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Dew Drop – January 10, 2012 (#1,238)

Dew Drop – January 6, 2012 (#1,235)

.NET / Visual Studio

Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M. Bucknall)
CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)

Database

31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

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Dew Drop – January 5, 2012 (#1,234)

.NET / Visual Studio

Image Preview in Solution Explorer – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
You’re my FavorIt code file… FavorIt adds favorites to your Visual Studio Solution and SocialCounter.Net, a .Net Library to get all those Social counts (Greg Duncan)
Setting a default value for C# Auto-implemented properties (OriginalGriff)
The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server (Shai Raiten)
Use the Caching Service for your Windows Azure Applications (Zhiming Xue)
Blog Post: Version Control Improvements in CodeSmith Generator 6.0 (Eric Smith)
Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects from IDataReader (Elton Stoneman)

Web Development

What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support (Ben Nadel)
An In Depth Overview of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility (Ian Devlin)
Installing and Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Method (Giorgio Sironi)
Matador: The Obvious MVC Framework for Node (Dustin Diaz)
Using HTML 5 Geo Location in an ASP.NET MVC Bing Maps Application (Part 2) (Sumit Maitra)
Random Numbers in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Day 12 — 3D pixel particles (Seb Lee-Delisle)
Nancy running on Heroku (Andreas Håkansson)
How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress (Kevin Leary)
Stack Exchange V2 Goes Beta, Launches Contest (Romin Irani)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: How Hadoop cluster was setup on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Leap of Faith and Nailing Your Goals for 2012 (JD Meier)
Executable Attributes in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
Printing Story Cards for Physical Scrum Board (Petr Pechovic)
On Infinite Scalability (Oren Eini)
Fluentator – generate fluent API for your structures (Pavel Savara)
Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows (Morgan Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Silverlight: Behaviors for TextBox (Denis Gladkikh)
FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps (Colin Eberhardt)
Top 10 SilverlightShow Ebooks for 2011 (Silverlight Show)
Infragistics Silverlight 5 Installers Available for Download (Jason Beres)
2000 WPF Things #466 – Using a GridSplitter in Conjunction with a SharedSizeGroup (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – John Papa Looks at the Microsoft Client Landscape (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Herding Code 131: Chris Williams and Matthew Podwysocki on the Javascript community (Jon Galloway)
YOW! 2011: Nigel Dalton – Agile Product Development (Charles Torre)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Manual Testing (Robert Green)
Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC (Larry Larsen)
Office 911: Don’t panic, build your skills (Laura Foy)
The Verge Mobile Podcast 008 – 01.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Yet Another Podcast #56–Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award (Rob Eisenberg)
MVP Program Thoughts for New Awardees (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

Assess your SQL Server to SQL Azure migration using SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment Tool by SQL Azure Labs (Avkash Chauhan)
SQL SERVER REBUILD INDEX and SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically (Jack Vamvas)
Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Jes Schultz Borland)
SQL SERVER – An Important Part of Most SELECT statement – WHERE clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 4 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – Identifying default data directory for multiple instances through registry (Vishal)
Bliki: NosqlDistilled (Martin Fowler)
SQLCop integration with Red Gate’s SQL Test (George Mastros)

PowerShell

PowerShell 3 – Finally on the DLR! and Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium? (Joel Bennett)
PowerShell Check for Empty SecureString Entry (Brian Jackett)

Miscellaneous

3 Tips for Getting What You Want in the New Year (MS JobsBlog)
Best Online File Comparison Tool (Aaron Grogg)
40 Most Anticipated Xbox 360 Games of 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
5 Unusual Ways to Raise Successful Children (April Dykman)
★ You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking (John Gruber)
Learning Android: Getting a service to communicate with an activity (Mark Needham)
Look who’s back: Ray Ozzie, Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect (Mary Jo Foley)
Oracle’s copyright / patent infringement trial against Google set to begin in March (Matt Macari)
How To Resize An Image Using Snagit 10 (Muhammad Omer Khan)
Windows Phone Update 8107 Rolling Out – Fixes Disappearing Keyboard, Exchange & More (Antonio Hernandez)
Life Satisfaction – Nerds Win (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer) by Kalen Delaney

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Dew Drop – January 10, 2012 (#1,238)

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Dew Drop – January 6, 2012 (#1,235)

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Dew Drop – January 5, 2012 (#1,234)

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