Month: August 2010

A weekend catch-up post.

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Top Links

• A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think? (Kip Kniskern)
• Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM (Jeremy Likness)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–III) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• TWC9: LightSwitch available, Windows Phone, OData, HTML 5 File API (Dan Fernandez)
• Script Junkie (Somasegar)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Public Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• F# for puzzles (Morse code decoder) (Brian McNamara)
• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• The Profiler New Features: Starring & Renaming (Oren Eini)
• MSDN Keeps getting better (Cameron Skinner)
• Managing business object locks on application level (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 Parallel Stacks – Debugging enhancement in VS2010 (Hima)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-In-One book is close to the finish (András Velvárt)
• Big Enhancements to our documentation: Now with a Version Selector! (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun: Feeling the Earth Move (Arian T. Kulp)
• 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 Minutes (Wes Yanaga)
• Enumerable.Skip vs Seq.skip (Mauricio Scheffer)
• The Misnamed and Misunderstood Object Browser and The Object Browser: Browsing Scope and The Object Browser: Navigation and References (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 version 4.0.1 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Lazy(Of T) class in .Net Framework4.0 (Venu Gopal)
• ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Ryan O’Neill)
• Microsoft won’t stop .Net on Android (Rodney Gedda)
• PSSCor2: GC Heap Analysis Commands and Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution (Sasha Goldshtein)
• MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Know Your Debugger Part 2: Ok, I’m Broken. Now What? (Dane Morgridge)
• Must I release everything when using Windsor? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Strong naming an assembly without having the actual source code (Marlon Grech)
• Windsor 2.0 and Log4Net (Jonathan McCracken)
• Behaviour – Lesson 7 (Simon Jackson)
• Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction (Josh Blake)
• Introducing CountdownEvent (Dror Helper)
• What’s New for Office 2010 Developers white paper is live (Frank Rice)
• Debugging the Undebuggable (Gil Zilberfeld)
• NHibernate – prepare_sql and some considerations on mapping very long string fields (Giorgetti Alessandro)

 

Web Development

• File uploads and MVC Controllers (Jason Grundy)
• jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In? (Jon Raasch)
• ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers (Dane Morgridge)
• A quick primer on .NET web frameworks (Chad Myers)
• Great Twitter Accounts to keep up to date on jQuery news (Matthew David)
• Elegant MVC with Spark – The way views were meant to be (Robert Greyling)
• Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions (Scott Mitchell)
• New DevNugget: Installing Microsoft WebMatrix (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• More on SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• Extending the SiteMap (Rudi Grobler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Empathy and web design (Janko Jovanovic)
• PHP: What is More Powerful Than list() (Stoimen Popov)
• NetBeans vs. Vim for PHP development (Giorgio Sironi)
• Get File Length over http before you download it (Peter Bromberg)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 4: Adopting XP (James Shore)
• First Experiences With RSpec/BDD (Davy Brion)
• I am an Exception Extremist (John Sonmez)
• We’re Not Paid To Write Code (Phil Haack)
• The Downside Of Providing An API Through Extension Methods and Compiler|Interpreter Warnings Are Important Learning Opportunities (Davy Brion)
• Day 26 – Solve Problems with Skill and Day 27 – Do Something Great and Day 28 – Find Your One Thing (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns by Metaphors – Part I (Creational Patterns) (Kiran Kumar G)
• The Case of the Unit Test and the Native DLL (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why Hg branches are broken (or at least less useful) (Jimmy Bogard)
• Prototyping NUI on paper (Steve Clayton)
• The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me (Jesse Liberty)
• Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (Aquil Akhter)
• Programmer Tip: The Meaning Of Mentorship And How You Grow As A Person (Rajiv Popat)
• Introducing Yeti: The YUI Easy Testing Interface (Reid Burke)
• A Case for Feature Branches (Matt Stine)
• Multitouch on Windows book update (Josh Blake)
• posh-git Release v0.2 (Keith Dahlby)
• Coding: Mutating parameters (Mark Needham)
• Test Behavior, Not State (Jared Richardson)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Deep Linking Into A SketchFlow Prototype (Christian Schormann)
• DroppyPop for WP7 Update (Andy Beaulieu)
• Think twice before putting another grid inside a WPF window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF RIA Services Part 6 – Validating Data (Brian Noyes)
• WP7 Tip: tombstoning simplified (James Ashley)
• On Socks and Windows Phone 7 and Calling JavaScript Functions in Windows Phone 7 and XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone (Mike Ormond)
• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe and TimeslotPanel (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update (Carole Snyder)
• Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App (Cheryl Simmons)
• My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Forms and WPF Interop: Sharing WPF Resources (Christian Nagel)
• Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform] (David Anson)
• Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF DataGrid Control – Performing Update and Delete Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 and Compression using Accept-Encoding Header (Nick Randolph)
• Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7) and 10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know (Pete Brown)
• Windows Phone 7 security for developers (Steven Hodson)
• Introducing the concept of “Places” and Redirecting an initial navigation (Peter Torr)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ethan Winer, Very Old School (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes (John Papa)
• Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch and Wes Dyer and Jeffrey Van Gogh: Rx Virtual Time (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 92: Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds on Nu (Jon Galloway)
• geekSpeak Recording – WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and MSDN Radio: Shazzam and Windows Phone 7 with Walt Ritscher and MSDN Radio: Game Building for Windows Phone 7 using XNA/Game Studio with Dan Waters (Emily Gibson)
• New Show on Channel 9: Web Camps TV (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Design Days Presentations (Don Burnett)
• Web Camps TV #1 – ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and Razor Tips with Phil Haack and New: Windows Azure Storage Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)
• Bytes by MSDN: Brandon Watson and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Rockford Lhotka and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Tim Huckaby and Mike Benkovich discuss Developing Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis discuss Silverlight 4 and Bytes by MSDN: Richard Campbell and Mike Benkovich and Bytes by MSDN: Bill Lodin and Mickey Williams discuss Windows Azure Resources and Bytes by MSDN: Brian Noyes and Rob Bagby discuss Service Bus and Windows Azure and Bytes by MSDN: Clemens Vasters and Rob Bagby discuss "Project Sydney" and Hybrid Apps (Bytes by MSDN)
• MSDEV Video Series Highlights Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Bruce Kyle)
• Video of Windows Phone 7 in action and a true image of the LG E900 surface (Phone Arena)
• Free Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations (Joel Oleson)
• BPC10 Screencast: How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Community Megaphone Show #16 with guest John Blumenauer (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• jQuery Podcast 32 – Dave Ward (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Cloud Cover Episode 23 – AppFabric Service Bus (Ryan Dunn)
• Countdown to PDC10: And the winner is . . . (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• The Programmer’s Body (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever thought of being a writer? (Ted Neward)
• The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010 (Grigori Melnik)
• 20 MVPs and 4 former MVPs at SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Keep the Fire(starters) Burning: Web Platform Edition! (Jim O’Neil)
• DreamSpark provides Free Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Chris Koenig)
• Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) (Jeff Atwood)
• Imagine Cup 2011 to be hosted in New York City (Bob Familiar)
• Typemock Sponsors See# Party 2010 (#ssp2010) (Britt King)
• Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part1 (Dan Mezick)

 

Database

• Display DDL Triggers in your SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Column is Expensive by Joining Table Outside View – Limitation of the Views Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t index on dates (Simon Sabin)
• Database indexes are your friend (Jimmy Bogard)
• Generate Insert Query in SQL (Abhijit Desai)
• The Lazy DBA Series: Wizards! (Ted Krueger)
• Ten Things I Hate to See in T-SQL (Michael Swart)

 

SharePoint

• Tips and Tricks for setting up a SharePoint 2010 development environment (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies (Joel Oleson)
• I’m Done with SharePoint (William Vaughn)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Update Rollup 1 Released (Nigel Wilks)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Update to Increase Video Performance and "Sort Sections" OneNote PowerToy Upgraded for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Live Sync to be named Windows Live Mesh (Allison Omahony)
• Microsoft Offers New Certification Exam Discount (Brad M. McGehee)
• Become a Better Mindmapper: Chuck Frey Shows You How (Chance Brown)
• PowerShell, GAC, and build servers (Christopher Bennage)
• Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates (damaster)
• Auto-Wiring Ruby Events (Davy Brion)
• Page Tab Floatie (Jeff Cardon)
• Programmer Superstitions (Jesse Liberty)
• How to prepare questions for your interview (Angela McLaughlin)
• Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 and Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Product Strategy: How Zoho Services Fit Together (Sridhar Vembu)
• Startup Business Checklist 2010 (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft’s FUSE Labs releases teamcrossword beta (Steve Clayton)
• Call phones from Gmail (The Gmail Team)
• My new Kindle 3 review–comparing against Kindle 2 (Tim Heuer)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #673 and The Morning Brew #674 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Aug-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/27/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 65 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 26, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 – 2 — #933 and Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2010 — #934 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Archives 14th Aug 2010 – 28th Aug 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 2 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Galloway