Dew Drop – December 1, 2010

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Top Links

• Have You Been to MSDN Lately? (Joey deVilla)
• A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Color Printing Extension Now Available! (Brittany Behrens)
• Basics on how to setup an App Fabric Cache server and API usage (Jaime Alva Bravo)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Add-in for testing regular expressions (Andreas Andersen)
• HowTo: AssemblyInfos – Keep it DRY! (Code Inside Team)
• Using ConvertAll to Convert a Set of Values (Deborah Kurata)
• Regions are like knives (Daniel Fisher)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010: SQL Adapter Samples (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure – new portal, new services, new tools (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Exceptions Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
• Why the Windows Azure Nov 2010 SDK Rocks!! (David Lemphers)
• Introduction to Parallelism in .NET 4.0 (Jonathan Cardy)
• How to have NHibernate use a SQL MERGE INTO statement (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Azure: Shiny and New (Jim O’Neil)
• CryptoLicensing Tips and Tricks To Eliminate Piracy And Cracking Of Your Software (G. Himangi)

 

Web Development

• Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker (Scott Mitchell)
• Protip: Viewing large XML files (Jimmy Bogard)
• Building a One-Level CPU Cache Simulator with C (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Upgrading Subtext 2.5 and Publishing with VS 2010 (Dave Schinkel)
• jQuery Date Plugin (Marc Grabanski)
• Review: jQuery in Action (Ryan Lanciaux)
• HTML5 aside: Defining relations (Niels Matthijs)
• Draft: ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Introduction to jQuery Templates (Stephen Walther)
• Bing Maps Ajax 7: Adding InfoBox Support via Extension to Microsoft.Maps and Bing Maps Ajax 7: Simple Pushpin Animation via Extension to Microsoft.Maps (Chris Pietschmann)
• The Decline of Internet Explorer 6 and the Rise of Internet Explorer 9 (Roger Capriotti)
• Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers (Eric Lawrence)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Make Me Choose To Follow The Standards (Derick Bailey)
• There’s no place like production (Eric Brechner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Assertion Method (piccoloprincipe)
• [Agile Guide] – UX and Agile Development (ScoutMaster)
• Leadership Books A-Z (J.D. Meier)
• Taking a Second Look at Collective Code Ownership (Jay Fields)
• Basic to Basics: Understanding IoC Part 2 (Creation) (John Sonmez)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft reiterates copy and paste is Windows Phone 7’s first update, ‘additional updates delivered in the future’ (Chris Ziegler)
• Coding4Fun: Currency Converter for Windows Phone 7 (Pedro Lamas)
• SystemColors Reference (Patrick Finnigan)
• Blend Bits 19–Transformations (Mike Taulty)
• Opening Lightboxes without Thumbnails (Anthony)
• Tip of the day: Processing touch input on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Controlling a R2D2 (Lego MindStorms NXT) robot with Windows Phone 7 (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
• The right choice for the main window of your WPF project (Jeremy Alles)
• WPF Grand Prix (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Windows Phone 7 Motion Design Videos and Fixing the ListPicker / ScrollViewer Problem in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• ChevronWP7, the Windows Phone 7 unlocking tool, has been axed (Sebastian Anthony)
• My first WP7 application released: Omoplata is live (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #58: Violating Encapsulation (James Shore)
• YUI Theater — Mirek Grymuza and Josh Gordineer: “YQL: An Introduction” (45 min.) and YUI Theater — Ryan Dahl: “Node.js Roadmap” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)

 

Community / Events

• PASS 2010 Summit Review (Thomas LaRock)
• INETA Community Speakers Stats for November (Chris Williams)
• Plan Your Cloudstock Hackathon App, Registration Opening Soon (Adam DuVander)
• Microsoft Research Asia’s Philosopher of Online Search: Ji-Rong Wen (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• My own iOS and OSX centric blog (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Database

• Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server (MS Downloads)
• Debugging SSIS Variables—and a Happy Announcement from the Datachix. (Juliie Smith)
• When Were The Statistics In SQL Server Last Updated? (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – 3 Simple Puzzles – Need Your Suggestions (Pinal Dave)
• A first look at the new RavenDB UI (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Denali – Serverless SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• Mirroring and Transactional Replication setup – Auto Failover (Ted Krueger)
• The Really Cool NTILE() Window Function (Ken Downs)
• SQL Indexing and Performance Part 2: Clustered and Non-Clustered (Lefteris Karafilis)
• Querying Hive with Toad for Cloud Databases (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• need to retire an account – not sure what permissions people have? (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Top-Five Most Valuable Development Team Positions (Buck Woody)
• Timeline of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation (Cory Doctorow)
• How Microsoft can clean up the mess in its home and small business server business (Ed Bott)
• A start in understanding the MS-PST Node Database Layer, your first step toward PST binary enlightenment… (Greg Duncan)
• Reviewing "Hello, Android" (Jo Giles)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2010 11.23 ~ 11.30 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #741 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/01/2010 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

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