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Next week’s Dew Drop posts will be a bit sporadic. I will be on vacation, enjoying some time at home with my family.

Top Links

• A holiday.js gift for Azure Node.js developers (Glenn Block)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor (Alexia Tsotsis)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Unit Testing with Func<TResult> Generators (James Michael Hare)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 19: Refactoring a “Monster” Functional Test, Part 1 (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generate Return Values Using Lambdas in Moq (Richard Carr)
• Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce (Carl Nolan)
• Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts? (Charles Sterling)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 (Mike Fourie)
• Roslyn CTP: Three Introductory Projects (Whaeth)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features (Jeff Martin)
• Rx – Buffer (Bnaya Eshet)
• LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.5 (CodePlex)
• Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
• How do I determine programmatically whether a particular language is LTR or RTL? (Raymond Chen)
• XSLT 2.0 in .NET (Akram El Assas)
• Treat a plain string as URL and fetch query string values (Jyothikarthik_N)
• SqlMapperHelper – A Helper Class for Dapper-Dot-Net (Peter Bromberg)

Web Development

• CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit (Eric Bidelman)
• Typography effects with CSS3 (Leigh Howells)
• Async file upload with jquery and ASP.NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress (Stephen Walther)
• Knockout 2.0.0 is Available (John Papa)
• Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Facebook: Platform Updates for Games Developers (Namita Gupta)
• Adobe Muse Beta 5.1 released (Ron)
• Custom Events are Pretty Cool (Chris Coyier)
• Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners) (Daniel Pataki)
• Umbraco CMS 5.0 RC 1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visualising Kanban Dimensions with TIPs (Karl Scotland)
• The Process of Change – Complexities of Attitudinal Change – Axiology [Part 4/4] (Peter Saddington)
• Return-Oriented Programming (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Advice for Young Developers: Learn to Make Your Own Decisions (J. Boyer)
• Functional version of the visitor pattern (Akram El Assas)
• Getting Gilded Rose Under Test (Bobby Johnson)
• Dynamic binding for data-driven tests in MbUnit v3 (Yann Trevin)
• Get into the flow with Spinning (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project and How to Update Secondary and Application Tiles in Windows Phone apps and Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to set the HTML string in the webbrowser control in Windows Phone in MVVM context (Nicolas Humann)
• How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Mango Apps: Designspire Gets Huge Update (Functions Like Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone Mango Sample: Input Scope (Jerry Nixon)
• Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight security overview paper has been updated for Silverlight 5 (Nick Kramer)
• Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight (Punit Ganshani)
• 2000 WPF Things #457 – Use a GridSplitter to Let a User Change Row or Column Size in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 8th Day of Silverlight : Vector Printing (Tony Champion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Joe Albahari – LINQ, LINQPad, and .NET Async (and a little Rx, too) (Charles Torre)
• Making Learning More Interactive and Fun for Young Children (Sheridan Jones)
• Coming in 2012: The Geekadelphia Podcast (Jo Pincushion)
• Introducing the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series (Zhiming Xue)
• Let’s Play TDD #153: Push the Button (James Shore)
• Fever Pitched Episode 5: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 21 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Roman Karachinsky Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Thing To Do in the New Year: Learn XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win8 & WPF (London Training) (Silverlight Show)
• Call for C++ Community folks in Belgium – January 10th meeting and Join us for the first PHP & Windows Azure Hackthon in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
• 11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012. (Michael Crump)
• Interview with Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework: Code First (Jean Lambert)
• Five years of Encosia (Dave Ward)
• Women Want to Hack! (Emily Smith)
• Kinect at Chippewa Valley Code Camp (Greg Duncan)
• “Earned a Stack Overflow gold badge” Badges! (Laura Dobrzynski)

Database

• 101 with the Interactive Feature of SQL Server Integration Services (Keshav Singh)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Script for Point in Time Recovery – Back Up and Restore (Pinal Dave)
• Replacing Cell Security with Dimension Security (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

• 2 PowerShell Cmdlet Updates (Josh T.)

Miscellaneous

• Gathering, viewing and understanding performance data with the new PerfView utility (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services? (Kip Kniskern)
• 6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012 (Lance Ulanoff)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
• Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1009 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure