Day: September 7, 2011

Top Links

• Become a Good Programmer in Six Really Hard Steps (Mike Lewis)
• Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 (Mike Taulty)
• NerdDinner 3.0 released (John Petersen)
• Autoscaling Application Block – reactive rule semantics (Grigori Melnik)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting up Policies for Extensible Parts in MEF (Abhishek Sur)
• Exceptions and Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 4 (Daniel Mohl)
• New book: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• A Review of Beginning C# Object-oriented Programming (srpsco)
• First Look at the New C++ IDE Productivity Features in the Next Version of Visual Studio (Cont’d…) (vcblog)
• Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio — Getting the Appendix (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using BugAid to flatten class hierarchies while debugging (Omer Raviv)
• Why MyGet uses Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• parallel_for_each from amp.h – part 1 (Daniel Moth)
• From Normal Collections to Generic Collections (Paul Sheriff)
• Managing Concurrency in Windows Azure with Leases and Building a Task Scheduler in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

 

Web Development

• Test-Driving Backbone Views With JQuery Templates, The Jasmine Gem, and Jasmine-JQuery (Derick Bailey)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Magic Number with Symbolic Constant (Giorgio Sironi)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/Sept/2011 – jQuery Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
• JavaScript OMG! #1 to #5 and JavaScript OMG! #6 to #10 and JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15 and JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20 (Mike Taulty)
• Overview of Command Line Deployment and Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Reasons Why Unit Testing is fun–and Important (J. Boyer)
• Agile software development recommendations for users and new adopters (Andrea Salvadore)
• Building Better Software Through Collaboration: Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (Rian van der Merwe)
• Shiny new commit styles (Kyle Neath)
• Pair Programming: The disadvantages of 100% pairing (Mark Needham)
• Leveraging MSBuild for Ruthless Productivity (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• Why Some Companies Execute Better (JD Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics (Justin Angel)
• Windows Phone Toolkit ExpanderView in depth| Part1: key concepts and API and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Connection Strings (Windows Phone Geek)
• Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps (taabello)
• MoXAML goes MefXAML (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Nvidia: Windows Phone 7 Apps Will Run On Windows 8 (Ron Fosner)
• Periodic Agents on Windows Phone 7.1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 2000 WPF Things #381 – Loading .rtf Files Into a RichTextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Telerik RadChartControl for LightSwitch Application – Day 3 – Giveaway Contest (Kunal Chowdhury)
• DataBinding to Custom Properties (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 264 – 09.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #137: How Many Frames? (James Shore)
• Video: Kirk Munro – Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)

 

Community / Events

• CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to Redmond! (Brendan Tompkins)
• RavenDB Webinar (Oren Eini)
• Reminder–Speaking at the NYC and Boston SharePoint User Groups this week (Andrew Connell)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Forums are LIVE! (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Database

• New LOGICAL functions in SQL Server Denali (Martin Schmidt)
• Using the SSIS Merge Join (Mike Davis)
• SQL SERVER – A Guide to Integrating SQL Server with XML, C#, and PowerShell – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Denali – Conversion Function – TRY_PARSE() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Parallelizing Slow Parts of the Data Flow – Part 1 – Preparation (Todd McDermid)
• Red Gate Schema Compare For Oracle (Geoff Hudik)

 

SharePoint

• Business Connectivity Service Associations using Oracle Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Python Standard Library By Example (Tom Brander)
• Kinect Quiz, one teacher’s story… (Greg Duncan)
• Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft’s Mediaroom 2.0 IPTV platform: A codename update (Mary Jo Foley)
• Learning Unix (Miguel de Icaza)
• The Software IP Detective’s Handbook (Mylene Reiners)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 081 for 9/6/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #932 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.01 ~ 09.06 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 6, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily News Digest 09/06/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 6-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (9/6/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Acceleration Links #1 (Adam Feber)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Aug 29 – Sept 4 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #703 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

Becoming Agile: …in an imperfect world by Greg Smith