Next week’s Dew Drop posts will be a bit sporadic. I will be on vacation, enjoying some time at home with my family.
Top Links
- A holiday.js gift for Azure Node.js developers (Glenn Block)
- Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
- Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor (Alexia Tsotsis)
- C#/.NET Fundamentals: Unit Testing with Func<TResult> Generators (James Michael Hare)
- 31 Days of Testing—Day 19: Refactoring a “Monster” Functional Test, Part 1 (Jim Holmes)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Generate Return Values Using Lambdas in Moq (Richard Carr)
- Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce (Carl Nolan)
- Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts? (Charles Sterling)
- Shadowcasting in C#, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
- Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 (Mike Fourie)
- Roslyn CTP: Three Introductory Projects (Whaeth)
- Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features (Jeff Martin)
- Rx – Buffer (Bnaya Eshet)
- LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.5 (CodePlex)
- Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
- How do I determine programmatically whether a particular language is LTR or RTL? (Raymond Chen)
- XSLT 2.0 in .NET (Akram El Assas)
- Treat a plain string as URL and fetch query string values (Jyothikarthik_N)
- SqlMapperHelper – A Helper Class for Dapper-Dot-Net (Peter Bromberg)
Web Development
- CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit (Eric Bidelman)
- Typography effects with CSS3 (Leigh Howells)
- Async file upload with jquery and ASP.NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress (Stephen Walther)
- Knockout 2.0.0 is Available (John Papa)
- Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
- Facebook: Platform Updates for Games Developers (Namita Gupta)
- Adobe Muse Beta 5.1 released (Ron)
- Custom Events are Pretty Cool (Chris Coyier)
- Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners) (Daniel Pataki)
- Umbraco CMS 5.0 RC 1 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Visualising Kanban Dimensions with TIPs (Karl Scotland)
- The Process of Change – Complexities of Attitudinal Change – Axiology [Part 4/4] (Peter Saddington)
- Return-Oriented Programming (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Advice for Young Developers: Learn to Make Your Own Decisions (J. Boyer)
- Functional version of the visitor pattern (Akram El Assas)
- Getting Gilded Rose Under Test (Bobby Johnson)
- Dynamic binding for data-driven tests in MbUnit v3 (Yann Trevin)
- Get into the flow with Spinning (Ralf Westphal)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project and How to Update Secondary and Application Tiles in Windows Phone apps and Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
- How to set the HTML string in the webbrowser control in Windows Phone in MVVM context (Nicolas Humann)
- How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Mango Apps: Designspire Gets Huge Update (Functions Like Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
- Windows Phone Mango Sample: Input Scope (Jerry Nixon)
- Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates (Michael Sync)
- Silverlight security overview paper has been updated for Silverlight 5 (Nick Kramer)
- Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight (Punit Ganshani)
- 2000 WPF Things #457 – Use a GridSplitter to Let a User Change Row or Column Size in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
- 8th Day of Silverlight : Vector Printing (Tony Champion)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- YOW! 2011: Joe Albahari – LINQ, LINQPad, and .NET Async (and a little Rx, too) (Charles Torre)
- Making Learning More Interactive and Fun for Young Children (Sheridan Jones)
- Coming in 2012: The Geekadelphia Podcast (Jo Pincushion)
- Introducing the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series (Zhiming Xue)
- Let’s Play TDD #153: Push the Button (James Shore)
- Fever Pitched Episode 5: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 21 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Roman Karachinsky Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Community / Events
- What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January (Simone Chiaretta)
- A Thing To Do in the New Year: Learn XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win8 & WPF (London Training) (Silverlight Show)
- Call for C++ Community folks in Belgium – January 10th meeting and Join us for the first PHP & Windows Azure Hackthon in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
- 11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012. (Michael Crump)
- Interview with Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework: Code First (Jean Lambert)
- Five years of Encosia (Dave Ward)
- Women Want to Hack! (Emily Smith)
- Kinect at Chippewa Valley Code Camp (Greg Duncan)
- “Earned a Stack Overflow gold badge” Badges! (Laura Dobrzynski)
Database
- 101 with the Interactive Feature of SQL Server Integration Services (Keshav Singh)
- SQL SERVER – A Quick Script for Point in Time Recovery – Back Up and Restore (Pinal Dave)
- Replacing Cell Security with Dimension Security (Chris Webb)
PowerShell
- 2 PowerShell Cmdlet Updates (Josh T.)
Miscellaneous
- Gathering, viewing and understanding performance data with the new PerfView utility (Greg Duncan)
- Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services? (Kip Kniskern)
- 6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012 (Lance Ulanoff)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
- Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 12/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1009 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 22 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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