Dew Drop – January 14, 2012 (#1,242)

Top Links

• 10th Day of Silverlight : O/S Integration and 11th Day of Silverlight : 3D (Tony Champion)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module pattern (part 4) – debugging (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Comparing Strings in Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
• Fluent Assertions 1.7.0 has been released (Dennis Doomen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing IEqualityComparer (Richard Carr)
• Twitter Search JSON Deserialization (Tim Murphy)
• Contact Columns and other pieces of help info in Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• How to read managed function parameter values from call stack when they read in WinDBG? (Sebastian Dau)
• Stylecop Suppress Message (Kazim Sardar Mehdi)
• Using async / await (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kinect’ing to Arduino with Visual Basic and The Kinect, Windows Azure Service Bus and SignalR together in Kinectonitor (Greg Duncan)
• Comparing Transparent Lazy Loading between NHibernate and Entity Framework (Henry He)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Integrating Search and Help with Cross-Page Posting (Peter Vogel)
• Multi-column combo box – NetAdvantage for jQuery (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• ASP.Net MVC4 developer preview fails to build with Nuget package restore. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Javascript coding style recommendation: in return and throw statements use only simple variables (Michael Freidgeim)
• JavaScript Performance (Steve Souders)
• WebAPI Developer Preview 6: Self Hosted Mode Example (John V. Petersen)
• Troubleshooting “500 Internal Server Errors” in the Windows Azure Emulator when Working with Node.JS (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Symbolic links with local storage to store large amount of data in Windows Azure Application Drive and Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Run Lokad.CQRS code natively on Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• Physician, Heal Thyself–ScrumMaster, Master Thyself (Robert May)
• The evolution of a task board (Dror Helper)
• Huboard – Github issues made awesome (Ryan Rauh)
• 5 Skills for Tech Leads (Sergio Romano)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to hide the soft keyboard in a Windows Phone app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Telerik RadDatePicker control for Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes (Jeff Wilcox)
• Your path to a WP7 app in 30 days (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Dynamic DataTemplate Generator for WPF (Matt Hamilton)
• Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information (Senthil Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Why work at Microsoft? International Microfilms Contest Shows Why (MS JobsBlog)
• TWC9: New Team Members, Win8, C++, SQL 2012, Cloud Numerics (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
• The JavaScript Show – Fluentconf, Scrollorama, Impress.JS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Engadget Podcast 274: CES 2012 Day 4 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 121: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 282: CES 2012 – 01.13.2012 and The Vergecast at CES: Day Four (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video (Bobby Johnson)
• Hands-on: Nokia Lumia 900, THE Windows Phone (Tim Conneally)

 

Community / Events

• Critical Path Training SharePoint Developer Roadshow in Boston & SharePint! (Andrew Connell)
• Updates to the Coding4Fun Team! (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: what I learned, why I’m not going back (Ed Bott)
• TED2012 speaker lineup (Mark Frauenfelder)
• CodeMash 2012–what an awesome event! (Paul Stack)
• The Chat I Had With Stephen Elop as We Both Nearly Missed Final Ballmer-Note (Ina Fried)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Debate – Table Variables vs Temporary Tables – Quiz – Puzzle – 13 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Windows 8: What we learned this week (Mary Jo Foley)
• Rake. Huh? and Rake Fundamentals: tasks with prerequisites and Rake Fundamentals: rakefiles and tasks and Rake Fundamentals: file tasks and Rake Fundamentals: directory tasks and Rake Fundamentals: FileLists (Dale Smith)
• What I Use: Evernote and Microsoft Word for Writing (Paul Thurrott)
• The TED imperatives (Seth Godin)
• Skype to Come to Windows Phone as App First – Baked Into OS Later? (Coming Soon?) (Antonio Hernandez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 137 – CodeMash 2012 Edition (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 14 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Re-blog – January 6 – January 12 (Jason Strate)
• MVP Friday Five: January 13, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/13/2012) and Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Pie in the Sky (January 13, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 – #0027 (Dave Campbell)
• Retrospective 67 – PMI, Agile Emails, and Agile Country (Peter Saddington)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine