Dew Drop – November 16, 2011
Top Links
- List of freely available programming books (Stack Overflow)
- November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Jeff Wilcox)
- JavaScript Closures for Dummies (Morris Johns)
- “Explicit” Tests with Resharper (Peter Ritchie)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Actor Model Programming in C# (Chris Patterson)
- Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cleaner and Build Explorer version 1.1 for Visual Studio Team Explorer is released (Terje Sandstrom)
- Greatest Hits: Make IntelliSense Transparent (Zain Naboulsi)
- DevPad 4.7 and Fluent Validation 3.2 (CodePlex)
- Ninject and NLog with Multiple Loggers (Geoff Hudik)
- Skeletal Tracking Example (Greg Duncan)
- Partial Application (Chris Eargle)
- Robotium 3.0 – Stepping It Up! (Renas Reda)
Web Development
- Selenium 2 from PHP code and Practical PHP Refactoring: Parameterize Method (Giorgio Sironi)
- Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 1 (Jorge Ramon)
- Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 (Renso Hollhumer)
- How you clear your HTML5 Canvas matters (Simon Sarris)
- Addressing Sueetie Wall Permalinks (Dave Burke)
- Windows Azure SDK for PHP v4.0.4 (CodePlex)
- HTML5: Pushing and Popping with the History API (Mike Robinson)
- Multiple domains with HTTP and HTTPS endpoint and UCC SSL Certificate in Windows Azure Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
- YUI 3.5.0 Roadmap and Timelines (Jenny Donnelly)
- A Pinch of CoffeeScript Sugar – Part 1 (Daniel Mohl)
- Making hashchange Work Better on Windows Phone (Chris Love)
- Using JsonValue and JsonArray in WCF Web API (Alexander Zeitler)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Should Developers Know the Business Customers? (Peter Saddington)
- Leveraging Microsoft Patterns and Practices (Tim Murphy)
- Hash Tables as an Efficient Means of Search (Andy)
- Writing stable code (Kyle Szklenski)
- The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience (Rian van der Merwe)
- Inside Red Gate – Exercises in Leanness (Simon Cooper)
- The required infrastructure frees you from infrastructure decisions (Oren Eini)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Lync SDK: Lync controls for Wpf and Silverlight ! (Nicolas Humann)
- Windows Phone, The Xbox of today (Daniel Egan)
- Blend 4 + VS 2011 (Preview) = Problem? (Michael Sync)
- Updates to the Expression Blend User Guide (Pam Keesey)
- 2000 WPF Things #431 – Binding a Control’s Width to Its Height (Sean Sexton)
- Two Ways to Create a Database for Your Mango App (David Pell)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #16: Isolated Storage Explorer (Jeff Blankenburg)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- C&B 2011 Panel: Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers – Concurrency and Parallelism and SPLASH 2011: Mark Miller – Secure JavaScript (Charles Torre)
- ADP West 2011 – Ken Pugh – Acceptance Test Driven Development and Tips and Advice – Test Driven Development – Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie (Agile Toolkit)
- On The Verge, Episode 001: Matias Duarte (Verge Staff)
- Here’s What It’s Like To Use Nokia’s Stunning New Windows Phone [VIDEO REVIEW] (NOK, MSFT) (Ellis Hamburger)
- Gil Zilberfeld interviews Uncle Bob Martin (Avi Kaye)
- Hot Apps: Kinectimals, Monopoly, Find the Lady, INRIX traffic, PhotoBucket (Laura Foy)
- Engadget HD Podcast 274 – 11.15.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Boagworld: With Adobe backtracking on Flash, its time we did too (Paul Boag)
- The GeekDads Episode #103: If You Can Make Something Light Up, Make it Light Up! (Ken Denmead)
Community / Events
- Tonight at F#unctional Londoners: Byron Cook: Proving program termination with F# (Don Syme)
- FREE Windows Azure Developer Camps Coming to A City Near You; Sign up Now! (Himanshu Singh)
- Window Phone Marketing team really is hungry… Café Mango food truck roams the streets of NYC (Greg Duncan)
- Infographic: Freelancers On The Job (Richard Hay)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book – Write T-SQL Self Join Without Using LEAD and LAG (Pinal Dave)
- List all stored procedures that run at startup in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
- The Data Scientist (Buck Woody)
- Creating a Partitioned View in the BAM Archiving Database and Adventures in TSQL: Comma separated string from column values and Adventures in TSQL: Adding date and time values and Adventures in TSQL: Using CTEs when performing DELETE/UPDATE operations (Carl Nolan)
- The First Thing To Do After Creating Keys (Steve Jones)
- The CASE of the missing non-NULL T-SQL Error: None of the result expressions in a CASE specification can be NULL. (Jose Chinchilla)
- Quotename in SQL (Jack Vamvas)
- SQLCop is now available via chocolatey (Christiaan Baes)
SharePoint
- Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint – Part 1 (Walter Ferrari)
Miscellaneous
- Kodu Game Lab (MS Downloads)
- First step with Ruby: Kindle Clipping Extractor (Franky)
- Windows 8 is NOT coming to Phones (Mike Halsey)
- Xbox – 10 years of epic (Steve Clayton)
- Inside Microsoft’s secret "Socl" network (Tyler Holman)
- Google Programming Language is Go for 2012 launch (Zach Honig)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #753 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Interesting .NET Links – November 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily News Digest 11/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #982 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/15/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 15 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 7-13 (Silverlight Show)
The Geek Shelf
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