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Dew Drop – January 15, 2012 (#1,243)

Dew Drop – January 5, 2012 (#1,234)

.NET / Visual Studio

Image Preview in Solution Explorer – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
You’re my FavorIt code file… FavorIt adds favorites to your Visual Studio Solution and SocialCounter.Net, a .Net Library to get all those Social counts (Greg Duncan)
Setting a default value for C# Auto-implemented properties (OriginalGriff)
The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server (Shai Raiten)
Use the Caching Service for your Windows Azure Applications (Zhiming Xue)
Blog Post: Version Control Improvements in CodeSmith Generator 6.0 (Eric Smith)
Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects from IDataReader (Elton Stoneman)

Web Development

What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support (Ben Nadel)
An In Depth Overview of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility (Ian Devlin)
Installing and Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Method (Giorgio Sironi)
Matador: The Obvious MVC Framework for Node (Dustin Diaz)
Using HTML 5 Geo Location in an ASP.NET MVC Bing Maps Application (Part 2) (Sumit Maitra)
Random Numbers in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Day 12 — 3D pixel particles (Seb Lee-Delisle)
Nancy running on Heroku (Andreas Håkansson)
How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress (Kevin Leary)
Stack Exchange V2 Goes Beta, Launches Contest (Romin Irani)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: How Hadoop cluster was setup on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Leap of Faith and Nailing Your Goals for 2012 (JD Meier)
Executable Attributes in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
Printing Story Cards for Physical Scrum Board (Petr Pechovic)
On Infinite Scalability (Oren Eini)
Fluentator – generate fluent API for your structures (Pavel Savara)
Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows (Morgan Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Silverlight: Behaviors for TextBox (Denis Gladkikh)
FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps (Colin Eberhardt)
Top 10 SilverlightShow Ebooks for 2011 (Silverlight Show)
Infragistics Silverlight 5 Installers Available for Download (Jason Beres)
2000 WPF Things #466 – Using a GridSplitter in Conjunction with a SharedSizeGroup (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – John Papa Looks at the Microsoft Client Landscape (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Herding Code 131: Chris Williams and Matthew Podwysocki on the Javascript community (Jon Galloway)
YOW! 2011: Nigel Dalton – Agile Product Development (Charles Torre)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Manual Testing (Robert Green)
Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC (Larry Larsen)
Office 911: Don’t panic, build your skills (Laura Foy)
The Verge Mobile Podcast 008 – 01.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Yet Another Podcast #56–Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award (Rob Eisenberg)
MVP Program Thoughts for New Awardees (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

Assess your SQL Server to SQL Azure migration using SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment Tool by SQL Azure Labs (Avkash Chauhan)
SQL SERVER REBUILD INDEX and SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically (Jack Vamvas)
Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Jes Schultz Borland)
SQL SERVER – An Important Part of Most SELECT statement – WHERE clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 4 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – Identifying default data directory for multiple instances through registry (Vishal)
Bliki: NosqlDistilled (Martin Fowler)
SQLCop integration with Red Gate’s SQL Test (George Mastros)

PowerShell

PowerShell 3 – Finally on the DLR! and Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium? (Joel Bennett)
PowerShell Check for Empty SecureString Entry (Brian Jackett)

Miscellaneous

3 Tips for Getting What You Want in the New Year (MS JobsBlog)
Best Online File Comparison Tool (Aaron Grogg)
40 Most Anticipated Xbox 360 Games of 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
5 Unusual Ways to Raise Successful Children (April Dykman)
★ You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking (John Gruber)
Learning Android: Getting a service to communicate with an activity (Mark Needham)
Look who’s back: Ray Ozzie, Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect (Mary Jo Foley)
Oracle’s copyright / patent infringement trial against Google set to begin in March (Matt Macari)
How To Resize An Image Using Snagit 10 (Muhammad Omer Khan)
Windows Phone Update 8107 Rolling Out – Fixes Disappearing Keyboard, Exchange & More (Antonio Hernandez)
Life Satisfaction – Nerds Win (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer) by Kalen Delaney

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Dew Drop – January 4, 2012 (#1,233)

.NET / Visual Studio

XML Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
I am reviewing Microsoft’s 70-515 C# exam PrepKit from UCertify (Abhishek Sur)
Getting Assembly Information Using Reflection (Michael Ceranski)
With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory and Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background (Peter Kellner)
Working with DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro App and Working with Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML Metro App (Dhananjay Kumar)
Hashtables vs. Arrays (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
New GhostDoc Pro in Beta soon (Tatworth)
New Resharper Code Style Sharing in v6.1 Features. (Mark Pearl)
Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects (Elton Stoneman)
Graphite with .Net and Ubuntu 11.10 (Henrik Feldt)
Sandcastle Help File Bbuilder v1.9.3.3 Beta 1 (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 – Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console (Avkash Chauhan)
HTML5 Progress Bars (Chris Coyier)
ASP.NET Tutorial – Creating Web.Config file (Chris D.)
Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering (Peter Beverloo)
Checking if a view has changed in ASP.NET (Tim)
APIs in 2012: Predictions From the Experts (Adam DuVander)
Day 11 – Animating with sprite sheets (Val Head)
Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)
Batman.js: Micro-framework with macro features (Dave Mahon)
IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells (Rick Strahl)
Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis? (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
Out of context, architecture is nothing but modern art (Oren Eini)
Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas (Bobby Johnson)
More flexibility at work equals better health, new study confirms (Jessica Stillman)
Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted (Johanna Rothman)
Donald Reifer: “Software Change Management: Doing More With Less” (Devon Musgrave)
xUnit.net 1.9 (CodePlex)
Interview: Jeff Sutherland: Are Agile Teams Truly Agile? (Jeff Sutherland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Running Windows Phone Unit Tests via MSBuild (Francis Cheung)
WPF TextBox With Ellipsis (Mark)
2000 WPF Things #465 – Using GridSplitters with Nested Grids (Sean Sexton)
Vibrating the phone (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet (Jonathan Allen)
Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without (Loek van den Ouweland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb – Ask Us Anything (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #156: Persistence, for Realsies (James Shore)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35 (Richard Hay)
The Vergecast 008 – 01.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Hot Apps: Minesweeper, Cheezia. Interior Design, Talking Alien, Zombie Squish (Laura Foy)
The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for January 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Maine’s First SharePoint User Group (Jim O’Neil)
Engadget’s 2012 CES Preview (Engadget staff)

Database

CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility (Erik EJ)
SQL SERVER – Understanding Identity Beyond its Every Increasing Nature – Quiz – Puzzle – 3 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment service released (Denis Gobo)
Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft patent could signal Xbox digital video recorder (Greg Lamm)
Metro Style Desktop Wallpaper Calendar – January 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy [Programming] (Melanie Pinola)
UX service consulting: It’s all about motivation! (Miao Wang)
5 Awesome Learning Resources For Programmers (To help you and your kids to grow the geek neurons) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Holo Everywhere (Tim Bray)
Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace (Ed Oswald)

The Geek Shelf

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Oracle Press) by Kevin Loney

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Dew Drop – January 15, 2012 (#1,243)

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Dew Drop – January 5, 2012 (#1,234)

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Dew Drop – January 4, 2012 (#1,233)

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