Day: December 19, 2011

Top Links

• Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers (Troy Hunt)
• Castle Windsor 3.0 is released (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Top Three Reasons Phil Haack Quit Microsoft (D’Arcy Lussier)
• MVVM Light installers and Nuget (including Silverlight 5) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Resources to write .Net based MapReduce jobs for Hadoop using F# (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce and Using Hadoop on Azure JS Console for Data Visualizations (Carl Nolan)
• Tip of the day – Windows 8 Metro apps & frame navigation failure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• [Rumor] Pex and Moles to be part of Visual Studio 11? and Getting Started with the Netduino (Really) and Avoiding some Kinect SDK for Windows gotchas (Greg Duncan)
• Developing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio (Jay Schmelzer)
• Team Foundation Server Power Tools December 2011 (Shai Raiten)
• Examples of depth API improvements coming in v1 (Rob Relyea)
• Programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
• Nuget Update Error (Michael Sync)
• ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support (Jenni Konrad)
• Craig’s Utility Library 3.0 (CodePlex)
• Tpl Dataflow (block structure) – Part 4 and Task != Thread (Bnaya Eshet)

 

Web Development

• What’s next in 2012 for the Telerik AJAX and MVC products (Stefan Rahnev)
• New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox (Chris Heilmann)
• The rise and rise of JavaScript (Dan North)
• Composite JavaScript Applications With Backbone And Backbone.Marionette (Derick Bailey)
• Custom Blank ASP.NET MVC Project Template (Joe Mayo)
• Choosing a CSS Framework (Joe Stagner)
• MVC: Handling file uploads (John Rayner)
• Book review: HTML & CSS (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Error Code with Exception (Giorgio Sironi)
• Handling CSS by using jQuery (R S Dodiya)
• "I want to optimize my JS application on V8" checklist (mraleph)
• How to Check if a Date is More or Less Than a Month Ago with PHP (Stoimen Popov)
• New in 3.0: Support of profiling with Zend Debugger (nnmatveev)
• Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project (Rob Hawkes)
• Sass: Introducing mixins (John-Daniel Trask)
• fubu new project (Josh Arnold)
• Online Javascript Compression Tool (BrightBit)
• A Case For Using CoffeeScript (Justin Etheredge)
• New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
• Querying The Archivist API With JSON.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
• Announcing the Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs Release (Itai Raz)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Linking Local Packages with npm (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Challenge: Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page and Node.js For Dummies (Davy Brion)
• WebSockets versus REST… fight! (Nathan Evans)
• Create a Node.js App on Azure in 3 minutes (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage? and Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI – first public CTP availability (Avkash Chauhan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification (David Bulkin)
• From Agile to Elastic (Ralf Westphal)
• TDD Workflow (Sinatra / Haml / jQuery) Part 1 (Brian Marick)
• Learning Distributed Systems: Sockets and Event Store (Rinat Abdullin)
• Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN (Yann Trevin)
• The Lean Startup: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 15: Cucumber is Not A QA Tool (Jim Holmes)
• Building Social Software for the Anti-Social (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Scalable Cloud Applications (David Aiken)
• 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework (Bobby Johnson)
• Getters are an antipattern? (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Don’t forget about the databinding features of Silverlight 4 that you get with Mango! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Trying out jQuery Mobile on Windows Phone (UPDATED) (Chris G. Williams)
• Building Async WCF Services in Silverlight with Channelfactory (Derik Whittaker)
• Video on How to work with Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
• SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
• Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Kunal’s 13 for 5… 13 Silverlight 5 tutorials… and Pick up your pace on Silverlight 5 with Michael Crump’s 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Greg Duncan)
• Decoding Portable Bitmap (PBM) files in C# and displaying them in WPF (J. Broun)
• Want to change your Windows Phone emulator? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Resources from the HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Developer Camps (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• 2000 WPF Things #453 – The UseLayoutRounding Property Aligns Things to Pixel Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
• Step by Step WPF Data Binding with Comboboxes (Steve Aube)
• Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 6th Day of Silverlight : Binding in Style Setters (Tony Champion)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 3 (Callum G.)
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 423: We get ready for Christmas (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 169 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Karsten Wysk Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Expert Panel Q&A featuring Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich (Scott Guthrie, Mark Russinovich & Dave Campbell)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.16.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.17.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Video: Microsoft’s Steve Kaneko on design unification and the challenges of moving to Metro (T.C. Sottek)
• Engadget Podcast 268 – 12.16.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 117 – 12.17.2011 and The Vergecast 006 – 12.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 239: Outside My Wheelhouse (Paul Thurrott)
• The Engadget Show – 028: Boeing’s 787, the Tokyo Motor Show and the year in review (Brian Heater)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #32 with Guest Pete Brown (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks (Jesse Liberty)
• Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Builds XAML Apps on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: December 16th – Silverlight 5, Azure, TFS PowerTools and XMPP (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• tl;dr (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Tales from the MNC: The team behind Windows Phone’s breakthrough design (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 with JRE7 getDate compatibility (MS Downloads)
• Import Data from Excel into SQL Server Using SSIS (Keshav Singh)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device.Operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.) and SQL SERVER – Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Samples Database for SQL Server 2012 RC0 and SQLAuthority News – Introduction to expressor Connectivity to Salesforce – expressor Data Integration Applications (Pinal Dave)
• Bulk Insertion of Data Using C# DataTable and SQL server OpenXML function (Pranay Rana)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 16: CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY and SQL Advent 2011 Day 18: Table-valued Parameters and SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
• Import Data from excel to SQL server using C# in ASP. NET (Suraj S Koneri)
• Building Apps Using SQL Azure and SQL Azure Reporting (Content) (Zhiming Xue)
• Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Sells Manor: Running 64-bit Win8 on My MacBook Air (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft Touch Mouse Review (Michael Crump)
• Your New Year’s Resolution – Put an end to spinning rust and buy yourself a SSD (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever wonder what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956? (Steven Hodson)
• Signing in with a picture password (Steven Sinofsky)
• Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
• Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools (Xavier Ducrohet)
• Connecting Windows Home Server to web through two routers (Gunnar Peipman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.13 ~ 12.19 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #1005 (Chris Alcock)
• Distributed Weekly 133 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 and Interesting .NET Links – December 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #775 and Double Shot #776 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: December 16, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 12/16/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/16/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (December 16, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for December 18, 2011 – #0012 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 5 – 11, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 12-18 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Great Sites and Blogs for Learning about .NET Gadgeteer (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Retrospective 63 – The Kanban Man and Agile Army (Peter Saddington)
• Reading Notes #25 (Franky)

 

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed