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Dew Drop – January 6, 2012 (#1,235)

Posted on January 6, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Windows Phone Native Series – ExitApplication, PlaySystemSound, GetSystemInformation (Dennis Delimarsky)
Recognition Compensation (Phil Haack)
SocialViewer gets Windows Phone Mango treatment (Nick Randolph)
Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)
Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds (Brent Schooley)

.NET / Visual Studio

Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M. Bucknall)
CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)

Database

31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Double Shot #790 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 1/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 04-Jan-2012 and 05-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
Daily WP7 Development News 5 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Morning Brew #1016 (Chris Alcock)
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– December 2011 (Beth Massi)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/05/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
Distributed Weekly 136 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

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Dew Drop – May 16, 2011

Posted on May 16, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC (Scott Guthrie)
Eduasync part 4: Filling in AsyncTaskMethodBuilder (Jon Skeet)
Using DataContracts with WCF Web API (Glenn Block)
WindowsPhoneMvp Quickstart (Brendan Kowitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

Using Advantage data providers to read DBF-files (Gunnar Peipman)
TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions (Shai Raiten)
Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
Aligning Numbers on the Decimal Separator (Ron Petrusha)
Manning Deal of the Day: “Natural User Interfaces in .NET” MEAP and Paper Book for $25 (Joey deVilla)
Using Lazy to Solve Deadlocks in Resource Caches (Rick Brewster)

Web Development

Step by step instructions to deploy ASP.NET MVC 3 to Windows Azure (Bart Czernicki)
What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
ASP.NET MVC and Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
Timepicker–nice extension to jQuery UI Datepicker (Gunnar Peipman)
WCF REST Service with JSON Data (Dhananjay Kumar)
A Not Very Short Introduction To Node.js (Anders Janmyr)
HowTo: migrate an established WebApp to Azure (Code Inside Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Getting up to BAT: Building a True DSL (John Sonmez)
Richardson’s Maturity Model as a tool for understanding not measurement (Glenn Block)
What is Domain Driven Design? (Jak Charlton)
Time Management Checklist and How To Set Goals and Achieve Them (JD Meier)
Effective Tests: Test Doubles (Derek Greer)
Do What You Say You Are Going to Do (Mike Cottmeyer)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond (Dave Campbell)
“That’s a HUGE List!” – WP7 Jump List (Erik Klimczak)
(YANCWP7AM) Yet Another No Code Windows Phone 7 App Maker – FollowMyFeed (Greg Duncan)
What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Display PDFs in your Windows Phone 7 application (Nick Randolph)
Release an App for Windows Phone 7 in 7 Days for a Chance to Win a New HTC 7 Trophy Phone (Nigel Parker)
Windows Phone Launchers (Paul Sheriff)
Consider this when downloading large files on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 398: We discuss our Brink experience, Gatling Gears and more (Larry Hyrb)
Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 16 (Richard Hay)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 016 – “More Mango Madness” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
The GeekDads Episode #91: That Pause Was Air Quotes (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

SQL SERVER – Attending MVP Open Day – May 2011 (Pinal Dave)
The Microsoft week ahead: What’s on for TechEd 2011? (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

SQL SERVER – SQL Server Compression Estimator – Codeplex (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
SQL CLR Stored Procedure using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 05.10 ~ 05.16 (yuanjian)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 069 for 5/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
The Morning Brew #852 (Chris Alcock)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-May-2011 to 14-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2011 — #1089 (Dave Campbell)
Android development resource links (Mendelt Siebenga)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

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Dew Drop – January 15, 2011

Posted on January 15, 2011 | by Alvin A.

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Top Links

Prism 4 Gems: Rendering Heterogeneous Collections with DataTemplateSelector (Brian Noyes)
Enterprise Library 5.0 – Extensibility Labs and Fluent Validation 2.0 (CodePlex)
A Look At Fluent APIs (Sacha Barber)
TWC9: WebMatrix, MVC, Orchard, NuGet Gallery (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

Announcing SL#: C# to GLSL Translator (Zor)
Uber Prof New Features: A better query plan (Oren Eini)
Google Shortener API For .NET Written In C# (Deepak Kapoor)
Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 (Shai Raiten)
Tape: Dependency management for .NET (Paul Stovell)
CLR Version issues with CorBindRuntimeEx (Rick Strahl)
A tip for using InstallShield and TeamBuild 2010 while living in a x86/x64 world and Writing a MMC Plugin, with MVP and Unity (Greg Duncan)
Bundle identifier on iOS with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
New book: Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)
DXCore Services – TextExpansions and IDE tools terminology/key concepts (Alex Skorkin)
Help NHibernate to better understand what U want (Gian Maria Ricci)
Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)

Web Development

Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0 and How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member ? (Abhijit Jana)
Semantic HTML5 Page Layout (Modesty Zhang)
A Comparison of Three jQuery Modal Dialogs for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Regan)
Sueetie Version 3.0 Now Available (Dave Burke)
Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Debugging with node-inspector (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Google Releases the High Replication Datastore for App Engine (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
Windows Identity Foundation + OATH = Win for Users (Don Burnett)
The Facebook Windows Azure Cloud Toolkit (Don Burnett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Two Dimensions of Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
[Updated] Top Agile Tools (Peter Saddington)
On craftsmanship (Dan North)
Are you Mocking Me? (Gregory Long)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Sterling Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Database Triggers and Auto-Identity (Jeremy Likness)
MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Jonathan Cardy)
Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library (Yochay Kiriaty)
Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 1 and Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 2 (Windows Phone Geek)
WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs and WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Herding Code 101: Kelly Sommers on Mobile Development and User Interface design (Jon Galloway & Co.)
Windows Weekly 191: Angry Ballmer (Paul Thurrott)
Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 3 – Storage Access (Larry Larsen)
Windows Phone 7 Videos (Richard Hay)
Windows Phone Radio 13 is Live! (Brian Seitz)
YUI Theater — Luke Smith: “YUI 3: Below the Surface” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
Let’s Play TDD #77: Buy Versus Build (James Shore)

Community / Events

CES 2011: Using a browser to demonstrate the power of hardware (Scott Armstrong)
CodeMash: Day 1: Mostly .NET (for me) (Bill Wagner)
Silverlight LOB Firestarters NEXT WEEK (NYC 1/18 & NJ 1/19) (Stephen Forte)
CSLA .NET training in Feb 2011 (Rockford Lhotka)
Silverlight is hiring – Do you love data controls & LOB? (Steve Lasker)
Do you want to be an ALM Consultant? (Martin Hinshelwood)
One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
2011 SharePoint Solutions Roadshow–US (Wes Yanaga)

Database

31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
SQL Server Schema Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2010 (Karthik Anbarasan)
SQLAuthority News – Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

The PowerShell Survival Guide (Brought to you by the Microsoft TechNet wiki) (Greg Duncan)
Driver user experience (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Pinworthy: Uncovering the best of Marketplace (Michael Stroh)
How would you change Windows Phone 7? (Darren Murph)
When does Windows Phone 7 get its grand opening? (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
This Week’s Link List (January 14, 2011) (Brian Swan)
Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools (Scott Hanselman)
January 14th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
Week Retrospective 15 – Ty Pennington and the Agile Methodology Hater (Peter Saddington)
Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2011 — #1027 and Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

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