Dew Drop – June 2, 2011

Top Links

• BUILDing a bright future (Somasegar)
• Previewing Windows 8 (MS News)
• Microsoft Buying Nokia’s Phone Business For $19 Billion — TWEET (MSFT, NOK) (Jay Yarow) – Nothing but a ‘baseless’ rumor, but still interesting.
• Caliburn.Micro v1.1 RTW (Rob Eisenberg)
• 4 Questions about Windows 8 (and a lot more) (Kip Kniskern)
• UNEDITED: My thoughts on Windows 8 announcements (Scott Barnes) – And be sure to check out Scott’s prophetic Tweet from last September.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Anatomy of an Automation for the Tfs Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Murach Web Development Books Updated to 4 (Joe Stagner)
• Analyze Your Move to the Cloud and Windows Azure With MAP 6.0 Beta (Windows Azure Team)
• Faking DbContext (K. Scott Allen)
• What is next for the profilers? (Oren Eini)
• Internals of Array (Abhishek Sur)

 

Web Development

• JSON-P and MVC (Karsten Januszewski)
• Replacing the Animation Control Extender with jQuery Animations (Joe Stagner)
• How, When, And Why Script Loaders Are Appropriate (Alex Sexton)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 3: Static Reflection (Chad Myers)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Testing Misconceptions (Liam O’Connor)
• Start All Your Meetings in Pole Position (John Sansom)
• Convention-based IOC is great … if everyone follows the conventions (John Rayner)
• ALM Practices Every Developer Should Know About (Dennis Doomen)
• PHPSpec: BDD for your classes (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simple F# ViewModel for Silverlight MVVM (Don Syme)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone Q2 BETA1 now available for download (Valentin Stoychev)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango: Expression Blend with 4 New Behaviors (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone emulator in Airplane Mode – unintentionally (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1… no love from LightSwitch (James Johnson)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issues 13 and 14 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 3 – Know more about PhoneApplicationPage (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows 8: the lovechild of Windows Phone and Windows 7 (Tim Conneally)
• XamGrid – Implementing Custom Column Filtering UI (Nikolay Zhekov)
• TouchStudio – State Variables (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Understanding Common terms of Windows 7 Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Mango Samples (Arian Kulp)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 – Taking care of your data (Tina Wood)
• Video: Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks Presentation on LinkedIn (LIDNUG) (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• AppFabric.tv – Troubleshooting WCF Performance (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• Coding QA Episode 56 – Localization and Globalization (Unknown Author)
• SE Podcast #06 (Alex Miller)
• The Engadget Show – 021: Joystiq’s Chris Grant and Justin McElroy, Babycastles, gadgets, gaming (Tim Stevens)
• Spaghetti Code – May 2011 (Jeff Brand)
• A Quick Look At "Windows 8" (Duncan Mackenzie & Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• BUILD with Windows 8 (Tim Heuer)
• Beer Camp Philly 2011 (Parker)
• National GiveCamp Dates Announced! (Chris Koenig)
• Microsoft: If we ‘Build’ a new developers conference, will they come? (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Database

• Do You Ever Physically Defragment Your SQL Server MDF & LDF Files? (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server Locking and You! (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 VHD Available for Download (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Statistics are not Updated but are Created Once (Pinal Dave)
• Do you use schemas? would you like keyboard shortcuts in SSMS to work with them (Simon Sabin)
• Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 book available as a free download (Denis Gobo)
• Performance issues from wasted buffer pool memory (Paul S. Randal)
• Analysis Services 2008 R2 Operations Guide published (Chris Webb)
• Hiding the SQL Server sa Login (Richard Carr)

 

SharePoint

• Unleashing SharePoint 2010 for Records Management, Governance and Compliance (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• More Omnia 7 updates resume (Eric Hautala)
• Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky Introduces the New Look of Windows (Ina Fried)
• Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org To Apache: A Quick Analysis (Krishnan Subramanian)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Cassandra: The Definitive Guide – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDCSD (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows 8 (Paul Stovell)
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta available for download (Ray C)
• Slinging windows with WinSplit Revolution (Russell Ball)
• Windows 8 (Steve Clayton)
• Introducing ViewPropertyAnimator (Tim Bray) – Android stuff.
• Some Thoughts on Windows 8 (Mike Hadlow)
• Stephen Elop Talks Microsoft and Windows Phone, Quickly Flashes Nokia WP7 Device (Video) (Hyde13)
• Windows Phone "Mango" concepts that never made the cut (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #864 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 31-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News June 1st 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2011 — #1098 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf (Windows 8 Edition)

HTML5 24-Hour Trainer (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Joseph W. Lowery