Day: March 27, 2012

Top Links

• null is not false (Eric Lippert)
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update Now Available (Cliff Simpkins)
• Developing mobile applications with PhoneGap and JQuery Mobile (Pieter de Rycke)
• Win8 exploration: Controls sample (Bill Wagner)
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Thou Shalt Not Deny Asynchrony (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflecting Constructor Information (Richard Carr)
• Power Tools for TFS 11 Beta (Jonathan Allen)
• An Introduction to New Features in C# 5.0 (Fahao Tang)
• Building a Simple Window Service Application in Visual Studio 2010 That Runs, Sleeps and Stops (Peter Kellner)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentBag (Simon Cooper)
• Working Workflow into your app’s. Workflow Studio, a source available example of rehosting the Workflow Designer (Greg Duncan)
• IQueryable is Tight Coupling (Mark Seemann)
• Introducing the Mono for Android UI Designer (Jonathan Allen)
• Ninja entity filtering in LightSpeed (Ivan Towlson)
• C++ AMP (Rough Cuts Version) Available (Ade Miller)

 

Web Development

• Profiling your RavenDB MVC application (Gregor Suttie)
• Debugging JavaScript with Chrome (Paul Ballard)
• Bullets for legacy code (Giorgio Sironi)
• CSS Grid Layout is Coming to Firefox in 2012 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Loading Data From The API – How Much Is Too Much? (Rob Conery)
• Book Review: HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook (samzenpus)
• ASafaWeb gets a bit more culturally sensitive (Troy Hunt)
• Readable DOM Ready Event Handlers (K. Scott Allen)
• Protecting Windows Azure Web and Worker roles from malware (Maarten Balliauw)
• Displaying PHP Data in HTML (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD with CodeRush (Rory Becker)
• Tales from the Trenches: GitHub (Jessica Stillman)
• How To Name Your First Test (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How to make your build faster (Greg Young)
• The Product Owner’s Dilemma (Aaron Bjork)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Emulator in the 7.1.1 SDK – quick insights (Den Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone I command you… (Greg Duncan)
• Displaying the MessageBox in PhoneGap for Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• WPF Table View, a Lightweight Data Grid Built for Performance (Jonathan Allen)
• 101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #5 – Play with Email Compose Task in Windows Phone (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Your Apportunity: Windows Phone + Windows Azure (Michael Collier)
• TripleDes Encryption with Key and IV for Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Demystifying Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh and Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update (Nikita Polyakov)
• 2000 WPF Things #523 – Panning the Artboard in Blend (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 180 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rich Prescott Creates Admin Tools with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Mash This Podcast – Twilio and More with John Sheehan (Nick Berardi, Keyvan Nayyeri, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
• JavaScript Jabber 009 JSJ Testing Javascript with Joe Eames (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• Video: Uncover the Magic Of Automatic Migrations in Entity Framework Code First (Paul Ballard)
• Ping 135: MicroStang, Lifebrowser, HTC Eternity in China, Hunger Games (Laura Foy)
• The Engadget Show 31: Douglas Rushkoff, Sony, iRobot, MWC and air combat (Brian Heater)
• Video: Bartosz Bielawski – Tracing in PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Boagworld: Are you forcing your users into social silos? (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for March 26th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bowling for jQuery – April 2012, Washington, D.C. (Richard D. Worth)
• HackReady.Phone Webcast Series is coming soon! (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• Stack Overflow Meetup Everywhere: April 28, 2012 (Laura Dobrzynski)
• INETA Lounge at DevConnections (Chris Eargle)
• Windows 8 Developer Event coming to New York City on April 19th (Dave Isbitski)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Right Aligning Numerics in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• More on Windows Workflow Foundation Support for PowerShell 3 (Jonathan Allen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Launch Options for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 (Kevin Luu)
• Will you buy Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone for $99? [poll] (Joe Wilcox)
• MSDN Magazine April Issue Preview (Michael Desmond)
• AT&T to sell Nokia Lumia 900 for under $100 (Michael Stroh)
• Why does a maximized window have the wrong window rectangle? (Raymond Chen)
• Upgrading Your Acer Iconia Tab W500 Tablet (Richard Hay)
• Windows 8 on a Samsung Series 7 Slate? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft’s plans to bridge the Windows Phone app gap revealed in leaked slides (Tom Warren)
• Windows Phone 8 Web Browser Pops Up In HTML5 Benchmarks (Vygantas)
• Microsoft apologizes over ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ controversy, offers winner laptop and phone (Nathan Ingraham)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – March 26 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #846 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 26 Mar 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 3/26/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1073 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies