Dew Drop – June 9, 2011

Top Links

• Free WebMatrix e-book (Andy Robb)
• Why are more women not speaking at technical conferences? Insights from the WiT discussion at CodeStock (Jennifer Marsman)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 12 – Mango (1) (Peter Kuhn)
• My Views on Open Source (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 – KB2536929 (MS Downloads)
• LINQ: The overloaded Contains Operator (Jesse Liberty)
• WCF 4.0: Protocol Bridging using Routing to Protect Internal Business Services (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Entity Framework, a super dataset? (Gian Maria Ricci)
• dotTrace 4.5 Performance, dotCover 1.1 Released (Jura Gorohovsky)

 

Web Development

• Using jQuery 1.6 to find an array of an object’s keys (Dave Ward)
• Finding Saturday,Sunday between date range in C#/ASP.NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Implementing bookmarklets in JavaScript (rauschma)
• W3C Media Capture API Prototype for IE9 Released (Rey Bango)
• Populating a combo box from the cache with datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows/IIS with Output Caching (Brian Swan)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 7: Model Binding (Chad Myers)
• What’s the price of Windows Azure? (Code Inside Team)
• Managing Azure Configuration Settings (J.P. Hamilton)
• Calling Service Operations Using POST (Glenn Gailey)
• CSS Selectors: Type, Class, and ID (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PMI Agile Certified Professional Body of Knowledge (David Bulkin)
• Kanban and Shifting the Burden (Karl Scotland)
• Running NUnit Tests in TFS 2010 Continuous Build Environment (Peter Gfader)
• Top 200 Agile Blogs RSS + Twitter Lists (Peter Saddington)
• Government IT and Agile Development (MS Public Sector Team)
• Lokad.CQRS v2.0 Framework and Docs for Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• NUnit Expected Exceptions and Queuing Moq Return Values (Richard Carr)
• How do you handle simple pub-sub, evented architecture in rails apps? (Derick Bailey)
• Time (Jérémie Chassaing)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Slide-out keyboard support on Windows Phone (Rudi Grobler)
• Using WP7 Toolkit Controls in Windows Phone 7.1 Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Sketching out an WP7 user interface and interaction with SketchFlow (Greg Duncan)
• WPF Interview Questions (Hima)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 8 – What is Page State? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Completing the Pin code list screen for the PinCodeKeeper WP7 app (Per Ola Sæther)
• Synch a ComboBox in WPF with Foreign Keys and Synch a ComboBox in Silverlight with Foreign Keys (Paul Sheriff)
• 3-D Drawing Surface, new in Silverlight 5 Beta and XAML and SoundPlayer (Surf4Fun)
• Hey! Presto! You’re using IE9 on Mango (Jesse Liberty)
• Fetching Mobile Operator Name in Windows 7.1 Phone [Mango] (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ICSE 2011: Conversation with Andreas Zeller and Tech Ed North America: Kate Gregory – Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 71: Talking Data Visualization on an Audio Podcast? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• E3 2011: AMD and eyefinity technology and E3 2011: Designing for Xbox (Tina Wood)
• Tips and Advice – Acceptance Test Driven Development and the 3 Amigos Process and ADPEast 2010 – Michael Mah – Agile Teams by the numbers – software metrics and the big giant database (Agile Toolkit)
• SE Podcast #07 (Alex Miller)
• Let’s Play TDD #113: OverlayLayout? (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Threading with Jeff Richter (Ron Jacobs)
• Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Bing Audio (Laura Foy)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Creating and Using Code Snippets (Robert Green)

 

Community / Events

• A day in the life of Kinect for Windows (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• MVP Open Day Canada – May 27, 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• CodeStock 2011 Wrap-up (Jimmy Bogard)
• Author news: Mark Russinovich book event on Saturday (Devon Musgrave)
• Join our free XNA for WP7 webinar and get 20% discount for a 3-day XNA online course (Silverlight Show)

 

Database

• SSRS Error: Report Preview displays Access to the path ‘…binDebugReport.rdl’ is denied (Jose Chinchilla)
• A week in Sybase Training, what did I learn, day 3 (Denis Gobo)
• Using SQL DMVs – sys.dm_db_task_space_usage (Vishal)
• SQL Compact Query Analyzer – Release: v0.3.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Forget About PIVOT, You Don’t Need It (Michael Swart)
• Reporting Services and Internet Explorer 9 (Jason Strate)

 

SharePoint

• Microblogging and Forums in the Enterprise (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Grammar and Spell Checking Plugin for Windows Live Writer (CodePlex)
• Fixing Xcode 4′s Broken Code Completion (Ben Scheirman)
• 5 Important Factors for Pricing Data in the Information (Overload) Age (Nick Ducoff)
• Yes, Microsoft should launch a branded tablet (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols – Only $7.49 w/code DDPGC (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows 8 : Making new friends, Ratcheting Momentum and influencing anger. (Scott Barnes)
• Track the sales/downloads of your Windows Phone 7 applications with Mopapp (Simone Chiaretta)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Links 08/06/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 06/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 7-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #869 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News June 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2011 — #1103 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

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