Dew Drop – October 27, 2010

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Top Links

• Parallelism in .NET – Part 19, TaskContinuationOptions (Reed Copsey)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #27: Windows Phone Marketplace (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The State of Agile (Tobias Mayer)
• The State of Agile (Derek Huether)
• The State of Agile (Ken Schwaber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Data Services Oct 2010 CTP 1 (MS Downloads)
• F# Parallel Extras (I.): Image pipeline using agents and F# Parallel Extras (II.): Agent-based blocking queue and F# Parallel Extras (III.): Financial dashboard with cancellation (Tom)
• Why I hate implementing Linq and Exception handling for flow control is EVIL!!! (Oren Eini)
• Some common Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management questions and answers… and OData Primer – A human curated OData resource just for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Tips and Tricks: Deferred execution using LINQ (Hajan Selmani)
• RavenDb: Playing with Inheritance and Polymorphism (Mike Hadlow)
• Debug Executable Without Using Attach to Process (Zain Naboulsi)
• Laharsub, a .NET Messaging Server (Abel Avram)
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Four: Turning yourself inside out and Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Five: CPS and Asynchrony (Eric Lippert)
• Introduction to AMQP for .Net developers (Jon Fancey)
• Building a Mobile-Browser-Friendly List of PDC 2010 Sessions with Windows Azure and OData (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• Accessing Server-Side Data from Client Script (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• RavenDb, ASP.NET MVC and Windsor working together (Mike Hadlow)
• Ajax, ASP.Net MVC and Progressive Enhancement (Andy Butland)
• Timing The Execution Time Of Your MVC Actions (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET Web Projects: web.debug.config & web.release.config (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Building mobile web site with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile and Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to server where ASP.NET MVC 3 is not installed (Gunnar Peipman)
• MIME-Handling Changes in Internet Explorer (Eric Lawrence)
• An Introduction To Hosting (Karl Seguin)
• Azure@home Part 10: Worker Role Run Method (continued) (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Press Release for Getting Results the Agile Way and How To Create a patterns & practices Team and Principles and Values Define a Culture (J.D. Meier)
• Agile Contract Negotiation, Don’t be a Liar (John Sonmez)
• Examples from Unit Testing 101 Talk (Jim Holmes)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Data-Driven Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Extending GitHub Issues (Joshua Flanagan)
• Distributed Agile: Communication (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Create your own Format Bar for the WPF RichTextBox (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Developer Guidance Map (J.D. Meier)
• Adding a ViewModelLocator and Merged Dictionaries to App.xaml (Laurent Bugnion)
• How to build a Google Finance client app with Windows Phone 7 (Jonathan Cogley)
• CryoDefense submitted to the marketplace! (Tree)
• An Amazing Windows Phone 7 Application: Cocktail Flow (Gergely Orosz)
• WP7 Development Tips Part 1 (Kevin Marshall)
• WP7 Code: Managing Application State (Dragos Manolescu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 129 – PowerScripting Podcast – Security Ninja Dave Kennedy on Ethical Hacking with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show 18 with David Hoerster (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Technology & Friends Episode 122: Jennifer Marsman on Imagine Cup (David Giard)
• Code Camp Video Interview (Jeff Atwood)
• The Office Show: Rocking your data with Excel 2010 (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 143 – Windows Azure Part I – Web Roles – Audio (Wally McClure)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 26th, 2010 and Office Hours Today in DC! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Make Sure You Don’t Miss Windows Phone Sessions During PDC10 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Countdown to PDC10 (Aseem Datar)
• Project Phoenix. No, it’s not about Gandalf… (Luke Hayler)
• PDC 10 on tap (Kip Kniskern)
• Taking a Lap around MEF (Derik Whittaker)
• Shout from Cape Town: Microsoft Announces Global Technology Program for Teachers and Students to Address Environmental Issues (Anthony Salcito)
• Military veterans at Microsoft: We Still Serve (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• PDC schedule published as OData, but where’s the iCalendar feed? (Jamie Thomson)

Database

• How can you tell, from the server side, what version of the SQL Server Data Access Client Driver is being used on a connection? This way… (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Challenge – SQL Puzzle – Query Creating Most TempDB IO Usage (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Getting started with SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Movember – Lightning Mo-Tools (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• This Is the PlayStation Phone (Ben Parr)
• Microsoft offers Office for Mac 2011 to TechNet, MSDN subscribers (Ed Bott)
• More talent leaves the building (Jon Fancey)
• Using PowerShell Cmdlets (Josh Topal)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Free to Choose Your "In a Nutshell" – Save 50% – Code: DDNTZ (O’Reilly Media)
• Evernote 4 for Windows is here! (Philip Constantinou)
• Full Text of the Ray Ozzie ‘Dawn of a New Day’ Memo (Paul Thurrott)
• Tech Geek, Cool Geek or Comic Book Geek–what type of Geek are you? (Sara Allison)
• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (Steven Bink)
• Windows 7 SP1 Release Candidate Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
• Help us improve Tasks (David Tattersall)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 26, 2010 — #979 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 26 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #716 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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