Dew Drop – July 12, 2011

Top Links

• Generics and Attributes (Jason Bock)
• CoffeeScript – overrated? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How Testers Test versus How Users Use (Josh Poley)
• Taking a Breather (John Sonmez)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tag, you are it… Another way to organize your files in Visual Studio and Getting started cooking with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First – Getting the tools and your first dish and Using the Portable Library Tools, a tutorial and Adding Speech Recognition to a Kinect Quickstart (Greg Duncan)
• Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• RabbitMQ Subscriptions with the DotNet Client (Mike Hadlow)
• Creating a NuGet Package for LINQ to Twitter (Joe Mayo)
• Microsoft Kinect SDK Offers Channel Opportunity (Frank Ohlhorst)
• CodeRush Code Issues specific to extension methods (Alex Skorkin)
• EF 4.1 Language Packs (EF Team)
• MonoDroid v MonoTouch : a comparison (Craig Dunn)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 (Gil Fink)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Substitute Algorithm (Giorgio Sironi)
• Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects (Ralph Whitbeck)
• A hidden gem in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP: command line parsing (Maarten Balliauw)
• Announcing Sueetie Notifications (Dave Burke)
• IIS Rewrite Tool – the pain of a simple rule change (Paul Stack)
• Using Azure AppFabric Service Bus from Ruby Apps (Suren Machiraju)
• Introducing the WebDataGrid / WebHierarchicalDataGrid Cheat Sheet (Craig Shoemaker)
• Templates With Razor (Hugo Bonacci)
• WCF Support for jQuery July 2011 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Agile Architects Lead (Johanna Rothman)
• Patterns of Compositional Architecture: Domain Specific Languages and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Semantic Models (Josh Arnold)
• Little Bets for Big Ideas in Agile Development (Peter Saddington)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VII–Data Access Layer is GOOD for you and Macto: Creating The Model (Oren Eini)
• How would you like that developed, sir? Tactically or strategically? (John Rayner)
• Is Technical Debt Still a Useful Metaphor? (Amr Elssamadisy)
• It’s Time to Fix Subversion Merge (Andy Singleton)
• Code Review Quiz (Chad Myers)
• 9 Timeless Techniques for User-Friendly Tables (Anthony)
• Filters and Priorities (JD Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Open Source Databases and Helper Libraries (Windows Phone Geek)
• BindableApplicationBar update for Windows Phone Mango (Nicolas Humann)
• Sharing Assemblies between Silverlight and .NET (Christian Nagel)
• Images renders ugly in Silverlight OOB (Håkan Reis)
• Windows Phone–Sending Messages Between Pages (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 28 – How to Detect the Current Theme? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF 4: Custom Command and Command Parameter for TextBox using Prism 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Communicating between two local Silverlight Applications (Michael Crump)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen Architect S#arply (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 6 of n (Charles Torre)
• Episode 153 – PowerScripting Podcast – Spencer Brown from /n Software on PowerShell Inside (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 46 : Keith Brown on RavenDB (David Starr)
• SQL Server Denali Videos (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How IT pros can evaluate Lync 2010 with free downloadable virtual hard disks (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 108: Facebook & Skype, Call of Duty, Baidu, Bing, Office 365 (Laura Foy)
• Make: Live Episode 12: Robots (preview video) (Matt Richardson)
• Let’s Play TDD #122: Extracting ConfigurationPanel (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Reporting Services Webinar (William Vaughn)
• More Women Than Ever at the 2011 Imagine Cup (Steve Clayton)
• Join me at the European SharePoint Conference Keynote Oct 17-20 and 140+ SharePoint People to Follow on Google+ (Joel Oleson)
• Upcoming Events for July 11th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Survey Results: Open Source Developer Preferences (June 2011) (Jonathan Wanagel)
• Windows Phone Student App-a-thon (Dani Diaz)

 

Database

• Environment variable in SSIS not being recognized (James Serra)
• Third test build of Microsoft’s SQL Server ‘Denali’ expected this week (Mary Jo Foley)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 12 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Database Worst Practices – New Town and New Job and New Disasters (Pinal Dave)
• How to move the Master database (Ryan Adams)
• Capturing wait stats for a single operation (Paul S. Randal)
• Select random records using TABLESAMPLE clause (Jakub Dvorak)
• Foreign Key Hierarchy Update (Jason Brimhall)
• 5 Ways to Be a More Effective DBA Today (John Sansom)

 

SharePoint

• PerformancePoint Services Extension Points (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• One big feature social networks really need: Channels (David Ebbo)
• Live Tiles go PowerPoint according to WinRumors (Don Burnett)
• OneNote Section Color Powertoy updated for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• #Video Deal/Day: Artificial Intelligence in iPhone Games – Only $9.99 w/code DD8JN (O’Reilly Media)
• iOS For .NET Developers Course Published (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – July 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily Links 12/07/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 07/11/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 07/11/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (7/11/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #891 and The Morning Brew #892 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for July 3 – 10, 2011 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide by Michele Leroux Bustamante