Dew Drop – October 31, 2011

Top Links

Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors (Steven Sinofsky)
Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET 4.5 (Grigori Melnik)
Getting Started with JavaScript… again (Christopher Bennage)
Calling F# Libraries from Metro Style Apps (Daniel Mohl)
Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target and Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#) (Derik Whittaker)
What’s new in MEF ‘version 2’ Preview 4? (Alok & Nick)
Phree Book Reader Now Available (Charles Petzold)

.NET / Visual Studio

WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.8.5 Now Available (Rene Schulte)
LINQ to XML in a Nutshell (Dhananjay Kumar)
WCF Data Services October CTP Updates OData Libraries, Adds Spatial Data Types (Jenni Konrad)
F# under the covers XIV — Match expressions : Does my complexity look big in this? and F# — where has our Roslyn been? (Steve Gilham)
Inner Fields and Lazy Initialization in C# (Steve Smith)
.NET Framework 4 Now Supports LocalDB (Abel Avram)
MEF 101 – Part2 (Abhijeet Patel)
Understanding basic WinRT Metro Applications and Application Capabilities and Layout adjustments Snapping and OrientationChanges in Metro Applications (Abhishek Sur)
Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus Relay Load Balancing (Scale & Availability Feature) and Whats new in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 – Packages are no longer encrypted and How to upgrade only one specific role from your Windows Azure Application and Communication between Windows Azure Roles (Avkash Chauhan)
VS11DP Microsoft Parallel Visualization Pack (Greg Duncan)
OpenWrap 2.0.1–a better way to look at dependencies (Sebastien Lambla)
Building a .NET Gadgeteer Compatible Hardware and Software Module: Der BlinkenLED (Pete Brown)
Three .NET "tools" that I use every day and you want to know about (Dror Helper)
Convention-based part registration available in a new MEF preview! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Fluent Assertions is finally gaining some momentum (Dennis Doomen)
5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic GC Collections (Michael McLaughlin)
Enterprise Library Contrib – 5.0 (Oct 2011) (CodePlex)
Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers (Daniel Kehoe)
ASP.NET MVC: Expression Trees as Parameter to Simplify Query (SummiG)
HTML5 canvas – Creating Your Own Paint Program (Aramis GC)
Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github (Phil Haack)
Codeigniter + HTML5 Boilerplate = win (John Esposito)
Razor and CSS in JustCode (Just* Team)
Simple Membership MVC3 1.2 available on NuGet (Kevin LaBranche)
Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
HTMLApplicationHost Framework Posted to Codeplex (David Kelley)
#Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
JavaScript: Why the hatred for strict mode? (Acel Rauschmayer)
Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers (Vitaly Friedman)
JavaScript YouTube Downloader–The Compact Edition (Shai Raiten)
Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
Embrace Authorship – The importance of rel=me and rel=author on your content’s SEO and Google (Scott Hanselman)
Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? (Peter Kellner)
New PHP formatting options in PhpStorm 3.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
Deploying Node.js Applications to Windows Azure via Blobs or Git Sync (Steve Marx)
Best Practices for Getting Started with SVG (Jennifer Yu)
A Best Practice for Programming with Vendor Prefixes (John Hrvatin)
Guide to Claims-based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition) (Jimmy Larkin)
CoffeeScript’s for loops don’t work on strings (despite appearances to the contrary) (Joe White)
Piwik ≤ 1.5.1 multiple XSS vulnerabilities (Krzysztof Kotowicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Simple Design with Design Patterns (Cory Foy)
Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained and Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party Windows Forms controls–How to? (Shubhra Maji)
Getting Started with Getting Results Free eBook (JD Meier)
The gift of legacy (Jef Claes)
Software Development as Risk Management (Christopher Goldsbury)
Are Project Managers Living a Lie? (Peter Saddington)
A case study in responsive design (Dan Sheerman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
Commands in MVVM (Dave Kerr)
Getting Started with Windows Phone Alarms (Windows Phone Geek)
Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (1) (Anders Poulsen)
Grouping & CheckBoxes in RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 (Deyan Ginev)
Microsoft: Windows Phone Mango now being delivered to ‘100 percent’ of compatible devices (Donald Melanson)
HTML5 Mobile and Windows Phone 7 (Doris Chen)
WPF 4: Changing DataGrid Cell Appearance on Mouse Events (Mahesh Sabnis)
2000 WPF Things #418 – Star Sizing Allows Setting Row and Column Sizes Relative to Each Other and #419 – How Cell Sizes are Calculated when Using Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
Custom Versioning Strategy on TFS 2010 for Windows Phone (Henry Lee)
31 Days of Mango (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 180: Brian Korzinski on Codeslingers (David Giard)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 417: BF3, Kinect Sports Season 2, Goldeneye 007: Reloaded (Larry Hyrb)
Episode 164 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Web Dev Radio Episode 91: Zendcon 2011 – Jeff Kibler interview (Michael Kimsal)
Engadget Podcast 262 – 10.28.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 110 – 10.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Migrating to the Cloud – Part 3/3 (Bob Rhubart)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 74 – Mahesh Krishnan on Azure (Richard Banks)
Windows Weekly 232: Mango Is To Tango (Paul Thurrott)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Robert Collazo Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Cloud Cover Episode 63 – Securely Sharing Files with Windows Azure (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
This is my next Podcast 030 – 10.30.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
Kinect to Kill: A Channel 9 Halloween Special (Laura Foy)
Video on How to Start developing for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to change Theme and Skin of Windows Phone 7 Emulator and Video on How to work with Orientation Changes in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

SQLAuthority News – Online Webcast How to Identify Resource Bottlenecks – Wait Types and Queues (Pinal Dave)
Announcing a new user group (Andrej Tozon)
ALM Events in Redmond by Northwest Cadence and Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr Nov 3rd at ODNC and free bonus sessions at DevTeach (Charles Sterling)
Get in the game! Announcing a round of free, HTML5 game camps from Microsoft (Dave Isbitski)
Silverlight in the Enterprise Training at MS NYC (Dani Diaz)
WordPress Geeks Rejoice, WordCamp Philly 2011 Scheduled For November 6th (Joe Ross)
KolkataGeeks Pleased to Announce Developer Conference 2011 (#DevConKol2011) (Kunal Chowdhury)
Microsoft holding Windows Phone press event in NYC Nov. 7 (John Callaham)
November Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

Updatable Subscriptions Deprecated in SQL Server 2012 (Brandon Williams)
SQL SERVER – Fundamentals of Columnstore Index and SQL SERVER – How to Ignore Columnstore Index Usage in Query and SQL SERVER – Database Dynamic Caching by Automatic SQL Server Performance Acceleration (Pinal Dave)
Add Client Name in SQL Profiler Results (Madhivanan)
Creating a Table Report with Dynamic Columns (Paul Turley)
Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table) (sognibene)
Installing the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database content and Installing the AdventureWorks OLAP Sample Database (Enrique Lima)
How To Estimate Data Utilization (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

PowerShell

My Favorite PowerShell Script: Reading Log Files (Jes Schultz Borland)

Miscellaneous

The Great Place to Work Institute Names Microsoft World’s Best Workplace (MS JobsBlog)
Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth (Joe Ferris)
RubyMine, Part 4. Editing Code (Victor Savkin)
Control Your Vim Editor (Dalibor Nasevic)
CodePlex Activity Stream (Jahmai OSullivan)
Windows Azure Special offer for MSDN Subscribers (PubSec)
Google TV gets generally more ‘Googly’ with Android apps, new YouTube (Tim Conneally)
So what about Windows Phone 7 adoption rates? (Joost van Schaik)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: October 28, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 126 (Scott Banwart)
Interesting .NET Links – October 31 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Bi-Weekly Link Post 212 (Rhonda Tipton)
Geek Reading October 28, 2011 and Geek Reading October 29, 2011 and Geek Reading October 30, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #740 and Double Shot #741 (Mike Gunderloy)
MVP Friday Five: October 28, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
Friday Links 2011-10-28 (JD Meier)
The Morning Brew #969 and The Morning Brew #970 (Chris Alcock)
Pie in the Sky (October 28, 2011) (Brian Swan)
Daily News Digest 10/28/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/28/2011) (Silverlight Show)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 23-October-2011 to 29-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Web Dev Tweets 26-Oct-2011 and 27-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Reading Notes #18 (Franky)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
Retrospective 56 – #CTO #Blog and #SEO #Giveaway (Peter Saddington)
Daily WP7 Development News 28 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

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