Dew Drop – May 27, 2011

Top Links

• Continuous Client: Our multi-device dream but how do we build it? (Kelly Sommers)
• Implementation hiding – it’s important (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Busy Developers Guide to Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Managing Resources with Reactive Extensions (Jesse Liberty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Safe X (ml parsing with XLINQ) [XLinqExtensions helps make XML parsing with .NET’s XLINQ a bit safer and easier] (David Anson)
• Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part one (Eric Lippert)
• NetOffice – A version independent Microsoft Office API proxy (Think "No More PIA" or "One Library, many Office versions") and There’s a new T4 editor in town… The (free) Devart T4 Editor for Visual Studio 2010 and/or 2008 (Greg Duncan)
• Book review : C# in Depth Second Edition (Patrick Smacchia)
• Feedback Opportunity: Command Complexity in Visual Studio (Sam Zaiss)
• All-In-One Code Framework – Release: 2011-05-26 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• New jQuery Plugin: FunkyFocus (Deran Schilling)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript Server Roundup – The Lowdown on Several Engines (Rey Bango)
• HTML5 is more than cool (Rob Nyman)
• Creating Custom Ajax Control Toolkit Controls (Stephen Walther)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• Lower the cost of Azure pricing through Tools, Promotions and Technology Decisions (Bart Czernicki)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Tip #7 – Learning From the Past (Aaron Bjork)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Hook (Giorgio Sironi)
• Basic unit testing with Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• 5 Big Issues When Scaling Scrum (Sean McHugh)
• Effective Tests: Double Strategies (Derek Greer)
• Git For Subversion Users: Article And Presentation (Derick Bailey)
• Enable and Equip Your Product Owners (Peter Saddington)
• Enterprise Architecture Mind Maps (Mike Walker)
• 9 Ways To Increase Your Productivity While Working From Home (Nellie Akalp)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get Phone Network Information in WP7 Mango via code and Windows Phone 7 Mango: Using Viewbox control (Windows Phone Geek)
• SQL CE on Windows Phone 7.1 tips from an ISV (Linq, connection strings and creating/updating your DB’s schema) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behavior (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight 5 Features Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Nodo vs Mango – Windows Phone ListBox Performance Improvements in Action (Rene Schulte)
• Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7 and XNA development? Supported! (Surf4Fun)
• How to configure Autofac on WindowsPhone7 (Brendan Kowitz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Steve Marx Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Silverlight TV 74: What’s New in RIA Services (John Papa)
• Defrag 006: Troubleshooting Windows 7, Outlook Crash, SSD speeds and Show Us Your Tech: ‘Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage (Larry Larsen)
• Video: British Airways 3D app on Windows Phone 7 Mango (Steve Clayton)
• Turn-by-Turn navigation in WP7 Mango Video (Windows Phone Geek)
• Let’s Play TDD #109: Zombie TDGotchi (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Donate Your Swag! MVP Organizes Bag Drive for Tornado Victims (Lonnie Webb)
• Events are Bustin’ Out All Over (Jim O’Neil)
• An opportunity for a viable .NET open source ecosystem (Joshua Flanagan)

 

Database

• Creating a Windows Sidebar gadget for a SQL Server Reporting Services Report walkthrough (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Copy Database from Instance to Another Instance – Copy Paste in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• How to drop all objects since a particular date (Simon Sabin)
• Using Built-in System Function – HOST_NAME() (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• Develop Cloud-Based Collaborative Solutions with SharePoint Online and Office365 Beta (Jenni Ripley)
• Just Published: May 2-17 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing the Colm Programming Language (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Wrox ebooks available for purchase on oreilly.com (Jim Minatel)
• Report: Microsoft to show tablet version of Windows 8 next week (Mary Jo Foley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Flex 4.5 – Only $9.99 w/code DDM98 (O’Reilly Media)
• 8 Reasons Web Workers Should Look Forward to Windows 8 (Simon Mackie)
• wp7applist Windows Phone 7 App Released (Richard Hay)
• My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace? (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 26th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2011 — #1095 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #861 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold