Dew Drop – March 29, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Creating an OData API for StackOverflow including XML and JSON in 30 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• NoSQL is not about object databases (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# async on the server side (Brian McNamara)
• Testing the lock-free stack and Testing the lock-free queue (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 4 Steps to Enable Instrumentation in WCF (Shivprasad Koirala & Anup Hosur)
• No mapping specified for the following EntitySet/AssociationSet (Chris Love)
• Dynamic Casting with .NET (Mike Ceranski)
• Creating Temporary Projects and Track Active Item in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
• FavIcons, Internet Zones and Projects from a Trustworthy Source (Scott Hanselman)
• SPUR: A Trace-Based JIT Compiler for CIL (Nikolai Tillman)
• Time Flies Like An Arrow in F# and the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Open Source ERP for .NET (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Web Development

• Consuming an RSS Feed with ASP.NET MVC (Hattan)
• Reading Code: underscore.js (Mark Needham)
• Javascript Tetris part III – an update (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Html Encoded Code Expressions in ASP.NET 4 (David Hayden)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, Second Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDCWS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Rails Server (Rod Paddock)
• .NET 4 Web Application Startup Time (Scott Hanselman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Solving The Towers Of Hanoi Mathematically And Programmatically – The Value Of Recursion (Alan Skorkin)
• How to Build a Large Agile Organization (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Test Manager 2010 Test Plans (Clemens Reijnen)
• Programmer Tip: Wearing What Make Your Comfortable And Happy. (Rajiv Popat)
• Functional Dependency Injection == Currying (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Design Patterns (Bill Zack)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Exploring Design-Time Data in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• Windows Phone 7 Series development: reading RSS feeds (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject (Mike Taulty)
• My First WP7 Application (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Weather Application for Windows Phone 7 (Shoban Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PAX East Panel: Enforcement on Xbox LIVE: Tales from the Din Part 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 189 – 03.27.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows 7 How-To Videos: Introduction to the Windows 7 Taskbar and Windows 7 How-To Videos: Windows 7 Taskbar (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 7 – Rob Farley on SQL 2008 R2 and more (Richard Banks)

 

Community / Events

• Come and join me for an Rx talk at VISUG on April 6th in Zaventem, Belgium (Bart de Smet)
• Try Azure, Win a Laptop (Thru Wednesday) (Jim O’Neil)
• Free Open Space Conferences (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Extended Events – Finding Long Running Queries (Pinal Dave)
• That No SQL Thing – Key/Value stores (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• 5 Key Steps to Managing SharePoint Users (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Some new concepts in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 (damaster)
• posh-git Release v0.1 (Keith Dahlby)
• To Get Certified or Not Get Certified (Glenn Berry)
• My Top Ten Lessons In Life (Ali Hale)
• Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP) (Kip Kniskern)
• Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule (update: Amazon UK too!) (Vladislav Savov)
• How I use Twitter in my Job at Microsoft (Pete Brown)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows Phone: Silverlight for Casual Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Interesting Finds: March 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #569 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #113 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2010 — #823 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.22 ~ 03.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #98 (Grant Palin)
• Links (3/28/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 138 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/29/2010 (Pete Brown)

 

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series)