Month: October 2011

Top Links

• Rise and Fall of Classic OOP (K. Scott Allen)
• Steve Jobs (Bill Gates)
• Silverlight 5 Toolkit – September 2011 Released (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV (Larry Hryb)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Changing the Number of Functions in Profiler Summary View in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Demo Scripts from the F# 3.0 BUILD talk and F# presentation – F# Eye for the C# Guy (Don Syme)
• .Net Micro Framework v4.2 RTW’s (Think "VB.Net + lots of community development effort results" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft’s Roslyn ‘compiler as a service’ support unlikely to be in Visual Studio 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
• SortedDictionary and SortedList (Simon Cooper)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0: Go To Definition and View Code Support (Blake Niemyjski)
• Reverse a String with No Loops (Bobby Johnson)
• Using ObservableCollection with WinRT (via a little shim!) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Setting the Homepage of an Exchange folder using the EWS Managed API (Henning Krause)
• IronPython 2.7.1 Beta 3 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Need Accessibility in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps? You’re Already Covered (Carl Bergenhem)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Decompose Conditional (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.30 (CodePlex)
• Full-height app layouts: A CSS trick to make it easier (Steve Sanderson)
• Resolving an iisnode “The service is unavailable” 503 error (Dave Ward)
• Don’t make the audience sit through all your typo-ing [Overview of implementing an extension for WebMatrix – and the complete source code for the Snippets sample] (David Anson)
• An Auto-Scaling Module for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick (Jeff Wilcox)
• RIA/JS: The barebones demo (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• One design fits all? – Usability check for Ribbon interface (Miao Wang)
• Spiking RavenDB Management Studio: Design decisions (Oren Eini)
• Avoid Testing Implementation Details, Test Behaviours (Ian Cooper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 10 : Live shaping (live filtering, grouping and sorting of collections) (Jonathan Antoine)
• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 6 – Using Tasks and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 7 – Making WebRequests (Morten Nielsen)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ and Working with the Windows Phone HubTile Events (Windows Phone Geek)
• Control Your Xbox with your Windows Phone Using the Xbox Companion App (Ben Rudolph)
• WP7 Getting Unique Device and User (Daniel Egan)
• Cheating at Tiles…with the Windows Phone 7.1 Live Tile cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit October 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #402 – Final Child of DockPanel Fills Remaining Space by Default (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7 and Making HTTPS REST API Calls with Basic Authentication (toetapz)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
• Background Agents (Jesse Liberty)
• Creating a Horizontal ListBox in Silverlight and Windows Phone (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Episode 66 – Testing Strategies for a Toaster Pt.2 (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• .NET Rocks! – Philip Laureano Programs In Nemerle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• .NET 4.5: Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom – Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) 2.0 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 037 – “It’s Staggeringly Incredible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Write XML (Robert Green)
• SE Podcast #21 (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 5th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Free event and 5 day TDD masterclass in Copenhagen this month (Roy Osherove)
• Webcast: Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio (Kim Spilker)
• CodeMastery This Weekend in Atlanta (Brian Hitney)
• A New Adventure: Tech On Tap (Jes Schultz Borland)

Database

• Guessing the SQL Server Denali Release Date (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise vs Standard, one Geek Girl’s view… (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations() (Pinal Dave)
• Basic Inner Joins – Basic Skill #4 (Steve Jones)
• Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings (James Serra)
• Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

• SharePoint, Apple, Google and Governance (Mark Schneider)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell Command Builder Getting Started Guide (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft employee photographers’ book now available (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Chocolatey – The free and open source windows app store. (Jason Jarrett)
• Surprise! More Consumers Want Windows on a Tablet Than iOS or Android (Paul Thurrott)
• Xbox Live TV: What’s inside? Silverlight (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 5, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #953 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #724 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/05/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 4-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 — #1156 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming by Mark Lutz