Tag: windows 8

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• The easy way to set up NuGet to restore packages (David Ebbo)
• Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• "BECAUSE WE’RE ALL PERSONS": EMPATHY AND OPEN SOURCE (Mattt Thompson)
• I’m a phony. Are you? (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 5 of n – Application: Poker (Steffen Forkmann)
• Real World .NET 4 and C# (Christian Nagel)
• Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse (Telerik Team Pulse)
• MVVM your Kinect code (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore Expression Lab tool window for observing the parsed source code trees (Alex Skorkin)
• Clojure and the CLR (K. Scott Allen)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
• Mono.Addins – Release: v0.6.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm (Derek Johnson)
• Dealing with singular plural phrasing (Phil Haack)
• An Issue with Area in ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB.NET) (Imran Baloch)
• ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD246 (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Storage Libraries in Many Languages and Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• CSS3: Animations vs. Transitions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to execute/run a shell script as root from a PHP script? (Svetoslav Marinov)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The process (John Rayner)
• Understanding Enterprise Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Agile Innovation Games (Peter Saddington)
• Are Workflows Really That Bad? (Hint: Maybe They Aren’t) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Technical Debt (Charles Max Wood)
• Macto: Looking at warrants (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Beginners How to: Programmatically set common Control properties and How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight testing framework support in the Unit Testing Service (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows 8 and the Death of Silverlight (Chris Eargle)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #366 – Binding a Calendar Control’s SelectedDate Property to a Nullable DateTime (Sean Sexton)
• On a path to a generic About page (Andrej Tozon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 03 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 (MS Podcasts)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 74: Mobile Web Is Not What The Other Guys Say It Is (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 158 – PowerScripting Podcast – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse Talk NuGet and PSGet (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 261 – 08.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 1 – Pilot (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• Let Critical Path Training send you to the SharePoint Conference 2011! (Andrew Connell)
• Will Microsoft reveal a new IDE at the BUILD conference? (Daniel Fisher)
• Get Trained on Sweet, Sweet Mango! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Author news: Sign up for Mango Jump Start August 23-24 (Kim Spilker)
• Empathy and Open Source (Joe Mayo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (Glenn Berry)
• Deleting Data in Small Chunks on SQL Server (Jason Crider)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Sparse Data and Space Used by Sparse Data – Day 17 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Copy Results with Headers – Management Studio (Vishal)
• T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause (Henrik Sjang Davidse)
• Adding custom folders to your SSMS Object Explorer with this free addin… (Greg Duncan)
• Knowing what your doing with NOLOCK… (Greg Duncan)
• Calculate table size with existing data (Jack Vamvas)
• Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today (Jason Brimhall)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing (Mary Jo Foley)
• The anatomy of Xcode’s project window (O’Reilly Media)
• Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 206 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Today’s Links (8/16/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #918 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_29 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan