Dew Drop – November 27, 2011

Top Links

• REPL for the Rosyln CTP 10/2011 (Chris Sells)
• Building F# Solutions in Visual Studio 11 (Daniel Mohl)
• Eduasync part 17: unit testing (Jon Skeet)
• Razor Donut Caching and Musings On Software Community (Phil Haack)
• Yes, The Forest Is Full of Trees (Rob Conery)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Task Cancellation (Richard Carr)
• How to pass parameters to reports using Infragistics Reporting with WCF RIA Services and Client-Side Rendering (Mihail Mateev)
• Visual Studio, the AVR Studio 5 and some non-.Net Micro Framework hardware (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Introduction to Metro UI in Windows8 (Abhishek Sur)
• Developing Device Drivers in Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• TeamCitySharp (Paul Stack)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Metro Pandora SDK V1 and Terminals Version 2 – Beta 4 Release (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Developing Your First HTML5 Game – Lesson 1 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 2 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 3 – Navigating Your Spaceship (Andrey Prikaznov)
• OData Binding for Navigation Controls (ASP.NET AJAX) (Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Team)
• Got CSV in your javascript? Use agnes. (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET 4.5: Filtering using Model Binding in ASP.NET Web Forms (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Telerik components for asp.net: learning to live with RADical family. (On using radScheduler in an MVC app) (Peter van Ooijen)
• WebMatrix Start Building Better Websites (Nigel Parker)
• Node.js release: Node v0.6.3 (Bert Belder)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v4.0.5 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Features vs Behaviour (Simon Brown)
• Pattern Templates (JD Meier)
• Killer instinct as a driving force (Alex Kessinger)
• All our work should be like Calvin and Hobbes (Chris Heilmann)
• Can you really commit to delivering work? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• References on the Actor Programming Model (Chris Patterson)
• Test Driven Development–Testing Private Values (Jesse Liberty)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• A WPF TileView Control (VallarasuS)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Developing the core (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Playing sounds in Windows Phone 7 applications and Displaying Subtitles using Timeline Markers in Windows Phone 7 media applications and Multi-column StackPanel for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #437 – Showing Rounded Corners on a Border (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch: It Is About The Money (It Is Always About The Money) (Michael Washington)
• PhoneGap Status: Moving to Apache and Adobe, Plugin Modularization, PhoneGap/Build Service (Werner Schuster)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #25: Background Agents and 31 Days of Mango | Day #26: Background File Transfer and 31 Days of Mango | Day #27: Microphone API (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Advanced Windows Phone Enginering Tool – WPE Downloads (Alpha) (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: Kresten Thorup – Erlang, Erjang, and Building Reliable Systems (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 128: Corey Haines on Global Day of Coderetreat (December 3) (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 114 – 11.25.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 003 – 11.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video on How to work with System Tray Progress Indicator in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Apple’s Siri On iPhone 4S vs Microsoft’s Tellme On Windows Phone – The Ultimate Voice Assistants Head-to-Head [VIDEO] (Edward Marquez)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery mobile 1.0, jQuery 1.7.1, node vs RoR (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 93: Brian Hitney – The Cloud and Beyond (Michael Kimsal)
• Tech News Today 378: Interlocking Directorates (Paul Thurrott)
• "Kinect with your Eclipse IDE" (Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• Draft agenda published for Six Weeks of Windows Azure #6weeksazure (Eric Nelson)
• Free Webcast on “How to Increase Performance of Web Apps using jQuery” (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Get Directory Structure using Extended Stored Procedure xp_dirtree and SQL SERVER – Powershell – Get a List of Fixed Hard Drive and Free Space on Server (Pinal Dave)
• Data Loading Performance Guide (Jack Vamvas)

 

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2011 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Objective C Categories (Steve Tibbett)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 130 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #760 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five November 25, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Re-blog – November 18 – November 24 (Jason Strate)
• Daily News Digest 11/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #989 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 25 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2011 — #1174 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2011 — #1175 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 20-November-2011 to 26-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 60 – Invest in Your Team & #Agile Cults (Peter Saddington)

 

The Geek Shelf

Programming Node.js (Pragmatic) by Travis Swicegood