Dew Drop – May 18, 2011

Top Links

• Did you just take a dump on standard versioning practices? (Hadi Hariri)
• Message Handlers vs Operation Handlers which one to use? (Glenn Block)
• Eduasync part 5: making Task awaitable (Jon Skeet)
• Using Google Prediction API in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing LINQ to HPC (MS Downloads)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Of Lambdas and LINQ (James Michael Hare)
• TFS API Part 37 – Create Builds and TFS API Index Parts 1 To 37 (Shai Raiten)
• Sequential GUID are Unique (Gian Maria Ricci)
• JSON and .NET Nirvana Hath Arrived (Karsten Januszewski)
• Memory Corruption, GC, and Overlapping Objects (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• F# and HTML5: WebSharper Professional 2.2 Released (Don Syme)
• Understanding the Publish/Subscribe Pattern for Greater JavaScript Scalability (Addy Osmani)
• Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 1) and Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Pages, Web Forms, and MVC (Christian Nagel)
• How to Deploy a Hadoop Cluster on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Quick Tip – Including Empty Directory While Deploying a Web Application (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Templates – NUnit testing (Alex Skorkin)
• Great Expectations of Success and Visualizing Roadmaps for Execution Excellence (JD Meier)
• Estimation in consulting (Jimmy Bogard)
• Book Review: Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking (Patrick Kua)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Lookup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Diffing Files to Avoid Easy Goofs (Sharon Cichelli)
• Its all about communication, not processes….! (Derik Whittaker)
• Development Practice: Design Ideas Board (Michael)
• How and why I changed my coworker’s code (Zubair Ahmed)
• Cloud Computing and the Code-Based Infrastructure (Buck Woody)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation (Windows Phone Geek)
• Expression Blend: Introduction to the Layout System (Alex)
• How to trick Windows Phone OS Part II – Adobe Reader’s turn and a general conclusion (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone Stopwatch 4.4 RTM and Using the Windows Phone 7 Advertising SDK (Doug Holland)
• TouchStudio – Plotting Math Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 to Display JSON Data (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 5 Beta–Combining Implicit Data Templates & Multiple Windows (Mike Taulty)
• Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Xpert360 PivotViewer Blog Article Index and PivotViewer Shorts Part 3: Hide Collection path (xpert360)
• Reactive Extensions–FromAsync (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Use Reflection to Access Private Members in .NET Compact Framework Types? and How Do I: Create And Use an Azure Service Bus Message Buffer? (MS Podcasts)
• Silverlight Show Webinar: ‘Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta’ (Michael Crump)
• Let’s Play TDD #106: Back from the Dead (James Shore)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 55 – Erlang with OJ Reeves (Richard Banks)
• Hot Apps: Glider; Adventure Worlds, Wordrix, Rowi, Training Buddy, Text Text Revolution (Laura Foy)
• Using Taxonomies in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)

Community / Events

• CMAP GiveCamp (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Are you interested in speaking at usergroups or conferences, how about some free training (Simon Sabin)
• Join the SQL Server Developer Tools Advisory Program! (Tiffena Kou)
• MVPs Chat It Up on Twitter (Lonnie Webb)
• Win .NET EBooks, Training and Products in our GiveAway – 5 days left! (.NET Curry)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU14 and SQL Server 2008 SP2 CU4 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR – Service Logon Failure (ObjectExplorer) (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 16 – Working with Files and Folders (Ted Krueger)
• On Transactions, errors and rollbacks (GilaMonster)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Lifecycle Management Solution with Project Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 1 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
• The LDS Church and the Strong Embrace of Social Media (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 Moorea app reveals a sliver of its tablet-friendly interface (Phone Arena)
• Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets (Alex Chitu)
• SmartScreen® Application Reputation in IE9 (Jeb Haber)
• Chrome OS is only a failure to people living in the past (Joe Wilcox)
• VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis (Krishnan Subramanian)
• More good times for app developers? (Mike Hole)
• Microsoft’s Bill Gates gave big thumbs up on the Skype deal (Steven Hodson)
• VMware unveils Web app management service for Google apps, Salesforce, more (Tim Conneally)
• What do we do now? "It’s over man, Wormer dropped the big one" – #MonoTouch and #MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• Are you REALLY leveraging your MSDN benefits? If not, let me help you! (Angela Binkowski)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – May 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 194 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #854 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2011 — #1090 and Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2011 – 2 — #1091 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 17th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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