Dew Drop – January 5, 2011

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Top Links

• Methodologies for the Design of Robotic and Multi-Agent Systems (Billy McCafferty)
• In-depth look at Customizing Type Layout with ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Making Sites Shine with @font-face (Emily Lewis)
• Windows Phone 7 codenamed “No Donuts” update details leaked ahead of CES (damaster)
• The developer’s true goal (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Set Breakpoint to multiple Functions at a same time in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Logging errors with MonoDroid and Android (Wally McClure)
• Controlling XML Serialization of the Root Element (Richard Carr)
• IT Book of the Year: Professional Visual Studio 2010 (Nick Randolph)
• IO throughput: Haskell vs F# (Flying Frog)
• CodeSmith Tools 2011 Roadmap (Thomas DuPont)
• Reset Window Layout (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Weekly Source Code 58 – Generating (Database) Test Data with AutoPoco and Entity Framework Code First (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Review – Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Jeremiah.Clark)
• Looking at the code for the image importer (John Guin)
• Preprocessed T4 Templates (K. Scott Allen)
• Using CSLA 4: Creating Business Objects draft online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Project of Projects with team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)

Web Development

• Displaying a Paged Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• The Robots Are Taking Over (Justin Etheredge)
• The significance of the $ in jQuery (Matthew David)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning iOS 4 SDK for JavaScript – $13.99 (Save 50%) Code DD4JP (O’Reilly Media)
• Using jQuery and Javascript in WordPress (Per Ola Sæther)
• HTML5 Recipes: Forms Enhancements (Romin Irani)
• Sueetie.com Now Running BlogEngine.NET 2.0 (Dave Burke)
• Browser + hardware working together to deliver a richer web (Ryan Gavin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Implicit Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Don’t avoid difficult tasks (Dror Helper)
• The Makings of a Great Team (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• You Against Your Lists (J.D. Meier)
• Theorems Regarding Business Logic (Ken Downs)
• Book Review: Driving Technical Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Searching the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Programmatically (Doug Holland)
• Creating a Location Aware Mapping App for Windows Phone 7 (Frank La Vigne)
• (WPFS) MVVM Light Toolkit: Soup To Nuts Part I (Jesse Liberty)
• A guide to cleaner XAML with custom namespaces and prefixes (WPF/Silverlight) – by Sandrino Mattia (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Amazon Kindle for Windows Phone 7 now available (Lee Mathews)
• A better way to organize your Silverlight Code Snippets. and Cellbi Silverlight Controls Giveaway (5 License to give away) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight: Fixing the BookShelf Sample (Peter Kuhn)
• Metro, Windows Phone 7 design language (Andrew Spooner)
• PathListBox: making data look cool (Alex Knight)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 170: Large Agile Software Development with Bas Vodde (SE-Radio Team)
• Yet Another Podcast #19 – Lisa Feigenbaum (Jesse Liberty)
• Runas Radio Discussion on Upcoming Office 365 (Joel Oleson)
• Meet the PowerShell Team: Jon White (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 4th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Camps: MVC & jQuery Free Training (Doris Chen)
• Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) – March, 2011 in San Francisco (Wally McClure)
• Microsoft at 2011 CES, January 6-9, 2011 (Doug Holland)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 2, Jan. 13, 2011 (Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft to Tease Windows 8 at CES Today ! (Haras)
• Upcoming CodeRush Webinars (Mark Miller)
• Snow and SQL mix for Microsoft’s Cascade Skier (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Folder Structures (4/31) and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Binary Values (Jason Strate)
• Deny Delete on a Table to All Users Except a Few – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Copy Statistics from One Server to Another Server (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS addin (and wrapper) (Don Halloran)

SharePoint

• Capacity planning for SharePoint Server and Planning for server farms for SharePoint Server (MS Downloads)
• SP2010 AJAX part 7: Useful tools when building AJAX applications (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft set to ‘turn on’ new Washington datacenter (Mary Jo Foley)
• Silverlight Cream Monday WP7 App Review # 2 (Dave Campbell)
• Metro Home brings a little Windows Phone 7 style to your desktop (Lee Mathews)
• C# Silverlight Developer Jobs at Inviso in Bellevue, WA (Michael S. Scherotter)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Zone: News Archive – #3 – 4th January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for Dec 27-Jan 2, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for January 04, 2011 — #1022 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #763 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham