Month: October 2011

Top Links

• Hands on Labs from //build/ Now Available (buildwindows)
• Windows Phone Mango users reporting disappearing keyboards (Mary Jo Foley) – I’m seeing it occasionally on my HTC Surround.
• Amazon’s Silk Browser: A Peeping Tom Or A Mona Lisa? (Rob Diana)
• Actions in WCF Data Services (Alex James)
• IronPython 2.7.1 RC (CodePlex)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to let other teams at Microsoft know how to support F# better (Don Syme)
• Neovolve.Toolkit 1.1 Released (Rory Primrose)
• System Users and Application Users (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Released and Helping others become Visual Studio Keyboard Ninja’s with the Code Ninja Spy (Greg Duncan)
• Automated Build-Deploy-Test using TFS 2010 (Anuj Chaudhary)
• New Field Notes and Real World Guidance added to the Windows Azure Technical Content (Molly Bostic)
• Fixing NLog’s Logging to a Web Service (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows 8 Metro declarations: User Tile Provider (Andrej Tozon)
• WinRT and Windows Property System part 1: storing and retrieving files metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
• Facebook C# SDK 5.3 (CodePlex)
• Azure Storage Client using Async API (Rohit Gupta)
• Using Geospatial Data (WCF Team)

 

Web Development

• How to Deploy Your ASP.NET MVC 3 with SQL CE 4.0 & Entity Framework (Christian D. Yellington)
• Tips For Using Backbone.js Routers With HTML5 PushState (Derick Bailey)
• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The many places to Dive into HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
• Using HTML5 Geolocation API in ASP.NET Application (Harish Ranganathan)
• Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• HTML5 Gaming: animating sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and An introduction to CSS pseudo-element hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A look at Dart from the eyes of an OO programmer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS (Ryan Rauh)
• JavaScript unit testing support (Sergey Simonchik)
• Ruby and Node on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Larry Franks)
• Challenging non-local session scope (session-per-request) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• RIA/JS: Deleting Entities (Josh Twist)
• Getting Started With PHP Templating (Krzysztof Rakowski)
• Azure Blob Storage – a simple example (Peter von Lochow)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Development is Broken (Avi Kaye)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine and CoffeeScript (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
• Product Owners are not a myth (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Effective Stand-ups (Robert May)
• Book Review “Cloud Computing Architected – Solution Design Handbook” by John Rhoton and Risto Haukioja (Kai Wähner)
• Blocks and Playsets (Christopher Bennage)
• How To Produce Bug-Free Software (Derek Greer)
• The Lure of Specialization (Joel Semeniuk)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Insert data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Code to Send SMS in Windows Phone 7 and Reading coordinate values using Accelerometer API in Windows Phone 7 and Debugging WCF Service from Silverlight: The Breakpoint will not currently be hit at WCF Service error (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 2: manipulating the UI (Kevin Dockx)
• ChevronWP7 Unlock Tool Coming Soon (Few Weeks Away) (Antonio Hernandez)
• A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #409 – Child Elements in a Grid Size to Fit the Containing Cell and #410 – Default Grid Row and Column Sizes (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 21: I Go Pogo! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Paul Lewis Sees 3D in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Drawbridge: A new form of virtualization for application sandboxing and Tao Liu: F# Design Patterns (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 123: Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 162 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Pfeiffer from Interface Technical Training (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Short interview on C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Hackathon draws in Pro Devs and Students (Bob Familiar)
• Quick training & conference announcements (Udi Dahan)
• YUIConf 2011 Preliminary Schedule Now Available (Jenny Donnelly)

 

Database

• SQL Server Developers Tools code-named “Juneau” becomes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Gert Drapers)
• SQL SERVER – Next Version of SQL Server ‘Denali’ is Officially Named as SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Denali CTP3 – Semantic Search features (Trevor Dwyer)
• Simple XML exist performance enhancement (Arthur Olcot)

 

SharePoint

• Web Part Development Options in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s plan for bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 8 “Isn’t Finished”, Microsoft Reminds us again! (Mike Halsey)
• Learn Ruby with the Edgecase Ruby Koans (Jim Weirich & Joe O’Brien)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.11 ~ 10.17 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Maker Geek Roundup 002 for 10/17/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Geek Reading October 17, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #961 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for October 10 – 16, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2011 — #1158 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• My Windows 8 Development Article Collection. (Michael Crump)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 10 – 16, 2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague