Day: August 18, 2011

Top Links

• About this blog and your comments and Introducing the team (Steven Sinofsky)
• The Future of the Living Room (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’ (Jeff Wilcox)
• New Ajax Grid Scaffolding NuGet Package for MVC 3 (Phil Haack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• New Book: FRIENDLY F# through Game Development and XNA (Don Syme)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 2 (Daniel Mohl)
• Code Metrics: Working with Columns (Zain Naboulsi)
• Try, try, try again… SQL Azure, Azure Storage, AppFrabric Service Bus Retry Article and Library and A passel of Parallel Programming samples and Back to basics with a Basic XNA and Kinect SDK sample (Greg Duncan)
• YouTrackSharp and YouTrackForReSharper on JetBrains GitHub and dotTrace: Profiling decompiled code (Hadi Hariri)
• Facebook C# SDK – 5.2 Beta and StyleCop – Release v4.6 (CodePlex)
• Upgrading Our ClickOnce App From .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 (Pete Seale)
• RavenDB Multi GET support (Oren Eini)
• Dive into the summer with MSDN: The Windows Azure Platform (Katrien de Graeve)
• Android for .NET Developers – Creating Files (Dino Esposito)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Route Debugger: One handy tool (Bill Wagner)
• Beginning an HTML5 Application – The Requirements (Joe Stagner)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)
• Adding the New HTML Editor Extender to a Web Forms Application using NuGet (Stephen Walther)
• Facebook: Simplifying the Developer App (Alan McConnell)
• An introduction to JSDoc (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Underscore.js (K. Scott Allen)
• Now Available: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles v1.1 (Windows Azure Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Effective Sketches (Simon Brown)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices Books Offer Guidance on Adopting Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Designing an API: Is JSON/JSONP an and/or decision? (Kyle Baley)
• Splitting Story Points is a Smell…Stop it! (Matthew Barcomb)
• Tales from the Engine Room: Bulk Updates (Patrick O’Keeffe)
• Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes (Anthony)
• Lockdown Pt. 3: Are Our Applications Secure Yet? (Tim Kulp)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localizing the August 2011 Windows Phone Toolkit (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows Phone Toolkit August 2011: Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – PIN Authentication (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Book Review: Windows Phone 7 Game Development (lookitskris)
• ALL SilverlightShow ebooks now available in MOBI and EPUB format (Silverlight Show)
• The Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is now available for ‘Mango’ application development (Jeff Wilcox)
• Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch (Jesse Liberty)
• Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SilveOS, the Silverlight-based ‘operating system’ takes on Chrome OS (Tim Conneally)
• 2000 WPF Things #367 – You Can’t Bind to a Calendar Control’s SelectedDates Property (Sean Sexton)
• Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – JD Meier Gets Results the Agile Way (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Do I: Authenticated RSS Feeds (MS Podcasts)
• Checking In: Rick Molloy – Gone Native (Charles Torre)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 6 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• The GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (Ken Denmead)
• Women in IT Architecture – Part 1 of 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Program Video (Mike Walker)
• The JavaScript Show – Programming discussion: JavaScript prototypes, understanding "this", extending native objects (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on August 27th, 2011 (Scott Mitchell)
• At Microsoft’s Build conference, All Will Be Revealed (or will it?) (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Geography Data Type – Calculating Distance Between Two Points on the Earth – Day 18 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – OVER ( … ROWS / RANGE … ) (Vishal)
• Adding an Index to Save Space (Tim Radney)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amazingly, Microsoft Might Not Miss The Boat On Tablets (MSFT) (Dan Frommer)
• Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (Rosemary Caperton)
• The new book: Mindfire. What is it? (Scott Berkun)
• MSMQ and Cached DNS (Jimmy Bogard)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading August 17, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/17/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #919 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• SilverlightShow for August 8 – 14, 2011 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin