Dew Drop – July 15, 2011
Top Links
- Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part III (Luca Bolognese)
- In ngen’ed assemblies, static field initializers don’t run until the field is first accessed (Kirill Osenkov)
- LocalDB: A Lightweight SQL Express for Developers (Jenni Ripley)
- Peeling the Mango – Win Phone 7 Programming from the Ground Up (Part 1) (Pete O’Hanlon)
.NET / Visual Studio
- F# and Running Parallel Tasks (Carl Nolan)
- C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Nullable Math Doesn’t Always Add Up (James Michael Hare)
- OOP without classes in F# (Joh)
- Extend NuGet Command Line (Rob Reynolds)
- You Can Upgrade TFS 2010 to SQL 2008 R2 (Shai Raiten)
- Threading in Monotouch/iPhone/iOS FTW! (Wally McClure)
- Leverage T4Scaffolding for WCF Web API (Steve Michelotti)
- Managed Stack Explorer: A Tool to Complement Process Explorer (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Getting Started with Windows Azure Platform Development (Scott L. Holmes)
- Extend NuGet Command Line (Rob Reynolds)
- Windows 7 Slates: Development Tip 1 (Rob Tiffany)
- Use it or lose it, part deux [New Delay.FxCop code analysis rule helps identify uncalled public or private methods and properties in a .NET assembly] (David Anson)
- That’s Ripplelicious (Greg Duncan)
- Copy packages from one NuGet feed to another (Maarten Balliauw)
Web Development
- Error Handling In Asynchronous Code With Callbacks and Return Codes (Karl Seguin)
- Model Metadata and Validation Localization using Conventions (Phil Haack)
- Defense in Depth: Locking Down Mash-Ups with HTML5 Sandbox (Jacob Rossi)
- How to Implement Trackback Handler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Extending the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles with PHP and MVC3 (Nathan Totten)
- How to style buttons with jQuery Mobile (O’Reilly Media)
- Unit testing JavaScript code when Ajax gets in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
- Switching from ASPX to Razor view engine (Alexander Beletsky)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.2 RC build 107.403 is available. (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Time to Update Those Foursquare Apps: API v1 Goes Dead August 1st (Allen Tipper)
- Bing Maps AJAX 7.0 control updated with new features (damaster)
- PHP Returning Numeric Values in JSON (Lorna Mitchell)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: CQRS (Martin Fowler)
- Machine.Specifications (mspec) testing framework support in Unit Test Runner (Alex Skorkin)
- Skills to Pay the Bills and Lead a Better Life and Organizing, Reading, and Writing Information Faster (JD Meier)
- What mobile apps are essential for collaboration on the go? (Simon Mackie)
- Ken Schwaber – Always Telling It Like It Is (Peter Saddington)
- Message-oriented Architectures (Peter Ritchie)
- When Do You Say A Development Task Is Really Done? (Rob Diana)
- If you can’t change the people, change the culture… (Naeem Khedarun)
- A visual look at RavenDB velocity (Oren Eini)
- Stabilizing Application Architectures Through Simplification (Dan Ackerson)
- Continuous Integration: The Last Mile (James Betteley)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 UX Resources (David Kelley)
- WPF 4.0 : Editable ListBox using Commanding for Data Templates (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Windows Phone Status Bar Symbols – What on Earth? (Mike Ormond)
- WP7: Mango to be released in September (or earlier!) (Owen Williams)
- Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
- A Windows Phone Twitter Application : Part 2 of 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
- StatLight 1.4 and almost 1.5 (Jason Jarrett)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Checking In: Gov Maharaj – Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly (Charles Torre)
- Coding QA Episode 59 – Fede and Atlassian (Part 1) (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
- Tips and Advice – Story Sizing and Granularity (Agile Toolkit)
- Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) (John Papa)
- Let’s Play TDD #123: MiGLayout (James Shore)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Aaron Drenberg Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Community / Events
- Webinar – Compositional and Convention-based Web Development With FubuMVC (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
- How to Find Conference and User Group Presenters (Steve Smith)
- Windows 7 Application Compatibility Screencast (Jennifer Marsman)
Database
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Released (James Serra)
- SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 15 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- Concat function in SQL Server Denali CTP3 and Format function in SQL Server Denali CTP3 (Denis Gobo)
- SQL Server – Management Studio – Schema Changes History Report (Vishal)
- SELECT INTO and IDENTITY (or, BOL is Sorta Wrong) (Jen McCown)
- Do you use T-SQL debugging? (Jakub Dvorak)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Upgrade Essentials Checklist (Joel Oleson)
- .NET Framework support in SharePoint 2010 (Mary Lee)
- Social Squared version 5.5.0.1 release (Lightning Tools)
Miscellaneous
- VMware Highlights Enterprise Clouds With vSphere 5 (Krishnan Subramanian)
- Microsoft says it will have a ‘single ecosystem’ for PCs, tablets, phones, and TVs… and is ‘Windows’ dead? (Nilay Patel)
- How we used HTML5 to make SkyDrive fast for millions of people (Steve Bailey)
More Link Collections
- Link dump for July 13th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Web Dev Tweets 13-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Today’s Links (7/14/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #895 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 14 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 07/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Geek Shelf
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