Dew Drop – January 31, 2011

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Top Links

• What I Learned Playing StarCraft (Christopher Bennage)
• Whose domain is it anyway? (Dan North)
• Natural User Interfaces (Martin Beeby)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internal of Deferred or Lazy Execution in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C# for the iPhone: Monotouch is here to stay (Peter van Ooijen)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Internals of Exception Handling (Abhishek Sur)
• DbUp: DataDude done right (Paul Stovell)
• Handling GUI Events in Dataflow Networks with Axum (Don Burnett)
• Spot the defect: Bad comparisons, part four (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Basic JavaScript Part 9: Reusing Methods of Other Objects (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Installing DotNetNuke using WebMatrix (Martin Beeby)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS with Akka actors and functional domain models (Debasish Ghosh)
• Big Software Rewrites (Ray Houston)
• Great Engineering Quotes (K. Scott Allen)
• Technical User Stories – 3 Reasons NOT to Have Them (Peter Saddington)
• Thou Shalt Name Thy Parameter “command” (Davy Brion)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 4 – Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Accessing Data in a Silverlight Application: EF (Deborah Kurata)
• Why switching from Android to Windows Phone 7 won’t be a problem (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the AutoCompleteBox (Peter Kuhn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 386: Dead Space 2, Crysis 2 and COD Black Ops First Strike (Larry Hyrb)
• Technology & Friends Episode 134: Kevin Pilch-Bisson on Asynchronous Programming in the next versions of C# and VB (David Giard)
• VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – Form Field Validation (Joe Stagner)

 

Community / Events

• DevWeek 2011 (Mike Taulty)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Data Collector Proof of Concept (Bill Ramos)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Importing Execution Plans (30/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – What is Fill Factor and What is the Best Value for Fill Factor (Pinal Dave)
• Backup file contents with SSIS – INSERT/UPDATE Decisions (Ted Krueger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Steve Jobs’ health is not a private matter (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: iOS 4 Programming Cookbook – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DD4PC (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2011 01.24 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #781 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #139 (David Vidmar)
• T-SQL and SQL Server Administration Articles Link List – January 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2011 — #1037 and Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2011 – 2 — #1038 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Troy Magennis