Dew Drop – August 13, 2010

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Top Links

• Patch Available for the Growing Find and Replace Dialog (Weston Hutchins)
• Announcing the Beauty of the Web event for IE9 Beta Launch (James Pratt)
• GeekGive to Team Up with Northwest Harvest at MVP Summit 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows Phone Application Model: Navigation and Saving State (Ricky Tan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Aggregation (Richard Carr)
• Auto-Implemented Properties Part II (Deborah Kurata)
• Switch is Just a Fancy If Else (John Sonmez)
• There is no context attached to the incoming message for the service and the current operation is not marked with "CanCreateInstance = true" and Example: Creating workflow to request songs from radio station (Gunnar Peipman)
• NHibernate 3 – Extending the Linq Provider to fix some System.NotSupportedException (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• How To Configure Log4J via C# (Kevin Miller)
• Back to school : Getting to know F# (Mehfuz Hossain)
• LINQ THINK (Peter Bromberg)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta Coming Soon (Wes Yanaga)
• Check out NSubstitute (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Change Your Visual Studio Color Scheme (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio with Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot (Vladimir Bodurov)

 

Web Development

• More Versioning Fun With Optional Arguments (Phil Haack)
• Dojo Deferred and the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Because HTML5 is about more than the damn video tag, there’s HTML5games.com (Lee Mathews)
• jQuery Goodness in a DotNet World (Nick Harrison)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning PHP, MySQL, & JavaScript – Only $9.99. Use code DDPMJ (O’Reilly Media)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Top 100 Agile Books (Jurgen Appelo)
• How to Own a Really Big Complex Product #agile2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Writing Unit Tests Is Your Job, So Quit Making Excuses (Rob Diana)
• Using Dynamic Typing When an Interface was Needed (Brendan Enrick)
• Increase Productivity Through the Mission (Marc Grabanski)
• Eventual Consistency and Set Validation and Idempotency vs Distibuted Transactions (Greg Young)
• Rules of thumb vs Exercise your judgement (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Extended WPF Toolkit – New RichTextBox Control (Brian Lagunas)
• Connecting to Websites with APIs in Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Caliburn.Micro Project templates (Rudi Grobler)
• You Are Already a Windows Phone Developer (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes (Kevin Griffin)
• Simplified access control using Windows Azure AppFabric Labs (Maarten Balliauw)
• WPF Color Palatte using the Brush and Brush Converter classes (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Windows Phone 7 Pelmanism and Windows Phone Graphics Speedup with BEPUphysics (Rob Miles)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 90: Sara Chipps on Girl Develop IT and Girls Developing Software (Jon Galloway)
• Screencast On Creating jQuery Animations Without Code (Karsten Januszewski)
• Silverlight TV 40: You Are Already a Windows Phone Developer (John Papa)
• Michael Klucher talks Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Start-Up Podcast Show #79 Facebook for Startups – Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive (Bob Walsh)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 3 of n (Charles Torre)
• Interview:Smaltalk’s Dave and Erlang’s Joe on Software Quality and Craftsmanship (Joe Armstrong & Dave Thomas)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing NHDay final Agenda (Simone Chiaretta)
• Choose 3 Developers You’d Spend a Day With (Rey Bango)
• PDC10 Registration Now Open (Bruce Kyle)
• Internet Explorer 9 Beta launching September 15th, might enter a beauty pageant (Darren Murph)
• I’m Taking a Break — StoryTeller and StructureMap users please read (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Database

• Checklist for Renaming a SQL Server (Bob Horkay)
• "Only SSRS 2005 reports can be opened in SSMS 2008 R2" (Jamie Thomson)
• Restart SQL Server Default Trace (Jeffrey Yao)
• Tip: Connect to dBASE files in SSIS (Jen McCown)
• Think carefully which SQL Server version you want to install (Naomi)
• SQL SERVER – Computed Column and Performance – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Access 2010 Inside Out (Devon Musgrave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Visio Services (Dave McMahon)
• Remove/Deactivate a missing feature for a cleaner upgrade and We’re Serious – Don’t Modify Your Database or Face Consequences (Joel Oleson)
• configuring the lightning conductor web part to aggregate tasks across site collections (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta" to Everyone (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Releases "PC vs Mac" Website (Blake Handler)
• What’s On Your Utility Belt? (Jeff Atwood)
• Manage Email addresses without Exchange cmdlets (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Absolutely Incredibly Essential Utility of the Month (Jesse Liberty)
• Getting Started with MonoTouch (Marcus Bratton)
• How a Programmer Reads your Resume (Rob Miles)
• Easy Amazon EC2 (Simon S Ellis)
• Microsoft Adaptive Keyboard prototype (Steve Clayton)
• Dear Java Developers: Told Ya So! (Jon Davis)
• Improving Your Audio: Pop Filter Edition (James Kovacs)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 12, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 13, 2010  (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 63 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 12, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #664 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Tom Rizzo