Month: October 2011

Top Links

• What Is The .NET Framework 4.5? (Paulo Morgado)
• Upcoming Mono Releases: Change in Policies (Miguel de Icaza)
• More MEFedMVVM NavigationExtensions love (Marlon Grech)
• The Dangers of Implementing Recurring Background Tasks In ASP.NET (Phil Haack)
• The Weekly Source Code 59 – An Open Source Treasure: Irony .NET Language Implementation Kit (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Obtaining Results from Parallel Tasks (Richard Carr)
• Quick Launch in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview and Search Toolbox controls in Visual Studio 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• DemoMates for Visual Studio 11 ALM Demos (Brian Keller)
• Two New F# 3.0 Type Provider Related NuGet Packages (Daniel Mohl)
• Calling One-Way WCF Service using IOutputChannel (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The C# Yellow Book gets a 2011 refresh… (Greg Duncan)
• SIMD-Optimized C++ Code in Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Win8, Metro, and WinRT terminology (Rockford Lhotka)
• Introducing the OData Library (Shayne Burgess)
• Composition root with MEF (Glenn Block)
• Automate Assembly Build Version (Abhishek Sur)
• FSharpChart now available as a NuGet Package (Carl Nolan)
• How to easily turn your L2S objects into interfaces (Deran Schilling)
• ORM Profiler Analyzes Data Access Performance (Jenni Konrad)

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET MVC 3 to Build Ajax Form with JQuery Validation (Chris D.)
• Quick Hack To Work Around Jasmine-jQuery Fixture Limitations (Derick Bailey)
• Quick Tip – Converting JSON Serialized .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date (Gil Fink)
• HTML5 Markup Enhancements for ASP.NET (Harish Ranganathan)
• Why isn’t Visual Studio letting me debug JavaScript any longer? (Jake Rutherford)
• FubuMVC–Action discovery (Josh Arnold)
• Compressing ViewState in ASP.NET. (Pavan Kumar Pabothu)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Remove Control Flag (Giorgio Sironi)
• ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests with UnityAutoMoq Container (Raj Aththanayake)
• Sending and Receiving Email in Windows Azure (MS Public Sector Team)
• The power of the Asynchronous Module Definition (Axel Rauschmayer)
• .NET and CoffeeScript: comparing Jurassic, Jint, and IronJS (Joe White)
• Moving to Azure: Static Assets (Michael C. Neel)
• Find out the Geo-coordinates of an address – geocoding with Google Maps (Code Inside Team)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.122 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Avoiding Circular Reference for Entity in JSON Serialization (Gil Fink)
• SVG Filter Effects in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• QUnit – Client side unit testing with TDD (Guilherme Cardoso)
• Top Ten Tips for Managing Change (J.D. Meier)
• Windows Azure Planning – A Post-decision Guide to Integrate Windows Azure in Your Environment (Vishwas Lele)
• The Case for Project Management (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.3.1 (Yann Trevin)
• Using Test Oracles to Ensure Your Tests’ True Validity (Jim Holmes)
• Use of Abstractions in Dynamic & Static Languages (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM PRISM: Modal Windows by using Interaction Request with Generics (Gerard Castelló Viader)
• MyNextDays Calendar App Review (Karl Stein)
• The Future of Silverlight: My Take [& a BUILD / HTML5 Rant] (Andrew Connell)
• Protecting password or any data in Windows Phone 7 using Data Protection API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5–Debugging Bindings in XAML (Dan Wahlin)
• Confusion Around WP7.1 Periodic Agents (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Using Databases with Mango (Chris Koenig)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Google’s Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization (Scott Hanselman)
• Technology & Friends Episode 178: Rich Dudley on the Job Interview Process (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 415: What we’re playing, Gears 3, Batman AC, Sims 3 Pets and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 61 – Updates to SQL Azure Database with Roger Doherty (Steve Marx)
• Yet Another Podcast #51–Shawn Wildermuth: //build, Xaml Programming & Beyond (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Radio – 46 (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: October 14: NuGet, Visual Studio 11, Windows Phone and Big Data (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• What The Tech 88: Rob Greenlee Interview and Windows Weekly 230: The Start Menu Is A Lie (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 028 – 10.14.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Camps – Fall 2011 (Cigdem Patlak)
• Final Summit Keynote – NoSQL = Not Only SQL (Tim Radney)
• MVP Friday Five: October 14, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Call for Abstracts for Spring 2012 ClientDev Connections Conference (Dan Wahlin)
• The JetBrains Magical Mouseless Continuous England Group Tour (Hadi Hariri)
• Reminder, RavenDB and NHibernate courses are upcoming in New York (Oren Eini)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – Three DMVs – sys.dm_server_memory_dumps – sys.dm_server_services – sys.dm_server_registry and SQLAuthority News – SafePeak Releases a Major Update: SafePeak version 2.1 for SQL Server Performance Acceleration (Pinal Dave)
• Simple XML exist performance enhancement (Arthur Olcot)
• Announcing: Upcoming SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release (Gregory Leake)
• Peeking behind the curtains: The new RavenDB Management Studio (Oren Eini)
• Today I Played With RavenDB (Karl Seguin)

Miscellaneous

• Ruby, Concurrency, and You (Peter Cooper)
• Serving at the Pleasure of the King (Jeff Atwood)
• Welcome back Win 3.x ProgMan.exe and Fileman.exe (Don Burnett)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: iOS 5 Programming Cookbook – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 15, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 16, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #960 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Oct-2011 and 13-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Retrospective 54 – Kaizen (Peter Saddington)
• SilverlightShow for October 03 – 09, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for October 15, 2011 — #1157 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 09-October-2011 to 15-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SilverlightShow Weekend Recap (10/16/2011): The Stories You May Have Missed and Weekly article digest 10/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 Oct 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 10-16 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth, Second Edition by Jon Skeet