Dew Drop – December 22, 2011 (#1,225)

Top Links

• Beginning LightSwitch Part 6: I Feel Pretty! Customizing the "Look and Feel" with Themes (Beth Massi)
• Taking a look at the Windows Simulator in Visual Studio 11 (Michael Crump)
• JavaScript as a First Language (John Resig)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 18: Baseline Datasets (Jim Holmes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mixing Integrated Authentication and Anonymous Authentication with PreAuthenticated = true doesn’t work (Oren Eini)
• How to enable REST and SOAP both on the same WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to Get Elevated Process Path in .Net (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• iSpy with my little… OSS security camera/audio software suite and Windows Forms Toolkit v0.2… A little WinForm love for the holidays… and A VB.Net and C# Side-by-side Syntax Comparison (Greg Duncan)
• TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API (Shai Raiten)
• New book: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Mono in 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Web Development

• CSS3 2D and 3D Transform (Gil Fink)
• Building Apps and deploying them from GitHub (Joe Stagner)
• Developing Metro Style App using JavaScript and Visual Studio 2011 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 3D experience in a browser with Three.js (Giorgio Sironi)
• Facebook: Deprecating the REST API (Doug Purdy)
• PHP 5.4 To Have A Built-In Development Web Server (John Sheehan)
• Introducing mod_spdy, a SPDY module for the Apache HTTP server (Bryan McQuade & Matthew Steele)
• It’s time for your site to play nicely with social media (Paul Boag)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spinning – Getting Agile at the Core (Ralf Westphal)
• Designing app-centric sharing for SkyDrive, part 1 of 2: Complexity of “simple” (Tony East)
• The Problem with Precision (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Testing item values in lists (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Book review: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code,” Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The Four Rules of Simple Design (Bobby Johnson)
• 10 Design Rules You MUST Follow If You Want Apple To Approve Your App (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
• Making APIs is hard (James Padolsey)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #3 Getting Help (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game (Colin Eberhardt)
• RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals (Deyan Ginev)
• New Microsoft Press Book: XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Title Added to SilverlightShow Ebooks Shelf: Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• WPFSpark gets all V1.0! (Greg Duncan)
• Customize Tab Control in Silverlight (create tab control with side bar) (Hiren Khirsaria)
• WPF Diagrams: New tree layout algorithm (Jason)
• XAML Developer Reference–A Great Holiday Gift (Kim Spilker)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring INSERT performance–5 power tweaks (Erik EJ)
• WPFSpark: 5 of n: FluidPivotPanel and WPFSpark: 6 of n: FluidProgressBar and WPFSpark: 7 of n: FluidStatusBar and WPFSpark: 4 of n: SparkWindow (Ratish Philip)
• 2000 WPF Things #456 – An Element in a Grid Can Span Multiple Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Get Started with Silverlight 5 (Zhiming Xue)
• Announcing RadControls for WindowsPhone Q3.11 Service Pack1 release and Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper (Valentin Stoychev)
• DecryptR Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Photo Mosaics Part 8: Caching (Jim O’Neil)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks!j – Startups and Cyborg Anthropology at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Allen Wirfs-Brock and Rob Manson – Ambient Computing, Augmented Reality, and JavaScript (Charles Torre)
• videos: Learn Bugzilla (Paul Rouget)
• What The Tech 98: Worst Tech of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Influence over Enforce (Martin Woodward)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 007 – 12.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Apps for Kids 001: a new Boing Boing podcast (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Training Courses and Kits (Robert Green)

 

Community / Events

• vNext Global Vision Goes Live (David Kelley)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Robert Scoble (Thomas Houston)
• 2 Days 2 Kinect in Dallas (Jan 28 – 29 2012) (Greg Duncan)

 

Database

• Backing up SSRS Encryption Key with Powershell (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Mastering the Basics – Igniting Learning – A Unique Learning Experience (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 21: TRY CATCH and SQL Advent 2011 Day 22: Dynamic Management Views (Denis Gobo)
• Analysis Services Stored Procedure Project 1.3.6 Release (CodePlex)
• Filtering in SSMS (Jason Brimhall)
• SQL Azure – Backup (Nicolas Humann)
• Replacing sysfiles With sys.database_files (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Querying RSS feed subscriber count on Google Reader using Data Explorer‏ (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Sharepoint and PowerPivot: Connections fail to refresh in SQL Server 2008 Denali CTP3 (Jen Stirrup)
• SharePoint Site Collection Administrator vs. Site Owner (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• MIT takes over Google App Inventor from Google (Don Burnett)
• Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products – Lync, OneNote, Xbox for iPhone and iPad and more, oh my (Scott Hanselman)
• Holiday In Tekpubland (Rob Conery)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows Phone In 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #779 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1008 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 21, 2011 – #0014 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #4 (Devon Govett)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #26 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 12-22-2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets – 21-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3, and WebGL by Jacob Seidelin