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Dew Drop – October 10, 2011

Dew Drop – July 10, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

XML Serialization of Arrays and Collections (Richard Carr)
WCF Data Services June CTP: LINQ Improvements and Properties on Derived Types (Jenni Ripley)
FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 4 (Naeem Khedarun)
Exploring Topics and Queues by Building a Service Bus Explorer Tool–Part 1 (Paolo Salvatori)
Project Templates and preinstalled NuGet packages (Marcin Doboz)
Atari Lynx Emulator and Kinect Toolkit v 1.0 and Fluent Validation v3.0.0.1 and SQL Compact Code Generator – Build 1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

MVC–Showing a setup screen on the first run (Michael Ceranski)
Using PC Hardware more efficiently in HTML5: New Web Performance APIs, Part 2 (Jatinder Mann)
Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: Pushpin Tooltips via Html Title Attribute and Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags (Chris Pietschmann)
Simulating Mouse Click Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects (Ralph Whitbeck)
Buzz Makes it Easy to Use HTML5 Audio (Rey Bango)
Tweaking Add Item Templates for Better Script Performance (G. Andrew Duthie)
Complex filtering in isotope.js (Pavan Podila)
Client Express – Require and Exports (Mark Nijhof)
Listing your MySQL Databases with PHP (James Harvey)
Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows with Wincache (Brian Swan)
Web optimizations and canvas exporting with data URLs (Brian Bondy)
Microsoft Ajax Minifier v4.24 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

design patterns (Mo Khan)
My two cents on Scrum (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
Patterns of Compositional Architecture and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: Policies (Josh Arnold)
Windows Azure and Object-Oriented Testable Code (J.P. Hamilton)
Wringing Metaphor from Thin Air : I am the customer (David Starr)
Weekly Reminders for Changing Your Habits and Adopting New Practices (JD Meier)
Nurturing Self-organizing Teams (Shane Hastie)
Balance the System First (Mike Cottmeyer)
Keystoning Features (Mark Nijhof)
Make Incremental Improvements or Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Give us Feedback on my Windows Phone Book (Charles Petzold)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 27 – How to Detect whether the Network is Available? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows Phone 7.1 – Codeless Development using Commanding (Mahesh Sabnis)
PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Submitting to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Weekly 216: You Got Your Dropbox In My Mesh (Paul Thurrott)
This is my next Podcast 014 – 07.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
TWC9: EF June CTP, jPlayer, Kinect Gesture Toolkit, and a flying car (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 024 – “International Flavored Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk and Travis Lowdermilk)
The GeekDads Episode #95: Yes, We Are Lazy, But in a Good Way (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
Windows Phone Radio – 35 (Brian Seitz)
Demo of Visual Voicemail on WP7 Mango (video) (Hyde13)
Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

Team SIMPLEX–MIRA at ImagineCup 2011 (New York City) and Microsoft ImagineCup 2011 in New York City – The Kick-Off and ImagineCup 2011 Opening Ceremony and Developing the ImagineCup WorldWide Finals Tracker app fro WP7 @ ImagineCup – Part 1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Azure Sessions Not To Miss at WPC11 Next Week (Windows Azure Team)
July Silverlight Giveaway by Mindscape, First Floor Software and more! (Michael Crump)

Database

Free SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (James Serra)
"Gotchas" With Using an SSAS Default Member (Melissa Coates)
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 9 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 10 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY CUBE() (Vishal)
Showing slowest parts of SQL query and How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL (Jakub Dvorak)
Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Data (Kevin E. Kline)
Learning From the Mistakes of Other DBAs (Brad M. McGehee)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Development–What’s in your rig? (Andrew Connell)
SharePoint 2010 – Now in New Mega Size! (Joel Oleson)
Read the detail about SharePoint 2010 and Remote Blob Storage and Articles about Scaling SharePoint to Large Content Database Capacity (Paul Andrew)
Understanding workflow starting parameters – Part 1 (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

Windows Live Wave 5 currently in Milestone 2 stage; to be tightly integrated with Windows 8 (damaster)
Q&A: Putting A Training Course Together (Davy Brion)
Think you have THE idea for an MMO, but don’t any any infrastructure or funds to build one? Wish there was a 30/70 deal for MMO’s too? (Greg Duncan)
Zune branded subscription video coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
What’s on Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft priority list now? (Mary Jo Foley)
A future game machine, try it now for free! (Surf4Fun)
Installing Mango on your Samsung Taylor (Rudi Grobler)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone and iPad for Programmers (2nd Edition) (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul Deitel

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Dew Drop – March 31, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

C# API Design: Type Inference, Named Parameters, and Generic Delegates (Jonathan Carter)
TFS and WF4: The diff noise problem and Beware of lifetime manager policy locks in Unity (Rory Primrose)
Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework Templates, Beta 1 Released! (Blake Niemyjski)
Microsoft NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio & VWD (Joe Stagner)
My Visual Studio snippets (Shawn Burke)
I love R# because it reduce mouse usage (Gian Maria Ricci)
Enabling Parallelism for Productivity Programmers (Ade Miller)
I spy with my little eye… ILSpy (Greg Duncan)
async 8: creating combinators (Bill Wagner)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part I) and JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part II) (Julian M. Bucknall)
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: Designing the Genre and Album Pages (Chris Love)
HTML5: What Is It, Why Should I Care, and What’s Microsoft Doing About It? (G. Andrew Duthie)
Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET (Matteo Slaviero)
Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 (Scott Hanselman)
What Firefox 4 means to web developers? and The PHP frameworks poll results (Giorgio Sironi)
RockPaperAzure Coding Challenge and Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 1 and Creating a Quick Progress Visual like UpdateProgress (Brian Hitney)
YUI 2.9.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available (Jenny Han Donnelly)
Composite C1 CMS 2.1 (2.1.4087.22991) and patterns & practices: Project Sile Community Drop 4 – 28 Mar 2011 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

IT Turf Wars? Agile Can Help (Peter Saddington)
One Real-Life Product Owner Team and Product Owner Team Design Considerations (Mike Cottmeyer)
Improving Meetings (K. Brian Kelley)
Effective Tests: How Faking It Can Help You (Derek Greer)
Organising NUnit Tests (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Add Facebook Like to your Silverlight Application and Nullable ComboBox for Silverlight and WPF (Mircea Deliu)
A Year Later–The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter (Brandon Watson)
Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
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Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
Design/performance – WP7 in blend and code (Håkan Reis)
Silverlight Scaling and Anti-Aliasing Issues (Jeremy Likness)
Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox (Joey deVilla)
Start-to-Finish Guidance for Windows Phone 7 Application Development (Karl Erickson)
Capturing Screenshots on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
WP7 TombstoneHelper (Rudi Grobler)
How to install LightSwitch Beta 2? (Kunal Chowdhury)
MVVM Light – what’s the Messenger? (Dennis Delimarsky)
Adding WP7 Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Ayende Does Transactions with RavenDB (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 3 of n (Charles Torre)
Supercharged Spreadsheets – PowerPivot in Office 2010 and A Few Minutes with Nolan Bushnell – Creator of Pong and Atari (Tina Wood)
PDC Sessions now published on Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
Technology & Friends Episode 148: G Andrew Duthie on Community Megaphone (David Giard)
endpoint.tv – Parent / Child Workflows (Ron Jacobs)
Let’s Play TDD #98: One Beeellion Dollars (James Shore)
Spaghetti Code – March 2011 (Jeff Brand)
The GeekDads Episode #88: Moderately Misplaced Teen Pop Song (Ken Denmead)
Countdown to MIX11: Get Your Science On (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

WP7 App Challenge competition – get a free ride to WPC 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Communities and Networks: What are you building? (Bill Wagner)
Mono and Google Summer of Code (Miguel de Icaza)
MSDN Virtual Lab: A Lap Around IE9 (Wes Yanaga)
Lightning tools webcasts (Brett Lonsdale)
Event: New Sessions Released, Learn from the Best at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
UX at MIX11: Full Speed Ahead (Jason Alderman)
I’ve Written My Last Article for 4GuysFromRolla (Scott Mitchell)

Database

Snapshot Synchronization with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
T-SQL, SQL Administration and SSRS Articles Link List – March 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – TechEd 2011 – Random Question and Answers and SQL SERVER – ‘Denali’ – A Simple Example of Contained Databases (Pinal Dave)
March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – syscomments (Thomas LaRock)
MySQL: GROUP BY in UNION (Quassnoi)
(Not a) CHECKDB error “Unable to deallocate a kept page” (Paul S. Randal)
Building Our Own Federated Database (Jeremiah Peschka)
Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell (Eric Humphrey)

SharePoint

Using the Builder Pattern To Create SharePoint Lists (Bil Simser)
Connected Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 – an Architectural Framework (Mark Kendall)
Update Taxonomy Field Values in a List Item using SharePoint Web Services (Sridhar Raghunathan)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Co-Founder Blasts Bill Gates in Memoir (Paul Thurrott)
Careers 2.0 now does GitHub (Matt Sherman)
New in Marketplace: ESPN ScoreCenter (Michael Stroh)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning #Android – Only $15.39 (Save 45%) w/code DDLAN (O’Reilly Media)
Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm (asgard4)
Announcing Group Plans for Tekpub (Rob Conery)
Windows Phone Mobile Studio: A reincarnated (and de-hipsterized) Kin Studio? (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft DreamSpark – now with a free Microsoft Certification Exam (Dennis Delimarsky)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 by Peter Ritchie

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