Dew Drop – October 6, 2010

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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (MS Downloads)
• 31 Days of Silverlight | Day #5: System Theming (Jeff Blankenburg)
• What is Functional Programming? Part 5, Bindings (Christopher Bennage)
• Prism v4 Beta 1 Drop 9 Released (Karl Shifflett)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Range Variable Problem (Steve Smith)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: Lexical Analysis (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Change Values from the Locals Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (VII) – User Registration (Rob Ashton)

 

Web Development

• Bulletproof Cross-Browser CSS Techniques (Klemen Slavič)
• Five rules for writing effective UI tests (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using external templates with jQuery Templates (Dave Ward)
• Using MEF in Asp.Net WebForms applications (Max Paulousky)
• jQuery Templates on Microsoft Ajax CDN (Stephen Walther)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Editor Andy Oram’s Top 5 Picks for Web Performance. Use code DDEP3 (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Application Monitoring Management Pack Released and Updated Windows Azure Training Kit (Wes Yanaga)
• Building TipTheWeb with YUI 3 (Eric Ferraiuolo)
• Experimental ASP.NET MVC Add-ins (Mike Hadlow)
• Salesforce.com Finally Adding REST API (Jeremy Glassenberg)
• WebMatrix: Website Development made easier? (Jinath Premaratne)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to raise event for a mocked call. (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Constraints are Advantages in Disguise (Vikas Hazrati)
• What you need to know about your version control system (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Stories on my Personal Kanban (Derek Huether)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Google Voice app coming to Windows Phone 7 (Alan Cone)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 8 – Contacts and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 9 – Favorites (Dennis Delimarsky)
• A Night with Music apps and Windows Phone 7 (Brian Seitz)
• Questions for my friend Scott Barnes on html 5 and Silverlight an Open Letter (Don Burnett)
• Silverlight Layout States with Reactive Extensions (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows Phone 7 – Top 10 Tips for a Successful Marketplace Certification (John O’Donnell)
• Will you buy Windows Phone 7? (Joe Wilcox)
• Prism v4 – Drop 9 Coming Wednesday Morning (Pete Brown)
• One application in both WPF and Silverlight (Khawar Yunus)
• A Look Inside Windows Phone 7 Developer Toolkit (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Windows Phone 7 (WP 7) – Download, Store and Play Media files from Isolated Storage (Mahesh Sabnis)
• New Windows Phone 7 images, videos and impressions (Michael Gillett)
• On Design Paradigms for Windows Phone 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 127 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Royer from Intel on vPro (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Gadget Basement with Ward Cunningham (Scott Hanselman)
• Let’s Play TDD #30: Introducing Dollars.percentage() (Unknown Author)
• PDC10 and the new Online Experience (Robert Hess)

 

Community / Events

• The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2010 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Questions for Microsoft Community Readers about the future of this blog (Don Burnett)

 

Database

• Duplicate a Column in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How much memory is each database using (Jeremy Carter)
• SSIS and SSRS – QA from the BI class (Peter Gfader)
• SQL SERVER – Quickest Way to Identify Blocking Query and Resolution – Dirty Solution (Pinal Dave)
• Enforcing naming conventions using database unit testing (Jamie Thomson)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 2 (Jason Strate)
• Tip: OVER and PARTITION BY (Jen McCown)
• Which Azure Cloud Storage Model Should I Choose for my Application? (Buck Woody)
• Do Database Backups Cause Problems? (Thomas LaRock)

 

Miscellaneous

• Git-Achievements in PowerShell (Keith Dahlby)
• Check Out this Windows 7 Media Center Guide (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft LightSpace…and my new gig (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Slates coming at Christmas, unveiled on October 11 (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• October 5, 2010: Interesting Finds (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #701 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net by Roy Osherove