Dew Drop – December 13, 2011 (#1,218)

Top Links

• Install-Package Roslyn (Kirill Osenkov)
• Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js (Yehuda Katz)
• Improved Developer Experience, Interoperability, and Scalability on Windows Azure (Bob Kelly)
• What’s in (and missing from) Microsoft’s latest batch of Azure cloud updates (Mary Jo Foley)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Porting Bryan’s Erlang Function to F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• New VB XNA Sample – showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting (VBTeam)
• Integrating with COM Components In C# (vijayksh111)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Code Clone Detection (aka Code Clone Analysis) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Converting FS project files to target Xbox 360 (Joh)
• How can I tell whether a window is modal? and What is the API for accessing content on SkyDrive? (Raymond Chen)
• EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data.SqlClient connection strings (Harish Ranganathan)
• Hello Kinect for Windows Beta 2 NUI/VUI World (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Why I’m Excited about Names in JavaScript (Tab Atkins, Jr.)
• Composite JS Apps: Regions And Region Managers (Derick Bailey)
• New Pluralsight Course – Structuring JavaScript Code in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Building Apps with HTML5 – Desktop, Tablet, Phone ! (Joe Stagner)
• An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) (Louis Lazaris)
• Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck (Scott Kosman)
• Windows Azure December Update – What’s Important for OSS Developers (Larry Franks)
• YUI 3.5.0 PR1 Is Now Available (Allen Rabinovich)
• Create a JS builder with node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• App Framework Changes in YUI 3.5.0 (Ryan Grove)
• Espresso Tip: IHttpHandler and IsReusable (David Neal)
• WordPress 3.3 Released (Richard Hay)
• New Windows Azure Management Portal with updated SDK for Java, MongoDB, Node.js, Solr/Lucene, PHP and many more (Avkash Chauhan)
• New Windows Azure Guidance Topics Published (Glen Gailey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• One-Piece Continuous Flow – an alternative to Kanban? (Anand Vishwanath)
• 4 Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining (Gil Zilberfeld)
• A short summary about DI and using Ninject not as a Service Locator (AngelEyes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation and 31 Days of Testing—Day 12: Functional Test 101 (Jim Holmes)
• Why Focus on Continuous Integration for Programs? (Johanna Rothmann)
• How to be an effective code coach (Roy Osherove)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Let’s explore Silverlight 5! (Anthony de Bruyn)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 10 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleek (Jeff Wilcox)
• Turning XAML into an image (jpg) in WP7 isolated storage and to the Phone Media Library (David Kelley)
• Silverlight huh, bit of a …hot topic..wouldn’t you say? (Scott Barnes)
• 2000 WPF Things #449 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Storage (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 1 (Callum G.)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gillmor Gang 12.12.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 116 – 12.12.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for December 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Critical Path Training SharePoint 2010 Developer Training in Europe in Early 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• 2011 In Retrospect: A Year of Writing F# Professionally (Rick Minerich)
• Want to win $25 worth of apps? Tweet us! (Michael Stroh)
• Winding Down 2011… Nearing Blog Post 400 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Happy 4th Birthday To Regular Geek (Rob Diana)
• Win Free Copies of NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Gabriel Schenker)

 

Database

• Power View and PowerPivot HelloWorldPicnic Samples for SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) (MS Downloads)
• Changes to SQL Server 2012 Execution Plans (Greg Low)
• Top SSAS white papers (James Serra)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 7 – User Roles and Permissions in SSRS Server (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at Performance – A Quick Look at Configuration (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 12: Table Value Constructor (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting Merge Replication – Logging (Ted Krueger)
• Now Available: SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release (Gregory Leake)

 

SharePoint

• Best Description of Claims Based Security and a Great new SharePoint+Azure Book and Great Resource for SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight (Andrew Connell)
• What Is Included in Business Connectivity Services? (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• How to Generate an Exchange 2010 Room List Report with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Formatting JSON From Terminal (Ben Scheirman)
• Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition (Jeff Atwood)
• Back from a week of interviewing (John Guin)
• Microsoft Already Won The Battle For The Living Room When Nobody Was Looking (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Add Voice Typing To Your IME (Tim Bray)
• Exclusive: Microsoft Replaces Lees as Head of Windows Phone Business (Ina Fried)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.01 ~ 12.12 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Open Web Platform Weekly Summary – 2011-12-05 – 2011-12-11 (Karl Dubost)
• The Morning Brew #1001 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/12/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #24 (Franky)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/12/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 12, 2011 – #0010 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins