Day: October 27, 2011

No Dew Drop on Friday this week. I’ll be taking a long anniversary weekend with Stelene. See you Monday morning! 

Top Links

• Visual Studio 11 .NET Advances (Somasegar)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Analysis and Flow Analysis (Sasha Goldshtein)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 – v1 (Brian Keller)
• Designing your Windows Phone App – where to start and Windows Phone App Layouts with Expression Blend and Windows Phone App Styles (Sara Allison)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)
• IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools – Training and Exploration Sandbox (Willy-P. Schaub)
• How can I get notified when some other window is destroyed? (Raymond Chen)
• OpenWrap 1.0.2 available (Sebastien Lambla)
• MSDN Magazine November Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• FSharpChart release supporting Stacked Charts (version 0.60) (Carl Nolan)

 

Web Development

• MVC–Hooking up my randomizer (Chris Skardon)
• Creating Style Rules in HTML 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Installing MVC 3 for Visual Studio 2010 on Windows Developer Preview after installing MVC 4 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Tips and tricks: HTML5 video and audio on iOS (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Winter is coming! Get 50% OFF on WebStorm, PhpStorm and RubyMine (Alexey Korsun)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: REST API Design Rulebook – $4.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RazorEngine Performance and Template Caching (Steve Smith)
• CodeLobster PHP Edition – An IDE for PHP Developers (Senthil Kumar)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Applied to Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• New Article on Software Development (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Behavior Driven Development (Larry Franks)
• Introducing the New TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal (TeamPulse Team)
• Introducing Android WebDriver (Tim Bray)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2) (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Update data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Telerik Windows Phone controls Q3 2011 Beta – New Context Menu, Chart Financial Series plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• The Blue Book gets Mango’d! Rob Mile’s "Windows Phone Programming in C#" Blue Book updated for Windows Phone 7.1(5) And do do the lab’s and demo’s too! and Kinecting to Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Welcome Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin (Telerik)
• 2000 WPF Things #417 – Using Star Sizing to Distribute Space Evenly across Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Apps – Adding the glossy elements (Andrew Spooner)
• LightSwitch: Integrating The ComponentOne Scheduler (Michael Washington)
• Top 3 Memory Leak Inducing Pitfalls of WPF Programming (Omer Raviv)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building a Software Business at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 3: The C++/CX Episode with Marian Luparu (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 040 – “Nokia FTW, Skype FTL” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SE Podcast #24 (Alex Miller)
• The Tablet Show – “Resist the Drama” (Dan Wahlin)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #62: Arduino and Netduino with a Couple of Microcontroller Geeks (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• What The Tech 90: So Much To Say (Paul Thurrott)
• Devices and news from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Audiocast on Developer + Tester Collaboration (Jim Holmes)

 

Community / Events

• Rich Community. Great Opportunities. (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A Coder Interview With Andreas Håkansson (The Code Project)
• Upstate New York Tech Events and Torn Between Two (Code) Camps (Jim O’Neil)
• App Hub Developer Talk Series – Upcoming and on Demand Dev Talks (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Questions: Development Is Design (Mike Desmond)

 

Database

• SSAS – Deployment Wizard (Devin Knight)
• How do I get a listing of all DB instances and table names where a column name occurs in MS SQL Server? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Wait Stats – eBook to Download on Kindle – Answer to FREE PDF Download Request (Pinal Dave)
• “Data Explorer” Mashup 101 (Data Explorer Team)
• All About Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) (Hima)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint API – Download Upload Documents (Tool) (Shai Raiten)

 

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 1) (Tobias Weltner)
• Windows PowerShell ISE add-ons, links, info and a bit more (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit version 1.6 (Avkash Chauhan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 26, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 25-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/26/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #968 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard