Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

Top Links

• Invisible pixels are just as clickable as real pixels! [Tip: Use a Transparent brush to make "empty" parts of a XAML element respond to mouse and touch input] (David Anson)
• KnockoutJS Needs a Better Set of Tutorials (Rob Conery)
• Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• A Tale of Backgrounds, Absolutes, mouseleave, and mouseenter (K. Scott Allen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use of SpinLock for ThreadLocking and Use of Interlocked in Race Condition and Barrier in .NET 4.0 and Not able to view all the running Worker Process in Visual Studio – Process Attach Window – Resolution (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel ForEach Loop (Richard Carr)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method (James Michael Hare)
• Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
• Kinect Reception–Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Unity Auto Registration (Jimmy Larkin)
• RavenDB Lazy Requests (Oren Eini)
• Declaring various properties using CodeRush code generation tools (Alex Skorkin)
• Do you want a faster File.Exists / FileInfo.Exists / Directory.Exists ? I do ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• Blog Post: How To: Activate & Deactivate (Autumn Wilkins)
• A gentle introduction to dependent types (Cédric Beust)
• Adding translation to your apps is a dot away with the "Bing Translator .NET Extension Methods" open source project (Greg Duncan)
• PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) (James Curran)
• Going Asynchronous (Chris Eargle)
• Updated Course: Developing Windows Concurrent Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Web Development

• The HTML5 Paradigm Shift–Don’t Miss The Next Wave (Chris Love)
• HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Let’s You Access Remote Systems (Rey Bango)
• Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position (Scott Hanselman)
• Call ASP.NET Page Methods using your own AJAX (Abhijit Jana)
• Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com (George Puckett)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI (Stephen Forte)
• Powerful PHP: Less Known String Manipulation (Stoimen Popov)
• AJAX Series Part 1: Building a Web Applications with Third-party Controls in Real Time (Carl Bergenhem)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The sprint (John Rayner)
• Compliance – Development Teams are Product-Oriented (Peter Saddington)
• A Brief Introduction of Fundamental OOP (Chris Eargle)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header (Deyan Ginev)
• Who says you can’t run Silverlight on Android ? (Don Burnett)
• Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Design Tips #3 (Andrew Spooner)
• Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• 2000 WPF Things #368 – Specifying Blackout Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
• TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar (Nikolai Tillmann)
• RadChart for Windows Phone – going to the pole (Georgi Atanasov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #129: Root Cause Analysis (James Shore)
• G4 TV’s Jessica Chobot tours Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
• Defrag: 4k Drive Backup, Office Add-on in IE, Forcing Aero Glass On (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Beards & Beaks, Kill The Duck, Fantastic Finger Fun, Angry Birds Scoop, Eventful (Laura Foy)
• A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast" (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Dev Pocast Episode 030 – “Phonies vs. Ninjas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Charlie Wood Interview (Ryan Parsley)

 

Community / Events

• FREE Course On Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit Course (Satish Talim)
• HTML5 Web Camps – Special Guest Announcement (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Philly Geek Awards: The Sponsors (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile (Philip Japikse)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
• How to report a SQL Server performance problem (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server: Last Day Previous Month without DATEADD and DATEDIFF (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – The Clustered Index – Simple Understanding – Day 19 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST() (Vishal)
• [SSIS] OnPipelineRowsSent event (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• SP2010 Continuous Integration – Installing TFS2010 (inc. Build and Test agents) (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tool Roundup: Small But Explosive, Just Like Dynamite (Pete Seale)
• Slides from PowerShell Deep Dive sessions (Dmitry Sotnikov)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #920 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/18/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 08/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Links– 2010_30 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Link dump for August 18th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

 

The Geek Shelf

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