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Dew Drop – August 6, 2013 (#1,600)

ISBN: 0735679665
ISBN-13: 9780735679665

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Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

F# Compiler IL Optimizations (Robert Pickering)
Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Web Platform Tools and Microsoft Visio 2010 Developer Training (MS Downloads)
Install a shared Assembly to the GAC as post build event from Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
WCF Web API: Role based access control with basic authentication (Alexander Zeitler)
Mixing some Dynamic-ness with IronJS in .NET 4 (Chris Pietschmann)
Static Code Analysis – Understanding the Predefined Rules (Zain Naboulsi)
IRC you with IRC.NET and Open source Kinect gesture recognition project, Kinect DTW (Greg Duncan)
Native NuGet Support in TeamCity (Hadi Hariri)
Exchange WebService ItemIds are case-sensitive (Henning Krause)
Facebook C# SDK – Release v5.2.1 and .NET JSON parser & deserializer Beta 2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

jQuery Mobile & Rails (Ken Collins)
Play Sound in HTML5 and cross browser support with backward compatability. (Joe Stagner)
#Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
Learning about Progressive Enhancement – Supporting Mobile Browsers with CSS3 Media Queries (Scott Hanselman)
Working with SimpleMembership outside of ASP.NET (Steve Smith)
Getting Started with Ruby on Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
“Pragmatic Guide to Sass” is in Beta! (Joey deVilla)
Explaining Drupal to Others – What is this Drew-paul thing you do? (Luke)
DotNetNuke Community Edition – Release v6.00.01 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Why MSTest is the IE6 of unit test frameworks (Roy Osherove)
SDL Threat Modeling Tool 3.1.8 (MS Downloads)
5 signs your conversation is about to turn toxic (Benjamin Mitchell)
Testing your games: Survey for Game Usability (Surf4Fun)
Changing People’s Barriers (Jurgen Appelo)
The Three Phases of OOP Matter (K. Scott Allen)
How we learn to write code (Scott Koon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part2: Data Binding and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database mapping and Data Binding Images in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
A helpful hand-up with MVVM with the Introduction to MVVM Hands On Lab for Visual Studio 2010 (Greg Duncan)
Analog Clock DataTemplate for System.DateTime added to learnwpf samples project (LearnWPF)
Windows Phone Network Analysis – where the Xbox Live app gets game metadata? and Accessing Microsoft Office in the locked Windows Phone Emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
2000 WPF Things #372 – Defining Tooltips for GUI Elements (Sean Sexton)
WPFSpark v0.7 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Emily Lewis Builds the Web One MicroFormat at a Time (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter: C++ and Beyond and GoingNative 1: VC++ vNext, CRT, C++ and Beyond (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #130: The Great Negative Color Debacle (James Shore)
Dimecasts Episode #200 is Launched (Derik Whittaker)
Visual Studio Toolbox: JScript Editor Extensions (Robert Green)
Developer Smackdown Musing #58: A few beers and JavaScript with Brandon Satrom (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
Hot Apps: Plants vs Zombies, Taptitude, LiveFrom, Brain Cube, PhotoFunia (Laura Foy)
My Intern Life 3 – Episode 7 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Video: How to Use the Denali Windowing Functions (Jeremiah Peschka)

Community / Events

Supporting Facebook Developers on Stack Overflow (Will Liu)
Announcing facebook.stackoverflow.com (Alex Miller)
Upcoming 3 and 5 day TDD classes (Roy Osherove)
MVPs Help Others Play Hard at Rehabilitation (MVP Award Program)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop CTP1 (Greg Duncan)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Table-Valued Store Procedure Parameters – Day 25 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Author’s Book is Available in India and USA (Pinal Dave)
Even Simple Changes Can Cause Trouble: A Tale of TempDb (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

BCS Meta Man – Using a Connection String stored in the Secure Store (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

Unencrypted IMAP connection? Bad idea – here’s why. (Dennis Delimarsky)
Microsoft Small Basic (James Serra)
Further Down the Rabbit Hole: PowerShell Modules and Encapsulation (Michael Sorens)
Friends don’t send friends to Download.com for software (Steven Hodson)
Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” supports WiFi internet sharing/tethering (damaster)
Microsoft shows off Lync Mobile for Windows Phone (Owen Williams)
Send a bookmark to Instapaper from Internet Explorer Mobile (Matthieu Guyonnet-Duluc)

The Geek Shelf

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt

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Dew Drop – September 24, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

PowerCommands for Reflector 1.1 (Jason Haley)
Extension Methods I Use A Lot (Kevin Miller)
IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate (Harry Pierson)
The Case Against Location: File System (Dave M. Bush)
Math Without a Floating Point Unit (Joel Ivory Johnson)

Web Development

How To Secure APIs and Mashups (Adam DuVander)
Reimagining www.asp.net, Part One: The Home Page Experience and Part Two: The Support Experience (John Sheehan)
A First Look at ASP.NET MVC 2 (Ben Scheirman) – Link of the Day
Sorting Data in ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)
MvcContrib 1.0.0.987 released (Jeffrey Palermo)
jQuery Tabs and Lazy Loading (Malcolm Sheridan)
Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Joe Stagner)
Debugger Visualizers not working in ASP.NET Medium Trust (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Documentation Driven Development! (David Lemphers)
Albacore: A Suite Of Rake Build Tasks For .NET Solutions (Derick Bailey)
5 Focus Killers … and How to Beat Them (Georgina Laidlaw)
Coding Priorities (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
Microsoft Silverlight comes to Linux, First stop: Moblin (Brad Linder)
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a … TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF] (David Anson)
MultiBinding for Silverlight 3 (Josh Twist)
WCF and Silverlight Walk Through (Stephen Forte)
System.Xaml: IAmbientPropertyProvider Sample (Lester Lobo)
Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class (Jeff Wilcox)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Giving the Gift of Technology (Carl Franklin)
Getting Started with SQL Azure (David Gristwood)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #143: Performing Static Page Checking in MVC (Steven Andrews)
A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM (Mike Ormond)
Herding Code 60: Spark View Engine with Louis DeJardin (Jon Galloway)
Anti-XSS Library v3.1: Find, Fix, and Verify Errors (Jossie Tirado)
Juval Lowy – The EnergyNet and the next Killer App (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

Live from LA, It’s the FREE Windows 7 Developer Bootcamp! (Tim Sneath)
Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program (Scott Guthrie)
Orlando .NET User Group Talk – 12 Practices to be a Better Developer (Scott Densmore)
Competing on the unpopular (Jeffrey Palermo)
Will Git Drive Open Source Contribution (Chris Missal)
TeamCity and CodeBetter update, or “How to move past the honeymoon phase” (Kyle Baley)

Database

Free SQL Server Dashboard (Brad M. McGehee)
New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming (Devon Musgrave)
Use INDEXKEY_PROPERTY in SQL Server to determine if columns in indexes are sorted ascending or descending (Denis Gobo)
SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Index on Index View Used in Similar Query (Pinal Dave)
Book Club: Versioning your database (K. Scott Allen) (Mark Needham)

SharePoint

Low impact text changing in SharePoint with jQuery (Bil Simser)

Miscellaneous

Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki (Sundar Pichai)
Powershell and Passionate Evangelism (Andy Warren)
SkyDrive to become the center stage of Windows Live? (damaster)
Using Log4Net in PowerShell (Gary Sherman)
Top 5 Outlook 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
The simple stuff of great presentations (Steve Clayton)
Windows Live Included With Windows 7? (Sunshine)
Can a Windows geek learn to love Snow Leopard? (Ed Bott)
Empowering your My Computer Context Menu – Make some commonly used applications and features just a right click away (Greg Duncan)
Microsoft should dig into the WebKit to stop Google from framing IE (Joe Wilcox)

Book of the Day

Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices) (9780735625211): Karl E. Wiegers: Books

ISBN: 0735625212
ISBN-13: 9780735625211

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