Dew Drop – September 8, 2010

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Top Links

• Woot! Silverlight 4 in Action is Out! (Pete Brown)
• Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework (Scott Guthrie)
• Overriding a .svc Request With Routing (Phil Haack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Power Commands for Visual Studio 2010 – Extension #8 (Sara Ford)
• At The End of the IO Road With C# (Wesley Brown)
• Insert spaces vs. Keep tabs (Zain Naboulsi)
• The .NET Micro Framework – Hardware for Software People (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Review – Julie Lerman’s "Programming Entity Framework" Second Edition (Wally McClure)
• Getting the Starting Day of the Week for Any Date (Chinh Do)

 

Web Development

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Rebinding Client-Side Events After a Partial Page Postback (Scott Mitchell)
• YUI 3.2.0 Released: SimpleYUI, Touch Event Support, Gestures, Transitions, CSS Grids, ScrollView, Uploader, and More (Eric Miraglia)
• How JSONP works (and some bits about implementing it in WCF) (Scott Seely)
• Removing properties from the model state the typed way and Adding errors to the model state the typed way (Daniel Fisher)
• Back to Basic – ASP.NET Runtime Impersonation (Gil Fink)
• Making asynchronous calls to web services during ASP.NET page processing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Getting Started with Node.js on Windows (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Posting Form Data to an ASP.NET ASMX AJAX Web Service with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Tags Everywhere! YetAnotherForum.NET Now With Tagging and Tags Everywhere! More Sueetie Tags In More Locations (Dave Burke)
• Perform Rolling Upgrade of Web Farm using Windows Network Load Balancer (Steve Smith)
• HTTP POST with PHP without cURL (Stoimen Popov)
• Where Does IE Spend Most Time When Loading a Page? (Abel Avram)
• Transitioning Existing Code to the ES5 Getter/Setter APIs (Allen Wirfs-Brock)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The role of an architect in an agile team (Tom Hollander)
• CQRS and MVC (Greg Young)
• Waste #4: Handoffs (Matt Stine)
• Simple Tools Preferred in the Agile Tools Space (Vikas Hazrati)
• Lean: Avoiding Waste in Software Development (Alberto Gutierrez)
• Selenium is not a panacea (Giorgio Sironi)
• ‘UX professional’ isn’t a real job? (Scott Berkun)
• Simplicity: A New Model (Jurgen Appelo)
• Code to the rhythm of the beat (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• Essential Windows Phone 7 Development Tools (Chris Koenig)
• File Upload Custom Control in WPF (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight Visual Effects (e.g. drop shadow, blur, and mirror images) (Sam Landstrom)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 11 – ClickOnce (Rudi Grobler)
• Blend Bits 6: Paths Are Your Friend (2) and PivotViewer–The Control and Silverlight on Windows Live Photos (Mike Taulty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 4 of n (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #8: Cleaning Up Taxes (James Shore)
• Yet Another Podcast (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• Events this Week – September, 7th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Los Angeles Web Camp (Scott Guthrie)
• The Experts Conference Europe – SharePoint Sessions Announced! (Joel Oleson)
• Microsoft interns discuss creativity, collaboration & Cirque du Soleil (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Details on the 2010 Diabetes Walk and a Thank You (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Camp LA – September 10th, 2010 with Phil Haack, James Senior and Jon Galloway (Dan Wahlin)
• CodeSmith Insight Launch Party (Tom DuPont)
• Windows Phone 7 Deep Dive Workshops (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane) (Nick Randolph)

 

Database

• Auto Close – SQL Server (Gethyn Ellis)
• AFTER UPDATE Trigger in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Row Count in Table – Find Largest Table in Database – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Virtual Labs – A Great Resource for SQL Server (Steve Jones)
• RavenDB performance optimizations (Oren Eini)
• What is Normalization in SQL ? (Abhijit Desai)

 

SharePoint

• Are you planning on upgrading to SharePoint 2010? Permissions still a black hole? (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google Scribe (Alex Chitu)
• A Brief History of Programming (Chad Myers)
• You Need To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone (Davy Brion)
• The Paradox of Choice for a Programmer (James R. Eggers)
• The Migration to OneNote 2010 Guide and Adapx updates their pen software for 2010 (John Guin)
• Book Review: Pro Android 2 (John Sonmez)
• Thoughts on Application Logging (Michael Janke)
• Download our free Office 2010 migration guides (Office Team)
• WebOS 2.0 beta screenshot extravaganza (Ross Miller)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #681 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 07, 2010 — #942 (Dave Campbell)
• MSDN Developer Centers at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

 

The Geek Shelf

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe