Dew Drop – October 21, 2011

Top Links

• Inside the C++/CX Design (Jim Springfield)
• In bed with Roslyn (Ivan Towlson)
• F# String extension methods rather than using RegEx (Carl Nolan)
• Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
• The Return of the CDC Zombies: The Zombie Pandemic Graphic Novel (Patricia Vollmer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dynamic resolution rules joy (Oren Eini)
• WCF web api + developer APi keys (Baba)
• An update on Visual Studio performance (Visual Studio Blog)
• Regular Expressions with Timeout in .NET 4.5 (Abhishek Sur)
• More on Metro (Dennis Vroegop)
• Exploring NuGet (Tim Murphy)
• Some non-generic collections (Simon Cooper)

 

Web Development

• Adding data to jQuery UI autocomplete (John Whish)
• You have blank page when you run an asp.net mvc site in Azure Compute emulator (Nicolas Humann)
• Coordinating multiple ajax requests with jquery.when (Joshua Flanagan)
• ASP.NET vNext (Nigel Parker)
• Backbone Events and Aggregator Update (Michael Nichols)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Amazon EC2 – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Questions About the Cloud? Learn from Windows Azure Partners And Accelerate Your Move to the Cloud (Himanshu Singh)
• Connect Your Web Site to Your Windows 8 App (Rahul Lalmalani)
• Mobile Development: Detecting Devices & Features (Christopher Bennage)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: Retrospectives (John Rayner)
• Getting stuck and agile software teams (Mark Needham)
• Stop Thinking During Refactoring (Vikas Hazrati)
• Balsamiq Release: Custom Icons! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Test Studio’s R2 Release: Simplifying the Complex (Jim Holmes)
• Subversion 1.7 and the new workspace (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Code to Search in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #413 – Creating a Grid from the Visual Studio Designer (Sean Sexton)
• Dropbox for Windows Phone – DropboxClient rel.2 and Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library – Skydrive WP7 rel. 1 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Episode 67 – Learning From Experience (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Patrick Elmore Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Ping 121: Kinect award, Bing Halloween, Hadoop, Windows 8 changes (Laura Foy)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 8: Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Community / Events

• MicroChef creates culinary classics for a cause (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• I’m speaking at CodeMash in 2012 (Bill Wagner)
• Training on MonoTouch for the iPhone and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• RavenDB Course, January 2012, Sandusky, OH (Oren Eini)
• Spend the night with Windows Phone (Brian Seitz)
• Git and GitHub Revised Course (Satish Talim)
• MVPs Provide Great Advice During MVP Twitter Chat (MVP Award Program)
• MS Dev WNY – Buffalo Area Developers Group Kicks Off! (Jim O’Neil)
• Ten reasons to attend Web & Phone UX Tour on November 3rd (Katrien de Graeve)

 

Database

• Using SQL Server to Get the Column Names and Corresponding Datatypes in Particular Table (Christian D. Yellington)
• Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2 (Mike Davis)
• SQL Server: LPAD and RPAD functions equivalent (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – DATEDIFF – Accuracy of Various Dateparts (Pinal Dave)
• Finding orphaned database users (Arthur Olcot)
• Self-service ETL with Data Explorer (Chris Webb)
• sp_configure OR sys.configurations? and do you back these up? (Martin Catherall)

 

SharePoint

• Announcing NetAdvantage for SharePoint (Jason Beres)

 

Miscellaneous

• A deeper dive into Windows 8: can Microsoft’s big bet pay off? (Ed Bott)
• Introducing the [Your App Here] Advertising Campaign (JC Cimetiere)
• 7 tips for people new to presenting at technical conferences (Mark Pearl)
• Paint.NET 4.0 “fine grained history” and other stuff (Rick Brewster)
• The Walking Dead – IT Pro style. (Scott Barnes)
• New Public APIs in ICS (Tim Bray)
• Open Letter To Whoever Designed the Turn-By-Turn Feature for Windows Phone (Kevin Griffin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #735 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #964 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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