Dew Drop – December 7, 2011

Top Links

• Windows Store details announced and a contest (Tim Heuer)
• Windows Store event and blog (Steven Sinofsky)
• Microsoft previews Windows 8 app store, launching with the beta in late February (Mary Jo Foley)
• Analyzing Windows Store tidbits (Long Zheng)
• Announcing the Labs release of Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” (Data Explorer Team)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rhino Service Bus & RavenDB integration (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with WCF Part 8 – REST Services: the Basics and Building Your First REST Service (James Bender)
• Viewing the User Token from Visual Studio 2010 Debugger (Shawn Cicoria)
• VS11 Async Demo and VS2010SP1 Async Demo (Paulo Morgado)
• VHD Test Drive – Lync Server 2010 VHD (Dev) and Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (MS Downloads)
• Mono for Android 1.x to 2.0 changes in the Menus (Wally McClure)
• A new version of GhostDoc is coming! (Tatworth)
• Integrating with TeamPulse data (oData) (TeamPulse Team)
• Windows Store and Developers (Richard Hay)
• Runtime code generation for types (Ivan Towlson)
• Behind the Scenes of Roslyn (Jeff Martin)
• ReSharper 6.1 Settings: DropBox and Company-wide (Hadi Hariri)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 1–the var keyword (Kyle Burns)

 

Web Development

• A Brief History of HTML5 (Jeffrey Way)
• Using Column Summaries in the jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• Testing and specifying JavaScript code with Jasmine (Giorgio Sironi)
• NuGet And Orchard? (Rob Conery)
• What’s the deal with Orchard and NuGet? Does Orchard suck? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Use JavaScript Now to Access Many Google APIs (Romin Irani)
• Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 1: Overview and Challenges (Larry Franks)
• jQuery 1.7 Visual Cheat Sheet (woork up)
• Beyond YSlow – Squeeeezing out website network performance (Troy Hunt)
• The need for parallelism in HTTP (Brian Pane)
• Loggr – Your SignalR based real time "event" application monitor (think "Cool web based major/high level event UI" or "A logging solution with data you can actually use…") and Moving Applications to the Cloud 2nd Edition guide (and Hands on Labs) (Greg Duncan)
• How Microsoft helps you NOT break your Windows Azure Application: Storage Services Versioning (Buck Woody)
• Providing Intellisense, Navigation and more for Custom Helpers in ASP.NET MVC (Hadi Hariri)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introduction to Unit Testing: xUnit Frameworks (Avi Kaye)
• Clarifying purpose (Wendy Friedlander)
• Effective User Research And Transforming The Minds Of Clients (Leonard Souza)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 6: Types of Automated Testing (Jim Holmes)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 8 – What other people are blogging (Morten Nielsen)
• Drawing Objects in Expression Blend (Andrea Haubner)
• Rumor: Microsoft to bring “beaming” file transfers across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox in the future? (damaster)
• SkyDrive APIs for Docs and Photos—now ready to cloud enable apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone and more (Dare Obasanjo)
• Testing the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps (Doug Holland)
• Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData – Part 1 (Samidip Basu)
• Windows Phone 7 System Tray (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Developers: Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours (Antonio Hernandez)
• 2000 WPF Things #445 – DockPanel Can Be Used Like a StackPanel (Sean Sexton)
• Here’s Why Android’s UI Will Never Be As Smooth As iOS Or Windows Phone 7 (Awais Imran)
• Tip Tuesday: More fun with emoticons (Michael Stroh)
• Panorama? Pivot? What’s the diff? Here’s a Boss Eyed View of the two… (Greg Duncan)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 1: What’s in a Table? Describing Your Data (Beth Massi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Software Engineering Radio Episode 181: Distributed Scrum with Rini van Solingen (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget HD Podcast 277 – 12.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 32 (Richard Hay)
• Defrag: Reset Zoom in IE, Display Properties via CL, AppData Compression (Larry Larsen)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 9: Writing Good Software Engineering Research Papers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh – Advanced CRT, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)

 

Community / Events

• Kinect at Tech Valley .NET User Group (Brian Peek)
• Windows 8 First Apps Contest (Doug Holland)
• What a night! into insider social with Alex James (Luke)

 

Database

• SQL Server Latency and DATEADD and variables in SQL (Jack Vamvas)
• Ten Reasons PostgreSQL is Better Than SQL Server (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – Plenty of SQL Community Updates (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 6: Windowing functions (Denis Gobo)
• A DBA is a Data Professional (Grant Fritchey)
• Maximum length of data in every column in a table (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• What Makes The Perfect DBA Role? (John Sansom)
• Data Explorer walkthrough – Parsing a Twitter list (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Simple Fix for SharePoint for Mobile Devices – iPad iPhone Android WP7 (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• How does Remote Desktop works in Windows Azure? (Avkash Chauhan)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Excel 2010 Formulas & Functions Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• So You Want To Build Apps? (David Kelley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Data Analysis – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• A feature I didn’t even know existed much less had a name: Color hot-track (Raymond Chen)
• Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective (Peter Cooper)
• Metro dashboard makes Xbox 360 feel like a brand new console (Travis Brown)
• How do you get the Virtual Keyboard (aka Soft Keyboard) in the Android 4.0 Emulator? (Wally McClure)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #768 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/7/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #997 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/06/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 06, 2011 – #0007 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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