilcox)
- How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View inside Blend and Visual Studio? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Creating a Horizontally Scrolling List in WP7 (Matt Lacey)
- Free: Silverlight Game Specification, Angry Dolphins, learning how to program (Surf4Fun)
- Inside the Info Icons in Expression Encoder (Elliot Meacham)
- New Games Developer Education on App Hub (XNA Game Studio Team)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Uncle Bob Looks For Clojure at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- ICSE 2011: Conversation with Baris Aktemur (Charles Torre)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 72: Windows Phone 7 Mango and What’s In It For Developers with Nikita Polyakov (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Episode 152 – PowerScripting Podcast – PrimalForms 2011 with David and Alex from Sapien (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Let’s Play TDD #121: Back to the UI Vision (James Shore)
- Coding QA Episode 58 – Improving Test Team Morale (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Lee Murphy Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Community / Events
- Q&A with Jennifer Chayes (Anita Borg Institute)
- Microsoft Research New England Turns 3: Jennifer Chayes Reveals Its First Product—and Collaborations with Bing, Facebook, and Twitter (Gregory T. Huang)
- Bloggers, Klout, Influence, and the power of Networks (Joel Oleson)
- Let ComponentOne Sponsor Your User Group! (Kevin Griffin)
Database
- SQL Server Denali Sequence Object Overview (Greg Duncan)
- Less code with rethrowing “exception” in SQL Server 2011 (Jakub Dvorak)
- Why is there no CROSS JOIN component in SSIS? (Jamie Thomson)
- SQL Server: DateTime vs DateTime2 (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor Datascript Modules and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP (Vishal)
- SQLDIY: Index Fragmentation Levels (Wesley Brown)
- The IF Statement in a T-SQL Query (Steve Jones)
- Wife and kids are leaving for holiday (it’s not off-topic) (Jakub Dvorak)
SharePoint
- Multiple DataContext Objects for the Same SharePoint Website (Ricky Kirkham)
Miscellaneous
- Token Replacement in PowerShell (James Kovacs)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Migrating Applications to IPv6 – Only $9.99 w/code DD6JN (O’Reilly Media)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily WP7 Development News 7 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShow for June 27 – July 03, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily News Digest 07/07/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #890 (Chris Alcock)
- Weekly Link Post 200 (Rhonda Tipton)
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