Dew Drop – August 3, 2011

Top Links

• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Module Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Kinect Toolkit v1.1 (CodePlex)
• HTML5 Part 2: Canvas (Jennifer Marsman)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Monadic Parsing in F# (Frank Thomsen)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 3 and Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Developing a “Real” Outlook Social Connector Provider (Greg Duncan)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) – And Updated NuGet Packages (Jeff Handley)
• C#: DateFormat separator issue with ToString() method (Raghav Khunger)
• TFS API Part 39 – Show Deleted Items in Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension – Release: v1.4.1 (CodePlex)
• BugTracker.NET – Release: v3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update (MS Downloads)
• Using schema with NHibernate and SqlLite (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

Web Development

• Use ASP.NET’s HttpHandler to bridge the cross-domain gap (Dave Ward)
• HTML5 Periodic Table of Elements (as in HTML5 Tags… ) (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming a POX WebService in .NET and C# – Searching ISBN Numbers. (Joe Stagner)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results and Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Foreign Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript performance: Array.prototype versus [] (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Measuring Mobile Site Performance Using the W3C Navigation Timing API (Joe Marini)
• Improve PHP Performance with Phalanger for .NET and Mono (Jonathan Allen)
• Update Wijmo Charts in Real Time (Kevin Griffin)
• A client side Glimpse to your PHP application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure Security Review (Buck Woody)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OverloadedGetterSetter (Martin Fowler)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• Which is easier, Scrum or Lean? (Matt Barcomb)
• An Agile Retrospective by Jeff Sutherland (Aaron Bjork)
• Sample Application for .NET 4.0 – Layered Architecture and DDD Patterns Sample Applications (JD Meier)
• TDD Or Not TDD Guest blog by @avi_kaye (Tal Druyan)
• Requirements-Driven Development For The Lose (Peter Saddington)
• Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting (Dave Borowitz)
• Is it worth it? (Joh)
• 5 Big Usability Mistakes Designers Make on Carousels (Anthony)
• Thoughts on MicroOrms (Chris Brandsma)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Writing a Multiplayer Game (in WPF) (Paulo Zemek)
• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone emulator keyboard shortcuts (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers : From Core Data to LINQ to SQL (Kevin Hoffman)
• Using Custom Themes in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Understanding XAML Screen Layout (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #356 – RadioButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray (András Velvárt)
• What is Visual Tree and Logical Tree in WPF? (Abhijit Jana)
• Installing the RTM version of NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Pamela Brasil)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta: script sharing in the cloud (Nikolai Tillmann)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Channel 9 Exit Interview: Tina Moving to Xbox Team (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #128: 2^7 (James Shore)
• Run as Radio Podcast – A little Denali (Kevin Kline)
• Yet Another Podcast #45–Rey Bango (Jesse Liberty)
• Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign (Dan Fernandez & Tina Wood)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday DC – The Conference (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 Conference in Chicago (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Looking for Agile Authors (Johanna Rothman)
• Webcasts: Microsoft Press Author Presents Windows 7 Troubleshooting Series (Kim Spilker)
• BUILD Windows Conference Sells Out, Content Will Be Available Online (Bruce Kyle)

 

Database

• Report Authoring on the SSIS Catalog [link] (Jamie Thomson)
• Microsoft SQL Server Internals & Architecture Matter! (Kevin Kline)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding Apostrophes in String and Text – Day 3 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Tip O’ the Week – 8/2/11 – Records Per Day (Andy Lohn)

 

Miscellaneous

• New Formats for Free Microsoft Press eBooks (Carl Diltz)
• Putting the “I” in Health IT (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Tap, Move, Shake: Early Release – Only $15.99 w/code DDSHK #iPhone #iPad (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 204 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading August 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 2nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 08/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 1-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #908 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/2/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Just Published: July 1-31 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson