Dew Drop – July 22, 2010

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Top Links

• Project Houston CTP released – try it out with brentotweets (Jamie Thomson)
• 10 Commandments of Usability (Dave Laribee)
• SRP: Single Responsibility Principle (Andy Stopford)
• Free JustCode, JustMock licenses for all Thursday webinar attendees (Zain Naboulsi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An interesting RavenDB bug (Oren Eini)
• Mono 2.8 Trick: tracing exceptions (Miguel de Icaza)
• Feature Builder v1.0 Released (Remember, this is the tool that helps build tools… The Power Tool for Visual Studio Power Tools) (Greg Duncan)
• Interactive ToolTip using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Customize the Command Prompt (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with custom proxies (Rory Primrose)
• Productivity power tools, navigation (Gian Maria Ricci)

Web Development

• An Examination of ClientIDMode in ASP.NET4 (Hima)
• HTML Snippets in Visual Studio 2010 (Dane Morgridge)
• New ASP.net Ribbon Control (Peter Bahaa)
• A simple way to Defend Against Unauthenticated Web Service Access. (Joe Stagner)
• Demand for HTML5 Skills On the Rise, Report Says (Simon Mackie)
• Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 (x64) (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Driving CRUD screens with BDD (Gojko Adzic)
• Coded UI Test – Tip 3 – Locate Controls Using Win + I (Shai Raiten)
• Clean Coding, The Cheat Sheet. Starts SOLID and gets better from there… (Greg Duncan)
• The prepared mind vs having context when learning new ideas (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 7 launch partners: HTC, Samsung, LG, Dell and Asus (Florin Troaca)
• Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Calendar: What you can and can’t do (damaster)
• The MVVM Pattern Is Highly Overrated (Davy Brion)
• More Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions, plus forum (Devon Musgrave)
• The new WPF Team Blog – one place to get it all! (Margaret Parsons)
• Fantasia Lite: New Silverlight Painting Tool (Nikola)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The GeekDads Episode #72: The Geek Double Twist (Ken Denmead)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 2 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: Cloud Delivery and Azure (Eric Hagan)
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Firestarter (Part 1 of 5): Keynote, Intro to SOA & WCF and (Part 2 of 5): Most Common WCF Usage Configurations and (Part 3 of 5): REST Programming with WCF and (Part 4 of 5): WCF Made Easy, Data & RIA Services and (Part 5 of 5): What’s New with WCF 4.0 (Emily Gibson)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: The Overview Video (Rob Tiffany)
• Building a Compelling Design with a PivotViewer Collection (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Using OneNote: The Best Way To Get Course Materials (Bob Caswell)
• Beta Review: Forrst is an awesome community for designers and developers (Erez Zukerman)
• .NET speaker Idol, Guess who won? (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Webcast Next Week – Using XML to Query Execution Plans (jstrate)
• Getting Started In Blogging And Technical Speaking – At The 2010 PASS Summit (Kendal Van Dyke)

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
• Database Development with Visual Studio 2010: Overview of SQL Server Data-Tier Application (DACPAC) (Gouri Sohoni)
• Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – SolidQ Journal Released – A Must Read for All (Pinal Dave)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)
• A strategy for managing security for different environments using the Database Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Creating Your First Database (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• DB2 and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 and BCS Meta Man July 2010 Release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Testing begins with Yahoo! (Satya Nadella)
• “Work Without Walls” – Free eBook for management/workers thinking about “Working Remote” (reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• Interviewing (A Gently Stolen Idea) (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A frank conversation about the futures of Apple and Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• Why Aren’t More Developers Building Businesses? (Marc Grabanski)
• Developers Still the Most In-Demand IT Workers (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Smart girls at the party (Phil Plait)
• Bing Webmaster Tools updated, now utilizes Silverlight 4 and Microsoft Employees to get a Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #648 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 07.09 ~ 07.21 (yuanjian)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu