Dew Drop – January 5, 2012 (#1,234)

Top Links

• Refresh and reset your PC (Steven Sinofsky)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 23: Acceptance Tests & Criteria in the Real World (Jim Holmes)
• Give us your feedback on Visual Studio 11 etc. and receive a gift! (Karl Melder)
• Metro style JS Apps in Visual Studio 11 (Chris Sells)
• Building a Windows 8 RSS Reader (Eric Vogel)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Image Preview in Solution Explorer – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• You’re my FavorIt code file… FavorIt adds favorites to your Visual Studio Solution and SocialCounter.Net, a .Net Library to get all those Social counts (Greg Duncan)
• Setting a default value for C# Auto-implemented properties (OriginalGriff)
• The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server (Shai Raiten)
• Use the Caching Service for your Windows Azure Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Blog Post: Version Control Improvements in CodeSmith Generator 6.0 (Eric Smith)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects from IDataReader (Elton Stoneman)

 

Web Development

• What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support (Ben Nadel)
• An In Depth Overview of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility (Ian Devlin)
• Installing and Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Matador: The Obvious MVC Framework for Node (Dustin Diaz)
• Using HTML 5 Geo Location in an ASP.NET MVC Bing Maps Application (Part 2) (Sumit Maitra)
• Random Numbers in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Day 12 — 3D pixel particles (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Nancy running on Heroku (Andreas Håkansson)
• How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress (Kevin Leary)
• Stack Exchange V2 Goes Beta, Launches Contest (Romin Irani)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: How Hadoop cluster was setup on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Leap of Faith and Nailing Your Goals for 2012 (JD Meier)
• Executable Attributes in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• Printing Story Cards for Physical Scrum Board (Petr Pechovic)
• On Infinite Scalability (Oren Eini)
• Fluentator – generate fluent API for your structures (Pavel Savara)
• Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows (Morgan Brown)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Silverlight: Behaviors for TextBox (Denis Gladkikh)
• FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps (Colin Eberhardt)
• Top 10 SilverlightShow Ebooks for 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Infragistics Silverlight 5 Installers Available for Download (Jason Beres)
• 2000 WPF Things #466 – Using a GridSplitter in Conjunction with a SharedSizeGroup (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Papa Looks at the Microsoft Client Landscape (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 131: Chris Williams and Matthew Podwysocki on the Javascript community (Jon Galloway)
• YOW! 2011: Nigel Dalton – Agile Product Development (Charles Torre)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Manual Testing (Robert Green)
• Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC (Larry Larsen)
• Office 911: Don’t panic, build your skills (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 008 – 01.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Yet Another Podcast #56–Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award (Rob Eisenberg)
• MVP Program Thoughts for New Awardees (D’Arcy Lussier)

 

Database

• Assess your SQL Server to SQL Azure migration using SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment Tool by SQL Azure Labs (Avkash Chauhan)
• SQL SERVER REBUILD INDEX and SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically (Jack Vamvas)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – An Important Part of Most SELECT statement – WHERE clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 4 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Identifying default data directory for multiple instances through registry (Vishal)
• Bliki: NosqlDistilled (Martin Fowler)
• SQLCop integration with Red Gate’s SQL Test (George Mastros)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell 3 – Finally on the DLR! and Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium? (Joel Bennett)
• PowerShell Check for Empty SecureString Entry (Brian Jackett)

 

Miscellaneous

• 3 Tips for Getting What You Want in the New Year (MS JobsBlog)
• Best Online File Comparison Tool (Aaron Grogg)
• 40 Most Anticipated Xbox 360 Games of 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• 5 Unusual Ways to Raise Successful Children (April Dykman)
• ★ You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking (John Gruber)
• Learning Android: Getting a service to communicate with an activity (Mark Needham)
• Look who’s back: Ray Ozzie, Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect (Mary Jo Foley)
• Oracle’s copyright / patent infringement trial against Google set to begin in March (Matt Macari)
• How To Resize An Image Using Snagit 10 (Muhammad Omer Khan)
• Windows Phone Update 8107 Rolling Out – Fixes Disappearing Keyboard, Exchange & More (Antonio Hernandez)
• Life Satisfaction – Nerds Win (Peter Saddington)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #789 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1015 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• DZone’s Top 5 Agile Articles of 2011 and DZone’s Top Web Builder Articles of 2011 (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

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