Dew Drop – January 8, 2012 (#1,236)

Top Links

• Hypermedia and Web API. Design brain dump and samples (Glenn Block)
• TWC9: January 6, 2012 – C9 Video Queue, Silverlight 5, Metro and WP7 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Is PhoneGap Right for You? (David J. Kelley)
• What You May Not Know About jQuery (Burke Holland)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stein’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Stack Unwind Does Not Occur When C++ Exceptions Propagate Into Managed Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Libraries for JavaScript: Part I (Chris Sells)
• How to work with NuGet? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: SQL Queries and Parameter Prefix (Ricardo Peres)
• A bit more about Using Ninject 2.2 – factory methods (AngelEyes)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Splitter and jQuery Tooltip (jqwidgets)
• ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Intro to Property-Based Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Request Correlation and Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and Reporting and Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage (Carl Nolan)
• JSON.net and Deserializing Anonymous Types (David Hoerster)
• New Year – Updated Ubuntu Rails Setup (Eric Proctor)
• Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services (Richard Seroter)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2 (Tanzim Saqib)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting Results the Agile Way – Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management and 10 Things Great Managers Do and 30 Days of Getting Results – Free Time-Management Training (JD Meier)
• CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it? (Jeremy Likness)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile Adoption and Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic (Peter Cooper)
• You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… (Jason Jarrett)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Show a deleted List Item with a Strike Through in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• New maintenance release for Windows Phone (Eric Hautala)
• Windows Phone 7 Info Hub – All the phone info, one helpful hub [#wpdev] (Greg Duncan)
• WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrieving a WebPage Title and Sharing it with the ShareLinkTask in WP7 (Michael Crump)
• Follow Up: How Many Apps Are on Your Windows Phone Handset? (Richard Hay)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – User Feedback (Rudi Grobler)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many and WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 2of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.1 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 049 – “Dial 666 For Evil Carrier” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 425: Hello 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
• Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 120 – 01.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with TFS (Jim Holmes)

 

Community / Events

• RavenDB Course in London: 28–29 February (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Nite No. 10, January 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft Free Virtual Private Cloud Event, Jan 17th and code.NASA – Coding opportunities for wanna-be space cowboys and girls. NASA says "We’ve got our OSS space app’s right here…" (Greg Duncan)

 

Database

• The officially easiest way to play with SQL Server 2012… The SQL Server Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Collation and Collation Sensitivity – Quiz – Puzzle – 6 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Indexed Views and Restrictions – Quiz – Puzzle – 7 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Federation – Introduction (Shaun)
• Normalizing Your Database (James Serra)
• Does My MongoDB Replica Set Need An Arbiter? (Karl Seguin)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – About this Series and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Why You Should Care & the Development Story and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Breaking Out of the Sandbox and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Integration Options (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Best way to browse iOS documentation (Deepak Kapoor)
• Excerpt Old Posts – A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit (Jon Galloway)
• Weekend project: Create a family calendar (Juliette Guilbert)
• Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver and Learning Android: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with android-maven-plugin (Mark Needham)
• Why I think Windows Phone is superior phone OS? (Slobodan Pavkov)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Pie in the Sky (January 6, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Maker Geek Roundup 005 for 1/7/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Windows Dev News for January 07, 2011 – #0022 and SilverlightShow for Dec 26, 2011 – Jan 1, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 66 – Enterprise Scrum Tool Review & Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: January 6, 2012 (MVP Award Program)

 

The Geek Shelf

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