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Dew Drop – February 13, 2012 (#1,264)

Top Links

NuGet Project Uncovered: Nukito and NuGet Project Uncovered: Disruptor-net and NuGet Project Uncovered: SpecsFor (Jason Jarrett)
Can Microsoft overcome the smartphone app gap? (Skip Ferderber)
The generalization of “NoSQL” (Kelly Sommers)
Find the jQuery Bug #4: Animations Gone Wild (Elijah Manor)

.NET / Visual Studio

Reflecting Fields (Richard Carr)
Limit your abstractions: You only get six to a dozen in the entire app (Oren Eini)
Cross-platform .NET – try it! and How important is cross-platform development to you? (Dennis Delimarsky)
Using T4Scaffolding to Create DbContext and Repository from Domain Classes (Julie Lerman)
TF200035 Sync error for identity with TFS 2010 (MrHinsh)
Understanding and Implementing Abstract Factory Pattern in C# and Understanding and Implementing Factory Method in C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
C# Performance: new vs Func vs Activator.CreateInstance() (Steve Wilkes)
Linq Challenge in C++ (Tom Hines)
Json.NET 4.0 Release 8 (CodePlex)
ReSharper live template for an INPC property (Andreas Hammar)
“Windows 8 Metro Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed” Book Available For Pre-order (Ali Raza Shaikh)
Basic Auditing for Dynamic Data with Entity Framework 4.x (Steve Naughton)
What’s Coming in JustCode Q1 2012 (JustCode Team)
The Rat-hole of Object-oriented Mapping (Peter Ritchie)
Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit v1.5 for v1 and Walking through learning how to use Microsoft Translator via a console app (Greg Duncan)
Using Self Referencing Tables With Entity Framework (Mike Ceranski)

Web Development

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) AJAX Requests Between jQuery And Node.js (Ben Nadel)
jQuery Grid’s GroupBy. Just add a little JavaScript or ASP.NET MVC to taste! (Damyan Petev)
A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients (Ben Howdle)
The Future of JavaScript – take a peek today! (Andreas Rossberg & Michael Starzinger)
No need to cheat with these HTML5 Cheat Sheets (Tags, Event Handler Attributes) (Greg Duncan)
A NOT Wrox HTML & CSS book (Jim Minatel)
Building A Sweet CSS3 Image Gallery (Niels Matthijs)
Telerik OpenAccess ORM – ASP.NET Web Forms Video Tutorials (OpenAccess ORM Team)
An Introduction to HTML 5 Web Workers (Gerard Gallant)
Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC – An Introduction (Sumit Maitra)
Do You Exclusively Use webkit Prefixes? (Jeffrey Way)
What is worth noting in WebMatrix 2 (Vishal R. Joshi)
Create an Awesome Contact Page (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Introducing easy-to-use Web Scraper : WebHarvy (Sreejith S)
Lose the Wait: HTTP Compression (Billy Hoffman)
Easily Test jQuery Pre-Release Versions (Dan Heberden)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Mobile Web – $17.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
Progressive And Responsive Navigation (Jeremy Hixon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Justifying TDD/BDD & Technical Debt (David Henner)
Three Keys to Lasting Change (J.D. Meier)
[Agile Coach] – Thoughts on Keeping Teams High Performing (Peter Saddington)
Getting Rid of CQRS View Rebuilds (Rinat Abdullin)
Udi & Greg Reach CQRS Agreement (Udi Dahan)
The economics of continuous deployment (Oren Eini)
Finding a Better Way for Management (Shane Hastie)
Sins of the Project Manager (Bob McIlree)
Stakeholders for Organizational Change (Jurgen Appelo)
Outgrowing rhetoric-heavy business-facing tests and If I were an architect (Brian Marick)
TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code (Michael Sorens)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

A Case Study for Building Advanced Windows Phone Applications – Code Samples and Building Testable Windows Phone Applications – Code Samples and Developing a Windows Phone Application using the MVVM Pattern – Code Samples (MS Downloads)
What’s New in Open Source? (Peter Kuhn)
The Gradual Decline in Silverlight Adoption (Colin Eberhardt)
How to download and save images in WP7 Media Library? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Posting To The Facebook Wall in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) and Uploading an Image to Facebook in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
The feedback loop (Rudi Grobler)
2000 WPF Things #493 – Setting the Visibility of a User Interface Element (Sean Sexton)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.2 and Your Last About Dialog (YLAD) Version 1.4 (CodePlex)
Aviary bringing photo-editing tech to Windows Phone apps (Todd Bishop)
Microsoft LightSwitch and SQL 2012 (Bud Aaron)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 196: Mark Rendle on Simple.Data (David Giard)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 054 – “It’s So Hard, To Say Goodbye” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 429: Warp, Alex Garden on Security and a farewell (Larry Hyrb)
Agile Project Portfolio Management Video Posted (Johanna Rothman)
Mash This – Hello World (Nick Berardi, Dustin Davis, Keyvan Nayyeri & Lee Dumond)
The Tablet Show – Todd Anglin on Kendo UI (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Hello, NSScreencast (Ben Scheirman)
New EF Validations Video on Pluralsight (Julie Lerman)
The Vergecast 017 – 02.10.2012 and Engadget Podcast 280 – 02.10.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 125 – 02.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Cloud Cover Episode 70 – Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx (Wade Wegner)
Gillmor Gang 02.10.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Recording of Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 2’ by Gill Cleeren (Gill Cleeren)
Boagworld – Time to improve your print stylesheet (Paul Boag)
Windows Weekly 247: WOA Nelly! (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 41 (Richard Hay)
ShopTalk Episode 5 (Chris Coyier)
TWC9: Windows 8, C++ Amp, NuGet, Mouse Mischief and more (Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
The JavaScript Show – Embedding V8 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 (Katrien de Graeve)
SharePoint 2010 Development 8 day deep dive training in Oslo (Erwin van Hunen)
International Development Center Series: London (Anne Cheng)
DevConnections Coming – Lots to Talk About (Brian Noyes)
Why Microsoft is one of the best places to work: Employees gift $100M to non-profits (Thomas Kohnstamm)
Inside Microsoft Research: Malvar Elected as Member of NAE (Rob Knies)
2011 Stack Overflow User Survey Results (Alison Sperling)
Follow Stack Exchange’s Windows Phone Proposal, Help Launch a Q&A (Windows Phone Geek)
Microsoft Windows Phone (WP7) Camps Now in your City, WP7Dev Get Ready (Kunal Chowdhury)
Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: Windows Phone Raw Camera Access (Silverlight Show)
MADExpo Family Fun Feature #2 – Busch Gardens (Kevin Griffin)
Upcoming Web Design And Development Conferences For 2012 (Louis Lazaris)
To the cloud! (Jeff Wilcox)
Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Vishwas Lele, CTO at Applied Information Sciences (Himanshu Singh)
NHibernate Training Course In Mechelen, Belgium – April 23/25 (Davy Brion)

Database

SQL Server Data Tools does support required variables (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – Solution – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser and SQLAuthority News – Business Intelligence features of SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Download Virtual Machine and SQL SERVER – Building Interactive Reports in Quick Moments – From CSV to Excel Pivot Table – A Conversation turned to Webinar (Pinal Dave)
Difference between a cross join and a full outer join (Denis Gobo)
Making unit tests in SQL Server a first class citizen with Red Gate’s SQL Test (Troy Hunt)
First touch of RavenDb HTTP API (Gian Maria Ricci)
MERGE bug when Foreign Key constraint is created on non-clustered index (2008RTM) (Niikola Ilijev)
Cannot Generate SSPI Context Error (Shaun Stuart)

SharePoint

Developing Secure BCS Connections with WCF Services for SharePoint Online & Windows Azure (Andrew Connell)
SharePoint administration pages and SharePoint Powershell try catch gotcha (Norgean)

PowerShell

Manage Client Access Settings through PowerShell (Divya Gunasekaran)

Miscellaneous

Updates on the Windows Phone Marketplace Requests (Scott Dorman)
Does the world really need "official" apps? (Bil Simser)
How much online privacy do you really have? Less than you think (Ed Bott)
Reinstaller: Install All Your Previously Downloaded Apps Automatically (Antonio Hernandez)
Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – February 2012 (Rob Diana)
Careers at Magenic (Rockford Lhotka)
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day – 13/Feb/2012 – Beyond Bullet Points (Tatworth)
Two Books of Inspiration for Developers/Engineers, Hero’s, and Personal History (Sam Gentile)
Windows Phone Business Cards (Jeff Blankenburg)
Recap of what we know about Windows Phone “Tango” (damaster)
Windows Phone in 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 11, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 12, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Pie in the Sky (February 10, 2012) (Brian Swan)
The Morning Brew #1042 (Chris Alcock)
Distributed Weekly 141 (Scott Banwart)
Interesting .NET Links – February 10 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #816 (Mike Gunderloy)
MVP Friday Five: February 10, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Daily News Digest 2/10/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/10/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #33 (Franky)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-10 (Bob Rhubart)
Windows Dev News for February 12, 2012 – #0039 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman on a Metro App Boon, Your Own Community, VR Contacts, Just One Customer (Dave Burke)
Retrospective 71- Agile Coach, Transformations, Biz Roles (Peter Saddington)
Daily WP7 Development News 10 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Android by Zigurd Mednieks

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Dew Drop – September 6, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
Magellan 2.0 is here! (Paul Stovell)
Windows Phone 7: The Revolution… is coming(??) (Kip Kniskern)
iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Diving Deeper (Jesse Liberty)
Windows Phone 7: Almost There! How To Get Ready (Bob Caswell)

.NET / Visual Studio

The XOR Swap Algorithm and LINQ Partitioning (Richard Carr)
Parallel Programming in F# (I.): Introducing the samples and Parallel Programming in F# (II.): Using PLINQ and Tasks and Parallel Programming in F# (III.): Aggregating data and Parallel Programming in F# (IV.): Financial dashboard example (Tomas Petricek)
Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition and Notion of System.Nullable – A Look (Abhishek Sur)
The Tier Interaction Profiler ( TIP ) (Cameron Skinner)
Coming in Autofac 2.3 – OnRelease() (Nicholas Blumhardt)
IronRuby, Nu project and Launchy at your service (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Using Ruby Classes In C# With IronRuby (Davy Brion)
Get logging in Windows Azure with Enterprise Library (Tom Hollander)
Keep Track of your Tasks With the Task List (Deborah Kurata)
Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
Revisiting Few C# Concepts – Delegates, Anon Methods, Lambdas, Expression Trees (Anoop Madhusudanan)
The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References and The Object Browser: Type-Ahead Selection and The Object Browser: Exporting Your Settings and Mark Methods and Types as Hidden from IntelliSense and the Object Browser (Zain Naboulsi)
Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

CSS 3.0 Maker helps you visually create next-gen CSS (Erez Zukerman)
Rotate Ads using jQuery and ASP.NET AdRotator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
Add-ons, Installation Experiences, and User Consent (Herman Ng)
Same Markup: Using <canvas>, <audio>, and <video> (Tony Ross)
Connecting to Sql Server from WebMatrix using LINQ and Entity Framework Version 4 (Wally McClure)
A different (for me) way to page (Karl Seguin)
Coming in YUI 3.2.0: SimpleYUI (Eric Miraglia & Adam Moore)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Lokad.CQRS – Keeping It Simple and Focused (Rinat Abdullin)
It’s hard work to KISS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
The Third Object (Paul Stovell)
10 Strategies for Improving Results and The Results Frame (J.D. Meier)
Use gitk to understand git and Use gitk to understand git – merge and rebase (Joshua Flanagan)
One Build to Rule Them All (John Sonmez)
Unit Testing in C++ is harder than.. (Roy Osherove)
The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs and Security Models: On Behalf Of (Oren Eini)
Getting Predictable (Mike Cottmeyer)
Leadership Tip: Too Many Drivers Will Not Take Your Car Anywhere. (Rajiv Popat)
Billy sez: Design, Don’t Decorate (Ward Bell)
Launching beta, or “How to decide when and where to cut corners” (Kyle Baley)
Design Simplicity: Partially updating an object and Flow in software teams (Mark Needham)
Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Isolated Storage and User Controls (Nigel Sampson)
Learn Silverlight to get access to the developer demand (Al Pascual)
Silverlight and Security Documentation (Cheryl Simmons)
Silverlight Futures… (Mike Taulty)
Windows Phone 7 App Demos (Mike Ormond)
WPF Photo Print updated (Chris Cavanagh)
Who’s the Boss (Rudi Grobler)
Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 and Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – Android (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out! and Writing a Twitter Application for Windows Phone 7 with oAuth and Flickr Uploader for Windows Phone 7 at Sam Judson’s Blog (Don Burnett)
Frogger game on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
How can we improve Silverlight Spy? (Koen Zwikstra)
Ninject.Extensions.Conventions ported to work w/ WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
WPF Auto-Complete Control (Mahesh Sabnis)
Easy way to generate sample data for your Silverlight 4 Applications and Book Review: Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown (Michael Crump)
Windows Phone 7 Clears The Last Big Milestone (Andy Lees)
Adding shapes to your Windows Phone using some simple XAML and C# code (Sam)
Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook (Vibor Cipan)
DevForce Meets Mvvm Light and Is Mvvm Light Right For You? and DevForce and RIA Services Compared Part 1: Getting Started (Ward Bell)
Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

PAX Prime 2010 LIVE Show and PAX Prime: Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning (Larry Hyrb)
Let’s Play TDD #6: Capital Gains Tax–Almost and Let’s Play TDD #7: Tax Rage (James Shore)
TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets (Brian Keller)
SharePoint 2010 Search Discussion-Episode 49 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
WinExtra on Windows Ep. 17: tripping down memory lane (Steven Hodson)
Engadget Podcast 211 – 09.04.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 27 – Mahesh Krishnan at TechEd (Richard Banks)
Cloud Cover Episode 24 – Routing in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
Behind The Curtain – Episode #4 (Michael Lehman)
Windows Weekly 172: Board Up The Windows (Paul Thurrott)
Windows Phone 7 ad promises ‘the revolution is coming’ (video) (Vlad Savov)
Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 1 and Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 2 and Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Bobby Johnson)
Inside Windows Phone #02: The Beta Release and the Roadmap to RTM and Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Jaime Rodriguez)
A New Podcast for Developers – This Developer’s Life (Scott Hanselman)
The Rematch – Webcast of my 101 VS tips in 55 mins via O’Reilly is now available (Sara Ford)

Community / Events

MVP Mark Dunn Highlights the MVP Award Program (Lonnie Webb)
SPSBmore SharePoint 2010 Hands-On Lab Resources (Dux Raymond Sy)
Moving on from Microsoft (Andre Vrignaud)
SilverlightShow Interview with Webinar Presenter Chris Anderson and Win a Free Ebook in SilverlightShow Webinar on Running Silverlight OOB and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Events (Wes Yanaga)
Nothin But .Net – London(November,2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
A Community Divided (Joe Webb)
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of September 6, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

SQL SERVER – Few Notes on Fast Track Data Warehouse and SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Limitation of the View 3 (Pinal Dave)
Parallelism in SSIS – Multiple Lookups (Todd McDermid)
Normalization is from the devil (Oren Eini)
Why You Still Count as a Person if You Have Used Microsoft Access—(or How Old Are You, Julie? (or the overuse of parenthesis in early 21st century Bloggery)) (Julie Smith)
Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
“select *, %%bmk%% from tablename” while rebuilding the index (Pradeep Adiga)
Make a T-SQL Query Sleep for a certain amount of time (Suprotim Agarwal)
New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Inside Out (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

Guide to Migrating from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows SBS 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

Writing A Simple DSL (Davy Brion)
Project Sector 5 – Work In Progress – Teaser (Kevin Griffin)
Halo Reach A Big Hit With Some Big Hitters (Microsoft Blog Admin)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Hacking: The Next Generation – Only $9.99. Use code DDHKG (O’Reilly Media)
Windows Home Server Vail Preview Part 1 (Richard Hay)
Microsoft counting down the days until Kinect launches (Steven Hodson)
MS Research Releases Kodu Language and Grammar Specification (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 040 for 9/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
F# Discoveries This Week 09/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
Distributed Weekly 66 (Scott Banwart)
Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2010 — #940 and Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2010 — #941 (Dave Campbell)
Things I Read This Week – 2010.08.03 (Jeremiah Peschka)
Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
The Morning Brew #679 (Chris Alcock)
Top 10 Silverlight Blogs (John Papa)
Links of the week #128 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

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Dew Drop – August 3, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

A high performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
Announcing: Microsoft Ribbon for WPF RTW (Pete Brown)
New Title! More Chapters! (Charles Petzold)
How to load a huge file into a FILESTREAM column quickly (Jacob Sebastian)

.NET / Visual Studio

Setting Performance Counters (Richard Carr)
Microsoft.Data, because the 90s were so good, we want to do them again (Oren Eini)
F# Templates Now On Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
WCF RIA Services Part 4 – Integrating with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern (Brian Noyes)
Keyboard Shortcuts: Additional Mapping Schemes (Zain Naboulsi)
The CodeRush Options Screen (Rory Becker)

Web Development

Dynamic Methods in View Data (Phil Haack)
Restrict ASP.NET MVC Action’s Using The ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (Malcolm Sheridan)
MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released! (Maarten Balliauw)
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
My Journey with the StackExchange API (Dave Swersky)
Publishing Adaptive Streaming Video from Expression Encoder to Windows Azure Blobs (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Structure and guidelines, consistency and clarity (Simon Brown)
Explaining Software Design Patterns to a non-developer… (Greg Duncan)
How do You Stress Test Your Web Application? (Mike Hadlow)
Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real world and Case Study: SmartInspect in the real world (Roy Osherove)
CSI: Microsoft (Gil Zilberfeld)
Projects vs. products (Daniel Crenna)
Slides for The Rule of 3, Hot Spots, and Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection (J.D. Meier)
Software Programming as Craft (Dave West)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Quick look inside a List Application for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Some Infrastructure Bits (Davy Brion)
Free ebook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) (Devon Musgrave)
Couple of Expression Encoder updates (James Clarke)
How Advertising is Different on Windows Phone 7 and A Deep Zoom Container for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Action Pack and Microsoft Tellme Speech Recognition Services (Don Burnett)
Book Review – 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner’s Guide (Rene Schulte)
Ensuring your WPF applications are Accessible (Rob Relyea)
Async Data Validation (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kent Alstad is All About Performance (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Phone 7 Development with Mike Harsh (Robert Hess)
Episode 58: Building Facebook Applications with Windows Azure with Jim Zimmerman (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
endpoint.tv – CancellationScope Activity (Ron Jacobs)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 23 – Code Contracts with William Tulloch (Richard Banks)
Ping 68: Streetside, Hohm, Student Partners, Kinect & Farmaritaville (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Learning in Public – what I learned from being heckled at the Dallas Tech Fest (Caleb Jenkins)
London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th (Scott Guthrie)
Time to give back: GeekGive at the MVP Summit (Stephen Forte)

Database

SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance (Pinal Dave)
RSScripter and Permissions (William Vaughn)
SSMS Feature Request – Filter By Datetime, Not Just Date (Shaun Stuart)
Quickly Script Out Replication Redux (Chad Miller)
A Small Collection of DBCC Commands (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

Chapters 1-4 of our upcoming Inside SharePoint 2010 development book on MSDN (Andrew Connell)
Wish you had free end user training incorporated into your SharePoint environment? (Joel Oleson)
Feature upgrade (part 4) – advanced scenarios (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Assembla’s Top 10 Used Tools (Anastasia Voskresenskaya)
Why Microsoft *can* compete with the Apple iPad and what the Apple pundits are clueless about… (Don Burnett)
Make your own Fable III Villager (Larry Hyrb)
Pluralsight Website Update, 7/31/2010 (Keith Brown)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Being Geek – Only $9.99. Use code DDGEK (O’Reilly Media)
Wolves Theme for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
Kinect: the backstory (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #656 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
Tech Tweets for 2-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
Windows Phone 7 Resource List Refreshed (Mike Ormond)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by Jared Richardson

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