Dew Drop – January 10, 2011

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Top Links

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Interfaces, 2nd Edition – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDD2F (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Windows Phone Gestures as Triggers (Nigel Sampson)
• Demystifying Silverlight Dependency Properties (Dan Wahlin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Why I Believe Visual Studio LightSwitch will be a Win and Extending a Legacy Application by Associating Local Data with External Data (Dan L. Moyer)
• Call a Method Asynchronously using Delegate BeginInvoke and EndInvoke Pattern (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery, HTML 5 Style (Mike Ormond)
• FubuMVC’s Internal Runtime, the Russian Doll Model, and how it compares to ASP.Net MVC and OpenRasta (Jeremy Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Prebuilt Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• Foundations of Programming: Why Markdown? (And why not Word?) (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM Framework Explorer update and top MVVM Frameworks (Jeremy Alles)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 15 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 500 Metro Style WP7 Icons (Bil Simser)

Community / Events

• Ubelly picks from CES (Andrew Spooner)
• SQLAuthority News – Free Trip on SQL Cruise (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Saturday, April 9, 2011 (John V. Petersen)
• HIMSS back in Chicago, as is ignorance about health IT (Neil Versel)
• Agile 2011 Early Bird Submissions (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 release on Jan 13? (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Override Variables (9/31) (Jason Strate)
• SSMS Addin Wrapper – Source Code and Usage (Don Halloran)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #766 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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