Day: December 21, 2011

Top Links

• Knockout 2.0.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Phone Beats Out Blackberry World – Marketplace Now 4th Largest (Antonio Hernandez)
• Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro (Daniela Panfili)
• ReSharper 6.1, dotCover 1.2 and dotTrace 4.5.2 Performance Released (Hadi Hariri)
• OData: iOS Client Library goes Open Source (Arlo Belshee)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stupid smart code: Solution (Oren Eini)
• Search in Tfs Work Items never was so easy 🙂 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• TFS + NuGet =’s? TFS NuGetter of course! and Kinect + 3D = Fusion4D (Greg Duncan)
• The PacMan problem (Julian M. Bucknall)
• New CodeRush Plugin – CR_ImportNamespace (Rory Becker)
• Live Data and Source Code in JustTrace (Just* Team)
• New Book: Developing Microsoft Media Foundation Applications (Kim Spilker)
• Facebook C# SDK 5.4.1 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Model Binding with Dropdown List in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• WebStorm 3.0: The JavaScript IDE! (Alexey Korsun)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 3 (Jorge Ramon)
• Using jQuery’s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods (Karl Swedberg)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Exception with Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• The output element (Richard Clark)
• Espresso Tip: Changing those nasty constraint names in Code First (Jonathan Creamer)
• What’s been happening in the Web Workbench world (Ivan Towlson)
• My book is now available (HTML5 games) (Jacob Seidelin)
• An Introduction to EAI Bridges (Harish Agarwal)
• Important Announcements Regarding the Access Control Service (Himanshu Singh)
• Let It Snow… Faster! (Rob Mauceri)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 2 (Dan Wellman)
• Use the W3C Geolocation API to create location aware web sites (Rachel Appel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Isn’t the Answer to Bad Product Ownership (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Unit Testing MySQL-Bound Code (Omer van Kloeten)
• Metro: Typography trumps chrome–debunked. (Scott Barnes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 17: Rules for Effective Data-Driven Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Final Designs are Always the Simplest and Most Practical (Anthony)
• The Process of Change – Handling Resistance to Change [Part 3/4] (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #2: Installing the Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
• TouchDevelop v2.5: new tutorial, artwork, forum, and more (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Updates to the Windows Phone docs (Cheryl Simmons)
• WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
• Stopping the WP7 Emulator Skin file copy/replace madness… Windows Phone 7 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
• Finding the Unique Device ID in Windows Phone 7 (And Device Manufacturer And Anonymous Windows Live ID) (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #455 – Using ItemContainerStyle to Bind Data Elements in a Collection to a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 7th Day of Silverlight : Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Tony Champion)
• Ways To Pass Time On Window Phone – TouchDevelop (Tim Murphy)
• WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now! (Rene Schulte)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions (Beth Massi)
• patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 2 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Damian Conway – Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming Made Easy (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #152: No-ckito (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 279 – 12.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video Tutorial PhoneGap for Windows Phone – Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• New Video: Common Functional Testing Problems (Jim Holmes)
• SDU Show 48 with guest Roger Doherty (Greg Low)

 

Community / Events

• A day in the life of a Developer Evangelist! (Harish Ranganathan)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT Function – PRINT (Pinal Dave)
• All 15 SQLBits Training days have been announced (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server Audits: Introduction and SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Server Specification (SQLArcher)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 20: Indexes with Included Columns (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010, ALM and Continuous Integration Resources (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Apple is a patent troll now (Joe Wilcox)
• ‘Roswell’: Another key component of Microsoft’s cloud strategy (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microspeak: Offline (noun) (Raymond Chen)
• Out with the Old, In with the New: Bing Takes Stock of 2011 and The Year Ahead (Kari Dilloo)
• Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
• RSS feed that can be filtered–would you use it? (Jason Haley)
• Microsoft forgets Windows Phone in Windows Live Messenger ad (Phone Arena Team)
• Face Swap For Windows Phone Swaps Faces Of Two People In A Photo – Download Now (Edward Marquez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Link Post 215 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #778 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew#1007 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 20-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis