Dew Drop – May 20, 2011

Top Links

• From Tombstoning to Fast Application Switching (Rudi Grobler)
• Domain Oriented NLayered .NET 4.0 Architecture Guide (J.P. Hamilton)
• How Technical Recruiters Get It Wrong – Part 1 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• CORRECTED: Microsoft Strongly Denies VB 6 Open Source Rumors, Sources Retract Statement (Kathleen Richards)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Want to help improve Visual Studio Performance? (Bill Wagner)
• Using DebugView to catch debug output of .NET program (Gunnar Peipman)
• FuturePublish with the EasyNetQ RabbitMQ API (Mike Hadlow)
• Blog Post: PLINQO for NHibernate Overview Video (T. DuPont)
• Changing Signatures Refactorings – Convert to Tuple (Alex Skorkin)
• Optional argument corner cases, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Find Existing ODATA providers. (Joe Stagner)
• Shuffling an Array (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• AppFabric Service Bus – Things You Should Know – Part 1 of 3 (Naming Your Endpoints) (Keith Bauer)
• Microsoft readies ‘Austin,’ an Azure-hosted event-processing service (Mary Jo Foley)
• CodeDOM — generating an interface to a type (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 3) (Christian Nagel)
• Using Task in ASP.NET MVC Today (Harry Pierson)
• Edit/Update with dapper ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Contoso Karate – Data Driven User Interface Widgets in an ASP.NET MVC 3 Design (Joe Stagner)
• Interesting jQuery Mobile Tutorials (Jorge Ramon)
• 6 PHP Optimization Tips (David Amador)
• More datajs on Twitter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• OData Service Validation Tool Updated – JSON Payload Validation and new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Building TweeterFall and TweeterFall – Notifications (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Agile Architecture and Hurricanes have in Common (Michael Stal)
• Your very first steps towards becoming a DI IoC Ninja (Johan Silfversparre)
• Working inefficiently in the test team (John Guin)
• Leaders are Made, Not Born (Nicholas Cardot)
• The 7 levels of continuous integration (Dror Helper)
• 6 Task List Hacks to Get More Done (Dawn Foster)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making your Windows Phone applications power aware (Rudi Grobler)
• Update to Monday’s (5/16/2011) Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Release, v1.2.1. Think "the Visual Basic and Bug Fix update" (Greg Duncan)
• WP7: What to expect next week at the Mango event (Owen Williams)
• Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 4 and PivotViewer Shorts Part 1: Hide Filter Pane Search Box and PivotViewer Shorts Part 2: Hide View and SortBy Buttons (xpert360)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 5 of n (Charles Torre)
• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal talking with Kirk Munro about PowerGui 3.0 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• jQuery Podcast 45 – jQuery UI Keynote (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 73: What’s New in MVVM Light (John Papa)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Matt Tanase Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Let’s Play TDD #107: The Hidden Listener (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Philadelphia To Become Second City to Host GameLoop, Local Game Developers Organize Their Own Unconference (Eric Smith)
• Bring out the sun, bring on the sports (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• HOW TO: Hire (or Be Hired as) a Team of Devs (Jolie O’Dell)
• What Developers Say About API Documentation (Peter Gruenbaum)

Database

• Microsoft® SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (MS Downloads)
• Change SQL Servers Authentication Mode with PowerShell (Allen M. White)
• Troubleshoot Deadlocks using SQL Server Profiler 2005/2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Report Builder: Change Report Server Connection (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Management Studio and Browser in Same Application (Pinal Dave)
• Watch all the Tech·Ed North America 2011 SQL Server videos (Denis Gobo)
• How to extract day/month/year from a DateTime column – TSQL (Vishal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight Out-Of-Browser with COM Interop – Part IV (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 3 of 5 (Vivek Soni)

Miscellaneous

• Build Your Own WDS Discovery Image (Harry Pierson)
• Centers for Disease Control (US CDC) provides Zombie Apocalypse 101 Survival Tips (really…) – And Zombie badges too! and Blender 2.5 Fundamental Tutorials from 3DBuzz or "The Noob Video Guide to Blender" (Greg Duncan)
• My Top 5 Open Source software for May 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• A Bright Idea: Android Open Accessories (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #856 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2011 — #1092 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD by James A. Whittaker