July 2010 – Page 7 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 11, 2010

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Top Links

Hilo: Windows 7 development walk-throughs (Somasegar)
Greg Young at NDC2010 "7 Reasons DDD Projects #FAIL" (Vladimir Gitlevich)
A new found respect for acceptance tests (Mark Needham)
TWC9: WebMatrix and Razor, Debug MSBuild files, and beer fetching robots (Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

“Fake – F# Make” 1.33.0 released (Steffen Forkmann)
XML Serialization (Richard Carr)
Building a component that works with different versions of a library (Jeffrey Richter)
NoRM: Another .NET Provider for MongoDB (Abel Avram)
What’s New in Visual Studio 2010, the Quick Reference Poster… (Greg Duncan)
A practical illustration of why the new C# 4.0 dynamic and optional parameter features are valuable (John V. Petersen)
F# and Code Contracts: not quite there yet (Kurt Schelfthout)
Sorting Items in the Toolbox and Icon vs List View in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
.NET: Fated to Succeed? (Keith Ward)
How the SetEntitySetAccessRule and EntitySetRights APIs came to be (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

Understanding ASP.NET 4 URL Routing in 2 minutes and Implementing Routing in ASP.NET 4 applications (Hima)
Sueetie: The World’s First Mobile Online Community (Dave Burke)
JavaScript if Statements Syntax (Marc Grabanski)
Book Review: HTML5 For Web Designers (Pete LePage)
Working with Application Pool Identities (Steve Smith)
Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step (Peter Kellner)
Sitemaps and Blog Engine Download (Dr. Dave)
Expecting Windows Azure Admin Mode and VM Roles this Year (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

dotCover 1.0 Beta Released (Hadi Hariri)
Importance of Tooling and Statistics in CQRS World (Rinat Abdullin)
How To Succeed With Scrum When Your Company Is Anti-Agile (Rob Diana)
Why Small is Better (John Sonmez)
Defining Development Experience (Richard Cirerol)
patterns & practices – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2 – Release Candidate (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Hosting WPF controls in a WinForms application (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Phone 7 Development (Jeff Blankenburg)
WPF SendKeys or mocking the keyboard in WPF (Kirill Osenkov)
Visual State Manager A-Z and Styles (followup) (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

DeepFriedBytes Episode 57: Getting the Details on Recent Silverlight 4 Updates from John Papa (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
WebDevRadio Episode 79: July catchup (Michael Kimsal)
StartUp Podcast Show #74 Kent Beck on Lean Startups, TDD and startups (Bob Walsh)
CodeStock 2010 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal’s Live Podcast at CodeStock and CodeStock 2010 Part 2 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal Talks PowerShell at CodeStock (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Cloud Cover Episode 18 – ASP.NET Providers (Ryan Dunn)
Windows Weekly 164: But I Digress (Paul Thurrott)
NYC Silverlight 4 Firestarter (Part 1 of 4): The Silverlight 4 Platform Overview and (Part 2 of 4): Silverlight LOB Application Basics and (Part 3 of 4): A Little Fun With Media: Webcams, Mics, & A/V and (Part 4 of 4): Application Navigation & Windows (Emily Gibson)
Video: The OData Protocol (Eric Hagan)
Engadget Podcast 204: Q&A Bonanza – 07.09.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
jQuery Podcast 29 – Rey Bomb #3 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 3 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

GeekGolf 2010 on September 11, 2010: Golfing, Steak Dinner and Fun (Chris Woodruff)
Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers (Dave Campbell)
What is ForkCan.com – Do you have what it takes to Share your code? (Fredrik Normen)
The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta (Robert Cartaino)
SQLAuthority News – Milestone – 1400th Post and Why do I blog (Pinal Dave)

Database

SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread – Thread 0 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Crawling case sensitive repositories using SharePoint Server 2010 (Syed Anas Hashmi)
Install Windows Server 2008 R2 and Sharepoint 2010 on a VM (Peter Bromberg)

Miscellaneous

Free Microsoft Visio 2010 Stencils for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
Slides of My Presentation on Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Windows-Friendly Cygwin Paths (Derek Greer)
Something blue (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Windows PowerShell Community Extension project (Ed Wilson)
How to edit very old posts with Windows Live Writer (Simone Chiaretta)
Productivity Tip: Using Your Keystrokes Where They Add Value. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 10, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2010 — #899 (Dave Campbell)
Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 9, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
Tech Tweets for 9-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
F# Discoveries this Week 07/09/2010 (Rick Minerich)
Distributed Weekly 58 (Scott Banwart)
Silverlight, .NET 4.0 and LINQ Articles Link List (.NET Curry)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Wpf: Building Windows Ui with Windows Presentation Foundation [PROGRAMMING WPF 2/E] [Paperback]

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MSDN Ultimate Contest #1 – Winner Announcement

I received a lot of great entries for the first MSDN giveaway this week, which made it very difficult to choose a winner. In the end I selected Marc Scheuner because I felt he most closely fits the ‘community influencer’ mold. He has been an MVP in previous years and has answered thousands of questions on Stack Overflow. I giving him the subscription will have the greatest impact on the community. I will be contacting Marc shortly to work out the details.

Remember there is still a second contest that does not end until next Friday. Check out the original post for all the information. The competition is still wide open!

Best of luck and congratulations to Marc!!!

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Dew Drop – July 9, 2010

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Top Links

Silverlight in Action Book Excerpt: Creating a Custom Panel (Pete Brown)
Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 2 – Customizing The Bootstrapper (Rob Eisenberg)
A Quick Introduction to Dependency Injection using StructureMap (Dane Morgridge)
Looking for work? Wanting to contribute? (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

Removing the Ceremony from C# (Jim Burger)
Dynamic in F#: Reading data from SQL database (Tomas Petricek)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First C#, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99. Use code DDHF2 (O’Reilly Media)
Productivity Improvements for the Entity Framework (Rowan Miller)
Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio (2) (Dan Moseley)
Navigate Among Control Groups in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
Generic Method Dispatch (Sasha Goldshtein)
CSLA 4 release candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
Nice OData shout-out (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Fun with VS2010 Ultimate: Comparing SQL Data (Zubair Ahmed)

Web Development

How WebMatrix, Razor, ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC fit together (David Ebbo)
The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 23: Baby Got Postbacks, a Preamble (Evan Nagle)
Building HTML in jQuery and JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
WebMatrix Beta in pictures (Gunnar Peipman)
Friday Algorithms: JavaScript Bubble Sort (Stoimen Popov)
Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 2 Adding Database Support (Chris Love)
Subtext vNext: which features would you like and on which framework? (Simone Chiaretta)
Will WebMatrix win over the LAMP crowd? (Stephen Forte)
Apache Cayenne 3.0 faster and easier, Microsoft launches WebMatrix, a free dev suite and Ruby 1.9.2 is on its way (Sara Allison)
Cloud Security Threats and Countermeasures at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Art of Agile Development: Incremental Requirements (James Shore)
"Refactoring" Notes (Keith Dahlby)
Mercurial workflows: local development work (Jimmy Bogard)
The Math of Mediocrity (Charles Chen)
Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? Response (Rob Reynolds)
Parallel Programming with Microsoft® .NET (Ade Miller)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Meet the Windows Phone 7 Rockstar team – Beastware (Anand Iyer)
Slingbox Maker Sling Media Describes Cross-Platform Commitment to Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
XAML Compliance Suite v1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
Silverlight Media Framework 2 released–integrate with Live Writer (Tim Heuer)
Deep Zoom in Action (Sara Allison)
Faking It… (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Herding Code 87: Jeff Atwood on Area 51 and Stack Overflow (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, Kevin Dente & K. Scott Allen)
Coding QA Podcast Episode 42 Introducing WebMatrix (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
Ch9Live at Tech.Ed NA 2010 – Ask Mark Russinovich Anything… LIVE! (Nic Fillingham)
Scott Hanselman on ASP.NET MVC 2 Basics (Frank La Vigne)
jQuery Essentials Slideshow, Version 2 (Marc Grabanski)

Community / Events

@ElijahManor is Looking for a jQuery &| ASP.NET MVC Job (Elijah Manor)
We’ll be at PASS in November – will you? (Paul S. Randal)
Oh…. ‘I do like to be beside the C# Side’ – Win tickets to FEST10 (Rory Becker)
Signup for MvcConf – Virtual ASP.Net MVC Conference (Eric Hexter)
Are you a developer or designer in the NYC/NJ/PA/VA/MD area currently working on a Windows Phone 7 application? Let me know about it! (Dave Isbitski)
SQLAuthority News – I am a MVP and I Love SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
5 Organizations Helping Women Get Ahead in Tech (Emily Goligoski)

Database

Check If Stored Procedure Exists, Else Drop It and Recreate – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
Free SSRS Training – SQL Lunch #23 (SSRS R2 – Shared Datasets & Report Parts) (Patrick LeBlanc)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: MySQL High Availability – Only $9.99 Use code DDMHA (O’Reilly Media)
Creating Models from Databases with Billions of Tables (Julie Lerman)

Miscellaneous

Windows to Mac transition – Not for me (Brian Noyes)
More Windows 8 hints, this time on the virtualization front (Mary-Jo Foley)
OneNote Calendar Planner Add-in Upgraded for OneNote 2010 (Blake Handler)
AROS Gets Media Center (Don Burnett)
Why I love Ruby (John V. Petersen)
Multithreaded Robocopy (K. Scott Allen)
Rumor: Beta of "Vail" and "Aurora" to be available next week (Owen Williams)
Xbox Live Formula Working for Microsoft (Richard Hay)
Nearly 50% of Windows 7 PCs run 64-bit versions (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #639 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
Windows Phone 7 Developer Resources (Frank La Vigne)
Tech Tweets for 8-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

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