Day: June 27, 2012

Top Links

• LightSwitch HTML Client Preview Available! (Beth Massi)
• NuGet 2.0 (.NET Package Manager) released – GO UPGRADE NOW and here’s why (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing the Photos app for Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• node v0.8 is out and it’s HOT! (Glenn Block)
• Team Foundation Services Updates 6/26 (Brian Harry)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Identifying the Default Comparers for a Type (Richard Carr)
• Reviewing Dinner Party – Nerd Dinner ported to RavenDB on RavenHQ (Oren Eini)
• Process Lifetime Management (PLM) and Managing State in Windows 8 Metro C# Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Don’t Use LINQ’s Join. Navigate! (Anders Abel)
• Creating an IStorageFile out of a Local Resource in WinRT (C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• Consuming WCF SOAP Service in Windows 8 Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Some more .NET/C# Generics Research Project History (Don Syme)
• TFS Preview isn’t just about TFS, it’s about learning TFS too… (Greg Duncan)
• Xamarin Designer for Android (Wally McClure)
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
• Best practices when adding single sign-on to your app with the Live SDK (Dare Obasanjo)
• Debug and run Windows 8 Metro style JavaScript apps (Rachel Appel)
• Back To Basics: You aren’t smarter than the compiler. (plus fun with Microbenchmarks) (Scott Hanselman)
• Tip: EF CodeFirst – Deleting child records (Michael Sync)
• New .NET Diagnostic info added to Process Explorer (Brandon Bray)
• Understanding a Simple Async Program (Alan Berman)
• Trouble, Trouble, A Quintuple of Double (K. Scott Allen)
• SimpleCQRS the F# version (Jérémie Chassaing)

 

Web Development

• Node.js, Module.Exports and Organizing Express.js Routes (Karl Seguin)
• SignalR v0.5.2 (SignalR Team)
• Review: The Truth About HTML5 For Web Designers (Bruce Lawson)
• Introduction To JavaScript Unit Testing (Jörn Zaefferer)
• HTML5 Canvas for the Noob–Part 1 (Kevin Griffin)
• Calling all developers building ASP.NET applications (Laila Lotfi)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node – $7.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Pro HTML5 Accessibility – review (Steve Faulkner)
• LightSwitch HTML Client Preview – Getting started (xpert360)
• Deploying solutions with multiple web projects on AppHarbor (AppHarbor)
• Deploying Windows Azure Website using Visual Studio Web Publish wizard (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mapping Routes with Fluent Builder (Chris Eargle)
• Get into sync with HTTP with the new free (reg-ware) Syncfusion Succinctly eBook, "HTTP Succinctly" (Greg Duncan)
• Do-It-Yourself Caching Methods With WordPress (Milan Petrović)
• Using Source Binding and Templates in KendoUI (Sagar H. Ganatra)
• Windows Azure PowerShell and Ruby Cloud Services (Larry Franks)
• Building a HTML5 game based on the Metro Design Philosophy using Blend for Visual Studio (Surf4Fun)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Data Drill Down (Simon Brown)
• Eventual consistency, CQRS and interaction design (Jimmy Bogard)
• Patterns of Developer Experience (Michael Mahemoff)
• Book Review: The Art of Agile Development (Nathan)
• Lean Tools: Motivation (Giorgio Sironi)
• UX for the environnent: an experiment (Daniela Panfili)
• The future of Isolation frameworks, and how Moq isn’t it (for now) (Roy Osherove)
• Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion (Nick Hengeveld)
• To Code or Not to Code (Ambrose Little)
• Product Driven Guidance (Hadi Hariri)
• Decision Making Article Roundup (JD Meier)
• Exception Handling And Other Contentious Political Topics (Justin Jones)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• The WindowsPhoneGeek Marketplace for Windows Phone app development components is now Public! (Windows Phone Geek)
• A gesture-driven Windows Phone to-do application Part Two – drag re-ordering (Colin Eberhardt)
• Creation of Menu and submenu in WPF desktop application (Deb Kumar Ghosal)
• How To: Programmatically Create a Panorama Control in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
• 2000 WPF Things #589 – Standard Tunneling/Bubbling Event Pairs (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Beckman Meijer Overdrive: The Lambda Calculus and Food Nutrition | Beckman Meijer Overdrive (Charles Torre)
• Missed TechEd? Catch Up Like You Were There (David Ramel)
• Video: (part 2) Building a Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming (Roy Osherove)
• Let’s Play TDD #200: To Kill a Mock (James Shore)
• ShopTalk Episode 22 (Chris Coyier)
• Engadget HD Podcast 305 – 06.26.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Tech Leaders Partner With Girls Who Code to Boost Industry’s Female Presence (Zoe Fox)
• IndyHall Celebrates Expansion With Donated Art Gallery (Colleen Reese)
• Meet the Author: Kevin Kuebler on Advanced Orchard (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• Data Series: SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machine vs. SQL Database (Gregory Leake)
• SQL SERVER – Powershell – Importing CSV File Into Database – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Composite Projects and Schema Compare (Bill Gibson)
• Guest Post – DBAvolution (Mike Fal)

 

PowerShell

• Basic installation guide for Windows PowerShell Web Access (Kriti Jindal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Changing the Conversation about Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Creating a Corporate Data Hub (Buck Woody)
• Google Is Doing Android Tablets, but What Is It Doing to Make Tablets Better? (Ina Fried)
• MetroTwit App For Windows 8 Now Available – Download It Now! (Paul Morris)
• Windows 8 RTM Could Be Delivered Next Month (Robert Boland)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 26, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading June 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Maker Geek Roundup 015 for 6/26/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-27 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 6/26/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1133 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP Development News 26 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #904 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition by Bruce Payette