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Dew Drop – January 15, 2012 (#1,243)

Posted on January 15, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher v1.2 and source now available (Greg Duncan)
The Learn to Code Movement and Software Security (Mark Curphey)
Skype coming soon to Windows Phone (or is it?) – updated (Kip Kniskern)
31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept (Arturo Toledo)

.NET / Visual Studio

[Quick VS Tip] Using regular expressions do the find/replace in Visual Studio and WinRT People – A WinRT community effort and site (Greg Duncan)
Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance (Jef Claes)
When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. and EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation (Peter Kellner)
Input Parameters in Fluent API (Mehdi Khalili)

Web Development

Understanding CoffeeScript Comprehensions (Karl Seguin)
Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
Hosting A Node.js Site Through Apache (Davy Brion)
NetBash Updated – Formatting Helpers Added (Luke Lowrey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Results for Time Management (J.D. Meier)
Book Review and my thoughts on UX (User Centered Design) (Rohit Sharma)
A meta post about negative code reviews (Oren Eini)
Focused Retrospectives: things to watch for (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

One project, one declarative language, two platforms – A side-by-side XAML project on Silverlight 5 and WinRT (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
12th Day of Silverlight: PivotViewer (Tony Champion)
WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 4of Many (Vijaya Malla)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
Engadget Podcast 276: CES Finale – 01.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Announcing the GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

CodeMash 2012 report and Coding in the style of Glee (Jon Skeet)

Database

SQL SERVER – Cases When Stored Procedure RECOMPILE – Quiz – Puzzle – 14 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning C++ Through Game Programming by Michael Dawson

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Dew Drop – January 9, 2012 (#1,237)

Posted on January 9, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone App (Arturo Toledo)
Syncing Visual Studio Extensions and Settings with Dropbox (Lars Wilhelmsen)
SOLID JavaScript: The Interface Segregation Principle (Derek Greer)
The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH (Troy Hunt)
Introducing ExpectThat: A CoffeeScript Assertion Library (Dan Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

C# Static Field Initialisation Order (Richard Carr)
string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Working with the Search charm in Windows 8 (Peter von Lochow)

Web Development

Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Field (Giorgio Sironi)
JavaScript inheritance by example (Axel Rauschmayer)
Windows Azure with PHP – Downloading Blob To Local Machine (Puja Pramudya)
Textarea Auto Resize (Louis Lazaris)
Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
What we still can’t do client-side (Lea Verou)

Design / Methodology / Testing

My take on TDD & binary search (Morgan Persson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. (Jonathan Antoine)
Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows Phone 7.5 – Using advanced tiles API (Andrea Boschin)
Kung Fu Windows Phone–Marketing 101 (Rudi Grobler)
2000 WPF Things #468 – FirstColumn Property Allows Blank Cells in a UniformGrid (Sean Sexton)
WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 3of Many (Vijaya Malla)
Fixing that darn AdControl when it won’t show up (Arian Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Weekly 242: Refreshing and Resetting (Paul Thurrott)
The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

Webcasts: Upcoming Sessions in January and February (Kim Spilker)

Database

Relating Parameters & Filters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Melissa Coates)
SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.6–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
Restoring SQL Server Database: Points to Consider (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Using RANKING Functions Instead of SQL Looping Logic of Cursor – Quiz – Puzzle – 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
“New Index…” is greyed out in SSMS (Ben March)
Set-Based Operations: They’re Not Just For Databases (Calvin Bottoms)
Orders Search in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

Managing Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 from a Single PowerShell Session and How to Enable Lync 2010 Client Presence Status: Appear Offline and Generating Delivery Reports and Tracking Messages from PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

Getting Started with Python – A simple example with all basic stuff (Singaram Subramanian)
Learning Android: Getting android-support jar/compatability package as a Maven dependency (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – January 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #791 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading Notes #28 (Franky)
The Morning Brew #1017 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham

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Dew Drop – December 19, 2011 (#1,222)

Posted on December 19, 2011 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers (Troy Hunt)
Castle Windsor 3.0 is released (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Top Three Reasons Phil Haack Quit Microsoft (D’Arcy Lussier)
MVVM Light installers and Nuget (including Silverlight 5) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

Resources to write .Net based MapReduce jobs for Hadoop using F# (Avkash Chauhan)
Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce and Using Hadoop on Azure JS Console for Data Visualizations (Carl Nolan)
Tip of the day – Windows 8 Metro apps & frame navigation failure (Dennis Delimarsky)
[Rumor] Pex and Moles to be part of Visual Studio 11? and Getting Started with the Netduino (Really) and Avoiding some Kinect SDK for Windows gotchas (Greg Duncan)
Developing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio (Jay Schmelzer)
Team Foundation Server Power Tools December 2011 (Shai Raiten)
Examples of depth API improvements coming in v1 (Rob Relyea)
Programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
Nuget Update Error (Michael Sync)
ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support (Jenni Konrad)
Craig’s Utility Library 3.0 (CodePlex)
Tpl Dataflow (block structure) – Part 4 and Task != Thread (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

What’s next in 2012 for the Telerik AJAX and MVC products (Stefan Rahnev)
New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox (Chris Heilmann)
The rise and rise of JavaScript (Dan North)
Composite JavaScript Applications With Backbone And Backbone.Marionette (Derick Bailey)
Custom Blank ASP.NET MVC Project Template (Joe Mayo)
Choosing a CSS Framework (Joe Stagner)
MVC: Handling file uploads (John Rayner)
Book review: HTML & CSS (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Error Code with Exception (Giorgio Sironi)
Handling CSS by using jQuery (R S Dodiya)
"I want to optimize my JS application on V8" checklist (mraleph)
How to Check if a Date is More or Less Than a Month Ago with PHP (Stoimen Popov)
New in 3.0: Support of profiling with Zend Debugger (nnmatveev)
Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project (Rob Hawkes)
Sass: Introducing mixins (John-Daniel Trask)
fubu new project (Josh Arnold)
Online Javascript Compression Tool (BrightBit)
A Case For Using CoffeeScript (Justin Etheredge)
New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
Querying The Archivist API With JSON.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
Announcing the Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs Release (Itai Raz)
Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Linking Local Packages with npm (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Challenge: Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page and Node.js For Dummies (Davy Brion)
WebSockets versus REST… fight! (Nathan Evans)
Create a Node.js App on Azure in 3 minutes (Ryan Lowdermilk)
How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage? and Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI – first public CTP availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification (David Bulkin)
From Agile to Elastic (Ralf Westphal)
TDD Workflow (Sinatra / Haml / jQuery) Part 1 (Brian Marick)
Learning Distributed Systems: Sockets and Event Store (Rinat Abdullin)
Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN (Yann Trevin)
The Lean Startup: Book Review (Mark Needham)
31 Days of Testing—Day 15: Cucumber is Not A QA Tool (Jim Holmes)
Building Social Software for the Anti-Social (Jeff Atwood)
Building Scalable Cloud Applications (David Aiken)
3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework (Bobby Johnson)
Getters are an antipattern? (Gian Maria Ricci)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Don’t forget about the databinding features of Silverlight 4 that you get with Mango! (Cheryl Simmons)
Trying out jQuery Mobile on Windows Phone (UPDATED) (Chris G. Williams)
Building Async WCF Services in Silverlight with Channelfactory (Derik Whittaker)
Video on How to work with Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
Kunal’s 13 for 5… 13 Silverlight 5 tutorials… and Pick up your pace on Silverlight 5 with Michael Crump’s 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Greg Duncan)
Decoding Portable Bitmap (PBM) files in C# and displaying them in WPF (J. Broun)
Want to change your Windows Phone emulator? (Jeff Blankenburg)
Resources from the HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Developer Camps (Lindsay Lindstrom)
2000 WPF Things #453 – The UseLayoutRounding Property Aligns Things to Pixel Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
Step by Step WPF Data Binding with Comboboxes (Steve Aube)
Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
6th Day of Silverlight : Binding in Style Setters (Tony Champion)
Working with the Data Grid – Day 3 (Callum G.)
Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 423: We get ready for Christmas (Larry Hyrb)
Episode 169 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Karsten Wysk Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Expert Panel Q&A featuring Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich (Scott Guthrie, Mark Russinovich & Dave Campbell)
Gillmor Gang Live 12.16.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.17.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Video: Microsoft’s Steve Kaneko on design unification and the challenges of moving to Metro (T.C. Sottek)
Engadget Podcast 268 – 12.16.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 117 – 12.17.2011 and The Vergecast 006 – 12.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Windows Weekly 239: Outside My Wheelhouse (Paul Thurrott)
The Engadget Show – 028: Boeing’s 787, the Tokyo Motor Show and the year in review (Brian Heater)
Community Megaphone Podcast Show #32 with Guest Pete Brown (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks (Jesse Liberty)
Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Builds XAML Apps on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
TWC9: December 16th – Silverlight 5, Azure, TFS PowerTools and XMPP (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

tl;dr (Ryan Lowdermilk)
Tales from the MNC: The team behind Windows Phone’s breakthrough design (MS JobsBlog)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 with JRE7 getDate compatibility (MS Downloads)
Import Data from Excel into SQL Server Using SSIS (Keshav Singh)
SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device.Operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.) and SQL SERVER – Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Samples Database for SQL Server 2012 RC0 and SQLAuthority News – Introduction to expressor Connectivity to Salesforce – expressor Data Integration Applications (Pinal Dave)
Bulk Insertion of Data Using C# DataTable and SQL server OpenXML function (Pranay Rana)
SQL Advent 2011 Day 16: CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY and SQL Advent 2011 Day 18: Table-valued Parameters and SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
Import Data from excel to SQL server using C# in ASP. NET (Suraj S Koneri)
Building Apps Using SQL Azure and SQL Azure Reporting (Content) (Zhiming Xue)
Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

Sells Manor: Running 64-bit Win8 on My MacBook Air (Chris Sells)
Microsoft Touch Mouse Review (Michael Crump)
Your New Year’s Resolution – Put an end to spinning rust and buy yourself a SSD (Scott Hanselman)
Ever wonder what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956? (Steven Hodson)
Signing in with a picture password (Steven Sinofsky)
Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools (Xavier Ducrohet)
Connecting Windows Home Server to web through two routers (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 12.13 ~ 12.19 (yuanjian)
The Morning Brew #1005 (Chris Alcock)
Distributed Weekly 133 (Scott Banwart)
Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 and Interesting .NET Links – December 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #775 and Double Shot #776 (Mike Gunderloy)
MVP Friday Five: December 16, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
Daily News Digest 12/16/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/16/2011) (Silverlight Show)
Pie in the Sky (December 16, 2011) (Brian Swan)
Windows Dev News for December 18, 2011 – #0012 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 5 – 11, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 16 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 12-18 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Great Sites and Blogs for Learning about .NET Gadgeteer (G. Andrew Duthie)
Retrospective 63 – The Kanban Man and Agile Army (Peter Saddington)
Reading Notes #25 (Franky)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

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