December 2011 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 31, 2011 (#1,230)

Posted on December 31, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Happy New Year! Have a happy and healthy 2012.

Top Links

Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) and Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
SOLID JavaScript: The Liskov Substitution Principle (Derek Greer)
A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string (Joost van Schaik)
Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

Application analysis: Northwind.NET (Oren Eini)
AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method (Richard Carr)
Oracle Releases Provider with EF 4 Support (but not really EF 4.1 and EF4.2) (Julie Lerman)
Rx – Window (Bnaya Eshet)
Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Menu rearrangement (Raymond Chen)
Resharper 6.1 – new nice features – 1 (Tatworth)
On mutable state (Brian Marick)
"Netduino – Getting Started with *" Series and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit December 2011 Release (Think "MVC3 VB and OData HOL Love" version) (Greg Duncan)
New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer and ReSharper 6.1.1 Early Access (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

Design / Methodology / Testing

How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test? (Gautam Goenka)
Story in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
API design challenge – builder (Krzysztof Koźmic)
The Language of Risk and Yak Shaving: Tracking the yak stack (Mark Needham)
Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)
Problems Already Solved (Calvin Bottoms)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #462 – Drawing a Better Looking GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)
WPF Textbox with hints (Rohit Sharma)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Corey Haines Code Retreats Globally (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More and YOW! 2011: Tony Morris – Functional Programming and Functional Thinking (Charles Torre)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 424: We look back at the year in gaming and choose our favorite titles (Larry Hyrb)
Gillmor Gang Live 12.30.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Engadget Podcast 270 – 12.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
The JavaScript Show – A Tinge of Christmas (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Gweek 033: Jesse Thorn (Mark Frauenfelder)
Video on How to work with AutoCompleteBox in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

Farewell Most Valuable Professional Status (Alan Stevens)
FUSE Labs: Year in Review (Lili Cheng)
Top Ten Microspotting Profiles of 2011 (MS JobsBlog)
The World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Is In Critical Condition (MSFT) (Dylan Love)

Database

SSIS Community Tasks and Components (James Serra)
SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
The selected database contains foreign keys that create a cycle (Gunnar Peipman)
RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)
Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores (Jorge Segarra)
SQL Azure to Developers: Some Basic Concepts (Dhananjay Kumar)
Welcome to the Federation… SQL Azure Database Federation that is… (Or "Sharding for the New Year") (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

Getting Your Notes Into OneNote (Jeff Cardon)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 135 (Scott Banwart)
The Morning Brew #1012 (Chris Alcock)
2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
Retrospective 65 – NOT Scrum and Insane Agile Teams (Peter Saddington)
Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Double Shot #785 (Mike Gunderloy)
MVP Friday Five: December 30, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
Monthly Summary – December 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Top Official Microsoft Blog Posts of 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
Daily News Digest 12/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 27-Dec-2011 and 28-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 and Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010 by Matthew MacDonald

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Dew Drop – December 29, 2011 (#1,229)

Posted on December 29, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Exclusive: Microsoft’s LTE Plans for Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott)
ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th (Scott Guthrie)
Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Six (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework December Sample Updates (Jialiang)
New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer (Jura Gorohovsky)
Free resources (audio, fonts, graphics, tools, etc) for Dev’s and your next app… and Education and Educational tools, open source style (Greg Duncan)
Dino Esposito: The O/RM and the chicken/egg dilemma (Devon Musgrave)
How To: Bulk edit action recording? (Gautam Goenka)
the concept of async await (Bnaya Eshet)
On mutable state (Brian Marick)
Practical Demonstration of Windows 8 Metro Style Application Lifecycle (Kunal Chowdhury)
Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dropping in (Raymond Chen)

Web Development

Peer to Peer Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket and PubSub Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket (Amar Daxini)
JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
Using PHP to HTML-ize Plain Text (Scott Eiler)
The async and defer Script Attributes in HTML5 (Gil Fink)
Subtyping JavaScript built-ins (Axel Rauschmayer)
HTTP Tools You Should Know About (John Sheehan)
Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role (Gunnar Peipman)
Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 3 (Dan Wellman)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 1- Creating a new Windows Azure Cluster for Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 2 – Creating a Pi Estimator Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #461 – Making a GridSplitter Look Three-Dimensional (Sean Sexton)
Binding Formatting (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez and YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #155: Transitioning to SaveFile (James Shore)
Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang Live 12.29.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 119 – 12.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
RavenDB videos on YouTube (Oren Eini)
Agile 2011 – Ward Cunningham – Agile Manifesto, 10 years later and the Federated Wiki (Agile Toolkit)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Auston Bunsen Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

There and Back Again – My Return to .Net Development (Scott C. Reynolds)
Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
SQL SERVER – Year End Brain Teaser – Disabled Login and Associated User Without Disabled User Red Arrow (Pinal Dave)
RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Research Cambridge: Year in Review (Andrew Blake)
Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
Learning Android: Sharing with Twitter/the ‘share via’ dialog (Mark Needham)
Is the Windows Phone story “starting to come together”? (Kip Kniskern)
Windows Phone users: LTE models may be closer than you think (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
Fever Pitched Episode 6: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 28 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
Double Shot #784 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 12/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1011 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars

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Dew Drop – December 28, 2011 (#1,228)

Posted on December 28, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta (Kevin Montrose)
GUI REPL for Roslyn (Chris Sells)
Windows Phone Marketplace Has Reached 50,000 Apps (Antonio Hernandez)
Charlie Kindel, ex-Microsoft, posts thoughts on Windows Phone’s successes and failures (Chris Ziegler)
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

Cancelling Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly Into TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
VSColorOutput – Visual Studio Output Coloring Extension (Think "Adding color to the Build/Debug Output window text") and Virtual Postcard with Kinect and The Android Eye for the .Net Guy… The Android for .NET Developers Series by Dino Esposito (Greg Duncan)
StyleCop 4.7.0.0. is out (Tatworth)
Extending Unity (Robert May)
Features Nuget Would Benefit From (Paul Stack)
Why is the file size reported incorrectly for files that are still being written to? and Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dragging out (Raymond Chen)
Yield Operator Fun (Sebastian Dau)
ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options (Hadi Hariri)
TPL – Continuation (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
Deploying a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 to Azure with SQL Server Compact (Al Pascual)
Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.41 (CodePlex)
Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
Working with the JavaScript “this” Keyword (Dan Wahlin)
CSS3 Images Pre-Last Call WD Published (Elika J. Etemad)
Little HTML5 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
CSS3 Lightbox (Manoela Ilic)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Field and Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Method (Giorgio Sironi)
Microsoft helps extend JavaScript (Sara Allison)
Performance testing with Selenium and javascript (JP Castro)
Packaging a JavaScript Library with Nuget (Sumit Maitra)
Microsoft Developers finally get a .NET Framework for HTML5 Mobile Applications (Webgui)
Binding And Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater and 30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater and Using jQuery Repeater to Mark a Multi-line EMail Message As Spam and Show Progress (zoyobar)
Day 2 – GPU accelerate your DOM elements (Seb Lee-Delisle)
Windows Azure Trial Account Spending Limit and The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial (Jim O’Neil)
Knockout.js Observable Extensions (Josh Bush)
Orchard Hands-On Lab available (Greg Duncan)
Making the First Letter Stand Out (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Introducing filer.js (Eric Bidelman)
Deployment of Applications with Infragistics Reporting in Windows Azure (Mihail Mateev)
knockoutjs: Uncaught Error: ko.applyBindings: first parameter should be your view model; second parameter should be a DOM node (Alexander Zeitler)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.1 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github and The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
First Experience Building Something With Clojure (Gareth Rushgrove)

Design / Methodology / Testing

5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
Introduction to bddify and Method name conventions in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
NOT Doing Scrum – Back to the Basics and Teams Over Processes – Don’t Be Insane (Peter Saddington)
Example of Self-documenting Unit Test with Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
Introducing the for-if anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
31 Days of Testing—Day 20: Refactoring a Monster Test, Part 2 and 31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests (Jim Holmes)
Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test (Gautam Goenka)
How-To: Returning a Class By Value with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
Expanding your horizons: Actions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Testing Windows Phone 7 Apps with Typemock (Avi Kaye)
Silverlight & XNA – A Tale of Two Cities (Simon Jackson)
Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
23 skins and counting with v1.1 of the Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.5.0 Now Available… (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started (Senthil Kumar)
Book Review: Fun with Silverlight 4 authored by Rajesh Lal (Kunal Chowdhury)
Real World Windows Phone Dev Part 4: The Panorama (Matt Hidinger)
Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application (Michael Crump)
My Top Frameworks for Windows Phone Development (Pieter de Rycke)
2000 WPF Things #458 – Properties to Set When Using a Horizontal or Vertical GridSplitter and #459 – Using Two (or More) GridSplitter Elements in the Same Grid and #460 – A GridSplitter Can Share a Cell with Another Control (Sean Sexton)
Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Final notes before the beta and Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
Caliburn.Micro: RadTransitionControl custom convention (Mikael Koskinen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices and The Tablet Show – Richard Griffin Programs in WinJS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell and YOW! 2011: Martin Thompson – On Concurrent Programming and Concurrency Folklore and GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez (Charles Torre)
Technology & Friends Episode 189: Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran on Geeks Giving Back (David Giard)
What The Tech 99: Wishlists and Predictions For 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
Gillmor Gang Live 12.28.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 118 – 12.26.2011 and Engadget HD Podcast 280 – 12.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Let’s Play TDD #154: Save and Cancel… Done! (James Shore)
Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

Changes, changes, changes and CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Ted Neward)
Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011 (Phil Haack)
Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

Dynamic Sorting in SSRS (Unknown Author)
SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 15138 – The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped and SQL SERVER – Target Recovery Time of a Database – Advance Option in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Effect of Compressed Backup Setting at Server Level on Database Backup (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Database Specification (SQLArcher)
Free O’Reilly eBook "Oracle Essentials, 4th Edition" (Tatworth)
Case Sensitive search with SQL (koolprasad2003)
Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
Why Management Studio forces you to know SQL (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

Three Degrees of the SharePoint Community Challenge (Joel Oleson)
Understanding Business Connectivity Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make (Andrew Burgess)
Here are three Ruby functions… (Brian Marick)
Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
The Case For Developer Platforms (James Yu)
Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny (Chris Sells)
Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates (Vygantas)
Windows 8 Slate Review (Jeremy Likness)
iOS Rich Text Editing : Sample Project (Josh Garnham)
Learning Android: WebView character encoding (Mark Needham)
How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 and Kindel: Yes, Windows Phone is Superior, But Here’s Why It’s Not Selling (Paul Thurrott)
So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
My next year TOP5 wishlist for Windows media, WP7 and XBox teams in Microsoft (Gunnar Peipman)
Results of the reverse engineering poll – people do it, whether you want it or not (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 26, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 12.20 ~ 12.28 (yuanjian)
Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – #0016 and Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – 2 – #0017 (Dave Campbell)
Double Shot #781 and Double Shot #782 and Double Shot #783 (Mike Gunderloy)
2011 Yearly Link Roundup (Jeremiah Peschka)
Daily News Digest 12/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 22-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
The Morning Brew #1010 (Chris Alcock)
Backbone Fundamentals, Three.js Boilerplate, zoom.js and Node Roundup: Clarinet, Sandbox, actionHero and jQuery Roundup: jQuery-inlog, -prefix-free, jquery.animate-enhanced (Alex Young)
Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Recently in Web Development (December Edition) (Siddharth)
MVP Mondays: Popular Posts from 2011 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) by Jeremy Osborn

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