Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – April 10-11, 2010

My apologies to everyone who was hoping to attend my Philly .NET Code Camp talk this morning. An important personal matter came up late yesterday.

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Top Links

• Dear Apple, Why Do You Continue to Give Me the Big Middle Finger? (Wally McClure)
• Windows Phone 7 UX, Part 1: Usability (Mike Strobel)
• MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 (MonoTouch Team)
• What key [binding] does what again? The “Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Cards” for C++, C#, F# and VB (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# April 2010 CTP (MS Downloads)
• CSLA 4 highlights (Rockford Lhotka)
• Finding the location of vsixInstaller.exe programmatically (Roy Osherove)
• XAML IntelliSense – Extension #5 (Sara Ford)
• How To Develop for the Cloud in Visual Studio 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
• Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase (Zain Naboulsi)
• Binding the DXGrid to an XPO datasource (Oliver Sturm)
• Fix Uninstall Issues with Visual Studio Versions (Peter Bromberg)
• Upgrading Visual Studio Solutions with PowerShell (Matt Milner)

Web Development

• Benefits of GPU-powered HTML5 (Frank Olivier)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Building a TMNT Game with jQuery (Marc Grabanski)
• Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Platform Developer Creativity (Peter Ritchie)
• Domain-Driven Design Review (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Perils Of Finding Harry Potters Of The Software Development World. (Rajiv Popat)
• Architectural changes, or “How to decide if and when to start over” (Kyle Baley)
• Where we are with acceptance testing and our BDD journey today (Ian Cooper)
• Maybe vs Null Object Patterns (Mark Needham)
• Do you have an Action Plan to Tackle your Technical Debt? (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook! (Silverlight Team)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs From Silverlight – Part 1: Shared Access Signatures (Steve Marx)
• Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications (Tim Heuer)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 8 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Building Facebook Applications (not clients, but hosted in Facebook apps) with Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
• Using commands with ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton in Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlytics: Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework + Windows Azure + Live Labs Pivot (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo (Scott Hanselman)
• James Senior: Introducing Web Camps (Charles Torre)
• TWC9 – VB 2010, Collect app usage for free, donut caching, painting with light (Dan Fernandez)
• Introduction to Windows 7 Libraries and Integrating with Shell Libraries, Part 2 and Federated Search (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cloud Cover Episode 8 – Shared Access Signatures (Ryan Dunn)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric Dashboard Overview (Ron Jacobs)
• jQuery Podcast 19 – jQuery in Action, 2nd Ed. (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Building Windows Phone 7 Applications with Silverlight and C# 4.0 and beyond by Anders Hejlsberg (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Microsoft Shows Off Finger/Stylus Combo Multitouch Magic (Kyle VanHemert)

Community / Events

• Watch Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, Silverlight 4 Launch Online (Bruce Kyle)
• Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure (Charles Chen)
• Visual Studio 2010 Launch Details (Don Burnett)
• VS2010 Launch is Monday April 12! (Jason Zander)
• Cameron Skinner Tour: Modeling and architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio Extensibility – Code Camp 2010.1 Presentation (Nick Berardi)
• More Microsoft Women Worth Watching: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• What Does Elegant Code Mean to Me? (John Sonmez)
• Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps (Lawrence Moroney)

Database

• MongoDB experts model the move from a relational database to MongoDB (Andy Oram)
• re: NoSQL, meh (Oren Eini)
• A DMV a Day – Day 10 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (9/30) data file shrink does not affect performance and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (10/30) database mirroring detects failures immediately (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Working with the SharePoint Theming Engine (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Has ‘Ripple’ Effect on Washington State Economy (MS PressPass)
• It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor (Matt McGee/Search Engine Land) (Matt McGee)
• The Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is old news, the IP TV is the new generation. (Al Pascual)
• 20 Ways to Fail Miserably as a Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
• Mobile Development is like Console Development (Steve Tibbett)
• JavaRa Updates and Removes Old and Redundant Java Versions (The How-To Geek)
• Things to install on a new machine – revisited (Roy Osherove)
• Daily Dose – Intel’s Mind Reader (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Apple Becoming the New Microsoft? (Rob Bazinet)
• Weekend Reading: Microsoft’s Women Worth Watching, Glo, Moodle and Of Course Baseball (Dominic Carr)
• Mercurial: Early thoughts (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 09, 2010 — #835 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Getting started with Visual Studio 2010 ALM Features (Charles Sterling)
• New and Notable 411 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 04/09/2010 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

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