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Dew Drop – September 13, 2011

Posted on September 14, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
Expression Blend… for HTML (Christian Schormann)
Build HTML 5 apps with Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview (Pam Keesey)
Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Somasegar)
I_See_What_You_Did_There (Anonymous)

Windows 8 / BUILD

Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
//build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
Windows 8–First thoughts and Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)

.NET / Visual Studio

What is the cost of try/catch (Oren Eini)
Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
TeamPulse TFS Sync Tips & Tricks (TeamPulse Team)
WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32 (Jonathan Allen)
Programmatically Get Assembly Version and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup (Abhijit Jana)
Using Custom Web.config Transformations in MSBUILD (Doug Rathbone)
Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
Sync Framework Toolkit Connects Phones, Desktops, HTML5 to SQL Server, SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5 (MS Downloads)
Advantages of CoffeeScript When Working with jQuery Templates (Daniel Mohl)
Backbone.js: MVC in JavaScript and Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Collection (Giorgio Sironi)
Thinking Like a Web Designer (Tim Bray)
Getting Role Instance Information with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Command Line Tools (Brian Swan)
Resources For, And How I Learned Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Four Basic Insights on Confidence (J.D. Meier)
You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do! (Martin Hinshelwood)
RTM’d today: Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life (Kim Spilker)
TeamPulse – A Project Management Solution from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s Checkout Form (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
Adding to MoXAML. (Pete O’Hanlon)
2000 WPF Things #386 – Layout = Panels + FrameworkElements + Alignment/Margins/Padding (Sean Sexton)
Expression Blend for HTML (Somasegar)
TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events (Nikolai Tillmann)
Prism 4 MEF Application (Danny Siew)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Let’s Play TDD #139: File → Close (James Shore)
Engadget HD Podcast 265 – 09.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Pluralcast 48 : Jeffrey Palermo on Career and Management (David Starr)
The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

Webcast: Office 365 & SharePoint Online (Kim Spilker)
Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies (Charles Max Wood)
//BUILD/: What a great conference -celebrating this new era by starting a new ALM Team blog (Charles Sterling)
Say “Hello” to BlendInsider (Kirupa)
WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live! (Windows Phone Geek)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server OLEDB Provider Deprecation Announcement (Luiz Santos)
SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV (Jakub Dvorak)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables (Pinal Dave)
Understanding SQL Azure Federations No-MARS Support and Entity Framework (James Podgorski)
Backing up SQL Azure with Backup from Red-Gate (Eric Nelson)

SharePoint

RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
Business Connectivity Service Associations using DB2 Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

PowerShell

First Glimpse at PowerShell v3 and Video: Richard Siddaway – WMI: Gems and Gotchas (Dmitry Sotnikov)
The PowerShell Magazine launches… (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #937 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting .NET Links – September 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Geek Reading September 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #708 (Mike Gunderloy)
Link dump for September 12th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Daily News Digest 09/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Today’s Links (9/13/2011) (Bob Rhubart)

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 – May 7, 2009

Posted on May 7, 2009 | by Alvin A. | 2 Comments

Silverlight / WPF

The Influence of MVC on My WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day
More on Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
Silverlight – Navigating Data (Dave M. Bush)
Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 2 and Part 3 (Michael Ceranski)
The New York Times Silverlight Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
Creating a MVVM “Hello World” Application in 30 seconds (Rudi Grobler)
Document Toolkit: Customizing the document viewer (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community (Mary Jo Foley)
LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) (Peter Kellner)
Pay attention to the difference between Expression.Lt & Expression.LtProperty (Derik Whittaker)
Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers (Eran Kampf)
A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

Google’s Latitude Apps Give a Glimpse of New Latitude API (Andres Ferrate)
Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live (Jamie Thomson)
ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery (Jan Tielens)
GridView Plugin For JQuery (Justin)
Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released (Scott Hunter)
Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications (David Fowler)
Cleaner, Faster Ajax in ASP.NET (Gil Shabat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit Testing “Where’s The Dollar?” and Understanding the Problem (Chris Missal)
Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net (Sebastien Lambla)
Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)
Who’s In Charge Of The Time? (Davy Brion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun (Carl Franklin)
10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (Brian Keller)
E-VAN Videos Reminder (Colin Jack)
Stack Overflow Podcast #52 (Jeff Atwood)
Cannon PI Title Sequence (Frank La Vigne)
Podcast: Meg Edwards – My Journey with GTD Lists (Meg Edwards)
Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)
Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC and Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

.NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 (Jay Kimble)
See and Be Seen Among the Stars at the INETA Booth at Tech·Ed and 9Q w/ Kathleen Sanders (Chris G. Williams)
Announcing Silverlight FireStarter DC: June 6 (Frank La Vigne)
Announcing the Formation of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium (Karl Scotland)

Database

SQL Server Reporting Services Step by Step: What’s new for 2008? (Ken Jones)

PowerShell

Fun with Alerts (“‘a”) (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work (Agnes Molnar)
It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy (Celine Roque)
8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
Are You an Information Junkie? (Dawn Foster)
4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks (Samuel Dean)
Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards (Jeff Atwood)
Clearing The Confusion On Security And Clouds (Krishnan Subramanian)
Recipe for Spark build/dev machine on Virtual PC (Louis DeJardin)
Guess Who Owns Kindledx.com? Amazon. Guess Who Forgot To Set It Up? Amazon. (MG Siegler)
Live Search PR push in anticipation of “Kumo” (Kip Kniskern)
Marketing Ideas to Help Sell Your Ideas (Sam’s Club Cup Pt. 2) (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for May 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: May 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #342 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2009 — #588 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for May 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours): Rob Eisenberg, Christopher Bennage: Books

ISBN: 0672329859
ISBN-13: 9780672329852

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Dew Drop – May 4, 2009

Posted on May 4, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight / WPF

RIA Services Contrib – Release 0.51 (CodePlex)
Silverlight Animation Tip (G. Andrew Duthie)
Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3 and A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF (Frank La Vigne)
Validation. Hey! You’re Done! (Jesse Liberty)
Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit (Lester Lobo)
WPF design flaw of the day: no initial focus (Joe White)
Playing around with Syntax Highlighter (Pete Brown)
WPF : Attached Commands (Sacha Barber)
Discovering Silverlight 3 – Demos of new features (Velvárt András)
More Validation Fun – But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
Did You Know? Silverlight Class Library Can’t Be Named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)

.NET / Visual Studio

Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released (Jason Young)
Agile Meets The Recession and The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)
Artisanal Retro-Futurism ⊗ Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism (Brian Marick)
How Many Bedrooms Did You Say? (Max Pool) – Link of the Day
On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries… What About Don’t Repeat Yourself? (Davy Brion)
A Culture of Microcomponents (Ben Scheirman)
Pex 0.12.40430.3 : Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs… and Stubs as Parameterized Models with Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
Pair Programming: When your pair steps away (Mark Needham)
The Hunt For Simplicity (Justin Etheredge)
Mocking for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Remote Retrospectives with Twiddla (Jim Holmes)
Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Michael Janke)
Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)
Can we avoid tooling to prevent spaghetti code? (Patrick Smacchia)
Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class (Sasha Goldshtein)
Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? 🙂 (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

Geek City: Controlling Lock Granularity (Kalen Delaney)
Real World Perspectives on the Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures (Jas Dhaliwal)
Doing my SQL myths session on Live meeting (Simon Sabin)
SQL SERVER – Example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL Commands and SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column and SQL SERVER – Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications – SQL Server Certifications (Pinal Dave)
Create a new embedded Firebird database (DotNetFacts)

SharePoint

Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books

ISBN: 0321534468
ISBN-13: 9780321534460

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