Dew Drop – October 14, 2010

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Top Links

• Our app matches what Forbes thinks Windows Phone 7 needs, so why aren’t we getting any love for our App? (Don Burnett)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #14: Tombstoning (Multi-tasking) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• MonoTouch & WindowsPhone7: indexed lists (Craig Dunn)
• Cool site of the day: extensionmethod.net (John V. Petersen)
• Use a Single Version File For All Projects in a Solution (Mike Hadlow)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Gotchas: Assembly Level Attributes in F# (Ade Miller)
• TFS vs. Subversion (Jaroslaw Dobrzanski)
• Using C#’s implicit type conversions from other .NET languages (Luis Diego Fallas)
• NHibernate Schema Export in Suteki Shop (Mike Hadlow)
• Paint Application in Visual F# (Rey Dacoco)
• The Watch Window: Hexadecimal Display (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Live SDK and HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
• And for today’s cheatsheet, another String Format sheet for ya… (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Paging with XPO in ASP.NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Registration Form Gets Some Lovin’ for Sueetie 2.0 (Dave Burke)
• Book Review: Introducing HTML5 (Pete LePage)
• Why HTML5 Web Apps Are Going to Rock Your World (Simon Mackie)
• Sandboxed Natives: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too (John David Dalton)
• KiGG 3.0 Released (Muhammad Mosa)
• IE9 Customisation (Dave)
• “Stranger Danger” – Introducing SmartScreen® Application Reputation (Ryan Colvin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile certification and quantification is a myth (Gojko Adzic)
• How To Adopt Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• From ‘Survive to Thrive’ with Agile (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Why are *automated tests* so important? (Peter Gfader)
• The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer (Alexander Dawson)
• You don’t have to always stare at a screen (Giorgio Sironi)
• Gossip Game Requirements (Jared Richardson)
• A Really Bad Idea — Adding Clutter to A Language (Stephen Lott)
• Agile: Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Agile to Lean to Insane Software Development (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Zombie (Team Member) Motivation Techniques (Derek Huether)
• Why not do it right the first time? (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making Text Clickable in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Brendan Enrick)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 11- Group Membership (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Reactive Extensions #3: Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• WP7 Code: Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx (Dragos Manolescu)
• Windows Phone: Taking screenshots for marketplace submissions and Programmatically supporting Windows Phone themes with differing colors for text (Avi Pilosof)
• Windows Phone Radio Episode 3 (Brian Seitz)
• Who’s building the official Messenger app for WP7? (Not Microsoft!) (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 Apps – Currency Converter (Mike Ormond)
• The BLINK tag is back, and it runs on WP7 now (#wp7dev) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone App Challenge #1: The Pomodoro Timer (Joey deVilla)
• Silverlight 4.0 – Secure Communication to WCF service using Custom User Name and Password Validator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Anti-aliased Lines And Optimizing Code for Windows Phone 7–First Look (Nokola)
• Turtle Graphics and L-systems with F# and WPF (Scott Philip Brown)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 3 of 10: Enough Architecture (or Where is my VM) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Creating a Simple Action (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 6 of n (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 82: Various security topics (Michael Kimsal)
• Web Camps TV #9 – Script Junkie, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and "the dance" (James Senior)
• Robert Martin interview (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Let’s Play TDD #35: Right on Form (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Firestarter- Watch it Live (John Papa)
• TODAY: Let’s MEF! SilverlightShow Webinar with Gill Cleeren (Silverlight Show)
• SQL SERVER – 1500 Posts – A MileStone – Origin of Blog Name Revealed (Pinal Dave)
• MVP Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS Summit 2010 (Andy Warren)
• YOU ARE INVITED!! PDC Viewing Party – October 28 2010 – Reston and DC (Joel Reyes)
• Philly Code Camp Autumn 2010: That’s a Wrap! (Steve Bohlen)
• Calling Boise Developers (David Starr)
• Frank’s World Turns 15 Years Old Today (Frank La Vigne)
• A new beginning (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• RavenDB – Live projections, or how to do joins in a non relational database (Oren Eini)
• List Indexes For Database using TSQL (Brian K. McDonald)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 3 and Finding Missing Values from an Array (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Usage Best Practices (MS Downloads)
• Asynchronously Checking if a Command is Available in the SharePoint Ribbon (Andrew Connell)
• Warning to SharePoint Administrators: Don’t Ignore the Red Health Bar (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Configuring Beyond Compare On Windows With Cygwin (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Global hooks getting lost on Windows 7 (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer (Bing Team)
• TweeVo v1.1 Released! (Brian Peek)
• Presentation:Writing a Technical Book (Eric Merritt, Martin Logan & Richard Carlsson)
• iPad And IT Admins: VMware Jumps Into iPad Mania (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Are you a good fit for Microsoft? Show us (Part III of III) (Sandeep Sood)
• Search goes social (Steve Clayton)
• Zune software is NOT coming to the Mac–A sync software will be (Tauqeer)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Oct-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #707 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold