Day: November 18, 2011

Top Links

• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is here! (Ted Krueger)
• jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• A Few of My Favorite HTML5 and CSS3 Online Tools (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual Studio 11 IDE Advances (Somasegar)
• Working with Subversion Part 2 (or Subversion for the Less Subversive) (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Todd Parker)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop (Don Syme)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The EventHandler and EventHandler<TEventArgs> delegates (James Michael Hare)
• CSS speed typing for Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• ExportFactory in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Analyzing Memory Leaks from Dump Files with SciTech .NET Memory Profiler (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Storing Complex Types, Binary Resources, and Other Tricky Things (Glen Gailey)
• Updated libraries and projects for Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Why can’t I install this DLL via Regsvr32 /i? (Raymond Chen)
• Compare .NET Objects – Version 1.3.0.0 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Generating Mandelbrot fractals using HTML5 (Chris)
• Convert Ruby Regexp to JavaScript RegExp (Brian Cardarella)
• Learning HTML5 – Best of RSS (Steve Albers)
• Introduction To Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.437 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Box debuts /bin platform with $2M app developer fund (Colleen Taylor)
• Execute code each time the Node.js REPL starts (Axel Rauschmayer)
• REST API Design: Put the “Type” in “Content-Type” (Mark Massé)
• Building A More App-y Web (Pete LePage)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: SpecificationByExample (Martin Fowler)
• 15 Tenets For The Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
• How I view OneNote automation (John Guin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight: Bugs in the multicast client (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Delete data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Disable Javascript errors in WPF Web Browser Control take2 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• New! Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts (Chris Koenig)
• Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Simulating GPS position changes using Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone environment (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Socket Sample (Michael Sync)
• 2000 WPF Things #433 – Preservation of Margins While Editing Grid in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #18: Using Sample Data (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How-to: Apps for creating custom ringtones (Andy Colley)
• Custom ringtones: A visual guide (Drew Williams)
• MultiBinding in Silverlight 5 (Henrik Jonsson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: David Ungar – Self, ManyCore, and Embracing Non-Determinism (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 043 – “Ben the Phone Charity Guy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: JetBrains ReSharper (Robert Green)
• High Performance Computing with Wenming Ye (Larry Larsen)
• Five Kindle Fire Unboxing and Review YouTube Videos (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Michael Sync (The Code Project)
• Juicy Bits (Mike Swanson)
• Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest (Stephanie Taylor)
• FREE ALM Webcast Series in November/December (Angela Binkowski)
• UGIALT.net conf 7: proposals, dates and voting (Simone Chiaretta)
• Infragistics speaking at New York City Windows Phone User Group (Tobias Komischke)
• SQL Azure MVP Herve Roggero on the Value of Being an MVP (MVP Award Program)
• Northwest Harvest at MVP Summit 2012 (MVP Summit Events)

 

Database

• Great tool for SQL Server Compact Databases (Arian Kulp)
• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is now available. Here’s a download link round-up. (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to PERCENT_RANK() – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Location of files for new database in SQL Server and Showing sysjobhistory run_duration in HHMMSS format (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – When will my backup finish? (Vishal)
• Compatibility Matrix 1.2 (Mark Broadbent)
• The Data Explorer Formula Language (Data Explorer Team)
• Table Space revised Again (Jason Brimhall)
• Excel worksheets from variable – revisited (John Pertell)

 

SharePoint

• Deploying WSPs as part of an automated build (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Samplers From O’Reilly (Tatworth)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #755 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #984 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2011 — #1168 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans