Day: June 30, 2011

Top Links

• Reactive Extensions v1.0 Stable and v1.1 Experimental available now! (Rx team)
• Site-ready HTML5: Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Developers Get Goody Basket Full of Mangos (Brandon Watson)
• ReSharper 6 is Released! (Hadi Hariri)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with Co-Variance and Contra-Variance in .NET 4.0 and Lazy Initializer to defer expensive Object creation in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Think NuGet is only for Visual Studio (or IDE)? Think again… (Greg Duncan)
• Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 Part-4 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Reporting Performance Issues with PerfWatson (Robert Green)
• Eduasync part 14: Data passing in coroutines (Jon Skeet)
• Client Side Tracing for Windows Azure AppFabric Caching (Windows Azure Team)
• Microsoft – Domain Oriented N-Layered .NET 4.0 App Sample – Release: v2.01 Alpha (CodePlex)
• Customize State and Transitions of a Work Item (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Use it or lose it! [New Delay.FxCop code analysis rule helps identify unused resources in a .NET assembly] (David Anson)
• Manual Validation with Data Annotations (K. Scott Allen)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript: an acceptable use of double-equals? Just. (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Developers: just a few lines of JavaScript connects your site to Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive (Dare Obasanjo)
• IE 10 PP2 now available for download – HTML5 nears tipping point (Ryan Gavin)
• The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far (Simone Chiaretta)
• Lockdown Pt 1– Assessing and Securing Legacy Client-side Applications (Tim Kulp)
• datajs – JavaScript Library for data-centric web applications – Release: v1.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 2 – Variables and Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Pass cookie from Web Request to WebBrowser (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Facebook: A New Take on the Developer App (Alan McConnell)
• Cloud Coding and Beyond: Web Development Apps in the Chrome Web Store (Michael Mahemoff & Paul Kinlan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do the Opposite (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Split Temporary Variable (Giorgio Sironi)
• Event-Driven SOA: Events meet Services (Guido Schmutz)
• What is User Experience Design (UX Design) ? (David Kelley)
• Ninject and Convention Based Assembly Bindings (Derik Whittaker)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part I and Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part II–getting lost in the architecture (Oren Eini)
• Utilization and the Myth of Shared Resources (Cory Foy)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Breaking News: Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit updated to v1.4.4 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SLJS.org – a Silverlight -> Html/JS converter (Rob Ashton)
• Windows Phone ‘Mango’ OS beta available today! (Chris Koenig)
• Download Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 (Mango) – Web and Offline Installer and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 24 – Local Database Support, CRUD operation with Demo (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Advertising SDK Update is Now Available (Doug Holland)
• Love Android – Take a look at this (Andy Robb)
• Mango OS Beta Coming to Retail Devices (Dani Diaz)
• WP7 Cascade Behavior (Erik Klimczak)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie at NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Rx Workshop: Event Processing and Rx Workshop: Introduction (Charles Torre)
• The Fear Of Failure And What To Do About It (Roy Osherove)
• YUI Theater — Scott Schiller: “Probably, Maybe, No: The State Of HTML5 Audio” (51 min.) (Jenny Donnelly)
• Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: Web Workers Demo and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Positioned Floats in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Web Worker Fountains in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Magnetic Poetry in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at How Stuff Works in IE10 and Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan (Larry Larsen)
• OTN Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)
• SE Podcast #10 (Alex Miller)

 

Database

• Can you query a SSAS cube while it is processing? (James Serra)
• SQL Server: Grouping ID Example (Madhivanan)
• SQL Excursions Sessions – Powershell (Thomas LaRock)
• Poking Around Inside Management Studio (Michael Swart)
• The mystery of the NULL bitmap mask (Klaus Aschenbrenner)

 

Miscellaneous

• An API Isn’t Enough: You Need an App Directory (Alex Willen)
• Hex Conversion via a Batch File (Josh Poley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First iPhone and iPad Development – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJN8 (O’Reilly Media)
• Photosynth App Update and Best of Bing Maps Summer Xbox & Kinect Contest (The Bing Team) – Where’s Photosynth for WP7??

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.20 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 199 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily News Digest 06/29/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (6/29/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #884 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for June 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2011 — #1112 and SilverlightShow for June 20 – 26, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen