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Dew Drop – January 15, 2012 (#1,243)

Dew Drop – January 12, 2012 (#1,240)

.NET / Visual Studio

Northwind Starter Kit Review: The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge (Oren Eini)
Basic Volume Control (Richard Carr)
Benjamin Day slides us into “How to be a C# ninja in 10 easy steps" and BugAid – Enhanced C# Debugging tool (and free for non-commercial open source projects too) (Greg Duncan)
Kicking off StructureMap 3 (Jeremy D. Miller)
How can I detect the language a run of text is written in? (Raymond Chen)
Kinect Apps – ensuring Kinect Runtime is installed (Rob Relyea)
With Azure SDK 1.6, Azure Diagnostics is enabled by default can cause thousands of daily transections to Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)
async await and Exception Handling (Bnaya Eshet)
A brief overview of type system metadata in various languages (Dru Sellers)
VS hangs for 1 minute on start debugging? Check for dead symbol paths! (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources (Ben Nadel)
NetAdvantage For jQuery Chart – An HTML5/jQuery Chart Designed for Performance! (Graham Murray)
Controlling Selection with CSS user-select (Sharon Newman)
jQuery Grid – Showing Row Selectors & Selection (Jordan Tsankov)
JSON serialization problems and solution in MVC3 (Nuri Halperin)
Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope? (Robby Ingebretsen)
Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development (Michael J. Ross)
CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements (Sergio Camalich)
Advanced Random Numbers in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
PhpStorm 3.0: New and Noteworthy in Database Realm (Alexey Korsun)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Experts advise growing Agile projects with feature teams (Anand Vishwanath)
Agile Project Management—Driving Value or Where’s the Beef? (Bob Galen)
How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek (Peter Saddington)
Forrester: Developer Testing Lowers Costs & Increases Quality (Avi Kaye)
Integration testing with Azure development storage (Rory Primrose)
Open/Closed Principle on real world code (Giorgio Sironi)
Do Tests Get Too Much Respect? (Gil Zilberfeld)
Getting started with Git and GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Extending XAML Applications with Custom Commands and Getting Started with Coding4Fun Button Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) and Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
2000 WPF Things #471 – How FlowDirection Works with the Image Element (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections (Senthil Kumar)
Joe Belfiore interview: Windows Phone will compete on quality, not specs (Vlad Savov)
A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning (Ashley Davis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out About Electricity! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
ACMQ Online Programming Competition: Jan 1- Feb 12, 2012 (Charles Torre)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 050 – “Silent and Invisible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Boagworld: Give users a sense of control (Paul Boag)
Windows Weekly 243: Live From CES (Paul Thurrott)
Engadget Podcast 273: CES 2012 Day 3 – 01.11.2012 and The Vergecast 010: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.11.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 281: CES 2012 – 01.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Inside Windows Phone #30 | Arturo Toledo is back (Larry Lieberman)
The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at CES 2012 (video) (Myriam Joire)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1 (Robert Green)
VIDEO: Watch a Galaxy Nexus get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)
Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

Magenic celebrates a few of its internal OSS developers… (Greg Duncan)
CES 2012: Two new Nokia apps for Windows Phone coming soon – Nokia Transport and Nokia City Lens (damaster)
Meet Todd Anglin – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)

Database

The SSIS Expression Way–Skipping an Unwanted File (Arthur Zubarev)
SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick – read throughput (Jack Vamvas)
SQL SERVER – Non-Clustered Index and Automatic Rebuild – Quiz – Puzzle – 11 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
Join Hint in SQL – Guest Post by Joydeep Das (Kunal Chowdhury)
Now accepting more users for the Data Explorer Cloud service! (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Installer Error: KB976462 Could Not Be Installed (Martin W. Angler)
On Site SharePoint Experience UI/UX Branding Class with Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Joel Oleson)
SharePoint 2010 Fluent Ribbon API Release 1.4 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Creating a WordPress and Blogging New Year’s Resolutions List (Lorelle VanFossen)
Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules For Startups (Mark Cuban)
Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise" (Pankaj Arora)
Using MessageBox Control Outside UpdatePanel Control (Vincent Maverick Durano)
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango Commercial Release 2: What’s inside (Mary Jo Foley)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Jennifer Kyrnin

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Dew Drop – January 8, 2012 (#1,236)

.NET / Visual Studio

Stein’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Stack Unwind Does Not Occur When C++ Exceptions Propagate Into Managed Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
The Windows Libraries for JavaScript: Part I (Chris Sells)
How to work with NuGet? (Dhananjay Kumar)
NHibernate Pitfalls: SQL Queries and Parameter Prefix (Ricardo Peres)
A bit more about Using Ninject 2.2 – factory methods (AngelEyes)

Web Development

jQuery Splitter and jQuery Tooltip (jqwidgets)
ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Intro to Property-Based Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Our Ajax Conventions–Request Correlation and Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
Hadoop Streaming and Reporting and Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage (Carl Nolan)
JSON.net and Deserializing Anonymous Types (David Hoerster)
New Year – Updated Ubuntu Rails Setup (Eric Proctor)
Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services (Richard Seroter)
Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Getting Results the Agile Way – Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management and 10 Things Great Managers Do and 30 Days of Getting Results – Free Time-Management Training (JD Meier)
CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it? (Jeremy Likness)
Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile Adoption and Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic (Peter Cooper)
You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… (Jason Jarrett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

How to Show a deleted List Item with a Strike Through in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
New maintenance release for Windows Phone (Eric Hautala)
Windows Phone 7 Info Hub – All the phone info, one helpful hub [#wpdev] (Greg Duncan)
WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Retrieving a WebPage Title and Sharing it with the ShareLinkTask in WP7 (Michael Crump)
Follow Up: How Many Apps Are on Your Windows Phone Handset? (Richard Hay)
Kung Fu Windows Phone – User Feedback (Rudi Grobler)
WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many and WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 2of Many (Vijaya Malla)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 049 – “Dial 666 For Evil Carrier” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 425: Hello 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 120 – 01.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
New Video: Integrating Test Studio with TFS (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

RavenDB Course in London: 28–29 February (Oren Eini)
Nerd Nite No. 10, January 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
Microsoft Free Virtual Private Cloud Event, Jan 17th and code.NASA – Coding opportunities for wanna-be space cowboys and girls. NASA says "We’ve got our OSS space app’s right here…" (Greg Duncan)

Database

The officially easiest way to play with SQL Server 2012… The SQL Server Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
SQL SERVER – Collation and Collation Sensitivity – Quiz – Puzzle – 6 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Indexed Views and Restrictions – Quiz – Puzzle – 7 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Azure Federation – Introduction (Shaun)
Normalizing Your Database (James Serra)
Does My MongoDB Replica Set Need An Arbiter? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – About this Series and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Why You Should Care & the Development Story and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Breaking Out of the Sandbox and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Integration Options (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Best way to browse iOS documentation (Deepak Kapoor)
Excerpt Old Posts – A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit (Jon Galloway)
Weekend project: Create a family calendar (Juliette Guilbert)
Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver and Learning Android: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with android-maven-plugin (Mark Needham)
Why I think Windows Phone is superior phone OS? (Slobodan Pavkov)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

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Dew Drop – January 15, 2012 (#1,243)

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Dew Drop – January 12, 2012 (#1,240)

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Dew Drop – January 8, 2012 (#1,236)

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