Month: September 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• Frequently Asked Questions about the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability (Scott Guthrie)
• Agile Test practices with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 [TMap and Scrum] (Clemens Reijnen)
• An MVVM marquee control (in Silverlight and WPF) (John Rayner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Increase Performance When Editing TFS 2010 Build Process Templates (Ed Blankenship)
• Minimize your TFS Backup size (Mike Fourie)
• Know Your Debugger Part 3: Breakpoint Types (Dane Morgridge)
• Keyboard Navigation Between Output Window Panes (Zain Naboulsi)
• Dynamically Centering a Windows Forms Label Control (Joe Stagner)
• Ambiguous Optional Parentheses, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Financial Messaging Services Bus (FMSB) – Add-ons for ESB Toolkit (Vinay Balasubramaniam)

Web Development

• My Programming Sins – 1. [Not] Testing Javascript (Karl Seguin)
• jQuery Tidbits : jQuery.trim() (Kevin Griffin)
• Build Your Own Cloud? What You’ll Need! (David Lemphers)
• Understanding ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Entity Templates (Oleg Sych)
• Early Customer Enthusiasm for a More Beautiful Web (Roger Capriotti)
• Is OAuth 2.0 Bad for the Web? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• User Experiences: Accessibility in IE9 Beta (Sharon Newman)
• User Experiences: Sites in the Spotlight (Mirko Mandic)
• How to add Twitter support to UserVoice using Yahoo Pipes and FeedBurner (Daniel Cazzulino)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Bad Attitudes of Agile (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Intuition And Complexity (Derick Bailey)
• The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls (Gojko Adzic)
• How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Technical Debt (Israel Gat)
• Man up! (A developer’s responsibility to their team) (Cal Evans)
• MSTest: Unit Test Adapter threw exception: Type is not resolved for member XXX (Jarosław Dobrzański)
• Notes: How to gather Agile Requirements with User Stories? Why Use them? How to write them? (Zubair Ahmed)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Layer Supertype (Giorgio Sironi)
• Model-Driven Development: Where are the Successes? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Putting Priorities into Practice (K. Brian Kelley)
• Learning cycles at an overall project level (Mark Needham)
• The Problems with Estimating Business Value (Mike Cohn)
• Exclusive Interview: Mary Poppendieck on Lean Transformations (Nitin Bharti)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy and Who are you? (Rudi Grobler)
• WPF, Default Buttons and input (Oren Eini)
• Making Your Windows Phone Games Show Up Under The Games Hub (Dani Diaz)
• See how we make the sausage [Episode 5 of the Inside Windows Phone show highlights the Windows Phone Toolkit!] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Hiccup, Links (Karsten Januszewski)
• The Great Silverlight Competency Test #5 (Jesse Liberty)
• Blend Bits 11: Effects (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone Memory Constraints (Rene Schulte)
• Pivot Applications for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WP7 Stock Quoting Demo Series Part 2 (John McFetridge)
• Lt. Bennett returns and brings his Silverlight source code with him! (Tim Heuer)
• The soothing sound of texting, R.I.P. (Luke)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brandon Watson and Friends Build Windows Phone 7 Apps! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 93: Computer Errors, Home Media, and The Fall of The Roman Empire (Jon Galloway)
• Let’s Play TDD #19: UI Training (James Shore)
• Major Nelson Show 371: The one without Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb)
• Sparkling Client Show 107: John Papa talks about Upcoming Silverlight Awesomeness (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Ping 75: IE9 Beta, Halo in History, Tokyo Game Show and SCRABBLE and The Office Show: Storytelling with Office 2010 (Laura Foy)
• Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• September Live Chats – Learn More About SharePoint with the MVP Experts (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows Phone 7 Launch Events – A chance to learn more about the platform (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• Most SQL Server DBAs Still Don’t Know About Instant File Initialization (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL SERVER – COUNT(*) Not Allowed but COUNT_BIG(*) Allowed – Limitation of the View 5 (Pinal Dave)
• New SQL Azure website (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• What Do You Think Just Happened To This Database Server? (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Managing Images, Videos and Audio files with new SharePoint 2010 Asset Library (Lonnie Webb)
• What’s new for developers in SharePoint 2010 (Mike Ormond)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing adds Twitter recommendations to search (Todd Bishop)
• Adding Sysinternals’ Secure Delete to your Windows Explorer Files, Folders and Drives (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Mercurial: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99. Use code DDMDG (O’Reilly Media)
• NNTP Phase Out Continues at Microsoft (Richard Hay)
• Introducing Seesmic Desktop 2 (Loic Le Meur & Marco Kaiser)
• Windows HPC Server 2008 R2: The next step in High Performance Computing (Somasegar)
• Showcasing High-Performance Computing on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #690 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#, 2E: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides) by Andrew Stellman