Dew Drop – October 5, 2010

I hit 1000 posts last week and didn’t realize it. I guess I should number my Dew Drops instead of just using the date. 

Party time! 

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Top Links

• jQuery Templates, Data Link, and Globalization Accepted as Official jQuery Plugins (Scott Guthrie)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #3: The Back Button Paradigm and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #4: Device Orientation (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 20, 50, 90, 400 and 2 (James Ashley)
• 5 Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactor Your Code with Resharper and 5 (more) Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactor your Code with Resharper (Tips 6-10) (John Papa)
• Stop Worrying About The Next Big Thing (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• SQL Server Error Handling (Richard Carr)
• Different Version of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Building a CRUD in RESTful Services of WCF (Abhishek Sur)
• Linq queries with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• No backtracking, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• “Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010,” the Six Page DZone Refcard (Greg Duncan)
• Three new Microsoft Surface Code Samples (Luis Cabrera)
• Introducing ‘Vingy’ Add-in for VS2010 – Search StackOverflow, CodeProject, DotNetKick etc easily from with in Visual Studio (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• F# Computation Expressions: Basic Data Retrieval Mechanics (Neil)
• Undock and Dock a Single Tool Window in a Group and The Immediate Window: Implicit Variables and Changing Context in the Locals Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit and Microsoft Report Viewer 2010 Redistributable Pacckage (MS Downloads)
• WF4 Activities, Callbacks and Event Handlers (Ron Jacobs)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Application (VI) – Entities, Repositories and Commands and Working with RavenDB Documents + Entities – The Debate (Rob Ashton)
• The Case of the Wrong Window Owner (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Understanding jQuery’s impact on Microsoft and ASP.NET (Dave Ward)
• Extending ASP.NET MVC’s Validation (Mike Ormond)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript Patterns – Only $14.99. Use code DDJSP (O’Reilly Media)
• jQuery Cycle Plugin on the Microsoft Ajax CDN (Stephen Walther)
• HTML5: A Specification or a Platform? and Real-World Implementations of Pinned Sites with IE9 (Tim Sneath)
• Dictionary.com Defines Its API (Alex Stone)
• Azure@home Part 7: Asynchronous Table Storage Pagination (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile, the next generation: Three ways to go beyond Scrum (Andy Singleton)
• Bug tracking for agile teams and Rethinking user interface test automation (Gojko Adzic)
• The three step guide to unit testing Entity Framework 4.0 (Greg Duncan)
• Why Agile Results Works for Getting Results and The Sleeper Effect and Getting Started, Solve-a-Problem, and Arch-and-Design and Developer Guidance IA at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• A Root Cause Analysis of Agile Practices (Karl Scotland)
• The PHP paradigms poll results: OOP wins and Practical PHP Patterns: Money (Giorgio Sironi)
• Start Believing In Yourself and Monkey Patching FTW! (Davy Brion)
• The Advantages and Drawbacks of Agile Software Development and The Nature of Software Development Methodologies – Cowboy, Waterfall and Agile (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• User Stories Belong to Everyone (Scott Bellware)
• Continuous Reflection *Before* Time Management (Jurgen Appelo)
• Release management, or “How to de-version your app” (Kyle Baley)
• Automation for the People (because Everybody Doing It Manually Hurts) (Matt Stine)
• Coding: Write the first one ugly (Mark Needham)
• The Power and Future of LightSpace — It’s Just Natural (Steve Clayton)
• Extending Metro UI into the programs we use (Steven Hodson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 3 – LoginCommand) (Baba)
• Silverlight: Embed IronRuby/DLR Scripting within XAML using IValueConverter and Custom UserControl (Chris Pietschmann)
• Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa (Abhishek Sur)
• MVVM: Why I like it and how I learned it (Andrew Connell)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 6 – Blogs and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 7 – Collections (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fix WP7 Dev Tools Install Issue: Setup cannot be run in Program Compatibility Mode and Silverlight Animation Class Diagram
• A Real WPF 4.0 WebBrowser (Chris Cavanagh)
• Windows Phone 7 Firestarters – feel the excitement! (Dave Isbitski)
• There’s no substitute for customer feedback! [Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance now a bit easier with LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates] (David Anson)
• One Application in Both WPF and Silverlight (Khawar Yunus)
• Disable Javascript error in WPF WebBrowser control (Al Kampfer)
• Windows Phone 7 XAML Design Templates (Karsten Januszewski)
• Free online function graphing with Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Display Images from Database in Windows Phone 7 (WP7) using WCF service (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Windows Phone 7 Launches Next Week – More Specs Leaked (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows Phone 7: Beating the Boot-time Blues and Windows Phone 7: Jumping through the Back Stack (Nick Randolph)
• Double-width tiles (Rudi Grobler)
• Simulating Bandwidth (Kirupa)
• ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Thomas Martinsen)
• Looking forward to Windows Phone development… (Sarah D.)
• Top 10 Tips for Submitting your App to Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (Sara Allison)
• Rolling out Windows Phone Marketplace for Launch (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 176: Complete With Felt Blood (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 118: Mike and Cicelie Neel on Geek Relationships (David Giard)
• Sparkling Client Podcast Show 108: The HTML5/Silverlight “Controversy” with Scott Barnes and Windows Phone Unleashed Portland Recap (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Web Camps TV #5 – Microsoft Commits Code to jQuery! (James Senior)
• Agile DC – Washington DC’s regional agile conference (Bob Payne)
• Ping 77: Keeping Windows Phone 7 fast, WordPress, Tweets, SecondLife (Laura Foy & Paul M.)
• Introducing News Framework for Windows Phone 7 (CodeTV)
• Let’s Play TDD #29: More Failing (James Shore)
• Countdown to PDC: Tips for Exploring Seattle and A Look Behind MSR’s Lightspace (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone 7 Promotional Video (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Press Event on October 11th (Brian Seitz)
• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
• Are you a good fit for Microsoft? Show us (Part II of III) (Sandeep Sood)
• Author news: Discount on Windows internals training (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• SQL Server Database Maintenance Checklist (Brad M. McGehee)
• Duplicate a Column in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more… and SQL SERVER – Find Total Number of Transaction on Interval and SQL SERVER – Error : Fix : Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB (Steve Jones)
• LooksAlive and IsAlive checks by Microsoft Cluster Service (Pradeep Adiga)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 1 (Jason Strate)
• Take your script library with you [T-SQL] and Changing the security context with Dynamic SQL [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Server Administrator for SharePoint Special Giveaway – Free Today Only (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Interactive Session #11: Units of Measure (2#4u)
• Here comes Google TV (Ambarish Kenghe)
• More Hilo–Sharing Photos with Hilo! (Aseem Datar)
• Netduino, Netduino Plus, Fez Panda, Arduino Deumilanove (Pete Brown)
• Windows Slates coming at Christmas, unveiled on October 11 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 3, 2010 and Interesting Finds: October 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 044 for 10/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Cool list of Client Side MSDN Resources for Web Developers (Joe Stagner)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 2, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 3, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Scarcity, a Faster Website, More than Attention, a Moore’s Law Infographic (Dave Burke)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 164 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links of the week #131 (David Vidmar)
• The Morning Brew #699 and The Morning Brew #700 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 03, 2010 — #959 and Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2010 — #960 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4 by Matthew MacDonald