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Dew Drop – December 15, 2011 (#1,220)

Dew Drop – September 13, 2011

Windows 8 / BUILD

Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
//build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
Windows 8–First thoughts and Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)

.NET / Visual Studio

What is the cost of try/catch (Oren Eini)
Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
TeamPulse TFS Sync Tips & Tricks (TeamPulse Team)
WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32 (Jonathan Allen)
Programmatically Get Assembly Version and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup (Abhijit Jana)
Using Custom Web.config Transformations in MSBUILD (Doug Rathbone)
Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
Sync Framework Toolkit Connects Phones, Desktops, HTML5 to SQL Server, SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5 (MS Downloads)
Advantages of CoffeeScript When Working with jQuery Templates (Daniel Mohl)
Backbone.js: MVC in JavaScript and Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Collection (Giorgio Sironi)
Thinking Like a Web Designer (Tim Bray)
Getting Role Instance Information with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Command Line Tools (Brian Swan)
Resources For, And How I Learned Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Four Basic Insights on Confidence (J.D. Meier)
You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do! (Martin Hinshelwood)
RTM’d today: Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life (Kim Spilker)
TeamPulse – A Project Management Solution from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s Checkout Form (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
Adding to MoXAML. (Pete O’Hanlon)
2000 WPF Things #386 – Layout = Panels + FrameworkElements + Alignment/Margins/Padding (Sean Sexton)
Expression Blend for HTML (Somasegar)
TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events (Nikolai Tillmann)
Prism 4 MEF Application (Danny Siew)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Let’s Play TDD #139: File → Close (James Shore)
Engadget HD Podcast 265 – 09.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Pluralcast 48 : Jeffrey Palermo on Career and Management (David Starr)
The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

Webcast: Office 365 & SharePoint Online (Kim Spilker)
Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies (Charles Max Wood)
//BUILD/: What a great conference -celebrating this new era by starting a new ALM Team blog (Charles Sterling)
Say “Hello” to BlendInsider (Kirupa)
WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live! (Windows Phone Geek)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server OLEDB Provider Deprecation Announcement (Luiz Santos)
SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV (Jakub Dvorak)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables (Pinal Dave)
Understanding SQL Azure Federations No-MARS Support and Entity Framework (James Podgorski)
Backing up SQL Azure with Backup from Red-Gate (Eric Nelson)

SharePoint

RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
Business Connectivity Service Associations using DB2 Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

PowerShell

First Glimpse at PowerShell v3 and Video: Richard Siddaway – WMI: Gems and Gotchas (Dmitry Sotnikov)
The PowerShell Magazine launches… (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

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Dew Drop – September 7, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Setting up Policies for Extensible Parts in MEF (Abhishek Sur)
Exceptions and Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 4 (Daniel Mohl)
New book: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
A Review of Beginning C# Object-oriented Programming (srpsco)
First Look at the New C++ IDE Productivity Features in the Next Version of Visual Studio (Cont’d…) (vcblog)
Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio — Getting the Appendix (Zain Naboulsi)
Using BugAid to flatten class hierarchies while debugging (Omer Raviv)
Why MyGet uses Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
parallel_for_each from amp.h – part 1 (Daniel Moth)
From Normal Collections to Generic Collections (Paul Sheriff)
Managing Concurrency in Windows Azure with Leases and Building a Task Scheduler in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Web Development

Test-Driving Backbone Views With JQuery Templates, The Jasmine Gem, and Jasmine-JQuery (Derick Bailey)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Magic Number with Symbolic Constant (Giorgio Sironi)
APress Deal of the Day – 7/Sept/2011 – jQuery Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
JavaScript OMG! #1 to #5 and JavaScript OMG! #6 to #10 and JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15 and JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20 (Mike Taulty)
Overview of Command Line Deployment and Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

5 Reasons Why Unit Testing is fun–and Important (J. Boyer)
Agile software development recommendations for users and new adopters (Andrea Salvadore)
Building Better Software Through Collaboration: Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (Rian van der Merwe)
Shiny new commit styles (Kyle Neath)
Pair Programming: The disadvantages of 100% pairing (Mark Needham)
Leveraging MSBuild for Ruthless Productivity (Michael B. McLaughlin)
Why Some Companies Execute Better (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics (Justin Angel)
Windows Phone Toolkit ExpanderView in depth| Part1: key concepts and API and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Connection Strings (Windows Phone Geek)
Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps (taabello)
MoXAML goes MefXAML (Pete O’Hanlon)
Nvidia: Windows Phone 7 Apps Will Run On Windows 8 (Ron Fosner)
Periodic Agents on Windows Phone 7.1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
2000 WPF Things #381 – Loading .rtf Files Into a RichTextBox (Sean Sexton)
Telerik RadChartControl for LightSwitch Application – Day 3 – Giveaway Contest (Kunal Chowdhury)
DataBinding to Custom Properties (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Engadget HD Podcast 264 – 09.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Let’s Play TDD #137: How Many Frames? (James Shore)
Video: Kirk Munro – Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to Redmond! (Brendan Tompkins)
RavenDB Webinar (Oren Eini)
Reminder–Speaking at the NYC and Boston SharePoint User Groups this week (Andrew Connell)
WindowsPhoneGeek Forums are LIVE! (Windows Phone Geek)

Database

New LOGICAL functions in SQL Server Denali (Martin Schmidt)
Using the SSIS Merge Join (Mike Davis)
SQL SERVER – A Guide to Integrating SQL Server with XML, C#, and PowerShell – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Denali – Conversion Function – TRY_PARSE() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
Parallelizing Slow Parts of the Data Flow – Part 1 – Preparation (Todd McDermid)
Red Gate Schema Compare For Oracle (Geoff Hudik)

SharePoint

Business Connectivity Service Associations using Oracle Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

The Python Standard Library By Example (Tom Brander)
Kinect Quiz, one teacher’s story… (Greg Duncan)
Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter (Kip Kniskern)
Microsoft’s Mediaroom 2.0 IPTV platform: A codename update (Mary Jo Foley)
Learning Unix (Miguel de Icaza)
The Software IP Detective’s Handbook (Mylene Reiners)

The Geek Shelf

Becoming Agile: …in an imperfect world by Greg Smith

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