Dew Drop – September 1, 2011

Top Links

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Devices: Now With Android! (Wade Wegner)
• HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Designing for Metro style and the desktop (Steven Sinofsky)
• Prism-fy the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS11 gets a new merge/diff tool (Rory Primrose)
• PartNotDiscoverable attribute in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• C# 2010 Soup to Nuts Series (Emily Gibson)
• VS2010 Find In Solution Explorer Hotkey/Toolbar Button (Lance Robinson)
• The TeamPulse TFS Process Template – Why Does It Matter? (Joel Poiron)
• Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements (Zain Naboulsi)
• MiniBuss Updates (Johan Danforth)
• Downloading and saving a File from Windows Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 2 Released (Eric J. Smith)
• String.Format-specific refactorings shipped in Refactor! Pro (Alex Skorkin)
• concurrency::accelerator (Daniel Moth)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.2 Alpha (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Adding Two-Factor Authentication to a ASP.NET MVC Application (Jimmy Larkin)
• Offline web applications: a working example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using the HTML5 and jQuery UI Popup Calendar with ASP.NET MVC (Rick Anderson)
• Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (Michael J. Ross)
• Ruby and Windows Azure Local Storage (Larry Franks)
• Web Oriented Architecture is here to Stay, and Why Microsoft’s new WCF Stack is interesting. (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• FormsAuthentication Ignores web.config LoginUrl Settings (Joe Mayo)
• Browsing Without Plug-ins (John Hrvatin)
• AJAX Series Part 3: Advanced Techniques – Performance, Theming, Cloud Deployment (Carl Bergenhem)
• A Guide to Installing Rails 3.1 and Example Apps for Rails 3.1 (Daniel Kehoe)
• 10 Life-Saving PHP Snippets (JB)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The product backlog (John Rayner)
• How GitHub Develops (PJ Hyett)
• Git Revisited (Mark Pearl)
• Balsamiq New Release: Font Adjustments and More (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Production is a mixed blessing (Eric Brechner)
• Best Practices: Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises (Devon Musgrave)
• A User, an Account and SaaS (Oren Eini)
• Why Developers Never Use State Machines (Alan Skorkin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Simple ToDo List: Persisting Data with the Sterling NoSQL Database (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers – MVC and MVVM (Kevin Hoffman)
• Windows Phone 7.1 Isolated Storage Explorer Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• WP7: Background execution – revisited! (Håkan Reis)
• Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• Layout Tips and Tricks for WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight 5: Remote control and MediaCommand Support (Pete Brown)
• Building Windows Phone Applications Using Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• 2000 WPF Things #377 – Reuse Tooltips by Defining Them as Resources (Sean Sexton)
• Introduction to XNA on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Ohrn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kerry Hammil Builds .NET Gadgets (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (MS Podcasts)
• C++ and Beyond 2011: Benedict Gaster on C++11, C++ AMP, C++ Renaissance (Charles Torre)
• A for Architecture: Oracle’s Fusion Middleware A-Team – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 8: Let the games begin (MS JobsBlog)
• SE Podcast #16 (Alex Miller)
• Hot Apps: IonBallEx, Relaxify, Speed, NightStand Clock, Fastball 2 (Laura Foy)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #59: Building HTML5tx.com with FrogSlayer’s Sam Hooker (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Let’s Play TDD #134: Persistence! (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting @ SharePoint Connections Fall 2011 in Las Vegas, NV (Andrew Connell)
• SQLAuthority News – Shaivi’s Birthday – SQL Wait Stats Joes 2 Pros Book Released Today – 30 Million Views Completed (Pinal Dave)
• Reserve the date! Developer Day 2011 (Christian Nagel)
• Come See Me At Roanoke .NET Thursday Night! (Kevin Griffin)
• Annoucing the Windows Phone Camps East Coast Fall 2011 Tour (Dave Isbitski)
• The unofficial BUILD precon (Guy Barrette)
• A Coder Interview With Sacha Barber (The Code Project)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Using Root With Auto XML Mode – Day 32 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Red Gate | SQL Compare Review (Jeff Julian)
• Microsoft is Aligning with ODBC for Native Relational Data Access (Rohan Lam)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 is a happy PowerShell Camper (Greg Duncan)
• Powershell Text-To-Speech and fun with a 4yr old. (Jason Jarrett)
• Scala: A Better Java for Android (Mike Burns)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.23 ~ 08.31 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 31, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Link dump for August 31st (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 30-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (8/31/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #928 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for August 22 – 28, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 — #1140 (Dave Campbell)
• 31 Tips on ASP.NET, C#, WPF , MEF, MVC, Visual Studio – August 2011 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• 31 Tips for the month on Threading, WPF, MEF, ASP.NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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