To all my east coast readers, stay safe and stay dry this weekend.
Top Links
- Interactive Extensions (Ix) v1.1.10823 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
- All Jump Start: Windows Phone "Mango" pdfs + samples (Windows Phone Geek)
- Announcing batman.js (Nick Small, James MacAulay, Harry Brundage & Kamil)
- Report: Microsoft shows off quad-core Windows slate. Could this be its Build give-away? (Mary Jo Foley)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Web Platform Tools (MS Downloads)
- Adding NuGet Support to F# Interactive (Daniel Mohl)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Five Easy Sequence Aggregators (James Michael Hare)
- How to stop System.Uri un-escaping forward slash characters (Mike Hadlow)
- TFS 2010 Training Kit (Shai Raiten)
- TFS 2010 – Edit Work Item Type Definition using Team Foundation Power Tool (Subodh Sohoni)
- Very High Quality Image Resizing in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Updating JustTrace and Sending Feedback (Chris Eargle)
- Using Kinect to create a HyperReality experience (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- JavaScript: shuffling by sorting (Julian M. Bucknall)
- CSS Tricks and the Alternate Universe of Graphics Primitives (K. Scott Allen)
- How To Become A Web Design Expert (Paul Boag)
- Be careful declaring properties in CoffeeScript (Pavan Podila)
- Building a small microframework with PHP (Gonzalo Ayuso)
- Opa – "Advancing web development to the next generation" (think "cloud language") (Greg Duncan)
- Playing with ASP.NET List Controls using jQuery (Abhijit Jana)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Author news: Ken Schwaber writing another Agile book (Devon Musgrave)
- Testing your game: Determining the Game Playability (Surf4Fun)
- Everything I can find about Software Maintenance (Jim Bird)
- Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team – Part 2 (Joel Semeniuk)
- When You Have No Product Owner At All (Johanna Rothman)
- Dealing with invalid Subversion SSL certificates and migrations (Martin Hinshelwood)
- RavenDB Migrations: Rolling Updates (Oren Eini)
- Behavior-Driven Development for your iPhone projects! (Alex Curylo)
- Load Testing for Developers (Simon Brown)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Data Binding Images in Windows Phone and Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part3: Freezing and Unfreezing tiles (Windows Phone Geek)
- How to get WP7-sized Bing wallpapers (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Task Parallel Library for Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)
- How to Crop an object using Expression Blend? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- My MVVM tombstone pattern (Pieter de Rycke)
- Windows Phone Jumpstart Ends (Rob Miles)
- LightSwitch 2011: Truly "Coding Optional"? (Jenni Ripley)
- 2000 WPF Things #373 – Creating More Complex Tooltips (Sean Sexton)
- XNA to SilverXNA-part 4 Degrees of Separation (Simon Jackson)
- Review: Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook (Silverlight Show)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Let’s Play TDD #131: JComponent vs. JPanel (James Shore)
- Silverlight TV 83: Using Wireframes to Visually Communicate a Windows Phone Experience (John Papa)
- Building 4 remodel makes room for The Garage (MS JobsBlog)
- The JavaScript Show – Deck.js, State Machines, and JavaScript Testing (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- This is my next Podcast 021 – 08.25.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Shameen Prashantham Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 031 – “Go Long!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Community / Events
- New Bytes by MSDN Delivers the Latest Interviews with Experts on the Cloud and Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
- Register now for New Game, the conference for HTML5 game developers (Google Chrome Blog)
- Pluralsight and JetBrains Agreement (Hadi Hariri)
Database
- SQL Server: Handle Nulls While Sorting Data in Ascending Order (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Table-Valued Functions – Day 26 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
- Index Disabled and Index Rebuild (Jack Vamvas)
- Checking Your SQL Azure Server Connection (Gregory Leake)
SharePoint
- SP2010 Continuous Integration – pt 3: Creating your first TFS Build Process for SharePoint projects (Chris O’Brien)
- Troubleshooting and Managing User Experience with Office Web Apps (Joel Oleson)
Miscellaneous
- Infographic: The future is better with a smartphone (Brian Seitz)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Revolution in The Valley – Only $9.99 w/code DDREV (O’Reilly Media)
- Friends don’t send friends to Download.com for software (Steven Hodson)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading August 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- The Morning Brew #925 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 08/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 24-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Today’s Links (8/25/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily Links 26/08/2011 (Jax)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2011 — #1137 (Dave Campbell)
The Geek Shelf
 |
Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph |