Dew Drop – September 13, 2011

Top Links

• MVVM Light V4 beta1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• jQuery 1.6.4 Released (John Resig)
• Project Silk – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Windows 8 to be Unveiled Tuesday 13th Sept, Watch it Live (Mike Halsey)
• Google & the Future of JavaScript (Alex Russell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My favorite tools to optimize Visual Studio for webdev (Katrien de Graeve)
• Restarting RabbitMQ With Running EasyNetQ Clients and Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
• Lambda Expression Parser – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS (Tarun Arora)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
• Maps Keys to a Collection of Values using Lookup Collection (Abhijit Jana)
• PInvoke Performance (Dave Kerr)
• Fundamentals of the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Announcing Windows Azure Autoscaling Block preview (Grigori Melnik)

Web Development

• Offline Web Apps – AppCaching and HTML5 (Luke)
• Using MVC as a REST Service that is Accessed by jQuery/JavaScript (John Petersen)
• Web Forms Model Binding Part 2: Filtering Data (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Trying out OpenWrap 2.0 (Sebastien Lambla)
• 7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability (Jacob Gube)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The LOB Chronicles Episode 6 – Development Best Practices (Evan Hutnick)
• Achieve Cost-Effective Business Continuity (JD Meier)
• Article: Controlling and Steering Open Source Projects (Dirk Riehle)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to use PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Multi Column and Linked Text (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part III) (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #385 – You Can Nest Panel Controls (Sean Sexton)
• Improvements in Music & Video hub integration (Matt Lacey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 120: Ryan Stewart on RIAs and All Things Adobe (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• MSNBC and Bill Buxton on making computers invisible (Steve Clayton)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 4: Economic Crisis and Software Industry (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• BUILD, publication schedules, and request for feedback (Larry Franks)
• Going to the //Build Conference in Anaheim this week? Me Neither. Join me in Chicago for a Live //Build Event Instead (Angela Binkowski)
• Speaking at HTML5 Dev Conference (Doris Chen)
• My Windows 8 Build Predictions (Jeremy Likness)
• Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2011-12 (Louis Lazaris)
• What Comes Next (Evan Hutnick)
• Telerik: Delivering More than Expected at //build/….in a Lamborghini Gallardo (Telerik Dev Community)
• Submit a Talk for YUIConf 2011 (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – New Functions and Shorthand for CASE Statement (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL 9.1 Released (PostgreSQL)

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Claims Architecture for SharePoint 2010 Developers (Siew Moi Khor)

Miscellaneous

• Five unanswered Windows 8 questions (Ed Bott)
• Kinecting your Reception room with Kinect Reception (Greg Duncan)
• Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash (Mark Pearl)
• Xbox 360 won’t Auto Login to Live – Fixed due to RSTP and Spanning Tree setting in a NetGear Managed GS724TP Switch (Scott Hanselman)
• AT&T announces new Windows Phone lineup (Brian Seitz)
• Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)
• If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you (Oren Eini)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 12, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #706 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Article Digest 09/12/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #935 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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