Dew Drop – January 26, 2012 (#1,251)

Top Links

• PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code (Jeff Wilcox)
• Is Programming Less Exciting Today? (Ted Neward)
• Avoid the volatile Modifier (Peter Ritchie)
• MVVM on MVC: HTML is not XAML (Jeremy Likness)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – A day in the life of … Plan, Code & Test (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Forms Toolkit 0.3 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 7 (CodePlex)
• A Smarter Infrastructure: Automatically filtering an EF 4.1 DbSet (Matt Hidinger)
• "Building a large text file editor" Series – Part 1 of x (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: NFeature (Jason Jarrett)
• New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database (Glenn Gailey)
• Quick NLog Tip: Getting the Log Filename (Geoff Hudik)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 2 (Bill Osuch)

 

Web Development

• Exploring Client-Side MVC with Backbone.js (Christopher Smith)
• Binding UI controls using Fluent API (Yosif Yosifov)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC 3 In Action (Chad Haney)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views (Simon J. Ince)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues vs. Windows Azure Queues (Peter Laudati)
• Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Node.js and Windows Azure: Creating a blog application using Node.JS and Windows Azure Table & Blob Storage Part 1 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts (Brian Swan)
• Debugging IndexedDB Applications (Israel Hilerio)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• Finding with Git (Anders Janmyr)
• Software Release Management – Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version (Rob Reynolds)
• Programming & Barries to Entry (Cori Drew)
• An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Shipped: xUnit.net 1.9 (Brad Wilson)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Fresh WPF Elements 5 Features – DataGrid Grouping and Exporting! (Callum G.)
• Windows Phone: App Config Settings – Thinking Outside the Box (Geoff Hudik)
• "New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database" for Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Tutorial: Logging Into Facebook with Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Using CSLA 4: Windows Phone ebook available (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #481 – You Can Draw On an InkCanvas Control with the Mouse (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen Talks About SOPA, Piracy, and Intellectual Property (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 2 (Robert Green)
• Visual Studio for Business Analysts (MS Podcasts)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 011 – 01.25.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Z0MB1ES, ARMED!, Groupon, NewEgg, Lumia Music (Laura Foy)
• Web Camps TV #12 – Vishal Joshi Talks about WebMatrix v2 (Drew Robbins & Brady Gaster)
• The Engadget Show 29: Red Cameras, MakerBot and the coolest gadgets of CES 2012 (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Interview with Book Authors after 2 Months of Book Released (Pinal Dave)
• Meet Andrey Korshikov – SQL Server MVP from Russia (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• A Coder Interview With Michael Dunn (The Code Project)

 

Database

• A early look at the "SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book" (Think "Work in progress") (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Different Aspect of Policy Based Management – Quiz – Puzzle – 25 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Improving cube processing time (James Serra)
• Rebuild Your Indexes Online (When You Can) (Michael Swart)
• Thoughts on Test Driven Database Development (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Loading Reference Data from a SharePoint List using SSIS (Nick Haslam)

 

Miscellaneous

• The best way to list skills on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
• Let Alice help you teach and learn programming… (Greg Duncan)
• Open WebOS 1.0 announced (Jason Kennedy)
• When are servers not servers? (Ted Neward)
• Installing and Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 (Vishal Mody)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Maker Geek Roundup 006 for 1/25/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #804 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1030 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-25 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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