Dew Drop – April 9, 2010

 

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Top Links

• JavaScript Intellisense Improvements with VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• "Dogfooding" VS 2010 and .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• Apple to developers: don’t even think in Flash, bucko (Rob Beschizza)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – A Separation of Concerns (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using GroupBy in LINQDatasource Control for Grouping Data (Satheesh Babu)
• Windows Azure AppFabric Goes Live (Bruce Kyle)
• Parallel Tasks in .NET 4.0 (Part II) – Methods that Return value (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Transpose Lines, Words, and Characters — vstipEdit0042 and View White Space (Zain Naboulsi)
• Precision and accuracy of DateTime (Eric Lippert)
• Working with obscure arguments without C# 4 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Coding: FindOrCreateUser and similar methods (Mark Needham)
• A simple WCF service with username password authentication: the things you told me (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Telerik Releases the Data Service Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Leasing Windows Azure Blobs Using the Storage Client Library (Steve Marx)

 

Web Development

• 5 Years Ago Today the Web Mashup Was Born (Adam DuVander)
• Inside IE 9’s High Performance JavaScript Engine (Charles Torre)
• How to parse JSON (Daniel Crenna)
• Simple Pager for ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Scaling Web Sites with Azure and Local Cache (Jared Bienz)
• jQuery, ASP.NET, and Browser History (Stephen Walther)
• Running PHP on Windows Azure and Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby) (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to use Cross-Site Scripting to Rickroll your Co-Workers (Russell Ball)
• An ASP.NET MVC Portable Area for OpenId (John Nelson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Trust" Now Online (James Shore)
• Debugging a production problem (Oren Eini)
• Strengthening your domain: Domain Events (Jimmy Bogard)
• What Makes Peer Code Review an Agile Process? (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Test-Driven Development in Windows Phone7 – Part 1: Unit Testing with Silverlight for Phone7 (Michael Sync)
• Question to Software Designers: IUser (Keith Brown)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 6: Mocks & Unit Tests (Julie Lerman)
• Build your conventions (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Guidance – Branching for each Sprint and Scrum for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• DoodlePad – A fun, free, sketching application for Windows Phone 7 (Dave Isbitski)
• Omniture AppMeasurement will be in the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #109 – Attach to Process Debugging (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Voice Video Chat Modules – Beta Release (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pete at MIX10: Dave Campbell on Silverlight Cream (Pete Brown)
• The History of Microsoft – The Jeff Raikes Story: Part Two (Tina Wood)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: SVG Web Panel (Nic Fillingham)
• What’s new in Silverlight 4 Part 1 by Mike Taulty and Windows Azure Applications: Running Applications in the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics, Introduction by Scott Hanselman (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Silverlight TV 20: Community Driven Development with WCF RIA Services (John Papa)

 

Community / Events

• Looking forward to the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London, just over a week away! (Andrew Connell)
• Save May 12 for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 Launch (Bruce Kyle)
• Preparing Yourself for the Windows Phone 7 DevCamp (Dave Bost)
• Why Aren’t You Awesome Yet? (Learning Via The World-Wide Community) (Alan Skorkin)
• Join me for some exciting sessions at Devlink 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps (Lawrence Moroney)
• MVPs to help launch Visual Studio 2010 around the World (PJ  Forgione)
• Poll: What Are Your Favorite Silverlight TV Episodes? (John Papa)

 

Database

• Obfuscating SQL Server Code (Richard Carr)
• A DMV a Day – Day 9 (Glenn Berry)
• Encrypted Stored Procedures and Their Effect on my Rug (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (8/30) unicorns, rainbows, and online index operations (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Manage Risk and Configure Best Practices with New Server Administrator for SharePoint 2007/2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Deploying an External Content Type, Error: The default web application could not be determined (Paul Andrew)

 

Miscellaneous

• Technical Book Sales Insight Through Real-Time Amazon Rankings Analytics (Bart Czernicki)
• Subversion (SVN) Source-Control for PowerShell Scripts (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Getting Started With Cgywin (Derek Greer)
• Clash of the titans: Apple, Google battle for the mobile Web (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS 4 vs Android 2.1 vs Windows Phone 7 (Taimur Asad)
• New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek (Manu Cornet)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Geek Atlas – Only $9.99 Use code DDGAP (O’Reilly Media)
• Hump-Jumping: How the Education of Computer Science can be Saved, err, maybe. (Leon Bambrick)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #576 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 08, 2010 — #834 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman on Defining Community, Blog Site Pet Peeves, Preserving the Problem (Dave Burke)
• Creators Club Communiqué 49 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

The Geek Shelf

Photoshop CS4 Bible