tdd – Page 61 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 27, 2010

Dew Drop – December 17, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Challenge: Your own ThreadLocal (Oren Eini)
Marking Tasks and Bugs as “Done” During a Check-in (Aaron Bjork)
NDepend tool – Why every developer working with Visual Studio.NET must try it! (Hajan Selmani)
C#/.NET Little Wonders – Cross Calling Constructors (James Michael Hare)
Understanding Check Accessibility (Zain Naboulsi)
Updates to PowerCommands for Reflector Project (Jason Haley)
NCover 3.4.16 (Alan Johnson)
New and Updated Windows and Xbox 360 Developer Education on App Hub! (Team XNA)
DXCore DecoupledStorage object for storing data and DXCore DecoupledStorage structure and settings file format and How to use DXCore DecoupledStorage to persist plug-in data (Alex Skorkin)
Now Available: Updated Windows Azure Platform Training Kit Covering All the Latest Features and Enhancements (Windows Azure Team)
Multitouch Part 5: User Experience with Multitouch (Jennifer Marsman)
Using Var + As, a Neat Little Trick (John Sonmez)
EF4 CPT5 Code First Remove Cascading Deletes (Dane Morgridge)

Web Development

Top 8 Reasons Why jQuery is so Popular (Dr. Doris Chen)
JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part2) (Julian M. Bucknall)
jQuery Templates – XHTML Validation (Hajan Selmani)
ASP.NET MVC 3: Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor (Scott Guthrie)
New book: JavaScript Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
OAuth Google API for Unregistered Applications (Lorna Mitchell)
Video Web Helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2 – Add Videos to your Web Pages (Malcolm Sheridan)
Review of Building Android apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Scott Koon)
Using 51Degrees.Mobi Foundation for accurate mobile browser detection on ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Sanderson)
Using Razor, CSHTML, ASP.NET Web Pages, WebMatrix as a web service (Wally McClure)
Galleries Galore with Gallery Server Pro 2.4.4 now at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
YUI 2.9.0 Release Update (Jenny Han Donnelly)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Verifying Generated HTML With HAML, Cucumber, Capybara and RSpec (Derick Bailey)
What is the #1 Benefit of TDD? (Gil Zilberfeld)
Agile/Scrum Retrospectives–Tips and Tricks (Mark Levison)
A Failed Agile Program – A Story (Peter Saddington)
Learn to Work Across Time Zones (Andy Singleton)
Virtual Method Performance Penalty, Revisited (Davy Brion)
Information Architecture for me (Daniela Panfili)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Sneak Peek at Bringcast.. my Podcatcher for Windows Phone 7 (James Clarke)
Expression Blend 5-Day On-Ramp Course: A Directory of Material (Christian Schormann)
Windows Phone–Debugging your Apps (Arian T. Kulp)
WPF – adding thumbnail buttons to Windows 7 Task Bar (Brian Lagunas)
Some hidden features in the Windows Phone 7 emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
Apress’ “Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development” [Updated] (Joey deVilla)
Puff the Magic POCO Binding and INotifyPropertyChanged in WPF (Pete Brown)
Code Coverage for Silverlight and Windows Phone (Marc Schweigert)
Windows Phone 7 Connector For Mac Beta Released and Things You Can Pin on Windows Phone 7 Start Screen (Richard Hay)
Forward Navigation on the Windows Phone and Playing sound effects on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Snow)
Silverlight with Facebook – a practical guide to integration (András Velvárt)
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #5 and What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #6 (Jeff Blankenburg)
“Fuel Tracker” Guidance Application – Drop 3 (Karl Erickson)
Animation Texture Creator (Mister Goodcat)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #70: Reflections on Incremental Design (James Shore)
SilverlightShow for 06-12 Dec 2010 (Dave Campbell)
Pirates Love Daisies (Larry Larsen)
jQuery Podcast 40 – Wijmo (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
Silverlight TV 55: 1000 Silverlight Cream Posts and Counting! (John Papa)
Windows Phone Radio 12 and Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst Are Live (Brian Seitz)
endpoint.tv – Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

CouchDB for .NET Developers – A Free Live Webcast – Dec 21 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 20, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
Happy One Year Anniversary, #SQLHelp! (Brent Ozar)
Archiving SQLHelp tweets (Jamie Thomson)
Unleash Your Coding Genius with Web Camps! (Chris Koenig)
Join the O’Reilly Blogger Review Program – Nothing But Honest Reviews (O’Reilly Media)
Announcing: DrinksWithDevs (The Belgian Chapter) (Davy Brion)

Database

How to move datafiles to a new drive in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
Critical Analysis of an Algorithm: Sproc, Embedded SQL, and ORM (Ken Downs)
All I Want is a Normal(ized) Life (Brad Schulz)
Impact of the number of idle connections in MySQL (Yves Trudeau)
Storing TSQL Queries in a table without losing the formatting (Jacob Sebastian)
SQL Service Pack installation through Automatic Updates (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Top Stories of 2010 (MS PressPass)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Java in a Nutshell, 5th Ed. – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDJVN (O’Reilly Media)
A Year of Excitement (Somasegar)
Buy Windows Phone, Get a Free Xbox Game (Brian Seitz)
Creating a Video For Your Team (Rob Conery)

The Geek Shelf

Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs by Reza Alirezaei

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Dew Drop–December 16, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

The Debugger Class (Richard Carr)
WIF SDK and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK (MS Downloads)
December update Of TFS and VS 2010 (Al Kampfer)
Force VS to garbage collect (Cameron Skinner)
Reporting in .NET and Building the Layout for a Report and Tie a Report to Data from the Database and Tie a Report to Data from Business Objects and Setting a Form as a Startup Form with Visual Studio (Deborah Kurata)
Visual Studio’s Greatest Test Runner? Take a Look at CodeRush 10.2 (Mark Miller)
Set as Start Page (Zain Naboulsi)
Windows Azure Training Kit – December 2010 Update (Bill Zack)
RavenDB – StackOverflow style voting with Live Projections (Rob Ashton)
Historical Perspective of ORM and Alternatives (Ken Downs)
HowTo: MSBuild & StyleCop (Code Inside Team)
MSBuild Extension Pack December 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
jQuery Templates with ASP.NET MVC (Hajan Selmani)
ASP.NET MVC 2 Basics – Working with List Boxes (Pete Sutcliffe)
JavaScript getAttribute method (Veera Sundar)
WebSharper 2.0 Beta2 (2.0.63) released (Adam Granicz)
Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 3: Custom Panel and Listbox (Jeremy Likness)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban is Great for (n00bs) Beginning Agile Teams (Peter Saddington)
Entity Framework Patterns: Select multiple entities (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Obtaining opt-in consent: The responsible way to collect application analytics (Brandon Siegel)
WP7 Guides for IT Pros (MS Downloads)
Silverlight Navigation And CinchV2 for Silverlight (Sacha Barber)
Windows Phone 7 Refcard Review (Dennis Delimarsky)
WordPress for Windows Phone 7 app RTW (Free and open source too!) and “Windows Phone Programming in C#,” the Curriculum (think “Stuff to help teach Windows Phone Dev… Code, Demo’s, Pptx’s, Labs, 152 page eBook, etc”) (Greg Duncan)
Theme aware panorama background in windows phone 7 (Håkan Reis)
Monitoring Memory Usage on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 5) (Mike Taulty)
Windows Phone 7 Side Loading (James Ashley)
Multitouch Part 3: Multitouch in managed code and WPF (Jennifer Marsman)
Win a set of Infragistics Silverlight Controls with Data Visualization! (Michael Crump)
A Free Webcam Photo Application in Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #4 (Jeff Blankenburg)
Win7 Mobile Application Bar – AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE (Mike Snow)
PollingDuplex using MultipleMessagesPerPoll issue in latest SL4 GDRs (Silverlight WS Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Mobility at Øredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Icon Overlay on the Windows 7 Taskbar (MS Podcasts)
Episode 54-How to explain SharePoint Metadata to Organizations (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
Let’s Play TDD #69: Train Wreck (James Shore)
My “Business Impact of Cloud Computing” Session Video is Available! (David Lemphers)
Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 2 – Manual Deskterity (Larry Larsen, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

Have you planned your SharePoint IT Conferences for 2011? (Joel Oleson)
In The Brian Session: Intro to RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Agile Seminars in Pune, India this January (Stephen Forte)
Bootcamps announced for Windows Azure and Windows 7 (Bill Wagner)
Microsoft Community Tech Days – Hyderabad – 18th December 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

Database

Remove Newline Tab Character in Data using SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2011 Performance Comparison (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Storage Internals Part 2 – Partitions and Allocation Units (Ramkumar)
SQL Server PowerShell Extensions – Release: 2.3.1 Production (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Windows Phone 7 "Mango" may add HTML5, Silverlight support to WP7’s browser (Erez Zukerman)

The Geek Shelf

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

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