Dew Drop – June 15, 2011

Top Links

• Project Silk Drop 11 (Karl Shifflett)
• Free and Freaking AWESOME: 3-D Sample for Silverlight 5 (Surf4Fun)
• Practical SOILD in Visual Studio – One example Solution (Greg Duncan)
• How much would you invest in a pixel? (Scott Barnes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Namespace and Class Alias in C# (Abhijit Jana)
• Make Script Performance Automatic with Custom Templates in Visual Studio 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• WCF SOAP Message Version (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Push Data to the Client using WCF CallBack Service (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS 2010 Build – Lesson learned –> Treat warnings as errors (Peter Gfader)
• Don’t Miss Out on this Webcast! Thursday, June 16th – Feature Demonstration of Microsoft Visual Studio Webcast (PubSec)
• How Developers Are Using var in C# (Steve Smith)
• Test drive the shiny new Wcf interop bindings (Yaron Naveh)
• WCF Express Interop Bindings 1.0 (CodePlex)
• 100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool (Sacha Barber)
• A quick Syntax quiz: Expressions and Statements (Bill Wagner)
• Pre-release Documentation Available (Rx Team)

Web Development

• The Book of CSS3 – take me to the future! …which is right now (Adam Kinney)
• JavaScript: fast floor of numeric values using the tilde operator (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Save yourself some typing when you call ASP.NET services (Dave Ward)
• Intro To Backbone.js: How A Winforms Developer is At Home In Javascript (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 WebCamp| Presentation, Demo Code, Resources Available | Download (Doris Chen)
• Maintaining Browser History for Ajax events through script manager in asp.net (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Waegis Reloaded (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Complete Example of Tracking Start and End of Drag Operations with jQuery and Table Rows (Mats)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Inline Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Want to Learn jQuery Online? Check out Code School (Rey Bango)
• WAP v HTML5 v Native (Andrew Spooner)
• Orchard 1.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows Live developer platform adds OAuth 2.0 and more, continuing to let users connect the devices, apps, and sites they choose (Dare Obasanjo)
• MVVM and jQuery: Designing Maintainable, Fast and Versatile Sites (Saar Yahalom)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Focus Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Walk with Agility – Kanban Works… with Shoes! (Peter Saddington)
• Git Tutorial – Getting Started (Veera Sundar)
• Why Great Ideas Fail (Scott Berkun)
• Article:The Retrospective Practice as a Vehicle for Leading Conceptual Change (Orit Hazzan & Yael Dubinsky)
• Productivity and Continuous Improvement – Measurement (and RescueTime) makes it happen, both Personally and at Work (Scott Hanselman)
• Extending MbUnit With Custom Expected Exception Attributes (Yann Trevin)
• Change Management 3.0 (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 ContextMenu with complex MenuItems and Using SqlMetal to generate Windows Phone Mango Local Database classes (Windows Phone Geek)
• RC’s of Windows Phone 7 Connectors for SBS 2011 Essentials and/or Windows Home Server 2011 now available… (Greg Duncan)
• What WP7 should learn from Windows 8 (Jo de Greef)
• A Solution for Binding Silverlight DataGrid Columns to 2nd Level Collection (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Tips & Tricks Part II: Get mobile with Office (Luke)
• WPF and the link that just won’t click (Rory Primrose)
• Real email accounts inside the Windows Phone emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft to Supply Developer Phones Running Mango Next Week (WP7GIRL)
• The Busy Developers Guide to Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Fast Application Switching Made Easy (Jesse Liberty)
• Metro In Motion Part #7 – Panorama Prettiness and Opacity (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Paul Bone Goes Parallel with Project Mercury (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 114: Trevor Burnham on CoffeeScript (Jon Galloway)
• Ribbon Hero 2 (Tina Wood)
• Ping 104: Sir Richard Branson, Intelligent healing on Kinect, WP7 to take the lead, Bing & Glee (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Change a life with dev4good (Craig Hogan)

Database

• SSAS Maestro–Redmond Day 2–Redux (Adam Jorgensen)
• Output clause in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SQL Server Compact Private Deployment tweaks (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• SQL Server NTILE Function (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Puzzle – SELECT * vs SELECT COUNT(*) (Pinal Dave)
• Column Order in an Index (Sarvesh Singh)
• ‘Topping and Tailing’ strings in database tables (Phil Factor)
• Service Broker, not ETL (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SPItemEventReceiver Bug (Wesley Bakker)
• SP2010 Continuous Integration–pt 1: Benefits (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• You Probably Already Have a “Private Cloud” (Buck Woody)
• RTM’d today: Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Devon Musgrave)
• [Humor] Open Source/Source Available Project Maintainer [Sarcastic] Response cheatsheet (Greg Duncan)
• IE 9.0.1 Available via Windows Update (Vishwac Sena Kannan)
• Installing Java into an Azure Worker Role (J.P. Hamilton)
• Is Apple really using Windows Azure to power iCloud? (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Anatomy of a Great Chrome Web Store Listing (Pete LePage)
• C++ clear winner in Google language tests (Derek du Preez)
• Cross-Post: Java Sample Application for Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #873 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Link dump for June 13th and Link dump for June 14th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 14, 2011 — #1107 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 197 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series) by Robert C. Martin