design patterns – Page 13 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 3, 2012 (#1,232)

Database

Miscellaneous

Ten Things To Do to Secure an Important Person’s Computer (or even Ashton’s or a Kardashian’s) (Scott Hanselman)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Richard Monson-Haefel

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Dew Drop – November 2, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

IDisposable and Thread Safety (Richard Carr)
F# Math – Numerical computing and F# PowerPack and F# Math (I.) – Numeric types in PowerPack (Tomas Petricek)
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework November Sample Updates (Jialiang Ge)
My article on Creating a User Interface with Mono for Android #Monodroid (Wally McClure)
Devpad 4.6 (CodePlex)
TODO: An EPUB Viewer for Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator (Cathy Sullivan)
List valid Data Center Locations for a Subscription using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

Practical HTML5: Using It Today (Doris Chen)
Javascript memory leaks (Jeff Krebsbach)
Build Cross-Platform Apps with Standards (Joe Stagner)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Rename Method (Giorgio Sironi)
Creating a Windows Azure VM Role and Using Windows Azure table storage (Shervin Shakibi)
My Experiment with Wolfram|Alpha Facts Windows Azure DataMarket to check world population and Everything you need to start with Windows Azure based Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics" (Avkash Chauhan)
Remote Site Editing and Local Syncing with WebMatrix 2 (John Esposito)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: OpportunisticRefactoring (Martin Fowler)
Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
TDD – Static Methods (Mark Pearl)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

New features in NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Vol.11.2 (Mihail Mateev)
XamTileManager – new control in the XAML Line of Business product shipped with the 11.2 release (Atanas Dyulgerov)
Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 3 of 3): RadChartingKit (Evan Hutnick)
Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 1 of 3) and Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 2 of 3) (Michael Crump)
2000 WPF Things #421 – HorizontalAlignment, Margins and Column Widths in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers – Part 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
AgFx Windows Phone Application Data Caching Framework – November Update (CodePlex)
Looking for great app ideas? Try Marketplace Extra (Michael Stroh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

geekSpeak: WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed (MS Podcasts)
Engadget HD Podcast 272 – 11.01.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Windows Phone Hackathon from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
Screencast: Coding Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby the TDD Way with RSpec (Peter Cooper)
Defrag: Readyboost, Virtual Machines, Printing at Distance (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

jQuery Conference 2012: United Kingdom Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
Free Upcoming Webinar – Enterprise Information Management with SharePoint 2010: Secrets to Success (Joel Oleson)
Free online Prism 4.0 training (Bob Brumfield)
AT&T Mobile App Hackathon–Orlando–I’ll be there (Dani Diaz)
Windows Phone Event at Hull University (Rob Miles)
What are you into? (Luke)
30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results: Free Time Management Training for Achievers (JD Meier)

Database

SQL SERVER – Import CSV into Database – Transferring File Content into a Database Table using CSVexpress (Pinal Dave)
Over and under indexing – how bad is it out there? (Paul S. Randal)
Publish Capabilities in Data Explorer (Data Explorer Team)
How To Backup Your Postgres DB To Amazon Nightly (Rob Conery)

Miscellaneous

Windows Azure Use Case: Supplementing Infrastructure (Buck Woody)
Cross-Post: Photosynth Loves Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
New Google Reader Layout | Not a Fan (Jeff Julian)
Pogue Power: #Ebook Deal/Day – Save 50% on all @Pogue’s Missing Manuals + NEW Mac OS X Lion: TMM (O’Reilly Media)
How Microsoft kills cool projects (Scott Berkun)
Android 4.0 Graphics and Animations (Tim Bray)
Nokia Maps Coming to ALL Windows Phones Soon and WP7 Xbox Live Game of the Week: Kinectimals (officially) (Antonio Hernandez)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

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Dew Drop – October 7, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Comparing Profiler Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
Kinecting with F# (Greg Duncan)
C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose() (James Michael Hare)
WCF REST tip 3: WebOperationContext (Pieter de Rycke)
Additional Mime Types in Visual Studio 2010 Development Web Server (Shawn Cicoria)
Authoring Type Providers with the TypeProviderDSL from FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
Windows 8 Metro declarations: Protocol (Andrej Tozon)
Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh and Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 Refresh (MS Downloads)
Generic Types and Static Members (Abhishek Sur)
WASABi scale groups (Grigori Melnik)
Spatial Data Introduced to Entity Framework (Jenni Ripley)

Web Development

Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 3: The Video (Derick Bailey)
Pondering Amazon Silk (Chris Love)
Integrating Facebook Authentication for your website using WebMatrix 2 Beta (Harish Ranganathan)
A review of Crafting Rails Applications (Luca Pette)
Debug command line scripts with PhpStorm 2.1 (Nikolay Matveev)
Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.4.0 (CodePlex)
O Reilly – Deals of the day 7/Oct/2011 – 50% off HTML5 books and 2 free books (Tatworth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Get a Free Chapter of The Art of Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
Book review: The Art of Unit Testing (Jef Claes)
Updates on the Latest Quince Release (Amy Quinn)
How mocks can cut down on test maintenance (Brian Marick)
How to make software development decisions based on facts (Laila Lotfi)
Theories And Technologies Are Not Solutions (Rob Diana)
The LOB Chronicles Episode 9: The Repository Pattern + Source Code Is In! (Evan Hutnick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Binding to HubTile Events using MVVM Light EventToCommand (Windows Phone Geek)
Optimizing Windows Phone 7 Applications (Part 1) (Atanas Dyulgerov)
Windows Phone 7.1(5) "Controls and Toolkits" cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
Migrating From WP7 To Mango–Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)
MadProps.MvvmLight 2.0.0 (Matt Hamilton)
Using screenshot and camera feed to create funny Windows Phone 7 pictures (Joost van Schaik)
2000 WPF Things #403 – The Order of DockPanel Children Matters (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone Silverlight Poor Man’s Double-Tap (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh – Advanced CRT (Charles Torre)
Episode 161 – PowerScripting Podcast – Gaurav Mantri from Cerebrata and their Azure Management Cmdlets (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0rc1, JavaScript books, and new libraries (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Micah Baldwin Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 107 – 10.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Start-Up Success Podcast Show #122: Mark Smith and Adam Wride, founders of DigMyData (Bob Walsh)
Play by Play: Ryan Singer: UI Prototyping (Peepcode)
Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Risk and Innovation (The Takeaway)

Community / Events

Windows Phone Garage at Richmond Code Camp (G. Andrew Duthie)
Reminder: RavenDB and NHibernate courses–New York coming up (Oren Eini)
New England Code Camp–Sweet Sixteen (Jim O’Neil)
Winnipeg Code Camp 2012 Date (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP3 Reporting Services Report Builder and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server CE (Compact Edition) (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Views and Metadata (Ted Krueger)
Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy (Eric Humphrey)
Expiring Databases and Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)

SharePoint

New book: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
APress Deal of the Day – 7/Oct/2011 – Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010 (Tatworth)
Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)

PowerShell

Recordings from the First PowerShell Deep Dive (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

Sharing Vim Configuration Between Machines (Ben Scheirman)
Samsung Series 7 Slate now up for pre-orders, shipping date still MIA (Jesse Hicks)
Setting procmon to put logs in the TEMP folder (John Guin)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More by Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek

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Dew Drop – January 3, 2012 (#1,232)

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Dew Drop – November 2, 2011

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Dew Drop – October 7, 2011

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