Day: September 14, 2011

Top Links

• Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
• Expression Blend… for HTML (Christian Schormann)
• Build HTML 5 apps with Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview (Pam Keesey)
• Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
• BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Somasegar)
• I_See_What_You_Did_There (Anonymous)

 

Windows 8 / BUILD

• Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
• Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
• Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
• Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
• Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
• Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
• Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
• //build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
• Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
• BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
• The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
• Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
• BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
• Windows 8–First thoughts and Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
• PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What is the cost of try/catch (Oren Eini)
• Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
• TeamPulse TFS Sync Tips & Tricks (TeamPulse Team)
• WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32 (Jonathan Allen)
• Programmatically Get Assembly Version and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Custom Web.config Transformations in MSBUILD (Doug Rathbone)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Sync Framework Toolkit Connects Phones, Desktops, HTML5 to SQL Server, SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)

 

Web Development

• Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5 (MS Downloads)
• Advantages of CoffeeScript When Working with jQuery Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• Backbone.js: MVC in JavaScript and Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Collection (Giorgio Sironi)
• Thinking Like a Web Designer (Tim Bray)
• Getting Role Instance Information with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Command Line Tools (Brian Swan)
• Resources For, And How I Learned Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
• The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Four Basic Insights on Confidence (J.D. Meier)
• You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do! (Martin Hinshelwood)
• RTM’d today: Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life (Kim Spilker)
• TeamPulse – A Project Management Solution from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s Checkout Form (Anthony)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Adding to MoXAML. (Pete O’Hanlon)
• 2000 WPF Things #386 – Layout = Panels + FrameworkElements + Alignment/Margins/Padding (Sean Sexton)
• Expression Blend for HTML (Somasegar)
• TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Prism 4 MEF Application (Danny Siew)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #139: File → Close (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 265 – 09.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Pluralcast 48 : Jeffrey Palermo on Career and Management (David Starr)
• The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (Ken Denmead)

 

Community / Events

• Webcast: Office 365 & SharePoint Online (Kim Spilker)
• Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies (Charles Max Wood)
• //BUILD/: What a great conference -celebrating this new era by starting a new ALM Team blog (Charles Sterling)
• Say “Hello” to BlendInsider (Kirupa)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live! (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server OLEDB Provider Deprecation Announcement (Luiz Santos)
• SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding SQL Azure Federations No-MARS Support and Entity Framework (James Podgorski)
• Backing up SQL Azure with Backup from Red-Gate (Eric Nelson)

 

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Business Connectivity Service Associations using DB2 Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

 

PowerShell

• First Glimpse at PowerShell v3 and Video: Richard Siddaway – WMI: Gems and Gotchas (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The PowerShell Magazine launches… (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• 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 and Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) – Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web’s Social Glue (Scott Hanselman)
• This is why OEMs in the Windows world get slapped with the Fugly Stamp (Steven Hodson)
• Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #937 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading September 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #708 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 12th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 09/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/13/2011) (Bob Rhubart)

 

The Geek Shelf

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