Day: August 21, 2011

Top Links

• Interesting Blog: Speculation on BuildWindows.com (Don Burnett)
• Is “Jupiter” the Future of Windows…PC, Phone &Tablet? (Sarah Perez)
• Windows Phone 7 Challenge: Week 2, the verdict (Molly Wood)
• Where the PC is headed: Plus is the New “Post” (Frank X. Shaw)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ThreadLocal storage in .NET and What is SynchronizationContext all about (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Custom Classes with Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• NuGet’ing inside the firewall, with TFS Continuous Integration bonus power too (or "How to go from TFS CI to your Private NuGet server with TeamBuild") and Kinect to transform video training/podcasting/teleconferencing? and Adding awesome lighting effects to your XNA game… and Flight Kintroller (Greg Duncan)
• New e-book: FRIENDLY F# with game development and XNA (Joh)
• Kinect: Using VC++ with Kinect (Surf4Fun)
• TeamPulse R2 2011 is Here! (Team Pulse Team)
• Using Rollback in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools and Using Work Item Tracking Search in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools (Mike Fourie)
• The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for .NET Developers (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Slow OracleConnection Creation (Geoff Hudik)
• Thoughts on MassTransit on other languages (Dru Sellers)

 

Web Development

• Trigger update to jQuery Tablesorter on dynamically modified table (Hajan Selmani)
• Video Sitemap Action Result for ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Changing Selection Color using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Using and Writing Polyfills for Building Modern Applications (Rey Bango)
• Fetching Web Roles details using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pain Driven Development (Mark Needham)
• The Pomodoro Technique Summary (Evgeny Goldin)
• New book: Solid Code (Optimizing the Software Development Life Cycle) (Devon Musgrave)
• Generate easy, up-to-date Rails API docs with Cucumber (Matthew Nielsen)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Writing inline Code in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Using WCF RIA Services With LightSwitch: I Know You’re Scared, I Understand (Michael Washington)
• Upload Files from Windows Phone (Chris Koenig)
• Nested ListBox binding in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Frameworks used inside my WP7 application (Pieter de Rycke)
• Publishing a Mango Update to an Existing App (Mike Ormond)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 408: Pre-Pax, Cake and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 253 – 08.19.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 100 – 08.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 56 – Logging, Tracing, and ELMAH in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• TWC9: August 19 2011 (Brian Keller & Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Phone Radio – 39 (Brian Seitz)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Building 4 Refurb (Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Weekly 222: Bye Bye webOS (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• This is my next Podcast 020 – 08.19.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

 

Community / Events

• We Need Your Help! (Kevin Griffin)
• Speaking at BUILD (Josh Twist)

 

Database

• Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer – Book Review (Mark Broadbent)
• Repeating Column Headers on Every Page in SSRS Doesn’t Work! …Or Does It? (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Introduction to Page Split – Day 20 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – All about SQL Statistics – Day 21 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – PERCENT_RANK() Analytic Function (Vishal)
• What Will Be New for Reporting Services in 2012? (Paul Turley)
• Thoughts on DBA Professional Development (Jeffrey Yao)
• Methods for populating a data warehouse (James Serra)
• Free online class, "Introduction to Databases," coming this fall from Stanford University (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Simple guide to running Git server on Windows, in local network (kind of) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to REALLY hurt yourself with PSEXEC – Deleting the Undeletable Registry Key and More (Scott Hanselman)
• I’ve Built A Windows Azure Application… How Should I Market It? (Yvonne Muench)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 20, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 20 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – August 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 19, 2011 and Geek Reading August 20, 2011 and Geek Reading August 21, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2011 — #1132 and Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 — #1133 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 14-August-2011 to 20-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Links of the week #159 (David Vidmar)
• Retrospective 46 – #Agile #Games and #Kanban Monsters (Peter Saddington)
• Friday Links 08-19-2011 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for August 18th through August 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault