Dew Drop – July 6, 2011

Top Links

• Microsoft to launch LightSwitch cloud/desktop development tool on July 26 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Managing data in web applications with HTML5 Web Storage (Rachel Appel)
• Fubu, Spark, Diagnostics, and Validation (Josh Arnold)
• Uploading Data to a Service Operation (Glenn Gailey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Get time of Code Execution Using StopWatch (Abhijit Jana)
• The First Rule of Threading: You Don’t Need Threads! (Mike Hadlow)
• F# User-Defined Numeric Literals (Neil)
• PLINQO for NHibernate 1.0 Released! and CodeSmith 4th of July Sale (T. DuPont)
• Content Update: Windows Azure Diagnostics API and Service Runtime API References Improved with New Descriptions and Code Examples (Windows Azure Team)
• CodeRush Tool Windows – Message Log (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• CSS3 Animation With jQuery Fallbacks (Addy Osmani)
• Adding sharing links to the blog–JavaScript edition (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Building a Twitter live search app with Knockout, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Anders Fjeldstad)
• Using PC Hardware more efficiently in HTML5: New Web Performance APIs, Part 1 (Jatinder Mann)
• CRUD Operation with ASP.NET MVC and EFCodeFirst Part-2 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to navigate your app with jQuery Mobile (chco)
• What makes a successful blog? We ask the html5 doctor (Martin Beeby)
• Figure out if the current running application is a web application without a reference to System.Web.dll (Daniel Fisher)
• The Ruby Train Goes Choo-Choo (Pete Seale)
• datajs samples (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• WordPress 3.2 Released With Internet Explorer 6 Left Behind (Richard Hay)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lokad.CQRS Can Make Windows Azure Cheaper for You (Rinat Abdullin)
• Rethink your Data Model (Karl Seguin)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part V–Cross Cutting is a fine line (Oren Eini)
• 3 keys to dispersed team success (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Learning. It ain’t hard. (James Gregory)
• Best Books to Read on Personal Development (JD Meier)
• Beliefs and Discussions (Krishna Kumar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Performance Best Practices: Windows Phone Mango Local Database (Windows Phone Geek)
• Everything you need to know about Windows Phone “Mango” Tools, Training Kit and Developer Phone Images (Dave Isbitski)
• Excellent Silverlight for Windows Phone Performance Posts (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone Fundamentals–Layout (Jesse Liberty)
• How to Create a Circular Loader using XAML? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SketchFlow Templates for Windows Phone (Mike Ormond)
• Silverlight is Dead, Long Live XAML (Stephen Forte)
• What is GameInviteTask and why can’t I use it? (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Abolade Gbadegesin: Inside Windows Phone "Mango" (Charles Torre)
• Ping 107: Ballmer, Birds, Office 365, Kinect and health care (Laura Foy)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 177: IBM i (OS/400) Operating System with Steve Will (SE-Radio Team)
• Let’s Play TDD #120: DollarsTextField: Done! (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Should Bloggers and Influencers Make Money from Posts and Tweets? (Joel Oleson)
• User Experience Design Soon to be a Flooded Industry? (Jeffrey Smith)
• What Microsoft taught Zoosk.com founder about entrepreneurship (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Project Crescent (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 6 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – PATINDEX() (Vishal)
• What does WITH (NOLOCK) actually mean (Denny Cherry)
• Replacing Cursors with Set-Based SQL Queries – Part 2 (Andrew Zwicker)
• Converting OR to Union (Gail Shaw)
• Data Obfuscation (Thomas LaRock)

Miscellaneous

• Passing parameters to -EncodedCommand (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• How To Get The Windows 8 Interface Now (Ken Bell)
• 5 Things to Learn About Learning at TEDx (Kevin Makice)
• Will you want a Windows 8 Tablet or Convertible Laptop/Netbook? (Mike Halsey)
• webOS 3.0 Is Based on Enyo, a New HTML Framework (Abel Avram)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #888 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links– 2010_23 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily News Digest 07/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher