Dew Drop – April 10, 2012 (#1,303)

Posted on April 10, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

New is Glue (Steve Smith)
Project Detroit: OBD-II Manager and Project Detroit: How to Read Your Car’s Engine Data with OBD-II (Brian Peek & Dan Fernandez)
WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM Release (Turker Keskinpala)
The rumours of my demise have been exaggerated. (Pete O’Hanlon)
EF Power Tools Beta 2 Available (Brice Lambson)

.NET / Visual Studio

Write Faster Code by Adding VIM to Visual Studio (Ian Davis)
GridView SelectedItem Binding Gotcha in WinRT (Derik Whittaker)
Lab Management walkthrough using Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Virtual Machine (Charles Sterling)
My Favorite Things in OData v3 and WCF Data Services 5.0 (Glenn Gailey)
Data Driven Coded UI Test using Visual Studio 11 (Gouri Sohoni)
Windows 8 Metro style simple music app example (Mike Taulty)
Test-Drive the Shiny New WCF Interop Bindings (Yaron Naveh)
NDepend Evaluation: Part 3 (Anthony Trudeau)
DevForce and Second Level Caching (Ward Bell)
Lazy Programming for Smarties (JustCode Team)
A Refactoring Experiment (K. Scott Allen)
Olav’s tale of three .Net Version Numbers. The Assembly Version, File Version and Information Version (Papa bear, Mama and Baby) and Another free (email-ware) eBook courtesy of Red Gate – "Practical Performance Profiling:Improving the efficiency of .NET Code" (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

Adding Client-Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Peter Vogel)
node.js Version 0.6.15 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
Writing Your Own JavaScript Library – Enums (Gil Fink)
Getting Started With ASP.NET Web Stack Source on Codeplex (Henrik F. Nielsen)
Add HTML5 Audio to your App (Joe Stagner)
Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2 (Paul Hammant)
Preloading Images and Creating a Basic Particle System (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Windows Azure Learning Path and WebMatrix: Creating CMS Websites is Easy with the Orchard Template (Zhiming Xue)
iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences (Rey Bango)
Building Super Fast Web Apps with PJAX (Nathan Totten)
How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App, Part 3 (Jorge Ramon)
Better CoffeeScript Testing With Mocha (Andrew Burgess)
On :target (Chris Coyier)
Windows Azure Service Bus Splitter and Aggregator (Alan Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Lokad.CQRS is not (Rinat Abdullin)
Software versions, the necessary evil (Giorgio Sironi)
Security decisions: Separate Operations & Queries (Oren Eini)
Ideas vs. Time: how long does an idea take to develop? (Scott Berkun)
Just Observe (Mark Needham)
Test Studio 2012 R1 is Here (Soon!) (Jim Holmes)
A UI based automation test is failing (John Guin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Update to Windows Phone Control Kit – ZuneCard (Den Delimarsky)
Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 4: Contracts in WinRT/Windows 8 (Gill Cleeren)
How to Save Phone Number in WP7 using the SavePhoneNumberTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | XAML has a new home (4 of 12) (Peter von Lochow)
Silverlight Tree View with Multiple Levels (Paul Sheriff)
2000 WPF Things #533 – Using the Gradient Tool to Modify a Radial Gradient (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 181 – PowerScripting Podcast – Karl Prosser on Portable PowerShell and v3 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Web and Cloud Programming (and more) (Anders Hejlsberg, Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, Martin Odersky & Peter Alvaro)
Yet Another Podcast #63–Windows 8 with Shawn Wildermuth (Jesse Liberty)
It’s not what you read, it’s what you ignore – Video of Scott Hanselman’s Personal Productivity Tips (Scott Hanselman)
Video: Format Your PowerShell Output with Hashtables (Paul Ballard)
.NET Rocks! – Web App Design Shootout at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: Dan Wahlin on Structuring JavaScript Code (Paul Ballard)
Visual Studio Live! in NYC: May 14-17, 2012 – User Group Discount Available! (Peter Laudati)
Want to win $20,000 with Windows Phone? Check out Dream.Build.Play! (Dave Isbitski)
Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83 (Steve C. Rowe)
GitHub Drinkup in Portland, OR (Alex Malinovich)
Microsoft Research’s Jennifer Chayes: 5 Projects for the Future of Computing (Gregory T. Huang)

Database

SSAS development quick tip (James Serra)
Amazon coupon: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant–25% off (Kim Spilker)
Would you be interested in an information section for SQLCop? (Denis Gobo)
Columnstore Index Basics (Ted Krueger)

PowerShell

Miscellaneous

Microsoft all but buys Netscape with AOL patent acqusition (Ed Oswald)
Google’s Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser (Frederic Lardinois)
Dr. Strangeloop or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Functional Programming (John Lindal)
Use Digital IDs (Certificates) to prove your identity in Outlook email transactions (Manu Philip)
A Faster Emulator with Better Hardware Support (Tim Bray) – Android emulator update.
A plea for slow (Peter Kuhn)

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