Day: September 21, 2011

Top Links

• Metro Business Apps (Ward Bell)
• My Windows 8 slate has split personalities–and what Microsoft could do to improve that (Laurent Bugnion)
• Reengineering the Windows boot experience (Steven Sinofsky)
• Analyzing Windows 8 and WinRT (Steve Smith)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Deep Zoom Images through c# code and Adding message in a Windows Azure Queue (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Confirmed: Juneau is in the next version of Visual Studio (Jamie Thomson)
• TFS vNext – Falls Short of the Mark (Paul Stack)
• TFS Workbench v2.2.0.8 (CodePlex)
• Community Callout: CodePlugIn_INotifyPropertyChanged (Rory Becker)
• New HTML Editor feature in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Web Platform and Tools Team)
• Python Tools for VS (Mike Stall)
• Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Neil Mackenzie)
• GPU Debugging with VS 11 (Daniel Moth)
• Dependency Management in .Net: Get (Derek Greer)
• Windows 8 applications and JSON data (Andrej Tozon)
• Using the Windows Runtime from a Non-Metro Application and Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application (Jeffrey Richter)

 

Web Development

• Save a tree with TreeSaver.js (Think "JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS") (Greg Duncan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Type Code with Class (Giorgio Sironi)
• Quasi-literals: embedded DSLs in ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Adding filters to your ELMAH installation (Doug Rathbone)
• Things the W3C Should Stop Doing (Alex Russell)
• A Visual History Of The Usefulness Of Ruby On Rails (Derick Bailey)
• SVG – an introduction (Josh Reuben)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Premature Optimization (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why would anyone use MSTest over NUnit? (Drew Peterson)
• Three Book Reviews (Jim Holmes)
• Why you should care about encapsulation (Greg Moeck)
• Touch Input for IE10 and Metro style Apps (Jacob Rossi)
• Scrum for Team System v3.0.4281.00 (CodePlex) – v3.0 is now open source.

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• WPF 4.5 – Part 3 : New methods of the Dispatcher (Jonathan Antoine)
• Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data (Samidip Basu)
• Nokia Developers: learn Windows Phone even faster (JC Cimetiere)
• Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Power Tools 1.1 (Oren Nachman)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Tcp Socket acts differently on emulator and device (HTC Mozard) (Michael Sync)
• Enumerating MIDI Interfaces using Silverlight 5 PInvoke (Pete Brown)
• Build a GOVERNMENT Windows Phone App Today!!! (Joel Reyes)
• 2000 WPF Things #391 – Anti-Aliasing Can Lead to Fuzzy GUI Elements (Sean Sexton)
• Submit Windows Phone 7.5 Apps today; Update 7.0 Apps in October (Todd Brix)
• An Alternate Approach to a GridView (Paul Sheriff)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes: Manipulations and UML with VS 2010 Part 6: Designing a Project’s Physical Structure (MS Podcasts)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 23 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget HD Podcast 266 – 09.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Yet Another Podcast #49–Jon Galloway: What’s New In ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Let’s Play TDD #141: Domain-Specific Language (James Shore)
• Ping 117: Xbox gives back, Win 8 boots fast, Ballmer sees bright future, More MATH please! and Hot Apps: Fight Game Rivals, Bad Trip, Multi Browser, Showcase’d, Bulls n Cows (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Charlotte .NET User Group – Mono for Android #monodroid (Wally McClure)
• A few Mozillians to read and follow. (Joe Stagner)
• Just Added: HTML5 Training at jQuery Conference Boston! (Leah Silber)
• Agile .NET 2011 Europe happens in 3 weeks and discount code (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Phone Camps (Chris Koenig)
• Microsoft Employee Who Tweeted About Unreleased Nokia Windows Phone Now an Ex-Employee (Ina Fried)
• A good day: “Day of Caring” volunteering (Devon Musgrave)
• f8 is almost here! (Kathleen Loughlin)

 

Database

• Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – 14 New Functions – A Quick Guide (Pinal Dave)
• Query SQL Azure and On-Premise Data in One Codeset (Buck Woody)
• Roman Numerals to integers, and Vice Versa, in SQL: (Phil Factor)
• Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice (Jason Brimhall)

 

SharePoint

• 7 New Wonders of the SharePoint World (Joel Oleson)
• New book: Customizing My Site in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• Applying NTFS Permissions (Tobias Weltner)
• Cross-Post: Announcing the Release of Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Windows Azure Team)
• PowerPack for non-Windows management in SCCM and SCOM (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Win7 SP1/Win2008 RC SP1 get some PowerShell 3 CTP love… Or PS gets WF (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing App Sites (Ben Scheirman)
• NYC 2.0 on PBS (Becky Stern)

 

More Link Collections

• Tip on Writing Reflector Addins (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (9/20/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #942 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2011 — #1146 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #713 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 09/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Link dump for September 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

 

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers