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Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

Dew Drop – August 24, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Using Mutex to avoid deadlocks (Abhijit Jana)
Wcf, IXmlSerializable and The XmlReader state should be EndOfFile after this operation. (Gian Maria Ricci)
WCF Support Improved in Mono (Jonathan Allen)
Using Infragistics Map control extensions with SQL Server 2008 via WCF (Mihail Mateev)
Async Support in Telerik JustCode (Just* Team)
Entrance into Git for .NET Developer (Code Inside Team)
Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 3 (Daniel Mohl)

Web Development

HTML5 Web Camp Resources (G. Andrew Duthie)
How to allow user to input html in ASP.NET MVC? (Abhijit Jana)
Building an HTML App – Workout Timer – Clock Logic (Joe Stagner)
A Magnifying Lens using Script and CSS (K. Scott Allen)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Array with Object (Giorgio Sironi)
Bulletproof CSS3 media queries (Vladimir Carrer)
My article on HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers is now online (Wally McClure)
Tips I got from the Umbraco community (Simone Chiaretta)
Flickr API Photo Discovery Goes Real-time (Kin Lane)
Autoscaling Windows Azure applications (Grigori Melnik)
Building AutoMapper.org (Jimmy Bogard)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Some links on design patterns and their relevance to F# (Don Syme)
Elegancy challenge: Cacheable Batches (Oren Eini)
Code Smells and Other Problems (Sasha Goldshtein)
Software Development is not a Jenga game (Mark Nijhof)
Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team – Part 1 (Joel Semeniuk)
Using Frameworks Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have To Know What You’re Doing (Davy Brion)
ALM Practices Part 12: Reducing Technical Debt (Dennis Doomen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.6 officially released: cool new components and lots of fixes and Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part2: Data Binding (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone 7 Iconography (Peter Kuhn)
Page Orientation in Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
How to Convert a Rectangle to a Path Control using Expression Blend? and Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate (RC) released – Download the Offline/Web Installer (Kunal Chowdhury)
WPF: Using Task Library to Load Data (Mahesh Sabnis)
WP7Contrib – Tombstoning Part II The View Model and WP7Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part IV Location Simplified (Rich Griffin)
2000 WPF Things #371 – Specifying a Default Date for a Calendar Control to Display (Sean Sexton)
XNA to SilverXNA–Part 3–Baby steps and your first control (Simon Jackson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 159 – PowerScripting Podcast – Tome Tanasovski on Regular Expressions and More (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
TWiT 315: Cask Strength (Paul Thurrott)
The Engadget Show – 024: We visit Ferrari, take over Times Square, check out the Grid 10, and talk patents with the EFF (Brian Heater)
Video: How to Use the Denali Windowing Functions (Jeremiah Peschka)
Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 – Beta Overview Video (Blake Niemyjski)

Community / Events

Life at the Mothership: an introspection (Tim Heuer)

Database

SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Easy Introduction to CHECK Options – Day 24 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL 101 – The WHERE clause (Shannon Lowder)
Computed Columns and CASE (Steve Jones)
ORMs don’t kill databases. Developers do. (Jag Reehal)
Replication Agent Logging (Brandon Williams)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 PowerShell enable/disable feature for all site collections (Greg Galipeau)
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 (Joel Oleson)
Calling SharePoint workflow instances programmatically from other SharePoint workflows (Justin Joyce)
Request for SharePoint code sample ideas (Frank Rice)

Miscellaneous

Windows Home Server 2011 Resources (MS Downloads)
Zero to Maker: Project-Based Learning (David Lang)
Samuel L. Ipsum (or: When Lorem Ipsum Goes Badass) (Joey deVilla)
Three20 And Custom NIB TableViewCells (Nick Berardi)
The Technical Friend’s Essential Maintenance Checklist for Non-Technical Friend’s Windows Computer (Scott Hanselman)
Now available: Zune 4.8 (Matt Akers)
Nobody Wants a Tablet! (Stephen Forte)
Windows 8 to bring new file copy, delete, and move UI (Steven Hodson)
Windows Phone Reaches 30,000 Apps, Opens Marketplace to Mango Submissions (Sarah Perez)
Microsoft confirms Windows Phone “Tango” to be the next update (damaster)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Pragmatic Programmers) by Brian P. Hogan

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Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Use of SpinLock for ThreadLocking and Use of Interlocked in Race Condition and Barrier in .NET 4.0 and Not able to view all the running Worker Process in Visual Studio – Process Attach Window – Resolution (Abhijit Jana)
Parallel ForEach Loop (Richard Carr)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method (James Michael Hare)
Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
Kinect Reception–Introduction (Shai Raiten)
Unity Auto Registration (Jimmy Larkin)
RavenDB Lazy Requests (Oren Eini)
Declaring various properties using CodeRush code generation tools (Alex Skorkin)
Do you want a faster File.Exists / FileInfo.Exists / Directory.Exists ? I do ! (Jonathan Antoine)
Blog Post: How To: Activate & Deactivate (Autumn Wilkins)
A gentle introduction to dependent types (Cédric Beust)
Adding translation to your apps is a dot away with the "Bing Translator .NET Extension Methods" open source project (Greg Duncan)
PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) (James Curran)
Going Asynchronous (Chris Eargle)
Updated Course: Developing Windows Concurrent Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

The HTML5 Paradigm Shift–Don’t Miss The Next Wave (Chris Love)
HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Let’s You Access Remote Systems (Rey Bango)
Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position (Scott Hanselman)
Call ASP.NET Page Methods using your own AJAX (Abhijit Jana)
Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com (George Puckett)
A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI (Stephen Forte)
Powerful PHP: Less Known String Manipulation (Stoimen Popov)
AJAX Series Part 1: Building a Web Applications with Third-party Controls in Real Time (Carl Bergenhem)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum basics: The sprint (John Rayner)
Compliance – Development Teams are Product-Oriented (Peter Saddington)
A Brief Introduction of Fundamental OOP (Chris Eargle)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header (Deyan Ginev)
Who says you can’t run Silverlight on Android ? (Don Burnett)
Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Windows Phone Design Tips #3 (Andrew Spooner)
Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
2000 WPF Things #368 – Specifying Blackout Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar (Nikolai Tillmann)
RadChart for Windows Phone – going to the pole (Georgi Atanasov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #129: Root Cause Analysis (James Shore)
G4 TV’s Jessica Chobot tours Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
Defrag: 4k Drive Backup, Office Add-on in IE, Forcing Aero Glass On (Larry Larsen)
Hot Apps: Beards & Beaks, Kill The Duck, Fantastic Finger Fun, Angry Birds Scoop, Eventful (Laura Foy)
A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast" (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone Dev Pocast Episode 030 – “Phonies vs. Ninjas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Charlie Wood Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

FREE Course On Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit Course (Satish Talim)
HTML5 Web Camps – Special Guest Announcement (G. Andrew Duthie)
The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
Philly Geek Awards: The Sponsors (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile (Philip Japikse)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
How to report a SQL Server performance problem (Jack Vamvas)
SQL Server: Last Day Previous Month without DATEADD and DATEDIFF (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – The Clustered Index – Simple Understanding – Day 19 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST() (Vishal)
[SSIS] OnPipelineRowsSent event (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

SP2010 Continuous Integration – Installing TFS2010 (inc. Build and Test agents) (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Windows 7 Tool Roundup: Small But Explosive, Just Like Dynamite (Pete Seale)
Slides from PowerShell Deep Dive sessions (Dmitry Sotnikov)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

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Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 24, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

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