Dew Drop – July 30, 2012 (#1,374)

Posted on July 30, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio Tip: Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts (Peter Vogel)
Last Couple Weeks for the $20 EBook Deal (Charles Petzold)
Building Responsive Mobile Web Applications with MVC4 and HTML5 (Brendan Kowitz)
Make Your JavaScript Better With Self Executing Anonymous Functions (Chris Love)

.NET / Visual Studio

Adding Remarks to XML Documentation (Richard Carr)
The support of multi-selection for Visual Studio by CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
LINQ and “Possible Multiple Enumerations of IEnumerable” Warning / Resharper To the Rescue! and Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst (Peter Kellner)
How to use LINQ in a Workflow (Ron Jacobs)
APress Deal of the Day – 30/Jul/2012 – Pro WCF 4 (Tatworth)
Asynchronous bounded queues (Jon Harrop)
Strongly Typed Delete With NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
Example Metro app /WinRT: How to change default selected item colors when using Listview? and ‘Stupid’ Question 9: How does reflection affect performance, and should I avoid using it? and ‘Stupid’ Question 10: What does a Software Architect do? (Iris Classon)
Don’t Just Decompile, Master the Assembly with JustDecompile Plugins (JustDecompile Team)
Working with OData and WinJS ListView in Metro Application and Netflix Movie Explorer a Metro Application: Creating Step by Step (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook is published (Zubair Ahmed)
Basic HTTP Authentication in WinRT (Marc LaFleur)
Advanced Live Tiles, Part 3: Lock Screens (Eric Vogel)
Keeping an eye it with an object tracking .Net Gadgeteer robot (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

Building Single Page Apps with HTML5, Knockout, jQuery, and Web API – Part 3 – Server Technologies and Micro Benchmarking ASP.Net sites using Apache Bench (Doug Rathbone)
Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle (Addy Osmani)
HTML5 Means More Platform Bang for Your Buck (D. Jordan)
The JavaScript Cheese is Moving: Data-Oriented vs. Control-Oriented Programming and JavaScript Data Binding with AngularJS – Getting Started (Dan Wahlin)
Modernizr – Detect HTML5 and CSS3 features (Kunaal Kapoor)
Custom web.config transforms and merges (AppHarbor Team)
Hello, BinaryJS (J. Vaughan)
Knockout.js pro tips – working with observable arrays (Filip W)
Are node_modules in git still necessary with npm shrinkwrap? (Glenn Block)
Calling DELETE in a RESTful service gets cancelled in IISExpress (Loek Vandenouweland)
ECMAScript.next: classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
Firebug Tip: Conditional Breakpoints (Honza)
Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Candidate Recommendations (Jatinder Mann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit Testing Improvements in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Services are (still) not Remotely Callable Components (Udi Dahan)
Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 2–Focus on YOU (Rob Reynolds)
Generic Data Access Repositories (Matt Hamilton)
Time Management Tips #8 – Power Up with Purpose and Time Management Tips #9 – Pair Up (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Using Entity Framework to Create Databases on Windows Phone (Adam Benoit)
24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #10 Layout & Composition in Windows Phone Part III (Arturo Toledo)
WPF 4.5 – Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager (Jon Antoine)
2000 WPF Things #613 – Window Event Sequence (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 063: Fanboys vs Zombies (Mark Frauenfelder)
Technology & Friends Episode 223: Joel Cochran on KnockoutJS (David Giard)
Major Nelson Interview: Wreckateer (Larry Hyrb)
The Metro Developer Show Episode 077 – “I Missed the Olympic Opening Ceremonies For This!?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Start Up Success Podcast #146 – Show #91: Jason Cohen of WPEngine and ASmartBear (Bob Walsh)
Cory Fowler Joins Webcamps TV and Introduces the Node. js CLI Tools | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
The Vergecast 040 – 07.27.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
TWC9: Build 2012, Metro LOB apps, aspConf, .Net 4.5 GC, Ardunio Shields and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
Windows Weekly 271: That’s How They Getcha (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 58 (Richard Hay)
On The Verge episode 008 teaser: Mary Jo Foley on the shock of installing Windows 8 (T.C. Sottek)
Engadget Podcast 303 – 07.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
The Tablet Show – Jason Follas Builds Geospatial Apps in Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

The RavenDB Tour in the states (Oren Eini)
ReSharper 7 Webinar (Hadi Hariri)
Apple’s first official Black Hat talk underwhelms audience (Adi Robertson)

Database

SSRS – Using Lookup Function for Multiple Column Join (Devin Knight)
How to move master and resource system databases? and Different techniques to identify blocking in SQL Server (Basit Farooq)
Importing Azure bacpac file to SQL server (Boris Lipschitz)
The state and (near) future of SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between ORIGINAL_LOGIN() and SUSER_SNAME() (Pinal Dave)
How To Prevent SELECT * The Evil Way (Jorge Segarra)

SharePoint

PowerShell

Commandlets are an Admins Best Friend: Powershell 101 (2 of 3) (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s radical new business plan is hidden in plain sight (Ed Bott)
From the MVPs: Unleash the power of Kinect and your imagination (Devon Musgrave)
Recommended Reading (Gray Knowlton)
Objective-C Literals for iOS in Xcode 4.4 (Josh Smith)
The First 11 Employees of Microsoft (JD Meier)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading July 27, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Friday Five–July 27, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Double Shot #925 (Mike Gunderloy)
Pie in the Sky (July 27, 2012) (Larry Franks)
Collective #22 (Mary Lou)
Reading Notes #57 (Frank)
Daily News Digest 7/30/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (7/27/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #29) (Himanshu Singh)
The Morning Brew #1156 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-30 (Dan Rigby)
Windows Dev News for July 29, 2012 – #0109 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for July 16 – 22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP Development News 27 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series): Bill Wagner: Kindle Store

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