Tag: rails

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• 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

• Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – About this Series… and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – How I do MVVM and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – My favorite MVVM toolkit : MVVM Light Toolkit and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Commands and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Messages and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Dialogs and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the Business Logic and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the User Interface and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Using Data Services (Andrew Connell)
• How do I – Resolve the Powershell New-SPConfigurationDatabase command error – The pipeline has been stopped, This SharePoint farm currently has pending upgrades (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Windows 7: Using the Farm Configuration Wizard Part 1 of 2 (Enrique Lima)
• New book: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

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