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Dew Drop – September 30, 2011

Posted on September 30, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview (James Conard)
First look at Windows Simulator (Navneet Gupta)
New Debugging Book – Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands (Roberto Alexis Farah)
Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap (Colin Eberhardt)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99(Save 50%) and FINAL DAY: Back to School Special – *Free to Choose* – Save 50% All Ebooks & Videos – Use code: B2SDEAL (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers (Abhishek Lohani)
Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Some fundamentals (Nishant Sivakumar)
AutoMapper 2.0 – Nested/Child Containers (Jimmy Bogard)
Local workspaces (Gian Maria Ricci)
A Simple AppSettings Type Provider (Daniel Mohl)
Microsoft HealthVault SDK v2 released (Greg Duncan)
Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest (Andrej Tozon)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 3 for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (MS Downloads)
VisualStudio 2010 JavaScript & CSS Outlining – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)
Getting Touch Support in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps Now (Carl Bergenhem)
CSS3 text-shadow in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
Tips for Speeding Up Octopress Site Generation (Pavan Podila)
A convention for using CoffeeScript in Rails (Marko Anastasov)
Stack Exchange API Usage Stats and API 2.0 Plans (Jeff Atwood)
How to prevent the user to post page twice, by using refresh (Jeroen Bourdeaud’hui)
A PHP on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Pretotyping: a complete example (Giorgio Sironi)
Document based modeling: Auctions & Bids (Oren Eini)
Model-View-What? (Stacy Vicknair)
Delegation Poker (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7: Updated all "Mango" posts (Peter Kuhn)
Pinworthy: 5 apps to try with Windows Phone 7.5 (Andy Colley)
New SilverlightShow Ebook: "Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies" (Silverlight Show)
Why the Frame Rate Counter is not Available in my WP7 Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Behind the XAML of the Windows Phone Silverlight Game – Numbertap (Luke Lowrey)
A word on WPF4 manipulations. (Luis Cabrera)
2000 WPF Things #398 – WrapPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
SurfCube on Mango Part 5 – Getting email addresses for Beta testers and SurfCube on Mango Part 6 – Join SurfCube V4 Beta! Here’s what’s coming (András Velvárt)
Taking a Tougher Stance on Bulk App Publishing (Todd Brix)
New Extension Introduces Microsoft Office to LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
The LOB Chronicles Episode 8: Solving a MEF Dilemma (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 019: Mail Order Mysteries (Mark Frauenfelder)
How Do I: Internet Explorer 8 – Selectors API (MS Podcasts)
GoingNative Live at BUILD: Herb Sutter, Joanna Mason, Tony Goodhew and GoingNative 2: C++ at BUILD, Windows Runtime Library(WRL), Meet Tarek and Sridhar (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #144: Cost vs. Benefit (James Shore)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.7 beta 1, Toggler, Face Detection (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
What The Tech 86: Topical Paul (Paul Thurrott)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast: SendGrid Interview (Ryan Parsley)
"Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK" TechEd Session (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

Announcing the Revival of the Blenders SIG (Don Burnett)
FREE Software Process & Scrum On-line Event Series by Northwest Cadence in October and November! (Angela Dugan)
MVP in Residence Helps with BUILD Demo (MVP Award Program)
Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!! (Jim Moscater)

Database

SQL Server: Removing Deprecated Code and Future Proofing your Queries (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume and SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System (Pinal Dave)
Getting Started with SQL Azure Development (Zhiming Xue)

SharePoint

SharePoint is NOT Dropbox: But User Beware! (Joel Oleson)
New book: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

Threading in PowerShell (Oliver Mantl)

Miscellaneous

Code your own Mult-User Private Git Server (with ruby) (Richard Taylor)
Time Off, Vacations and Sabbaticals for Programmers (Krishna Kumar)
Zune expands to Canada, drops Zune Pass price in US (Michael Stroh)
Android’s HTTP Clients (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading September 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Cheatsheet: 2011 09.26 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
Interesting .NET Links – September 30 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #720 (Mike Gunderloy)
Link dump for September 29th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
The Morning Brew #949 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 09/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 28-Sep-2011 and 29-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/29/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
SilverlightShow for Sept 19 – 25, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 — #1152 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Links– 2010_33 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands by Roberto Alexis Farah

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Dew Drop – September 1, 2011

Posted on September 1, 2011 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Windows Azure Toolkit for Devices: Now With Android! (Wade Wegner)
HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
Designing for Metro style and the desktop (Steven Sinofsky)
Prism-fy the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)

.NET / Visual Studio

TFS11 gets a new merge/diff tool (Rory Primrose)
PartNotDiscoverable attribute in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
C# 2010 Soup to Nuts Series (Emily Gibson)
VS2010 Find In Solution Explorer Hotkey/Toolbar Button (Lance Robinson)
The TeamPulse TFS Process Template – Why Does It Matter? (Joel Poiron)
Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements (Zain Naboulsi)
MiniBuss Updates (Johan Danforth)
Downloading and saving a File from Windows Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 2 Released (Eric J. Smith)
String.Format-specific refactorings shipped in Refactor! Pro (Alex Skorkin)
concurrency::accelerator (Daniel Moth)
Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.2 Alpha (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

Adding Two-Factor Authentication to a ASP.NET MVC Application (Jimmy Larkin)
Offline web applications: a working example (Giorgio Sironi)
Using the HTML5 and jQuery UI Popup Calendar with ASP.NET MVC (Rick Anderson)
Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (Michael J. Ross)
Ruby and Windows Azure Local Storage (Larry Franks)
Web Oriented Architecture is here to Stay, and Why Microsoft’s new WCF Stack is interesting. (Anoop Madhusudanan)
FormsAuthentication Ignores web.config LoginUrl Settings (Joe Mayo)
Browsing Without Plug-ins (John Hrvatin)
AJAX Series Part 3: Advanced Techniques – Performance, Theming, Cloud Deployment (Carl Bergenhem)
A Guide to Installing Rails 3.1 and Example Apps for Rails 3.1 (Daniel Kehoe)
10 Life-Saving PHP Snippets (JB)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum basics: The product backlog (John Rayner)
How GitHub Develops (PJ Hyett)
Git Revisited (Mark Pearl)
Balsamiq New Release: Font Adjustments and More (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Production is a mixed blessing (Eric Brechner)
Best Practices: Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises (Devon Musgrave)
A User, an Account and SaaS (Oren Eini)
Why Developers Never Use State Machines (Alan Skorkin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

A Simple ToDo List: Persisting Data with the Sterling NoSQL Database (Windows Phone Geek)
WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers – MVC and MVVM (Kevin Hoffman)
Windows Phone 7.1 Isolated Storage Explorer Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
WP7: Background execution – revisited! (Håkan Reis)
Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3 (Jesse Liberty)
Layout Tips and Tricks for WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. (Michael Crump)
Silverlight 5: Remote control and MediaCommand Support (Pete Brown)
Building Windows Phone Applications Using Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
2000 WPF Things #377 – Reuse Tooltips by Defining Them as Resources (Sean Sexton)
Introduction to XNA on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Ohrn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kerry Hammil Builds .NET Gadgets (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
UML with VS 2010 Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (MS Podcasts)
C++ and Beyond 2011: Benedict Gaster on C++11, C++ AMP, C++ Renaissance (Charles Torre)
A for Architecture: Oracle’s Fusion Middleware A-Team – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
My Intern Life 3 – Episode 8: Let the games begin (MS JobsBlog)
SE Podcast #16 (Alex Miller)
Hot Apps: IonBallEx, Relaxify, Speed, NightStand Clock, Fastball 2 (Laura Foy)
Developer Smackdown Musing #59: Building HTML5tx.com with FrogSlayer’s Sam Hooker (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
Let’s Play TDD #134: Persistence! (James Shore)

Community / Events

I’ll be presenting @ SharePoint Connections Fall 2011 in Las Vegas, NV (Andrew Connell)
SQLAuthority News – Shaivi’s Birthday – SQL Wait Stats Joes 2 Pros Book Released Today – 30 Million Views Completed (Pinal Dave)
Reserve the date! Developer Day 2011 (Christian Nagel)
Come See Me At Roanoke .NET Thursday Night! (Kevin Griffin)
Annoucing the Windows Phone Camps East Coast Fall 2011 Tour (Dave Isbitski)
The unofficial BUILD precon (Guy Barrette)
A Coder Interview With Sacha Barber (The Code Project)

Database

SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Using Root With Auto XML Mode – Day 32 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
Red Gate | SQL Compare Review (Jeff Julian)
Microsoft is Aligning with ODBC for Native Relational Data Access (Rohan Lam)

Miscellaneous

Office 365 is a happy PowerShell Camper (Greg Duncan)
Powershell Text-To-Speech and fun with a 4yr old. (Jason Jarrett)
Scala: A Better Java for Android (Mike Burns)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 08.23 ~ 08.31 (yuanjian)
Geek Reading August 31, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Interesting .NET Links – September 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Link dump for August 31st (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Web Dev Tweets 30-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Today’s Links (8/31/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #928 (Chris Alcock)
SilverlightShow for August 22 – 28, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 — #1140 (Dave Campbell)
31 Tips on ASP.NET, C#, WPF , MEF, MVC, Visual Studio – August 2011 Links (Abhijit Jana)
31 Tips for the month on Threading, WPF, MEF, ASP.NET (Abhishek Sur)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

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Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

Posted on August 19, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Invisible pixels are just as clickable as real pixels! [Tip: Use a Transparent brush to make "empty" parts of a XAML element respond to mouse and touch input] (David Anson)
KnockoutJS Needs a Better Set of Tutorials (Rob Conery)
Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript (Phil Haack)
A Tale of Backgrounds, Absolutes, mouseleave, and mouseenter (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

Use of SpinLock for ThreadLocking and Use of Interlocked in Race Condition and Barrier in .NET 4.0 and Not able to view all the running Worker Process in Visual Studio – Process Attach Window – Resolution (Abhijit Jana)
Parallel ForEach Loop (Richard Carr)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method (James Michael Hare)
Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
Kinect Reception–Introduction (Shai Raiten)
Unity Auto Registration (Jimmy Larkin)
RavenDB Lazy Requests (Oren Eini)
Declaring various properties using CodeRush code generation tools (Alex Skorkin)
Do you want a faster File.Exists / FileInfo.Exists / Directory.Exists ? I do ! (Jonathan Antoine)
Blog Post: How To: Activate & Deactivate (Autumn Wilkins)
A gentle introduction to dependent types (Cédric Beust)
Adding translation to your apps is a dot away with the "Bing Translator .NET Extension Methods" open source project (Greg Duncan)
PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) (James Curran)
Going Asynchronous (Chris Eargle)
Updated Course: Developing Windows Concurrent Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

The HTML5 Paradigm Shift–Don’t Miss The Next Wave (Chris Love)
HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Let’s You Access Remote Systems (Rey Bango)
Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position (Scott Hanselman)
Call ASP.NET Page Methods using your own AJAX (Abhijit Jana)
Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com (George Puckett)
A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI (Stephen Forte)
Powerful PHP: Less Known String Manipulation (Stoimen Popov)
AJAX Series Part 1: Building a Web Applications with Third-party Controls in Real Time (Carl Bergenhem)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum basics: The sprint (John Rayner)
Compliance – Development Teams are Product-Oriented (Peter Saddington)
A Brief Introduction of Fundamental OOP (Chris Eargle)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header (Deyan Ginev)
Who says you can’t run Silverlight on Android ? (Don Burnett)
Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Windows Phone Design Tips #3 (Andrew Spooner)
Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
2000 WPF Things #368 – Specifying Blackout Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar (Nikolai Tillmann)
RadChart for Windows Phone – going to the pole (Georgi Atanasov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #129: Root Cause Analysis (James Shore)
G4 TV’s Jessica Chobot tours Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
Defrag: 4k Drive Backup, Office Add-on in IE, Forcing Aero Glass On (Larry Larsen)
Hot Apps: Beards & Beaks, Kill The Duck, Fantastic Finger Fun, Angry Birds Scoop, Eventful (Laura Foy)
A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast" (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone Dev Pocast Episode 030 – “Phonies vs. Ninjas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Charlie Wood Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

FREE Course On Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit Course (Satish Talim)
HTML5 Web Camps – Special Guest Announcement (G. Andrew Duthie)
The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
Philly Geek Awards: The Sponsors (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile (Philip Japikse)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
How to report a SQL Server performance problem (Jack Vamvas)
SQL Server: Last Day Previous Month without DATEADD and DATEDIFF (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – The Clustered Index – Simple Understanding – Day 19 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST() (Vishal)
[SSIS] OnPipelineRowsSent event (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

SP2010 Continuous Integration – Installing TFS2010 (inc. Build and Test agents) (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Windows 7 Tool Roundup: Small But Explosive, Just Like Dynamite (Pete Seale)
Slides from PowerShell Deep Dive sessions (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading August 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
The Morning Brew #920 (Chris Alcock)
Today’s Links (8/18/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
Daily News Digest 08/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Weekly Links– 2010_30 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
Daily WP7 Development News 18 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Link dump for August 18th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

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