Dew Drop – May 7, 2012 (#1,321)

Top Links

• The perils of conditional mutability (Jon Skeet)
• Develop Mobile Applications using PhoneGap and Kendo UI: Part 1 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Updated NUnit Plugin for VS11 Released (Peter Provost)
• Improve Mobile User Experience With an HTML5 Metro UI Tiles (Chris Love)
• Snoop, the WPF Spy Utility – Release: v2.7.1 (CodePlex)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Robert Griesemer – Going Go (Charles Torre)
• Visual Studio 11 beta – Tooling for SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing WebSockets in WCF 4.5 (Peter Vogel)
• Creating Parallel Tasks with TaskFactory and Detecting Power Events (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool (Terje Sandstrom)
• Pinpointing Memory Leaks with CLR Profiler Heap Graphs (Sasha Goldshtein)
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: caching results (Joost van Schaik)
• Sample Browser v5.1–a small refresh with support of Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Jialiang Ge)
• Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation (Andrea Boschin)
• A look at the CLR 4.5, Improved Large Object Heap Allocator, Server GC Background Mode and Auto NGen (Greg Duncan)
• Porting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Background agents (11 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)

 

Web Development

• Object Calisthenics In JavaScript – An Introduction (Ben Nadel)
• Native HTML5 push notifications with ASP.NET Web API and Knockout.js (Filip W)
• ASP.NET MVC Authentication – Customizing Authentication and Authorization The Right Way (Jon Galloway)
• Using RavenDB and ASP.NET MVC 4 to create a Twitter Clone Chirpy (Sumit Maitra)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/May/2012 – Applied ASP.NET 4 in Context (Tatworth)
• What the requestAnimationFrame API Should Have Looked Like (Dominic Szablewski)
• Orchard 1.4.1 (CodePlex)
• JavaScript for the C# Guy: The Global Object (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Variables in JavaScript and Introduction to JavaScript and Functions in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Introducing Windows Azure Media Services (Sam Ng)
• Experimental Page Layout Inspired by Flipboard (Pedro Botelho)
• node.js Version 0.6.17 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
• Move that parenthesis! (James Padolsey)
• Top Benefits of Running Node.js on Windows Azure (Hanu Kommalapati)
• How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App, Part 5 (Jorge Ramon)
• Wrapping $.ajax In A Thin “Command” Framework For Backbone Apps (Derick Bailey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Management View of Agile – Unaware or Unwilling? (Craig Smith)
• 10 Ways to Defeat Decision Fatigue (J.D. Meier)
• User Stories Help Build Sales’ Stuff (Peter Saddington)
• Logically Distributed, Physically Centralized (Udi Dahan)
• Move Forward by Discarding Complex Tech (Rinat Abdullin)
• TechEd Quick Shot – ALM: It’s A Team Sport (Robert Hess)
• A brief introduction of Test Automation… (Shrini Kulkarni)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Reshaping Our Perception of Success (Jeffrey Way)
• There’s a Kanga in my Model… Using KangaModel to easily and painlessly create,share and display sequence diagrams (Greg Duncan)
• This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details (Jeff Atwood)
• Three Strikes And You Refactor (Davy Brion)
• You should invest in Code Reading skills (Samnang Chhun)
• Testing Rhino Service Bus applications (Oren Eini)
• The Configuration Complexity Clock (Mike Hadlow)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Double Animation Helper (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Learn about RadPhoneApplicationFrame for Page Animations using the Telerik Controls for WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Add the Error Diagnostics Control to Your Windows Phone App with 3 Lines of Code (Telerik Marketing Team)
• Windows Phone Apps – Code, But Don’t Hardcode and Create A Moving Background In A XNA Game on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #552 – Setting a Property to Use an Existing Resource (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Sliding Controls Collection – Part 1: Sliding Image Control (Tefik Becirovic)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch and Windows Phone 7 OData Full CRUD Example (Michael Washington)
• Installing Visual Studio 11 and Visual Studio 2010 with Lightswitch (xpert360)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 050: Robot movies, Stupid Fun, and Zombie Boobs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Cloud Cover Episode 79 – Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Technology & Friends Episode 211: Jennifer Marsman on the Windows 8 App Store (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 438: E3 is coming (Larry Hyrb)
• SharePoint Pod Show – What’s involved with getting a SharePoint MCM/MCA certification?-Episode 71 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• The Tablet Show – Josh Clark Touches On Next Generation Interfaces (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Geekadelphia The Podcast Episode 4 – Operation Nice Interview (Jo Pincushion & Dan Tabor)
• TWC9: CodePlex Facelift, a little Mayhem, Targeting Async, GUIDs and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
• ShopTalk Show #17 (Chris Coyier)
• Office 911: Lync (Laura Foy)
• Windows Weekly 259: Live is Dead (Paul Thurrott)
• The Vergecast 029 – 05.04.2012 and Engadget Podcast 292 – 05.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Coder Society Seattle, Inaugural Report! (Adron Hall)
• Article: Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn.Micro and MVVM (Jonathan Allen)
• Meet me at Code Camp for Freebies (Chris Eargle)
• I’ll be at GOTO CPH and QCON NYC spreading the node.js love (Glenn Block)
• Building Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Meet the Author: Todd Ropog on Mercurial Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
• Nerd Nite No. 14, May 9th, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Inside Red Gate – Ricky Leeks (Simon Cooper)
• Cloud Reality: Improving Efficiency & Scaling in the Cloud Environment With TechinMotionPhilly (Jon Santos)
• I’m Speaking Next Week on What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)

 

Database

• Why is my SSAS Query Log Table Empty? (Melissa Coates)
• Installing SSAS 2012 (Garrett Edmondson)
• Amazon updates their SQL Server 2012 AWS AMI’s (SQL Server 2012 RTM, Web Edition and more Instance types) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Migrate a SQL Server Reports from one server to another server and SQL SERVER – Four Tutorial for SQL Server 2012 New Features and SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to SQL Server Security (Pinal Dave)
• Can You Dig It? – Determining Index Plan Usage (Jason Strate)
• Denali — Day 6: indirect Checkpoint (Vinay Thakur)
• SQL 101: Sub Queries (Shannon Lowder)
• Implementing a replication agent progess bar (Brandon Williams)

 

SharePoint

• Building a Web API in SharePoint 2010 with ServiceStack (Matt Cowan)

 

PowerShell

• Export-CSV Powershell (Jack Vamvas)

 

Miscellaneous

• GIMP 2.8.0 (RTW) for Windows now available (Greg Duncan)
• The Windows Phone Predictions that IDC, Gartner and Pyramid Research Probably Hope You’ve Forgotten (Joey deVilla)
• Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny (Kim Spilker)
• BizTalk Anti-Pattern: Chuck it in the config file because its an easy place to put it (Michael Stephenson)
• Teaching kids electronics, electricity, and logic using littleBits (Pete Brown)
• Updates to Windows Azure Marketplace Offer More Flexibility and Opportunity (Peter Horsman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 153 (Scott Banwart)
• Collective #10 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #873 and Double Shot #874 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/7/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/4/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #45 (Frank)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Everyman on Competition For One, Sony’s Fall, Glass in Your Future, the Screenularity (Dave Burke)
• Retrospective 83 – Agile Gamification, Giveaway, More Agile Lists (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 23 – 29, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #17) (Himanshu Singh)

 

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Shawn Wildermuth