Month: July 2011

Top Links

• Tail calls in F# (Keith Battocchi)
• What is a Closure? (Mike Hadlow)
• AspectableMef (Sacha Barber)
• Resources for Windows Phone Mango Developers (Larry Lieberman)
• Autofac 2.5 Released (Nicholas Blumhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Serialization of Arrays and Collections (Richard Carr)
• WCF Data Services June CTP: LINQ Improvements and Properties on Derived Types (Jenni Ripley)
• FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 4 (Naeem Khedarun)
• Exploring Topics and Queues by Building a Service Bus Explorer Tool–Part 1 (Paolo Salvatori)
• Project Templates and preinstalled NuGet packages (Marcin Doboz)
• Atari Lynx Emulator and Kinect Toolkit v 1.0 and Fluent Validation v3.0.0.1 and SQL Compact Code Generator – Build 1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• MVC–Showing a setup screen on the first run (Michael Ceranski)
• Using PC Hardware more efficiently in HTML5: New Web Performance APIs, Part 2 (Jatinder Mann)
• Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: Pushpin Tooltips via Html Title Attribute and Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags (Chris Pietschmann)
• Simulating Mouse Click Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Buzz Makes it Easy to Use HTML5 Audio (Rey Bango)
• Tweaking Add Item Templates for Better Script Performance (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Complex filtering in isotope.js (Pavan Podila)
• Client Express – Require and Exports (Mark Nijhof)
• Listing your MySQL Databases with PHP (James Harvey)
• Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows with Wincache (Brian Swan)
• Web optimizations and canvas exporting with data URLs (Brian Bondy)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier v4.24 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• design patterns (Mo Khan)
• My two cents on Scrum (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
• Patterns of Compositional Architecture and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: Policies (Josh Arnold)
• Windows Azure and Object-Oriented Testable Code (J.P. Hamilton)
• Wringing Metaphor from Thin Air : I am the customer (David Starr)
• Weekly Reminders for Changing Your Habits and Adopting New Practices (JD Meier)
• Nurturing Self-organizing Teams (Shane Hastie)
• Balance the System First (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Keystoning Features (Mark Nijhof)
• Make Incremental Improvements or Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Give us Feedback on my Windows Phone Book (Charles Petzold)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 27 – How to Detect whether the Network is Available? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7.1 – Codeless Development using Commanding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Submitting to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 216: You Got Your Dropbox In My Mesh (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 014 – 07.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• TWC9: EF June CTP, jPlayer, Kinect Gesture Toolkit, and a flying car (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 024 – “International Flavored Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk and Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #95: Yes, We Are Lazy, But in a Good Way (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Windows Phone Radio – 35 (Brian Seitz)
• Demo of Visual Voicemail on WP7 Mango (video) (Hyde13)
• Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Team SIMPLEX–MIRA at ImagineCup 2011 (New York City) and Microsoft ImagineCup 2011 in New York City – The Kick-Off and ImagineCup 2011 Opening Ceremony and Developing the ImagineCup WorldWide Finals Tracker app fro WP7 @ ImagineCup – Part 1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Azure Sessions Not To Miss at WPC11 Next Week (Windows Azure Team)
• July Silverlight Giveaway by Mindscape, First Floor Software and more! (Michael Crump)

Database

• Free SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (James Serra)
• "Gotchas" With Using an SSAS Default Member (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 9 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 10 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY CUBE() (Vishal)
• Showing slowest parts of SQL query and How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL (Jakub Dvorak)
• Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Data (Kevin E. Kline)
• Learning From the Mistakes of Other DBAs (Brad M. McGehee)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Development–What’s in your rig? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 – Now in New Mega Size! (Joel Oleson)
• Read the detail about SharePoint 2010 and Remote Blob Storage and Articles about Scaling SharePoint to Large Content Database Capacity (Paul Andrew)
• Understanding workflow starting parameters – Part 1 (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Wave 5 currently in Milestone 2 stage; to be tightly integrated with Windows 8 (damaster)
• Q&A: Putting A Training Course Together (Davy Brion)
• Think you have THE idea for an MMO, but don’t any any infrastructure or funds to build one? Wish there was a 30/70 deal for MMO’s too? (Greg Duncan)
• Zune branded subscription video coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
• What’s on Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft priority list now? (Mary Jo Foley)
• A future game machine, try it now for free! (Surf4Fun)
• Installing Mango on your Samsung Taylor (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 07.01 ~ 07.10 (yuanjian)
• Retrospective 40 – Free Book Giveaways (Peter Saddington)
• Interesting .NET Links 9-July , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Friday Links 07-08-2010 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for July 8th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 03-July-2011 to 09-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone and iPad for Programmers (2nd Edition) (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul Deitel