Dew Drop – November 27, 2010

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database (Rob Tiffany)
• Command Changes in Prism 4 (Brian Noyes)
• Automatic compilation of Linq to SQL queries (Gunnar Liljas)
• Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Windows Azure (Bill Zack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing Visual Studio StartUp Projects (Richard Carr)
• Binary Attachments In WCF With MTOM and Visual Studio 2005 2008 2010 Put Curly Braces On Same Line (Deepak Kapoor)
• A Brief Introduction to F# (Mike Ormond)
• Dependency Graph in Visual Studio 2010 – View Assembly Dependencies (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Command / Query service in WCF (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Running Multiple Versions of Visual Studio Side-By-Side and Change the Order of Your Application Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness (Edward Elliott)
• How to get domain name from URL (Raghav Khunger)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (XVIII) – Adding Edit Functionality (II) (Rob Ashton)
• ΝUnit Inspired Task Runner (cigwork)
• Simulating projectile motion with the Animation Manager using C++ (Jerry Joyce)
• Creating the Parallax and Scrolling Background (Michael C. Neel)

Web Development

• Writing for the Windows Azure for PHP portal (Maarten Balliauw)
• Short review of "Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ASP.NET: How to avoid ArgumentNullException in StructureMap controller factory and ASP.NET MVC: Comparing same view on ASP.NET and Razor view engine (Gunnar Peipman)
• jHash: Easily Manage Browser History / window.location.hash (Chris Pietschmann)
• WebSharper 2.0 Beta available (Adam Granicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Preface" Now Online (James Shore)
• It Starts with Strategy (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Project Management with Bacon (ScoutMaster)
• Book Review – The Checklist Manifesto (Steve Jones)
• How to convert Subversion repository to Mercurial (Hg)–it’s easier than you think! (Igal Tabachnik)
• Team Communication: Learning models (Mark Needham)
• Book Review – The Nomadic Developer (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Controlling a Missile Launcher via a Windows Phone 7 device (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Has The Least Expensive Paid Apps (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) (Jay Yarow)
• Blend Bits 18–Sample Data (Mike Taulty)
• Capital FM app for Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• ChevronWP7: an early Christmas present for Windows Phone 7 owners (Steven Hodson)
• Developing Phone 7 apps on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pieter de Bruin)
• I can see my home screen with Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mark Russinovich: Windows Azure, Cloud Operating Systems and Platform as a Service (Charles Torre)
• YUI Theater — Nate Koechley: “A Taxonomy of Touch” (36 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Demo of Image Optimizer (Mads Kristensen)

Community / Events

• Survey results: Open source developer preferences (Jonathan Wanagel)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU 6 includes small changes to .dtsx files (Jamie Thomson)
• Get the Current Stored Procedure Name in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Achitecture – Competitive Differentiation (James Vastbinder)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management Leads the Pack According to Gartner! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• A first look at Office 365 (damaster)
• How WordPress Saved the Web (Marc Grabanski)
• We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident [COMIC] (Matt Silverman)
• CodePlex supports Windows Live Writer! (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 172 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Distributed Weekly 78 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2010 — #999 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2010 — #1000 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #738 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting by Aaron Erickson