Dew Drop – March 16, 2012 (#1,288)

Top Links

• Browsing the broken web: a software developer behind the Great Firewall of China (Troy Hunt)
• Combining XAML and DirectX (Windows 8 Team)
• Mads Torgersen, Donna Malayeri and Erik Meijer: (Re)Introducing Lang.NEXT (Charles Torre)
• Roslyn CTP Custom Refactoring (Eric Vogel)
• JavaScript for the C# Guy: Scopes (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflecting Event Information (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM DemoMates now available (Brian Keller)
• Attach to Process in Visual Studio and Start Debugging in Visual Studio (Daniel Moth)
• Running WCF Data Services on Windows 8 Consumer Preview: Part 1 (Glenn Gailey)
• Web Workbench Adds Support for Visual Studio 11 (Jenni Konrad)
• How to join two collections with LINQ (Justin Greenwood)
• TFS Preview – Managing Sprint and Releases (Punit Ganshani)
• Resharper TODO Explorer Custom Tags (Merrick Chaffer)
• Why does the VerQueryValue function give me the wrong file version number? (Raymond Chen)
• Automating Undo/Redo with .NET Generics (Sergey Arhipenko)
• C++ Little Wonders: The C++11 auto keyword redux (James Michael Hare)
• Using Entity Framework to query Views without a Key (Jarod Ferguson)
• The Code Index SDK – Part 2 – Bulk indexing assemblies into the code index (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Gliding into a .Net Micro Framework UI design with GLIDE (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Free JavaScript Training: Confident Coding: JavaScript for the Web (Doris Chen)
• Debugging JavaScript with Chrome (K. Scott Allen)
• Weird CSS Color Names (Louis Lazaris)
• Add Hot Keys to Web Apps With jQuery.hotKeyMap.js (Michael Kennedy)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: HTML5 Architecture – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Using HTML5 Today part 2–Fixing Semantic tags with a Shiv (Steve Albers)
• VS11 Beta JavaScript Feature comparison with VS2010sp1 (Xinyang Qiu)
• Github.js — Write files to Github right from the browser. (Michael Aufreiter)
• Checking your code with PHP Code Sniffer in PhpStorm 4.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• Series of Posts on Azure Security (Maor David-Pur)
• New in 4.0: Support of PHP 5.4 Built-in Web Server (nnmatveev)
• Windows Azure Security Best Practices – Part 7: Tips, Tools, Coding Best Practices (Bruce Kyle)
• O what is OAuth? "OAuth: The Big Picture" Free eBook (PDF/Mobi/ePub) (Greg Duncan)
• Styling Placeholder Text with CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Who is Lord of the Backlogs? and History of Software Testing (Peter Saddington)
• Composite entities (Oren Eini)
• Test Studio for iOS is Now Live in Beta! (Jim Holmes)
• A Primer on Microsoft Build Automation (Mickey Gousset)
• Eight ways to "bug" your developers… (Greg Duncan)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 7.1.1 Windows Phone SDK – Two Emulators at Once and Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #7 TextBlock control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone Development Tool – Windows Phone Commands (Lohith G N)
• 2000 WPF Things #516 – Drawing a Path in Blend with the Pen Tool (Sean Sexton)
• App Hub accepting submissions for new markets soon (Todd Brix)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mash This Podcast – Clients (Lee DuMond, Nick Berardi, Dustin Davis & Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Let’s Play TDD #173: Checked Exceptions are Awesome and Proposing: Test-Driven Javascript Screencast (James Shore)
• Combining Scrum, Kanban, and Scalable Agile Webinar [Video] (Adam Feber)
• What The Tech 108: The iFuture (Paul Thurrott)
• Connect 4 at South by SouthWest (Laura Foy & Golnaz)
• Shop Talk Episode 10 (Chris Coyier)
• WPCentral 138: Justin Angel, Tango & Mobile World Congress [Video] (Daniel Rubino)

 

Community / Events

• TED talks now on Netflix… including mine (Phil Plait)
• The 2012 MVP Global Summit Sets New Records (MVP Award Program)
• How do the three core software engineering jobs at Microsoft relate to each other? (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• On Pie Chart Diversity at Technical Conferences (Scott Hanselman)
• Learn From the Best in The SharePoint Technology Conference, July 22-25 in Boston (Silverlight Show)

 

Database

• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Devon Musgrave)
• SQL Server Cell Level Encryption.. It might not be as hard as you might think. (Greg Duncan)
• Cached blocking history with sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats (Jack Vamvas)
• March Madness – SQL Azure – sys.sql_logins (Thomas LaRock)

 

SharePoint

• Occupy SharePoint Get Rid of the ActiveX 1% (Joel Oleson)
• Details begin to leak on Microsoft SharePoint Online 2013 (Mary Jo Foley)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets (v2.2.2) (Michael Washam)

 

Miscellaneous

• Learning Resource: Codecademy (Keith Ward)
• My mom won’t care about the Windows 8 Start button (Adam Kinney)
• How to Write a Technical Book (Chris Smith)
• OneNote Tip: You can check TODO boxes in the Summary Pane and Onetastic adds support for custom styles and favorites with OneNote! (John Guin)
• Koding Raises $2 Million To Let Developers Program From Anywhere (Josh Constine)
• What’s Coming in Microsoft Office 15 (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 16, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 3/15/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1066 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #840 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides) by David Flanagan