Dew Drop – December 20, 2011 (#1,223)
Top Links
- SOLID JavaScript: The Open/Closed Principle (Derek Greer)
- Using the JavaScript Prototype Property to Structure and Extend Code (Dan Wahlin)
- What’s new in MEF 2 Preview 5? (Alok & Nick)
- Optimizing picture password security (Steven Sinofsky)
- Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and his impact on Azure: A six month report card (Mary Jo Foley)
- No gaps for Windows Phone 7 with latest PhoneGap (Greg Duncan)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Obtaining the Week Number for a Date (Richard Carr)
- Windows 8 Metro App Tip of The Day – reading/writing files without CAP declarations (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Shadowcasting in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
- F# Pattern Matching (Ganesan Senthilvel)
- The Road To LINQ-dom Part 3–Anonymous methods (Kyle Burns)
- CXXI: Briding the C++ and C# worlds. (Miguel de Icaza)
- Sharing with CompositionScopeDefinition in MEF 2 (Alok)
- Tpl Dataflow (IDataflowBlock) – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
- Great Windows Azure announcements and fresh content! (Glen Gordon)
- MonoGame – Write Once, Play Everywhere and .NET Client Library for Google+ (Both in original binary form and decompiled/source version too) (Greg Duncan)
- What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
Web Development
- Be Careful When Using The jQuery Proxy() Method Outside Of A jQuery Context (Ben Nadel)
- JavaScript for C# developers: calling functions and the ‘this’ variable (Julian M. Bucknall)
- CSS and mobile device orientation (Dave Mahon)
- Using CORS to access ASP.NET services across domains (Dave Ward)
- Solving Duplicate Content with Distinct URLs Issue in ASP.NET MVC (Imran Baloch)
- Experimental CSS3 Animations for Image Transitions (Pedro Botelho)
- Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 1 – Introduction (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Creating an Awesome Search Box (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- 2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List (Chris Pietschmann)
- Windows Azure Resource: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition – eBook Download and Windows Azure: Hands on Lab for Moving Applications to the Cloud (Avkash Chauhan)
- Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page: My Solution (Davy Brion)
- WebSocket servers on Windows Server (Nathan Evans)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Are You A Unit Testing Ninja? Stuck with Legacy Code? (Avi Kaye)
- Can software succeed even if Agile failed? and 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
- The Process of Change – The Agile Change Agent [Part 1/4] and The Process of Change – 3 Levels of Change-Implementation [Part 2/4] (Peter Saddington)
- Four cool colour tools (Paul Boag)
- 31 Days of Testing-Day 16: Testing Web Services (Jim Holmes)
- Management Models, Values & Principles? (Jurgen Appelo)
- Article: Succeeding with Dependency Injection (Mark Seemann)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- PAARC: Milestone Reached (Peter Kuhn)
- Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)
- Block Diagram on Windows Phone 7 Application Life Cycle Events (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Book Review: Window Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook (Matt Lacey)
- Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
- 2000 WPF Things #454 – UseLayoutRounding vs. SnapsToDevicePixels (Sean Sexton)
- The Case of the ModelBinding Failure (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Trying To Put A Horseshoe On A Car (Michael Washington)
- Muted audio even when the playback rate is set to a supported audio playback rate (Nitya Ravi)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Kathy Malone is a Green Developer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- YOW! 2011: Mike Lee – The Road to Appsterdam (Charles Torre)
- Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 34 (Richard Hay)
- Gweek 031: The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Start-Up Success Podcast Show #127: Brad Feld on the Startup Marriage (Bob Walsh)
Community / Events
- A Revolution in My Lifestyle (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Database
- SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT function (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
- Update Available for SSDT CTP4 (Adam Mahood)
- SQL: Calculated Fields (Shannon Lowder)
- The Mythical MySQL DBA (Sean Hull)
- Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Where, Oh Where, Is My Mashup Running? (James Terwilliger)
SharePoint
- Information Architecture in a SharePoint Context | Architecture d’Information dans un contexte SharePoint (Alain Lord)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- A Metro Themed PowerPoint Template (Colin Eberhardt)
- Code Signing For Individual Developers (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Android: Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText() (Tim Bray)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #777 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1006 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/19/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily News Digest 12/19/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 12-18, 2011 and Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 19-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Reading Notes #25 (Franky)
- Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 19 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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