Day: July 5, 2012

Top Links

• Which UX Platform would you bet on? (Scott Barnes)
• Readying Metro style apps for launch (Steven Sinofsky)
• Why Windows 8 is so important (Rockford Lhotka)
• The Next Microsoft — Updating Its Branding And Messaging In Three Days (Alex Williams)
• CERN announces discovery of new particle consistent with Higgs boson (Jeff Blagdon)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Capturing Ctrl-C in Console Applications (Richard Carr)
• RavenDB and complex tagging and Reviewing NAppUpdate (Oren Eini)
• Tips and tricks for C# metro developers–The Flyout control and Tips and tricks for C# metro developers–The FileExistsAsync method (David Catuhe)
• How to Create new IStorageFiles in WinRT (C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• Lifting ForEach, Breaking Change in Visual Studio 2012 (Kathleen Dollard)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Improve Productivity using Quick Launch (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Review – Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# (Wally McClure)
• Advanced queries with Lucene.NET and Little Trick to generate ILogger with MEF based on type (Ricci Gian Maria)
• WinRT: Example of Using Periodic Notifications for Live Tiles (Mikael Koskinen)
• Win8 Apps now supports ViewModel Dictionaries (Rohit Sharma)
• Azure WNS to Win8 – Push Notifications for Metro Apps (Josh Reuben)
• dotTrace 5.1 Performance: Maintenance Release is Available (Daria Dovzhikova)

 

Web Development

• Lazy Parsing in JavaScript Engines (Ariya Hidayat)
• Using Windows Azure With the Command Line Tools for Mac and Linux (Jeff Wilcox)
• Making some cross browser Metro buttons with the CSS3 Microsoft-Metro Buttons (CMMB) library and Free "Time-Saving Features in Visual Studio 2012 and ASPNET 4.5” 20 page eBook from Telerik (Greg Duncan)
• Writing a flippable book using CSS Regions and 3D transforms (Ilmari Heikkinen)
• Loading a Different jQuery Version for IE6-8 (Louis Lazaris)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 2.2.0 (CodePlex)
• Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio (Tarun Arora)
• jsFiddle in 6 minutes (Ward Bell)
• Book review: Adaptive Web Design (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Designing the Dreaded Form (Patrick Cox)
• Thinking about complex systems and cloud availability (Grigori Melnik)
• Tips For A Finely Crafted Website (Jason Amunwa)
• Working with KendoUI Mobile ActionSheet in Four steps (Dhananjay Kumar)
• PHP, Memcache, and Windows Azure Caching (Brian Swan)
• Management and Monitoring Tools for Windows Azure (Buck Woody)
• Diving Into .NET Web Development (Craig Rowe)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.3 RC (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Cookies – Code Audits #2 and Massive Classes – Code Audits #3 (Brendan Enrick)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Kanban the New Scrum? (Todd Charron)
• Lean tools: Leadership (Giorgio Sironi)
• Tests in Javascript Metro Applications (Per Ökvist)
• Domain Models Expose Behavior, Not State (Ben Nadel)
• Management Dysfunction: Measuring Happiness (Jurgen Appelo)
• Provider Model Layered architecture (M. Lang)
• Test Professional performance improvements (Brian Harry)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone: Safe work with tasks (Denis Gladkikh)
• Creating Windows Phone Applications with Infragistics XamList (Damyan Petev)
• Building Dashboards With WPF Elements Part 3: Getting Started (Jason Fauchelle)
• Windows Phone 7 Marketplace – Show me the money! (Scott Barnes)
• 2000 WPF Things #594 – Routed Events Under the Covers and #595 – Syntax Choices for Defining an Event Handler (Sean Sexton)
• Consuming and Persisting State of OData in Windows Phone (Sumit Dutta)
• How to Make the Phone Vibrate (Michael Snow)
• How to pass data between pages in Windows Phone: Alternatives and MegaPixels app for Windows Phone Full Source Code (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 057: Promethea = good, Prometheus = bad (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Sondre Bjellas Builds Apps for Facebook (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TechEd Europe 2012: Now available on-demand on Channel 9 (Charles Torre)
• The Verge Mobile Show 006 – July 3rd, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Sysinternals, Stuxnet, AMA | Channel 9 Live at TechEd Europe 2012 (Mark Russinovich, Aaron Margosis & Charles Torre)
• Boagworld: Do social widgets suck? (Paul Boag)
• C9::GoingNative Live: Kate Gregory and Steve Teixeira – Modern C++, AMP, Casablanca, C++ Renaissance | Channel 9 Live at TechEd Europe 2012 (Steve Teixeira, Kate Gregory & Charles Torre)
• The Thirsty Developer 104: Space Mountain (Dave Bost)
• Engadget HD Podcast 306 – 07.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: (part 6 – Total n00b mistakes) Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming (Roy Osherove)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: James Kovacs on NHibernate Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
• Tuts+ Community Meetup in New York! (Joel Bankhead)
• Joined Telerik India as Customer Advocate (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Retrospection – My first year at Mozilla (Brian Bondy)

 

Database

• SQL Server Auditing – Getting started (Colleen Morrow)
• View SQL Server information using Transact-SQL script and Useful new DMV’s in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and SQL Server 2012 (Basit Farooq)
• SQL SERVER : The Scene Behind NOLOCK (John A. Nelson)
• Two New Convert Functions in SQL Server 2012 (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Tricks to Comment T-SQL in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #019 – Video and SQL SERVER – Retrieve SQL Server Installation Date Time (Pinal Dave)
• How to create a simple cross tab report in Reporting Services 2008 (David Forck)

 

SharePoint

• Social Experiment: SharePoint Community Platform Pilot Based on Yammer (Joel Oleson)

 

PowerShell

• Powering into RoboCopy with the PowerShell RoboCopy clone, RoboPowerCopy (which even includes Long Path support…) (Greg Duncan)
• Trying Out Jobs in PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)

 

Miscellaneous

• The three phases of Steve Ballmer’s tenure at Microsoft (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Source of Doom… A six part series all about the Doom 3 source code (Greg Duncan)
• Mathematica Programming Language–An Introduction (Josh Reuben)
• Try It Quiet (Rob Conery)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 5, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 3, 2012 and Geek Reading July 4, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #908 and Double Shot #909 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 7/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1138 and The Morning Brew #1139 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-04 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 3 July 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 July 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 July 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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