nosql – Page 42 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – June 6, 2011

Top Links

Getting Started Using HTML5 Boilerplate (Dan Wahlin)
Project Silk Drop 10 (Karl Shifflett)
The Sterling NoSQL Database in a Mango World (Jeremy Likness)
Fix the code, not the tooling (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

F# Class Library Template (Carl Nolan)
.NET and Distributed Concurrency (Alex Rønne Petersen)
New Contexts in CodeRush 11.1 and New StringProviders in CodeRush 11.1 (Rory Becker)
Here’s one for the developers – a trial offer for Windows Azure (Steven Hodson)
Comicster Plug-Ins (Matt Hamilton)
Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 – Review (Mike Fourie)

Web Development

Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET MVC (Part 2)Partial Views and JQuery (Christian Nagel)
Passing ASP.NET Session Variables to WCF Service (Pravinkumar Dabade)
Helpful Resources For Upgrading to Rails 3.1 (Jason Rudolph)
Firefox 6: new features for developers (Axel Rauschmayer)
New Release: SassAndCoffee 0.9 – now not glacially slow! (Paul Betts)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs (George Reese)
How to pin your site with IE9 on Windows (Andrew Spooner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Need Help Starting Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
Test Track Pro and the case of the missing data (Martin Hinshelwood)
Real life UX is still UX (Laurent Bugnion)
The Importance of a Business Recovery Plan (K. Brian Kelley)
Legacy code is not necessarily "ugly code" (Marco Tedone)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

AgFx makes writing data-heavy Windows Phone applications child’s play! (Rudi Grobler)
Coding4Fun WP7 ColorHexagonPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
Fetching Data from SQL Azure table in Windows 7.1 [Mango] Phone using WCF Data Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
Working With Prism 4.0 (Hello World Sample with MVVM) and Step by Step Prism (Abhishek Sur)
Achieving full motion body tracking with Kinect/WPF (Don Burnett)
Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 1) (Peter Kuhn)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 6 – Working with Navigation (Kunal Chowdhury)
Silverlight games: Crayon Cannon still one of the best, but not for the reason you think (Surf4Fun)
See Live Examples of LightSwitch In DotNetNuke and LightSwitch Tips Forum Has Been Launched (Michael Washington)
WindowsPhoneMVP – Sending Events to the Presenter (Brendan Kowitz)
Metro In Motion Part #6 – Rolling List Location Indicator (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Think Like A Developer & Designer (Episode 05): Video (MS Podcasts)
Technology & Friends Episode 159: Chander Dhal on SOLID (David Giard)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 019 – “Live at XAPFest 2011” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 58 – Windows 8 Round Table (Richard Banks)

Database

SQL SERVER – BI Quiz – Troubleshooting Cube Performance (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup starts and then disappears (Ted Krueger)
Finding Duplicates – Interesting twist (Naomi Nosonovsky)
Relating Master Data Services Hierarchies to Analysis Services Hierarchies (Melissa Coates)
Column order can matter (Dave Ballantyne)
Using Nightly Populated Tables For Faster SQL Queries (Andrew Zwicker)

SharePoint

Office 365 and SharePoint Development Training (Paul J. Swider)

Miscellaneous

#Ebook Deal/Day: App Inventor – Only $15.99 w/code DDVEN #Android (O’Reilly Media)
Governance Might be the Most Misunderstood Term Consultants Use. (Paul J. Swider)
The Future of Microprocessors—Must Read for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #866 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for June 05, 2011 — #1101 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Pragmatic Programmers) by Brian P. Hogan

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Dew Drop – May 8, 2011

Top Links

New Release: ReactiveUI 2.3 (Paul Betts)
Eduasync part 1: introduction (Jon Skeet)
A Tough Nugget – NuGet Package Manager (Gil Fink)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 and CUDA, Easier with RC2! (Ade Miller)
Microsoft focusing even more on the dev platform (Dennis Delimarsky)
TFS API Part 35 – Create Build Controllers (Shai Raiten)
Recent Additions To My NHibernate Examples (Davy Brion)
BRAIN DUMP: Conventional Routing in RabbitMQ (Dru Sellers)
Qtools – MSMQ Operations, Deployment And Monitoring Made Easy (Dotan J. Nahum)

Web Development

[Book Review] ASP.NET MVC 2 Cookbook (Alec Whittington)
Getting current Authentication information on WCF REST Service (Dhananjay Kumar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

AutoCompleteBox in Silverlight 4.0 with DataSource from SQL Server (Dhananjay Kumar)
How to make a Windows Phone 7 Vibrate using C# (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 15 (Richard Hay)
Devdays Sessions now on Channel 9 (Rob Miles)
Windows Weekly 207: You’ve Been Walshed (Paul Thurrott)
TWC9: MVC3 Tools Update, AntiXSS, Freeze yourself in Carbonite using Kinect (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

Windows® Phone 7 User Group Event Sweepstakes (Dani Diaz)
Lessons Learned at Graduate School – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

SQL SERVER – What Kind of Lock WITH (NOLOCK) Hint Takes on Object? (Pinal Dave)
Practical NoSQL – Solving a Real Problem with MongoDB and Redis (Karl Seguin)
Multiple Server Query Execution – Management Studio (Vishal)

SharePoint

Silverlight Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 – Part III (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator free alternatives (Don Burnett)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – May 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-May-2011 to 07-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Retrospective 31 – #Agile #Jobs and some #Tips (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan McCracken

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Dew Drop – April 21, 2011

Top Links

How To Replace Source Control With Comments (Rob Conery)
Why every language needs a language specification… (Paul Vick)
Exclusive: Microsoft’s Lees and Nokia’s Oistamo Talk About Their Just-Signed Contract (Ina Fried)
Knockout.js 1.2.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
Uses and misuses of implicit typing (Eric Lippert)
NuGet Package of the Week #5 – Debugging ASP.NET MVC applications with Glimpse (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

Configuring WCF Data Service using Lambda Expressions (Gil Fink)
WCF Extensibility – Runtime (Carlos Figueira)
Visual Studio LightSwitch Samples in the new MSDN Samples Gallery (Greg Duncan)
Supporting JSONP callbacks in WCF Data Services (Marcelo’s WebLog)
In-Place upgrade of TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 with move to new domain (Martin Hinshelwood)
Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework 1.0 Released! (T. DuPont)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 (Steve Danielson)
Writing a NuGet Package That Adds A Command To The PowerShell Console (Phil Haack)
WF4 State Machine User Experience (.NET Connected Framework Team)
NuGet packages now come with Debug symbols, Sources (Roopesh Shenoy)
Name for .NET decompiler anyone? (Jura Gorohovsky)
Understanding the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus [QuotaExceededException] (Keith Bauer)
LLBLGen Pro QuerySpec: the basics (Frans Bouma)
FT, then FP and SP now PU! Power Tools, Feature Packs, Service Packs, now Platform Updates – .Net 4 Platform Update 1 Released (Think WF stuff, like State Machine, persist to SQL Azure, etc) (Greg Duncan)
Replacing An If Statement With An Object (Derick Bailey)
Two great uses of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Brian Keller)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 2 Voting Control (Jon Nethercott)
Amazon Simple Pay in ASP.NET (Hajan Selmani)
FubuMVC’s Authorization Use Cases (Jeremy Miller)
HTML5 Labs now has a FileAPI (Martin Beeby)
Setting up a local SSL development environment for multiple sites (Daniel Fisher)
A DoubleClick Custom Web Control (Jonathan Wood)
Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0 BETA released (Maarten Balliauw)
Experiences with REST (Jimmy Bogard)
Quick Edit mode for YUI 3 DataTable (John Lindal)
What’s new in Orchard 1.1? and Orchard 1.1: what’s in it for developers? (Bertrand Le Roy)
Speed Up Azure Deployments with the New Web Deployment Feature (Beth Massi)
Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – The Towering Inferno (Jan Van Ryswyck)
IE Pinned Sites Part 1: What Are Pinned Sites? (Jennifer Marsman)
What I Love/Hate About PHP (Eric Hogue)
Hang Resistance in IE9 (Herman Ng)
IE Feedback: Looking Back, Forging Ahead (Justin Saint Clair)
How to Use the Storage Emulator with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
Chrome Developer Tools: Understanding Stack Traces (Yury Semikhatsky)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Paradoxes in Program Management: 5 Contradictions in Managing a Productive Scrum Team and PMI – Agile Certification Examination Outline Launched! (Peter Saddington)
Linear trees with Git rebase and Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Fixture and Exploring TDD in JavaScript with a small kata (Giorgio Sironi)
When race conditions & unbounded result sets are actually the solution (Oren Eini)
Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)
Using dotCover to Cover Applications, with or without ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Updated (Bruce Kyle)
What Is Enterprise Architecture? (Boris Lublinsky)
Using Kinect for NUI Part 1 (Deborah Hanamura)
Drawing boundaries (Jimmy Bogard)
Integration: Scenario (Paul Stovell)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Implementing a WP7 Checked ListBox in different ways and WP7 ListBox SelectedItem (Windows Phone Geek)
Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 Software Development Kit – April 2011 Update (MS Downloads)
Windows Phone App Dev Incentives (Arian Kulp)
AncestorType in RelativeSource – Silverlight 5 (Abhijit Jana)
Page-based browsing in a list on Windows Phone and Windows Phone tip of the day: MediaLibrary can be tested in the emulator with built-in songs (Dennis Delimarsky)
Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Implicit Data Templates (Peter Kuhn)
WPF binding a text with decoration (Gian Maria Ricci)
Don’t shoot the messenger [A WebBrowserExtensions workaround for Windows Phone and a BestFitPanel tweak for infinite layout bounds on Windows Phone/Silverlight/WPF] (David Anson)
Using Binding to create Panels/Pivots in your WP7 Application and Update Error 800705B4 for WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
WP7 – adding a ‘Fade to Black’ effect to a ListBox and WPF, Silverlight, WP7 and the Async CTP (Guardian)
When enough ViewModel is enough (Jeremy Alles)
Silverlight 5–Combo box type ahead and Silverlight 5–Rich Text and Overflow (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 5’s New RichTextBoxOverflow Control and Silverlight 5’s New Style Data Binding and Silverlight 5’s New and Improved Threading Architecture (Jeff Prosise)
Windows Phone 7 “Mango”: what’s coming for app developers (Katrien de Graeve)
Prism 4: Defining Custom Command Behavior for ListBox control in Silverlight 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications For Beginners (Now With Testing!) (Matthias Shapiro)
Building a better MessageBox for WP7 with the help of XNA. (Michael Crump)
The WP7 Marketplace and the Enterprise (Mike Hole)
Windows Phone 7 and WCF Don’t Play Nicely (Nick Randolph)
Silverlight – 5 easy steps to obfuscate auto-magically on the build server (Peter Gfader)
Converting SVG to XAML with IE9 and the Microsoft XPS Document Writer (Synergist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes is looking through Prism 4 and .NET Rocks! – Richard Campbell Talks Tech Ed 101 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Lucian Wischik: Async Compiler – Bug Fixes, Updates and Core Improvements and Checking In: Jeff Wilcox – Writing the WP7 App Platform in C# and C++ (Charles Torre)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 68: Why Your Career is Going Away Because You Refuse to Change, You Pansy (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
Herding Code 109: Harmony Hackathon (Jon Galloway)
Stack Overflow Podcast #88 (Alex Miller)
Let’s Play TDD #104: Cleaned Up and Ready to Move On (James Shore)
Radio TFS 32: Mailbag Episode (Martin Woodward)
Defrag 004 – Battery Life, Slow Wake, Library Problems and Mobile Photosynth Panorama App (Larry Larsen)
Hot Apps: Harbor Master, Pomodoro, Origami, Dropdown, Shut the Box (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Announcing SharePoint Stack Exchange (SharePoint Developer Team)
Script# at MIX11 (Nikhil Kothari)
Announcing free, hands-on Windows Phone 7 developer workshops hitting the East Coast. The time for your app is now! (Dave Isbitski)
Free 2 Day Training: HTML5 and Web Development WebCamp | Register Now (Doris Chen)
NuGet Was The Star of MIX 11 (Rob Conery)
Subscribe to the MIX Newsletter (Kim Spilker)
The Pros and Cons are in – the love/hate relationship we have with our jobs and The next Bill Gates: Microsoft hosts a new generation of tech talent (Microsoft JobsBlog)
HTML5 Community Night: HTML5 and Browsers Webcast on Tuesday April 26 (Wes Yanaga)

Database

SQL Server: Transfer Objects From One Schema to Another (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Prevent Constraint to Allow NULL (Pinal Dave)
Phill’s SQL Monitoring Suite (Phill)
Identity Columns Aren’t Automatically Primary Keys (Andy Warren)
The Little MongoDB Book epub (Karl Seguin)
PostgreSQL Update Internals (Jeremiah Peschka)
NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
SQL Azure Use Case: Web-based Applications (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

Custom SharePoint Ribbons and Current List Item in JavaScript (Bil Simser)
SharePoint Foundation Logger RTW!!! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
SharePoint 2010: Track User Profile Changes Over Time Using MERGE (Steve Novoselac)

Miscellaneous

Office 365 Beta Released (Chris Koenig)
Microsoft and Nokia signs partnership agreement (damaster)
Now Available: April 2011 CTP the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (Windows Azure Team)
Windows Phone (post Walshie) gets a “Samsung update” (Kip Kniskern)
One Step Closer to the First Nokia Device built on Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 04.11 ~ 04.19 (yuanjian)
Interesting .NET Links – April 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 066 for 4/21/2011 (Pete Brown)
The Morning Brew #837 and The Morning Brew #838 and The Morning Brew #839 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 04/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Phone at MIX (Dave Bost)
SilverlightShow for April 1 – 17, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2011 – 2 — #1075 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News April 19th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News April 20th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
April 19th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

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