February 7, 2012
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Dew Drop – February 7, 2012 (#1,260)
Top Links
- Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
- Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
- Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
- What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
- Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
- Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
- KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
- Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
- The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
- Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
- Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
- JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
- How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
- Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
- WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
- Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)
Web Development
- jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
- JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
- Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
- PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
- Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
- Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
- MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
- Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
- Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
- The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
- What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
- Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
- Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
- MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
- [Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
- Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
- 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
- A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
- Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
- 2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
- Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
- Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
- Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
- Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
- Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
- Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
- I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
- Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
- Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)
Database
- SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
- SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
- SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
- SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
- Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
- Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
- Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
- How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)
PowerShell
- List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
- Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
- Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
- ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
- Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell by Lee Holmes |
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February 6, 2012
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Dew Drop – February 6, 2012 (#1,259)
Top Links
- C++ AMP Open Specification (S. Somasegar)
- Get A Model From A Backbone Collection Without Knowing If The Collection Is Loaded and 3 Stages Of A Backbone Application’s Startup (Derick Bailey)
- If you’re using Node.js, you’re doing life wrong (Toby DiPasquale)
- Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps (Dan Mohl)
- Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon’s Kindle team (Mary Jo Foley)
- Windows 8 Secrets: What Windows Phone 8 Tells Us About Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The System.Type Class (Richard Carr)
- Extending Visual Studio Part 1 – Creating Code Snippets and Extending Visual Studio Part 2 – Creating Addins (Dave Kerr)
- From C# to C++, the short guide that isn’t (all that short) and Making your app a better listener… Using multiple grammars to improve speech recognition and to allow for runtime, state based recognition configuration (Greg Duncan)
- LINQ Query and Lambda Expressions (Tom Stickel)
- The Microsoft C++ Compiler Turns 20! (Visual C++ Team)
- Implementing Team Foundation Server 2010 In A Mixed Development Environment (Tim Murphy)
- JSON Serialization / Deserialization of DateTime Not Equal (Rick Anderson)
- New book: MCPD 70-519 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
- Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime Update (Luis Cabrera)
- Debugger Canvas 1.1 Adds Easy On/Off, Improved Navigation (Jenni Konrad)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: IntX (Jason Jarrett)
- Code Template in Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
- From 0 to doing solution builds w/ PSake–Part 1 of N (Derik Whittaker)
- RavenDB Tutorial, Part 1 – Introduction and Basic Operations and RavenDB Tutorial, Part 2 – Simple Querying (Piotr Kwapin)
- Introduction to the Infragistics Word Library (Atanas Dyulgerov)
Web Development
- Why You Should Build Your Website Using Static .html Files (Ryan Hayes)
- DataSets, TableAdapters, and Transient Retry Logic For SqlAzure (Dave M. Bush)
- Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on() (Elijah Manor)
- 3D Gallery with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Tease Apart Inheritance (Giorgio Sironi)
- jQuery "Pinify" Plugin Tutorial for Building App-Like Sites (sagar.sjg)
- HTML5 Web Workers: Classic Message Passing Concurrency (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Streaming results to web page using MSMQ/WCF/SignalR/JQuery (Sacha Barber)
- Getting Started with Knockout.js (John Papa)
- MVVM in the web world (Marlon Grech)
- Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
- Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.8.0 (CodePlex)
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Updates (Nathan Totten)
- MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js) (Neil Mackenzie)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Backbone.js vs Ember.js (Chris Smitch)
- Adding ELMAH to an AppHarbor application (Jef Claes)
- Stack Exchange API V2.0 No Longer Beta (Kevin Montrose)
- Getting Started with IndexedDB Article (Gil Fink)
- Any port in the storm… Sailing Orchard into AppHarbor ("How to setup Orchard on AppHarbor") (Greg Duncan)
- Solving the upload progress bar problem–The History of Node.js (Jarod Ferguson)
- A convenient ‘super’ method for Backbone.js (Max Brunsfeld)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
- A year in review with CQRS (John Teague)
- Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
- Interview: The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption (Sanjiv Augustine & Arlen Bankston)
- Make Code Explicit and Stupid (Rinat Abdullin)
- Organizing Your Work With OneNote Page Templates (Tim Murphy)
- New Mocking Capabilities in JustMock Q3 2011 SP (JustMock Team)
- Drive Your Week with Skill (JD Meier)
- Testing DI bootstrappers (Jef Claes)
- Quick news: Microsoft Manual of Style ebook bundle on sale today (Devon Musgrave)
- Two phase release planning and Looking for information about composed refactorings (Brian Marick)
- Scope, Schedule, and Resources – You can’t have them all (TeamPulse Team)
- Limit your abstractions: Application Events–what about change? (Oren Eini)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- More Json With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
- PSake and building Silverlight solutions (Derik Whittaker)
- Accessing Pictures from Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: DynamicXaml (Jason Jarrett)
- Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices – Project Separations (Lohith G N)
- Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #488 – You Can Change Drawing Attributes of Existing Strokes in an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #12 – Take picture via Camera in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
- Clouds using Expression Design with