Dew Drop – February 9, 2012 (#1,262)

Top Links

• The State of NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Requests (Scott Dorman)
• Microsoft to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC (Mary Jo Foley)
• Stack Exchange Keyboard Shortcuts (Jeff Atwood)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #2–Cohesion (Oren Eini)
• TFS 2010 Grant Backup Plan Permissions Error (Bob Hardister)
• YaWhiteBoard – A Simple Whiteboard using C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• A new Gadgeteer blog – VB Magic (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper (Ravi Bollapragada)
• The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• datatemplateselector winrt (babaandthepigman)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: AboditNLP (Jason Jarrett)
• Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0 (Jef Claes)
• Using Fluent NHibernate for XML-Free Class Mapping (Joydip Kanjilal)

 

Web Development

• WebDev Playground: dabblet.com for HTML/CSS, jsfiddler.com for JS & HUrl.it for REST (Code Inside Team)
• jQuery Tip #2: Manipulating the DOM in a Loop (Dan Wahlin)
• Lighter Configuration Files and Better ASP.NET Support with WCF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• The Decorator pattern, or its cousin, in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Emerging Trends in Ruby on Rails Development in 2012 (Mich de Castro)
• SignalR : Best thing since slice bread? (Sacha Barber)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• Book Giveaway: The Book of Ruby (Louis Lazaris)
• NEW! Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Michele Hart)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• At a Single Glance – Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics (Joel Semeniuk)
• Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
• Finding Out When Something Happened in Your Git Repo (Christopher Bennage)
• Avoiding Prescriptive Requirements (Jak Charlton)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #6 Layout (Windows Phone Geek)
• Treadmill Assistant Windows Phone 7 App Released (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #491 – Displaying a Hyperlink (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day – 9/Feb/2012 – Introducing Silverlight 4 (Tatworth)
• Using RadDiagnostics for WP7 to receive error reports anonymously (Valentin Stoychev)
• Part 2: Developing for a multitude of clients: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 013 – 02.08.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld: Don’t limit your options when wireframing (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 104: The Future Of Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing: Start Smart – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows 7.5 Video: Fast Application Switching (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• Visual Studio Live! – Las Vegas (Brian Peek)
• Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines (Charles Sterling)
• Win a free pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas in SilverlightShow Contest (Silverlight Show)
• WPUG Talk: Developing cross-platform mobile applications with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Register for Telerik Webinars (Stephen Forte)
• A Coder Interview With Dave Ward (The Code Project)
• Philadelphia Star Trek Meetup: Sunday @ Hive 76 (Mikey Il)
• Free DevExpress Day – 25th February 2012 – Bad Ems, Germany (Oliver Sturm)
• Azure Update On February 15, 2012 @ NYC Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)
• MADExpo Family Fun Feature #1 (Kevin Griffin)
• OSS Rules of Engagement (Jimmy Bogard)
• Isolating Code: A Quick Intro to Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• FREE Webcasts: Temptations That Lead to the 5 Deadly Sins of SharePoint #in the Enterprise and FREE Feb 9 Webcast: The State of Enterprise Social w/ SharePoint #spsocial #mspartner (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)

 

Database

• It’s Hard To Be "Average": Mean, Median, and Mode in SQL Server (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – INNER JOIN Returning More Records than Exists in Table (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Is it better to have coding experience in the US or abroad? (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Is AppStore bad for gaming business? (Scott Barnes)
• Bliki: PresentationSmells (Martin Fowler)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 087 for 2/9/2012 and Maker Geek Roundup 007 for 2/8/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #814 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1040 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-08 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 08 – #0038 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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