Top Links
- Hands on Labs from //build/ Now Available (buildwindows)
- Windows Phone Mango users reporting disappearing keyboards (Mary Jo Foley) – I’m seeing it occasionally on my HTC Surround.
- Amazon’s Silk Browser: A Peeping Tom Or A Mona Lisa? (Rob Diana)
- Actions in WCF Data Services (Alex James)
- IronPython 2.7.1 RC (CodePlex)
.NET / Visual Studio
- How to let other teams at Microsoft know how to support F# better (Don Syme)
- Neovolve.Toolkit 1.1 Released (Rory Primrose)
- System Users and Application Users (Oren Eini)
- Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Released and Helping others become Visual Studio Keyboard Ninja’s with the Code Ninja Spy (Greg Duncan)
- Automated Build-Deploy-Test using TFS 2010 (Anuj Chaudhary)
- New Field Notes and Real World Guidance added to the Windows Azure Technical Content (Molly Bostic)
- Fixing NLog’s Logging to a Web Service (Peter Kuhn)
- Windows 8 Metro declarations: User Tile Provider (Andrej Tozon)
- WinRT and Windows Property System part 1: storing and retrieving files metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
- Facebook C# SDK 5.3 (CodePlex)
- Azure Storage Client using Async API (Rohit Gupta)
- Using Geospatial Data (WCF Team)
Web Development
- How to Deploy Your ASP.NET MVC 3 with SQL CE 4.0 & Entity Framework (Christian D. Yellington)
- Tips For Using Backbone.js Routers With HTML5 PushState (Derick Bailey)
- RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
- The many places to Dive into HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
- Using HTML5 Geolocation API in ASP.NET Application (Harish Ranganathan)
- Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
- HTML5 Gaming: animating sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and An introduction to CSS pseudo-element hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
- A look at Dart from the eyes of an OO programmer (Giorgio Sironi)
- Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS (Ryan Rauh)
- JavaScript unit testing support (Sergey Simonchik)
- Ruby and Node on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Larry Franks)
- Challenging non-local session scope (session-per-request) (Jeffrey Palermo)
- RIA/JS: Deleting Entities (Josh Twist)
- Getting Started With PHP Templating (Krzysztof Rakowski)
- Azure Blob Storage – a simple example (Peter von Lochow)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Development is Broken (Avi Kaye)
- Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine and CoffeeScript (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
- Product Owners are not a myth (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Effective Stand-ups (Robert May)
- Book Review “Cloud Computing Architected – Solution Design Handbook” by John Rhoton and Risto Haukioja (Kai Wähner)
- Blocks and Playsets (Christopher Bennage)
- How To Produce Bug-Free Software (Derek Greer)
- The Lure of Specialization (Joel Semeniuk)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Insert data (Windows Phone Geek)
- Code to Send SMS in Windows Phone 7 and Reading coordinate values using Accelerometer API in Windows Phone 7 and Debugging WCF Service from Silverlight: The Breakpoint will not currently be hit at WCF Service error (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Authorization in Silverlight, part 2: manipulating the UI (Kevin Dockx)
- ChevronWP7 Unlock Tool Coming Soon (Few Weeks Away) (Antonio Hernandez)
- A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
- 2000 WPF Things #409 – Child Elements in a Grid Size to Fit the Containing Cell and #410 – Default Grid Row and Column Sizes (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 21: I Go Pogo! (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Paul Lewis Sees 3D in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Drawbridge: A new form of virtualization for application sandboxing and Tao Liu: F# Design Patterns (Charles Torre)
- Herding Code 123: Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx (Jon Galloway & Co.)
- Episode 162 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Pfeiffer from Interface Technical Training (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Short interview on C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for October 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Windows Phone Hackathon draws in Pro Devs and Students (Bob Familiar)
- Quick training & conference announcements (Udi Dahan)
- YUIConf 2011 Preliminary Schedule Now Available (Jenny Donnelly)
Database
- SQL Server Developers Tools code-named “Juneau” becomes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Gert Drapers)
- SQL SERVER – Next Version of SQL Server ‘Denali’ is Officially Named as SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
- Denali CTP3 – Semantic Search features (Trevor Dwyer)
- Simple XML exist performance enhancement (Arthur Olcot)
SharePoint
- Web Part Development Options in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft’s plan for bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices (Mary Jo Foley)
- Windows 8 “Isn’t Finished”, Microsoft Reminds us again! (Mike Halsey)
- Learn Ruby with the Edgecase Ruby Koans (Jim Weirich & Joe O’Brien)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 10.11 ~ 10.17 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – October 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Maker Geek Roundup 002 for 10/17/2011 (Pete Brown)
- Geek Reading October 17, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Web Dev Tweets 14-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #961 (Chris Alcock)
- SilverlightShow for October 10 – 16, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2011 — #1158 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 17 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- My Windows 8 Development Article Collection. (Michael Crump)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 10 – 16, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
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