Dew Drop – September 1, 2010

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Top Links

• What Happens When You Reach 200k Reputation? (Jeff Atwood)
• Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library released! (Grigori Melnik)
• HTML5, XAML and Declarative User Interfaces (Shawn Wildermuth)
• An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element (Rey Bango)
• Windows Phone’s Real Secret Weapon: Developers, Developers, Developers (Paul Thurrott)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting CUDA 3.1 Working with Visual Studio 2010 (Ade Miller)
• Don’t TOUCH that debugger, you moron, READ the exception stack (Oren Eini)
• XML Literals: Reading an XML File II and XML Literals: Reading an XML File with a Namespace and XML Literals: Reading an XML File with a Variable Namespace (Deborah Kurata)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET – Event-based Async Operations (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Object Browser: Members Pane (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension) (Shivprasad Koirala)
• NHibernate Query Analyzer (Al Kampfer)
• Enterprise Library 5 developer guide (Pieter de Bruin)
• NHibernate Mapping Generator – Release: v2.0 Beta 2 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Displaying Files and Folders in a GridView (Scott Mitchell)
• HTML5, Up and Running (Tom Brander)
• OAuth-only Twitter: What it Means for JavaScript Apps (Justin Houk)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: High Performance Web Sites – Only $9.99. Use code DDHPW (O’Reilly Media)
• Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Enterprise-level IP Geolocation Made Available Via API (Justin Houk)
• Creating a Poor Man’s Distributed Cache in Azure (Brian Hitney)
• Add-on Performance part 2: Helping consumers make informed decisions (Herman Ng)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s Play: Test-Driven Development (James Shore)
• Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration Files (Steve Smith)
• Making the big time (Eric Brechner)
• The Design of the MSDN Hub Pages (J.D. Meier)
• When to Build the Sawhorse (John Sonmez)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7: Windows Phone 7 Application Platform (Anton Polimenov)
• Managing Trial Applications for Windows Phone 7 (Jeff Brand)
• myChannel9 Application for Windows Phone 7 (Sigurd Snørteland)
• So what do we get: developer enthusiasm for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Rect and Point Extension Methods (Rene Schulte)
• Changing the Background and Foreground Colors for an Application Bar on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• My Windows Phone 7 Apps (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WPF Game of Life (Ron de Jong)
• Pretty Cool Graphs In WPF (Sacha Barber)
• Windows Phone 7 is pulling in to the platform (Steve Clayton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Advanced Functional Programming – Evolution of an Interpreter (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Bytes by MSDN: Burley Kawasaki and Billy Hollis discuss features & benefits of VS2010 & .NET 4 (Bytes by MSDN)
• Interesting Presentation on Creating a Mobile Application (Frank La Vigne)

 

Community / Events

• A PASSionate Community (Joe Webb)
• Microsoft doesn’t create bad developers, developers do (Andreas Håkansson)
• Interview with SQL Server MVP Glenn Berry (Brad M. McGehee)
• What’s Happening–September 2010.1 (Dani Diaz)
• NHibernate Quick-start Workshop – November 1th (Oren Eini)
• First Impressions Of The Ruby Community (Davy Brion)

 

Database

• Don’t turn the dataflow into a cursor [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Determining the no of processor cores in your SQL Server (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• SQL Server to SQL Azure Synchronization using Sync Framework 2.1 (Liam Cavanagh)
• Why GUIDs aren’t so Good as SQL Server Primary Key (Peter Bromberg)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part III: Location of your data warehouse (Stephen Forte)
• Comma-delimited Column with SQL 2005 (Deran Schilling)
• SELECT, Deconstructed (Jen McCown)
• Replication Gotcha – Including An Article In Multiple Publications (Kendal Van Dyke)
• Return top 20 queries by Average CPU (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

Miscellaneous

• Help Viewer 1.0 SDK (MS Downloads)
• Book Review: The Ruby Way, Second Edition (Davy Brion)
• Windows 7 Family Pack discounts return (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Research: Buttons Beat Multitouch Mouse [Microsoft] (Gary Cutlack)
• webOS 2.0 features emerge — your Palm device just whizzed a little. (Lee Mathews)
• Google Docs begins integrating Etherpad’s collaboration kung fu (Lee Mathews)
• Objective C: Observations (Mark Needham)
• Recent Highlights – Kinect, Office Mac, Bing, Hotmail, NCME (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• Internet Explorer Usage Share in August (Ryan Gavin)
• Why Microsoft Is Being Nicer To Open Source (Brian Proffitt)
• iPhone Tip: Record Demos With ScreenFlow (Tobin Harris)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #676 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 31, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2010 — #937 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

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