Dew Drop – July 22, 2011

Top Links

• NuGet Package of the Week #9 – ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world (Scott Hanselman)
• Mapping the Memory Usage of .NET Applications: Part 3, CLR Profiler (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Building @NuGetLatest in Two Hours (John Sheehan)
• Building a Better Web Application: Part 3 (Tobin Titus)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• String Split Utility and Use BitmapScalingMode to ensure your rendering of Image is perfect (Abhijit Jana)
• High memory usage with WCF Discovery and Macto: Where is the Inmate anyway? (Oren Eini)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: The Default is to Hide, Not Override (James Michael Hare)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part IV (Luca Bolognese)
• Visual Studio 2010 Sp1– “A Selected Drive is No Longer Valid” (Mike Taulty)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Power Commands for Visual Studio 2010 (Robert Green)
• Opening the Internet Settings Dialog and using Windows Default Network Settings via Code (Rick Strahl)
• Fifty for Free – 50+ Free .Net Dev’s tools and utilities… (Greg Duncan)
• NLog – Advanced .NET Logging – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Facebook: Updated JavaScript SDK and OAuth 2.0 Roadmap (Jerry Cain)
• Web Workbench Introduces Sass, LESS, and CoffeeScript to Visual Studio 2010 (Jenni Ripley)
• Recursively spawning Web Workers (Jef Claes)
• Best resources to learn JavaScript (Stack Overflow)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing inside the code editor and the Solution Explorer (Alex Skorkin)
• The Scrum Guide, 2011 (David Starr)
• Thinking Quotes and One-Man Band vs. Pairing Up On Problems (JD Meier)
• Source Control Software Is Too Intrusive (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Continuous Integration in .NET (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Best Coding Practices Poster #2: “Thread Your Computation!” (Joey deVilla)
• 5 apps to improve productivity and collaboration (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• Clean Code Versus Great Code (Davy Brion)
• A Better Team: Arrogance And Accepting Your Own Strengths (Derick Bailey)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Capturing Windows Phone 7 Panorama Images (Colin Eberhardt)
• Using SQL CE on WP7 Mango–Getting Started (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone Tips and Tricks: The Student Edition (Luke)
• WP7 Marketplace Search (Touchality)
• Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 apps – Volume 1: Developing apps 1-50 (Matt Lacey)
• Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part II) (Pam Keesey)
• E-Book Published: Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Kunal Chowdhury)
• New URI schemas in Windows Phone SDK 7.1 – isostore and appdata (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How-To: Revert back to NoDo from Mango Beta (Mulder_truth)
• WP7 Submit Application – The [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly (Shai Raiten)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AppFabric.tv – Workflows in Azure AppFabric Applications (Ron Jacobs)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bill Wilder Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Pete at Tech Ed 2011: Cogent DataHub WebView in Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight TV 79: Data Binding Debugging (John Papa)
• Coding QA Episode 60 – Fede and Atlassian (Part 2) (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 026 – “Birds and Mushrooms” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 88 – mid summer catch up – avoid fixed bid projects (Michael Kimsal)
• Let’s Play TDD #125: The Cost Basis Field (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Your resume questions answered! (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• August 15th-16th Workshop – Introduction to .NET– .NET From Scratch, Chattanooga, TN (Keith Elder)
• Documenting DevDays 2011: #2 – Speakers! (Alison Sperling)
• What happened at GameFest 2011? (Sara Allison)
• Officially Announcing Develop With Passion® – Webinars (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Thank you to Charles Petzold and Ada’s Technical Books (Devon Musgrave)

 

Database

• Partial name matching in SQL Server 2011 “Denali” (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Data Warehouseing Concepts – Day 22 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Denali Feature Packs (Stephan Lawson)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – Conditional Operator/Logical Function – IIF() (Vishal)
• How to find replicated tables (Richard Douglas)
• Land a Dream DBA or Developer Job: Seven Questions to Ask (Kendra Little)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata – In Depth Look into the Taxonomy Parts (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lynda.com Software Training in a Mindmap (Chance Brown)
• TechNet "Build and Print a Book" beta now live (Greg Duncan)
• Photo Mosaics Part 1: Application Workflow (Jim O’Neil)
• Limited Edition Star Wars Console (Larry Hryb)
• A Minimal Windows Azure Storage Client Library in Perl (Steve Marx)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Today’s Links (7/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #900 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 07/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 20-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL — A Learner’s Guide by Lynn Beighley