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Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

Top Links

News Flash: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Paul Thurrott)
Interactive Tutorial on Async Functions – just released (Joe Albahari)
NodeJS on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
How we use your PerfWatson data to identify Unresponsive areas (Shibani Basava)

.NET / Visual Studio

F# Compiler IL Optimizations (Robert Pickering)
Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Web Platform Tools and Microsoft Visio 2010 Developer Training (MS Downloads)
Install a shared Assembly to the GAC as post build event from Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
WCF Web API: Role based access control with basic authentication (Alexander Zeitler)
Mixing some Dynamic-ness with IronJS in .NET 4 (Chris Pietschmann)
Static Code Analysis – Understanding the Predefined Rules (Zain Naboulsi)
IRC you with IRC.NET and Open source Kinect gesture recognition project, Kinect DTW (Greg Duncan)
Native NuGet Support in TeamCity (Hadi Hariri)
Exchange WebService ItemIds are case-sensitive (Henning Krause)
Facebook C# SDK – Release v5.2.1 and .NET JSON parser & deserializer Beta 2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

jQuery Mobile & Rails (Ken Collins)
Play Sound in HTML5 and cross browser support with backward compatability. (Joe Stagner)
#Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
Learning about Progressive Enhancement – Supporting Mobile Browsers with CSS3 Media Queries (Scott Hanselman)
Working with SimpleMembership outside of ASP.NET (Steve Smith)
Getting Started with Ruby on Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
“Pragmatic Guide to Sass” is in Beta! (Joey deVilla)
Explaining Drupal to Others – What is this Drew-paul thing you do? (Luke)
DotNetNuke Community Edition – Release v6.00.01 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Why MSTest is the IE6 of unit test frameworks (Roy Osherove)
SDL Threat Modeling Tool 3.1.8 (MS Downloads)
5 signs your conversation is about to turn toxic (Benjamin Mitchell)
Testing your games: Survey for Game Usability (Surf4Fun)
Changing People’s Barriers (Jurgen Appelo)
The Three Phases of OOP Matter (K. Scott Allen)
How we learn to write code (Scott Koon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part2: Data Binding and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database mapping and Data Binding Images in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
A helpful hand-up with MVVM with the Introduction to MVVM Hands On Lab for Visual Studio 2010 (Greg Duncan)
Analog Clock DataTemplate for System.DateTime added to learnwpf samples project (LearnWPF)
Windows Phone Network Analysis – where the Xbox Live app gets game metadata? and Accessing Microsoft Office in the locked Windows Phone Emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
2000 WPF Things #372 – Defining Tooltips for GUI Elements (Sean Sexton)
WPFSpark v0.7 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Emily Lewis Builds the Web One MicroFormat at a Time (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter: C++ and Beyond and GoingNative 1: VC++ vNext, CRT, C++ and Beyond (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #130: The Great Negative Color Debacle (James Shore)
Dimecasts Episode #200 is Launched (Derik Whittaker)
Visual Studio Toolbox: JScript Editor Extensions (Robert Green)
Developer Smackdown Musing #58: A few beers and JavaScript with Brandon Satrom (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
Hot Apps: Plants vs Zombies, Taptitude, LiveFrom, Brain Cube, PhotoFunia (Laura Foy)
My Intern Life 3 – Episode 7 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Video: How to Use the Denali Windowing Functions (Jeremiah Peschka)

Community / Events

Supporting Facebook Developers on Stack Overflow (Will Liu)
Announcing facebook.stackoverflow.com (Alex Miller)
Upcoming 3 and 5 day TDD classes (Roy Osherove)
MVPs Help Others Play Hard at Rehabilitation (MVP Award Program)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop CTP1 (Greg Duncan)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Table-Valued Store Procedure Parameters – Day 25 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Author’s Book is Available in India and USA (Pinal Dave)
Even Simple Changes Can Cause Trouble: A Tale of TempDb (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

BCS Meta Man – Using a Connection String stored in the Secure Store (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

Unencrypted IMAP connection? Bad idea – here’s why. (Dennis Delimarsky)
Microsoft Small Basic (James Serra)
Further Down the Rabbit Hole: PowerShell Modules and Encapsulation (Michael Sorens)
Friends don’t send friends to Download.com for software (Steven Hodson)
Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” supports WiFi internet sharing/tethering (damaster)
Microsoft shows off Lync Mobile for Windows Phone (Owen Williams)
Send a bookmark to Instapaper from Internet Explorer Mobile (Matthieu Guyonnet-Duluc)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading August 24, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Today’s Links (8/24/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #924 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 08/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 23-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Link dump for August 24th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 24 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
SilverlightShow for August 14 – 21, 2011 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt

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Dew Drop – August 17, 2011

Top Links

The easy way to set up NuGet to restore packages (David Ebbo)
Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
"BECAUSE WE’RE ALL PERSONS": EMPATHY AND OPEN SOURCE (Mattt Thompson)
I’m a phony. Are you? (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

Some special monads in F# – Part 5 of n – Application: Poker (Steffen Forkmann)
Real World .NET 4 and C# (Christian Nagel)
Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse (Telerik Team Pulse)
MVVM your Kinect code (Greg Duncan)
DXCore Expression Lab tool window for observing the parsed source code trees (Alex Skorkin)
Clojure and the CLR (K. Scott Allen)
Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
Mono.Addins – Release: v0.6.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm (Derek Johnson)
Dealing with singular plural phrasing (Phil Haack)
An Issue with Area in ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB.NET) (Imran Baloch)
ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
#Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD246 (O’Reilly Media)
Windows Azure Storage Libraries in Many Languages and Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
CSS3: Animations vs. Transitions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
How to execute/run a shell script as root from a PHP script? (Svetoslav Marinov)
Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum basics: The process (John Rayner)
Understanding Enterprise Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
Agile Innovation Games (Peter Saddington)
Are Workflows Really That Bad? (Hint: Maybe They Aren’t) (Sasha Goldshtein)
A New Era in Application Development, Part I (Stephen Forte)
Technical Debt (Charles Max Wood)
Macto: Looking at warrants (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Beginners How to: Programmatically set common Control properties and How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
Silverlight testing framework support in the Unit Testing Service (Alex Skorkin)
Windows 8 and the Death of Silverlight (Chris Eargle)
Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight (Kunal Chowdhury)
Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
2000 WPF Things #366 – Binding a Calendar Control’s SelectedDate Property to a Nullable DateTime (Sean Sexton)
On a path to a generic About page (Andrej Tozon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 03 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 (MS Podcasts)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 74: Mobile Web Is Not What The Other Guys Say It Is (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
Episode 158 – PowerScripting Podcast – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse Talk NuGet and PSGet (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Engadget HD Podcast 261 – 08.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Keyvan.TV Episode 1 – Pilot (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

Let Critical Path Training send you to the SharePoint Conference 2011! (Andrew Connell)
Will Microsoft reveal a new IDE at the BUILD conference? (Daniel Fisher)
Get Trained on Sweet, Sweet Mango! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Author news: Sign up for Mango Jump Start August 23-24 (Kim Spilker)
Empathy and Open Source (Joe Mayo)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (Glenn Berry)
Deleting Data in Small Chunks on SQL Server (Jason Crider)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Sparse Data and Space Used by Sparse Data – Day 17 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – Copy Results with Headers – Management Studio (Vishal)
T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause (Henrik Sjang Davidse)
Adding custom folders to your SSMS Object Explorer with this free addin… (Greg Duncan)
Knowing what your doing with NOLOCK… (Greg Duncan)
Calculate table size with existing data (Jack Vamvas)
Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today (Jason Brimhall)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing (Mary Jo Foley)
The anatomy of Xcode’s project window (O’Reilly Media)
Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone (damaster)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Weekly Link Post 206 (Rhonda Tipton)
Today’s Links (8/16/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #918 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 08/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Daily WP7 Development News 16 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Weekly Links– 2010_29 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

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