Dew Drop – January 30, 2012 (#1,254)

Top Links

• From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages. (Arturo Toledo)
• Something’s Missing from the WebBrowser Control (Peter Kuhn)
• Testing a jQuery Plugin with ExpectThat and Mocha (Daniel Mohl)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Enabling SSL for a WCF Service (Christophe Geers)
• Log4Net basics with a Console Application (c#) (Mark Pearl)
• Windows Phone 7 – Location Service and Bing Maps (Shai Raiten)
• Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String (Phil Haack)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard (Jason Jarrett)

 

Web Development

• Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList (Chris Heilmann)
• Find the jQuery Bug #3: Give Me Truth (Elijah Manor)
• Vimeo API in ASP.NET using C# (Fazlur Rahman)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Inheritance with Delegation (Giorgio Sironi)
• Page Transitions with CSS3 (Sergio Camalich)
• Customizing your Hadoop cluster running on your own Windows Azure Subscription (Avkash Chauhan)
• Backbone JS – Hello World tutorial (Veera Sundar)
• Naming via Class, ID, and Name (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with Autobox (Mehfuz Hossain)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Introduction (Karl Scotland)
• 05. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – No Double, Triple Testing and 06. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – PBI Implementation Sequence (Clemens Reijnen)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages (Jeff Wilcox)
• GTasks Plus v1.0 – Open Source Windows Phone 7 Application (Max)
• 2000 WPF Things #483 – InkCanvas MinHeight and MinWidth (Sean Sexton)
• Calling Web Services to Validate Data in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• Windows Phone with modem access – sending SMS messages through a terminal emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Tablet Show – Andrew Glover Plugs the PhoneGap (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 123 – 01.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Red-Gate Webinars (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Ball Flow Recap: CodeMash Coding Dojo (Brendan Enrick)
• About Orchard Governance and Microsoft (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sharing The Point Antarctica (Joel Oleson)
• Windows Azure Discovery Events (Zhiming Xue)
• The new OpenEverything organization (Sebastien Lambla)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands (Scott Guthrie)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle v5.2 and Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v5.2 (MS Downloads)
• MongoDB: Embedded Documents vs Multiple Collections (Karl Seguin)
• Execution Plans, What Do I Look At? (Grant Fritchey)
• System Base Tables (Jason Brimhall)
• What are the impersonation rights for my database users? (Mark Broadbent)

 

Miscellaneous

• Vim for rails developers: browse Ruby, RSpec and Rails docs quickly (Luca Pette)
• The problem with virtual training: instructional design, not distance (Jessica Stillman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Essential iOS Build and Release – $5.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Why does it take Task Manager longer to appear when you start it from the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog? (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 30 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #806 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1032 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #31 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 – #0033 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD by James A. Whittaker