Dew Drop – April 18, 2012 (#1,308)

Top Links

• Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps (Steven Sinofsky)
• Prince of Persia Source Code — Posted! (Jordan Mechner)
• Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch (Andrea Boschin)
• Shrinking Kinect for Mobile: Q&A with Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research (Katie Scott)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The RavenDB indexing process: Optimization (Oren Eini)
• Reflecting Inherited Member Information (Richard Carr)
• Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the Api (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• Better Together: TFS 2010 and System Center 2012 (Jason Zander)
• String Matching in LINQ (Telerik OpenAccess Team)
• Getting started with Background Workers: Error Handling and Output Capturing and Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify by Justin Rusbatch (John Sheehan)
• Windows 8 Background Networking Whitepaper and Wondering what the .Net in a Metro world story is? Here’s a chapter… (Greg Duncan)
• Using Parallel.ForEach To Aggregate Results From JSON Files Stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage (Karsten Januszewski)
• Go with the dataflow (Ivan Towlson)
• Windows Portable Devices: Transfer Content To A Device (Christophe Geers)
• JSON Light Sample Payloads (Mark)

 

Web Development

• Sencha Architect 2: A WYSIWYG IDE for Building Desktop and Mobile HTML5 App (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• Using Cassette to minify assets in an MVC3 app (Jonathan Creamer)
• Hexagonal architecture in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Is Javascript code always so full of bugs? (Don Syme)
• Leaving Your Mark (Rob Conery)
• WebStorm 4.0: HTML5 Boilerplate and other Web Application Templates (Sergey Simonchik)
• Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D (Tom Giannattasio)
• How to use WCF DS 5.0 in a Web Site project and JSON Light Sample Payloads (WCF Team)
• Simple music player (Stoyan Stefanov)
• Appcelerator Now Offers Cloud Services and Mobile Web SDK (Romin Irani)
• Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy (Scott Knaster)
• Thinking about the offline web (Pete LePage)
• Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0) (Peter Kellner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Daily Standup/Scrum is not for the Scrum Master (Anand Vishwanath)
• Management Skills Replaces Kanban – Is Kanban Failing Japan? (Peter Saddington)
• Learning Is More Important Than Knowing (Karl Seguin)
• Pro Tip: Don’t Push Binaries To Source Control, Use NuGet Wisely Instead (Itamar Syn-hershko)
• APress Deal of the Day 18/Apr/2012 – Design Driven Testing (Tatworth)
• Communication struggles at a small company (Stephen Forte)
• Spend $100 to Prioritize Your Opportunities (JD Meier)
• Some Servicelocator pattern stinks (Jef Claes)
• Isolator V7 for …. free? Get rid of your legacy software. (Avi Kaye)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro and Compiling Same Code on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 Metro (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Flurry Phone Fun… Flurry Analytics on WP7 (Greg Duncan)
• Workaround for CA0055 Error with Silverlight Projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session I and Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session II (Joel Reyes)
• WPF: A Simple Color Picker With Preview (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #539 – Adding Text-Based Elements in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• WPF ComboBox initial selection (Tim Hibbard)
• Slides and source code for my past talks this year (Laurent Bugnion)
• Handle Feature Reductions (Mike Battista)
• LightSwitch Companion Client Examples using OData (Beth Massi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 182 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joel Bennett on PowerShell v3 and PoshCode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Tulips and TechExpo (Mark DeFalco)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 165: HTC One V (Gareth Myles & James Richardson)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 17th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• UI for Geeks at Dallas ASP.NET (Chris Koenig)
• Azure, Mobility, and the Enterprise: NYC Windows Azure User Group 4-18-2012 (Peter Laudati)
• Nokia Bounty Hunter Challenge May 10 through June 12 at 13 Locations (MS Public Sector Team)
• Code Warriors being unleashed onto the Marketplace to build missing apps (Rich Edmonds)
• Talking Cloud Tuesday: Windows Azure MVP Ming Chung Chu (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQLAuthority News – Select the Best SQL in Sixty Seconds Episode – Help us Improve (Pinal Dave)
• Listing SQL Instances on a machine (or list of machines) (Martin Catherall)
• Bug: reverting from a database snapshot shrinks the transaction log to 0.5MB (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Multilingual Sites – Determine Top 10 Languages to Deploy (Joel Oleson)
• Install Sharepoint Foundation on Workstation error: the user does not exists or is not unique (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

Miscellaneous

• Happy Birthday Apple ][ (David Pollak)
• Amazon shows developers how to obscure code to avoid cloning (Andrew Webster)
• Thoughts on name collision (Brent Schooley)
• What exactly do you get with Windows 8 Pro? (Ed Bott)
• Windows Phone 8 coming to all current phones, says evangelist and Windows Phone 8 to all current Windows Phones? Not so fast (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #861 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1087 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 4/18/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 9-15, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Dev News for April 17, 2012 – #0068 (Dave Campbell)

 

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