Dew Drop – August 12, 2010

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Top Links

• Tips & Tricks: How to Sort a Collection by it’s Property Name? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Do Developers Have Enough Time to Keep Their Skills Up-To-Date? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• The Weekly Source Code 56 – Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop (Scott Hanselman)
• Great Website Discovered (Don Burnett)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• RavenDB: Includes (Oren Eini)
• C# Null Coalescing Operator (Dane Morgridge)
• OOP Virtualization vs. F# Discriminated Unions (Neil)
• Understanding Commands: Logging Commands (Zain Naboulsi)
• One-way and Bidirectional Synchronization with Team Foundation Server (Jonathan Allen)
• A web-based IDE?! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Shaving off the ‘banana’ seconds with ANTS Performance Profiler (Jonathan Evans)
• The Latest NHibernate Developments (Abel Avram)
• Creation of Multi-monitor Screenshots Using WinAPI (Elizaveta Golub)
• Nhibernate query only properties and many-to-one (Al Kampfer)
• LightSwitch Architectural Overviews (Jason Zander)

 

Web Development

• New ColdObject MVC Framework For ColdFusion (Ben Forta)
• 20+ Google JavaScript APIs in One Playground (Adam DuVander)
• HTML Copy extension from Pro Power Tools not working with Live Writer? (Kirill Osenkov)
• The Case for jQuery’s .delegate() Method for Dynamic Event Binding (Rey Bango)
• Quick Look at JavaScript Objects (Stoimen Popov)
• Fixing Common Browser Issues: Dealing With Key Events (Ben Lowery)
• Slidr – HTML5 app for making online presentations (Veera)
• Is JSON the Developer’s Choice? (Simon Hamp)
• Step-by-Step: DBVT.COM Services Area Goes Sueetie CMS (Dave Burke)
• Azure@home Part 4: WebRole Implementation (redux) (Jim O’Neil)
• Add-on Guidelines and Requirements in Action – Upgrade Advisor (Herman Ng)
• Internet Explorer turns 15 and we deliver a 14 year old T-shirt (James Pratt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Day 11 – Reduce Friction and Create Glide-Paths (J.D. Meier)
• Passive voice is killing your design documents (Anne Epstein)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Resco MobileLight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (Rob Tiffany)
• My new home page, rejuvenated [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF/Windows Phone Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Feature Suggestions Forum (Mike Taulty)
• WP7 Level Editor! (Coding4Fun)
• Blend tip: finding default styles using “Edit a Copy” (Jeff Wilcox)
• [WP7] Sound effect in a Silverlight Windows Phone 7 application (Jeremy)
• Random Walks For Windows Phone 7 (Jesse Liberty)
• StringFormat and CurrentCulture in Silverlight (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio LightSwitch – Beyond the Basics (Beth Massi)
• endpoint.tv – Meet SO-Aware (Part 1) (Ron Jacobs)
• Community Megaphone Show #15 with guest Alan Stevens (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Evangelist Ryan Dunn Shares Top Tips for Running in the Cloud (Windows Azure)

 

Community / Events

• The Silverlight for the Windows Phone 7 Workshop (Beta Edition) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Philly.NET August 2010 Presentation (Nick Berardi)
• 5 PHP twitter accounts that have replaced my feed reader (Cal Evans)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SHRINKDATABASE For Every Database in the SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Deadlocking in SSIS – yes you can get deadlocks with variables (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Reporting Services – Line Graph with a Vertical Bar (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Sharing a Temporary Table (Steve Jones)
• MongoDB 1.6 Adds Sharding and Replica Sets (Abel Avram)
• Introducing sp_CascadingDataViewer (Jamie Thomson)
• Watch those clustered indexes (Buck Woody)

 

SharePoint

• RevertToSelf and the Business Data Catalog (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Small Things: How to Show the Color Categories in Outlook (Eric Quist)
• The visual transformation of Bill Gates the presenter (Garr Reynolds)
• 10 Programming Books You Absolutely Want Within Easy Reach (Jesse Liberty)
• Presentation:Demystifying Monads (Josh Graham)
• Microsoft gets serious about WP7 as a gaming platform, launches studio (Lee Mathews)
• A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part three (Michael Kopcsak)
• Why the arts & creative careers are important at Microsoft (Marie Watkins)
• Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta 2 due next Tuesday (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 11, 2010 — #923 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #663 (Chris Alcock)
• Flagged Links #78 (Jason Bock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad by Tracey Pilone