Month: September 2011

Top Links

• Join us for the BUILD keynotes group liveblog: 13th & 14th September (Long Zheng)
• Dart – will Google make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• New Book Brings Together More than a Dozen MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Why I Prefer JavaScript Over CoffeeScript (Davy Brion)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Volatile Fields (Richard Carr)
• New from Amazon, AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (Think "If you do AWS from VS, get this ASAP…") (Greg Duncan)
• The Rise of F# (Phillip Trelford)
• Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version) (Simone Chiaretta)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
• RavenDB: Multi Maps / Reduce indexes (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Custom ConfigurationSection to handle a Collection (Abhishek Sur)
• Code Issues specific to partial methods (Alex Skorkin)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Entity Refresh and NHibernate Pitfalls: Lazy Properties and Closed Sessions (Ricardo Peres)
• Configure MySql .Net Connector with Entity Framework (Paul Petrov)
• Matrix Multiplication with C++ AMP and Scheduling thread tiles with C++ AMP and tile_static, tile_barrier, and tiled matrix multiplication with C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• NH Mapping by code VS the Untouchable DB (Felice Pollano)
• ApplicationException – Should you derive from it? (Tatworth)

 

Web Development

• Announcing Formlets for jQuery Mobile (Ramon Snir)
• JavaScript: window.onbeforeunload Event – Show “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” Message (Chris Pietschmann)
• CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference (Bradley Holt)
• Adding JQuery UI to MVC 3 Application causes a JScript Runtime exception (Derik Whittaker)
• jQuery 1.6.4 RC1 released (Dave Methvin)
• The XNA Platformer game ported to HTML5… as in wow (and you can get the source too. wow++) (Greg Duncan)
• Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript with “Promises” (Matt Podwysocki & Amanda Silver)
• How to create a simple jQuery plugin – jQuery Iconify (Andrea Salvadore)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using HTML 5 data attributes with ASP.NET MVC (Ægir Þorsteinsson)
• Foxy – CSS Framework (Vladimir Carrer)
• How to change selected date background color of current week in ASP.NET Calendar ? and Conditional Binding Expression with ASP.NET GridView (Abhijit Jana)
• An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass (Jeremy Hixon)
• Learning node.js: Step (Mark Needham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An Observation about TDD (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Scrum basics: The daily standup meeting (John Rayner)
• Cross-Cloud portability with Lokad.CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Listening to the team (Steve Rowe)
• Performance and Optimization Isn’t Evil (Reed Copsey)
• Commenting code is an anti-pattern (Mark Pearl)
• Support for git’s fast-import format in Veracity (Eric Sink)
• Repeated Failed Log-Ins: What’s Your Strategy? (Davy Brion)
• The Six Pillars of Complete Developer Documentation (Pamela Fox)
• One of the small costs of transparency (Howard Dierking)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 6 – Development Best Practices (Evan Hutnick)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 PInvoke fun – System Font Dialog (Peter Kuhn)
• Mapping a Route with Directions using the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)
• WP7 AccelerometerProxy in F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Simple Hand Tracking with MS Kinect SDK & WPF and Window Phone 7.5, ZXing and QR codes (Greg Duncan)
• Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight Spy September 2011 Update (2) (Koen Zwikstra)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control (András Velvárt)
• Starting with Mango — Developer View (Jan Slodicka)
• 2000 WPF Things #384 – The Benefits of Flow-Based Layout (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 173: Steve Bohlen on Agile Methods (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 410: PAX Prime and COD XP recap (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 255 – 09.09.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 103 – 09.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 69 – Mitch Denny on BDD, TEE, Cloudy Infrastructure and more (Richard Banks)
• Gweek 016: The Postmortal (Mark Frauenfelder)
• First RavenDB webinar is now on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• Coding QA Episode 64 – What Do You Want To Hear? (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• This is my next Podcast 023 – 09.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 033 – “Send Me an Angel” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• TWC9 September 9th 2011 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
• SQL SERVER – Denali CTP3 – Step by Step Installation Video – 200 Seconds (Pinal Dave)

 

Community / Events

• Mid-Atlantic Folks at BUILD? and Updated User Group Map (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Let’s Do A LightSwitch Hack-A-Thon (Michael Washington)
• Node.js Knockout 2011 Winners Revealed (Sarah Perez)
• #WPAppItUp Wrap-Up (Ben Lower)
• Windows Phone Camp – Malvern Pennsylvania on September 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Excitement BUILDs: Here Comes Windows 8 and BUILD: Live from Anaheim, CA (Paul Thurrott)
• I am proud to announce that I have joined Telerik. (Michael Crump)
• Women in Tech: I am my Own Worst Enemy (Becky Isserman)
• Microsoft Build: Developer topics to watch and Microsoft Build: Tools and technologies hot buttons (Mary Jo Foley)
• What I expect from Windows 8 (Ed Bott)
• Architects and Architecture at JavaOne (Bob Rhubart)
• BUILD: New Opportunities for Developers (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows 8 Gets Ready for Its Big Debut (Ina Fried)
• My last day at the evil empire – free from the borg collective ! (Joe Stagner)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – IIF() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – CHOOSE() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – DBA Quiz 2011 – All was well few moments before all went wrong – Reasons and Resolutions (Pinal Dave)
• Use common table expressions to simplify your updates in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• New Release of SQL Azure (Shaun Xu)
• Earlier(), AddColumns() and row context (Chris Webb)
• SQL Azure Q2 2011 Service Release Now Deployed (Part I of II) and What’s New in SQL Azure Management Portal? (Part II of II) (Gregory Leake)
• Handling Flat File Headers and Errors in SSIS (Mike Davis)
• SQL Server: Display Query Execution Plans–Different ways (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

SharePoint

• jQuery, SharePoint Picture Libraries, and automatic thumbnails (Bil Simser)
• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 1 and Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 2 (Walter Ferrari)
• DB2 Stored Procedures and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

 

PowerShell

• Group Membership Unions and Intersections (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Bulk-Renaming Files (and other magic) (Tobias Weltner)

 

Miscellaneous

• VMware tackles task management with Strides (Derrick Harris)
• Internet 1996 vs. Internet 2011 [Infographic] (Richard Darell)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.07 ~ 09.12 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading September 9, 2011 and Geek Reading September 10, 2011 and Geek Reading September 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Distributed Weekly 119 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #706 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 9th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 8-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Pie in the Sky (September 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #935 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #161 (David Vidmar)
• Today’s Links (9/9/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2011 — #1145 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 04-September-2011 to 10-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 49 – #RageFace #Kanban and #Innovation (Peter Saddington)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7 Game Development by Adam Dawes