Dew Drop – February 23, 2011

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Top Links

• Mole 2010 Released (Karl Shifflett)
• Productivity Power Tools introduces Find, Organize Imports for VB, Enhanced Scrollbar, Middle-Click Scrolling and more! (Sean Laberee)
• Flatten your architecture: Simplicity as a core value (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library (Yochay Kiriaty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Open XML 2.0 Code Snippets for VS2010 (and VS2008 too) (Greg Duncan)
• IronPython 2.7 Release Candidate 1 (CodePlex)
• Attach to Process – Macro for Visual Studio 2010 (Ingo Rammer)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 RTM Virtual Machines (Zain Naboulsi)
• Different approaches to Casting and Use “Shift+Enter” to add “;” automatically at end of the line (Abhijit Jana)
• Five Windows 7 taskbar features available to developers (Brian Bondy)
• How could I work without resharper (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Integration for MFC Applications (John Bristowe)
• Oracle Releases Beta of Entity Framework Provider (EF Team)
• FileSystemHelper Update and Release (Jason Strate)
• Free Alternatives to Reflector (Kevin Hazzard)

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET, Membership, and jQuery to Determine Username Availability (Scott Mitchell)
• How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development (Christina Warren)
• Recommended Book: HTML5 And CSS3: Develop With Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Davy Brion)
• ASP.NET Security Videos & Tutorials (29) (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 and JavaScript tools: What could (and should) Microsoft do? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Custom Data Annotation Validator Part II: Client Code (K. Scott Allen)
• A jQuery Plug-in to monitor Html Element CSS Changes (Rick Strahl)
• Styling ASP.NET GridView using jQuery Theme Switcher Widget (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How much traffic does your website create with each request? Use IISExpress 7.5 to find out. (John V. Petersen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: In-Line Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
• Versioning strategies for the sane (Jimmy Bogard)
• Espoused theory, theory in action & hypocrisy and Pair Programming: “What are you trying to learn?” (Mark Needham)
• How You Should Align Your Form Buttons (Anthony)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Hybrid Applications (Buck Woody)
• The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates (Jay Fields)
• In Pursuit of Quality, let’s Call Quality as something else (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Index was outside the bounds of the array when Obfuscating a LARGE WP7 application and How to Obfuscate your WP7 application via nant and build scripts (Derik Whittaker)
• Enhancing the general Zune experience on Windows Phone 7 with Zune web API (Dennis Delimarsky)
• OpenXLive – A social network (SNS) platform for Windows Phone 7 games (or "Don’t write your own Leaderboard, Achievements, Online Gaming, Social Networking, and Cloud Store if you don’t have too") and Windows Phone 7 Development QuickStarts (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Sans Xaml? and Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx and When Isolated Storage Isn’t Enough (Jesse Liberty)
• HTML5 versus Silverlight–Is Silverlight Dead? (Joe Stagner)
• Mole 2010 has shipped (Josh Smith)
• New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.2 officially released and How to define and reuse resources in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 65: What does Open Source have to do with Windows Azure? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Herding Code 106: Mark Rendle on Simple.Data (Jon Galloway)
• Hot Apps: iBlast Moki, Life Lights, OK!, MonsterUp, Classic Valentine (Laura Foy)
• The Garage Science Fair (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 138: Chris Eargle on Fluent Interfaces (David Giard)
• ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available (Scott Guthrie)
• Let’s Play TDD #88: Cascading Failures (James Shore)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor (Dan Wahlin)

Community / Events

• What lots of students miss when they start software development and ImagineCup @ Facebook – now with team pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Free TDD Class Seat in March – Here’s How (Roy Osherove)
• Come to MIX & show off your .NET Open Source App (Joe Stagner)
• Mobile Connections Event – early bird pricing ends February 25th (Wally McClure)
• From Zero To Deployed Contest – Prizes Announced (Rob Reynolds)
• Event: MIX11 Open Call Speakers & Sessions Announced (Kim Spilker)
• A Conference I want to go to (Dru Sellers)
• Hug an Engineer – It’s National Engineers Week (Doug Cornelius)

Database

• SQL SERVER – OLEDB – Link Server – Wait Type – Day 23 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Is SQL Server Express Enough for the Job? (William Vaughn)
• Survey: how is your tempdb configured? (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• New book: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)
• Calling a WCF Service using jQuery in SharePoint (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• Explore Zoho Reports Series: Part I – Formula Column (Arvind Natarajan)
• Extending the Omnibox (Christos)
• Craig Mundie’s TechForum: A Look Ahead (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Android 3.0 SDK Now Available to All Developers (Stan Schroeder)
• Could we see a Zune powered tablet from Microsoft? (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 02/23/2011 and SilverlightCream top picks for Feb 14 – 20, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 22-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #798 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 22th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2011 — #1050 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET by Rebecca M. Riordan