Day: April 20, 2012

Top Links

• null is not false, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Free 1-Month Subscription to the ASP.NET MVC with EF Code First, HTML5, and jQuery Course (Dan Wahlin)
• Managing "BYO" PCs in the enterprise (including WOA) (Steven Sinofsky)
• XNA on Windows 8 Metro (Miguel de Icaza)
• Wanted!! Great Windows 8 Metro style apps (Jaime Rodriguez)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• PlayStationSuite Open Beta means seeing the Vita sharply, C#.. (Greg Duncan)
• JustTrace and JustMock in Visual Studio 11 and Does JustDecompile Contain Bundled Software? (Just* Team)
• Programmatically create a branch with the TFS 2010 API (Tim Huffam)
• Exploring Code Canvas (Kael Rowan)
• List of 6 things that can get you started with Game Design (Surf4Fun)
• Preparing to Develop Metro style Device Apps for Mobile Broadband (MS Downloads)
• Running .NET CouchDB applications on AppHarbor (Michael Friis)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 Bing Maps JavaScript API (Jim Jackson II & Ian Gilman)
• A Match Made in Http Heaven – ASP.NET Web Forms and WebAPI (Joshua Holt)
• ASP.NET MVC3 Razor With jQuery For Beginners (Jovan Popovic)
• Knockout anonymous templates and css3pie don’t get along. (Kevin LaBranche)
• How Numbers are Encoded in JavaScript and Handing Variables to eval (Axel Rauschmayer)
• ASP.NET MVC Postbacks and HtmlHelper Controls ignoring Model Changes (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET Web API: Extending content negotiation with new formats (Gunnar Peipman)
• A Kaleidoscope in Canvas (Neven Mrgan)
• Building a website for your game company (Surf4Fun)
• Triangle With Shadow (Chris Coyier)
• Random Redirection In WordPress (Goce Mitevski)
• Single Page Application and why is it becoming more and more popular (Harish Ranganathan)
• Retro rippling reflections with lake.js (Paul Neave)
• JuiceUI has a new flavor, Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Keeping Your Agile Team Safe (Aaron Bjork)
• Leadership in the Moment (J.D. Meier)
• My API Design Mantras (Morten Nielsen)
• Review of “Version Control with Git” by Jon Loeliger (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis)
• Announcing Keyword-Driving Testing Integration from LogiGear (Charles Sterling)
• It’s Not About The Number Of Hours You Put In (Davy Brion)
• Some verifications for the optimize test (John Guin)
• Lean tools: synchronization (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" [An alternate implementation of HTTP gzip decompression for Windows Phone] (David Anson)
• EvenTiles and 256-MB Windows Phone Devices (Maarten Struys)
• 2000 WPF Things #541 – Adding Elements from The Assets Panel in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day – 20/April/2012 – Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight (TATWORTH)
• Memory Profiling – Launching, Graphs and Markers (Pratap Lakshman)
• Mysteries of XDesProc–Revealed! (Joanna Mason)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 048: A Startling Look Into the World That’s Coming! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Let’s Play TDD #183: Extract Class (James Shore)
• Jason Bock – The Ramen Challenge (Phil Wilson & Jason Bock)
• Office 365 Goes to the Movies (Laura Foy)
• Walter Bright: The D Programming Language (Walter Bright)
• Radio TFS – The Not Lost Show (Martin Woodward)
• Video: Brandon Shell – Module Design for IT Pro (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #137: Melanie Plageman, JOBS bill and Motaavi (Bob Walsh)
• Lightning Fast Folder and File Creation in Sublime Text 2 (Jeffrey Way)
• The Metro Developer Show Episode 064 – “What’s Japanese For Cowboy Hat Full Of Barf?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

 

Community / Events

• LeadingAgile is Speaking at Agile2012 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• SilverlightShow Interview with Brian Noyes – Presenter of 4 Sessions at Visual Studio Live!New York 4-day Conference (Silverlight Show)
• Stockholm, Friday 27th April: Hybrid Applications with Clemens Vasters + Win a Hot Air Balloon Ride! (Alan Smith)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Measuring The Index Fragmentation (Unknown Author)
• Working with SQL Server LocalDB in LightSwitch Projects in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning – Part 2 of 2 – Analysis, Detection, Tuning and Optimizing (Pinal Dave)
• FREE! ‘Essential Guide to SQL Server Storage’ whitepaper (RedGate)
• Using EXECUTE AS OWNER (Ted Krueger)
• MERGE ahead… Comparing MERGE performance to standard Inserts/Updates/etc (Greg Duncan)
• Migrating a Database to SQL Azure using SSDT (Bill Gibson)

 

SharePoint

• Changing SharePoint with – CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery (Kunaal Kapoor)
• SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 11 Beta – Part III: Tips and Tricks in SharePoint List Designer (Xiaoying Guo)

 

PowerShell

• Mastering my machine repaves with Git and PowerShell (Peter Provost)
• PowerShell for the Redditor (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Could Light Table get in trouble with Microsoft? (John Sheehan)
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)
• Google’s chief Java architect: it’s ‘likely’ I copied Sun code found in Android (Bryan Bishop)
• Windows: Still Not Dead Yet (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Win a Free Prototyping License from Pidoco (Pidoco)
• 10 graphic examples of the abomination that is iTunes on Windows (Troy Hunt)
• Verizon vows to back Windows Phone as ‘third ecosystem’ (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone 8 Features Leaked? (Antonio Hernandez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1089 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 9 – 15, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 4/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #863 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug