Dew Drop – August 2, 2010

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Top Links

• The Weekly Source Code 55 – NotABlog: A Local XML-RPC MetaWebLog Endpoint That Lies To Windows Live Writer (Scott Hanselman)
• Abstracting the persistence medium isn’t going to let you switch persistence abstractions (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer Values (Rob Miles)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• StickyNotes VS2010 TRIAL now available (Pablo Galiano)
• Cancellation with .NET 4 (Part 2) (Christian Nagel)
• Cleaning a VS2010 solution with a sledgehammer (Rory Primrose)
• Find Keyboard Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• The initial OpenWrap installation and Adding OpenWrap to an existing project (Part 1) and OpenWrap’s view on versioning (Sebastien Lambla)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Razor View Best Practices – Keep logic out of your Razor views (Jag Reehal)
• Finally Gave my Sueetie Wiki Some Good Luvin’ (Dave Burke)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Day 2 – Monday Vision – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Week (J.D. Meier)
• Principles 3: Principles of Software Development (aka Principles of Shipping) (Ivo Manolov)
• Done Criteria (Paul Stovell)
• Project Plans in a Nutshell (J.D. Meier)
• You Don’t Need an Application Server (Mike Hadlow)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Code Demos from the Microsoft TechReady Workshop (Dan Wahlin)
• Exiting a Windows Phone Application (Peter Torr)
• Bubble Breaker in Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitrios Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Silverlight On Mobile : Windows Phone 7 Splash Screen and Customization (Vikram Pendse)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 App – Sudoku (Part 2) (John Baird)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 363: Kinect Pricing, Bundles, MOH Beta and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 120 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alex Riedel on PrimalScript and Visual PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Technology & Friends Episode 106: J Wynia on Spark View Engine (David Giard)
• Pluralcast 21 – Extending Visual Studio 2010 with Kate Gregory (David Starr)

 

Community / Events

• Briefly: Significant Personnel Moves Inside of Microsoft Azure (Kevin Kline)
• Speaking at DevLink! (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – T-SQL Challenges and Hints and Suggestions (Pinal Dave)
• Implicit Transactions and the performance issue (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Online privacy, Tracking, and IE8’s InPrivate Filtering (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Lesson for Microsoft: Advertising works (Joe Wilcox)
• A Touchy Subject (Joey deVilla)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Interactivity – Only $9.99. Use code DDPTY (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #655 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #126 (David Vidmar)
• Everyman on Startup Failure Simply Stated, Insider as Fan, iPhone and its Surroundings (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #116 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 035 for 8/2/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for August 01, 2010 — #916 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 155 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

The Geek Shelf

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