I hit 1000 posts last week and didn’t realize it. I guess I should number my Dew Drops instead of just using the date. 
Party time! 
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Top Links
- jQuery Templates, Data Link, and Globalization Accepted as Official jQuery Plugins (Scott Guthrie)
- 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #3: The Back Button Paradigm and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #4: Device Orientation (Jeff Blankenburg)
- 20, 50, 90, 400 and 2 (James Ashley)
- 5 Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactor Your Code with Resharper and 5 (more) Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactor your Code with Resharper (Tips 6-10) (John Papa)
- Stop Worrying About The Next Big Thing (Justin Etheredge)
.NET / Visual Studio
- SQL Server Error Handling (Richard Carr)
- Different Version of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
- Building a CRUD in RESTful Services of WCF (Abhishek Sur)
- Linq queries with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- No backtracking, Part One (Eric Lippert)
- “Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010,” the Six Page DZone Refcard (Greg Duncan)
- Three new Microsoft Surface Code Samples (Luis Cabrera)
- Introducing ‘Vingy’ Add-in for VS2010 – Search StackOverflow, CodeProject, DotNetKick etc easily from with in Visual Studio (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- F# Computation Expressions: Basic Data Retrieval Mechanics (Neil)
- Undock and Dock a Single Tool Window in a Group and The Immediate Window: Implicit Variables and Changing Context in the Locals Window (Zain Naboulsi)
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit and Microsoft Report Viewer 2010 Redistributable Pacckage (MS Downloads)
- WF4 Activities, Callbacks and Event Handlers (Ron Jacobs)
- RavenDB – Image Gallery Application (VI) – Entities, Repositories and Commands and Working with RavenDB Documents + Entities – The Debate (Rob Ashton)
- The Case of the Wrong Window Owner (Sasha Goldshtein)
Web Development
- Understanding jQuery’s impact on Microsoft and ASP.NET (Dave Ward)
- Extending ASP.NET MVC’s Validation (Mike Ormond)
- #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript Patterns – Only $14.99. Use code DDJSP (O’Reilly Media)
- jQuery Cycle Plugin on the Microsoft Ajax CDN (Stephen Walther)
- HTML5: A Specification or a Platform? and Real-World Implementations of Pinned Sites with IE9 (Tim Sneath)
- Dictionary.com Defines Its API (Alex Stone)
- Azure@home Part 7: Asynchronous Table Storage Pagination (Jim O’Neil)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile, the next generation: Three ways to go beyond Scrum (Andy Singleton)
- Bug tracking for agile teams and Rethinking user interface test automation (Gojko Adzic)
- The three step guide to unit testing Entity Framework 4.0 (Greg Duncan)
- Why Agile Results Works for Getting Results and The Sleeper Effect and Getting Started, Solve-a-Problem, and Arch-and-Design and Developer Guidance IA at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
- A Root Cause Analysis of Agile Practices (Karl Scotland)
- The PHP paradigms poll results: OOP wins and Practical PHP Patterns: Money (Giorgio Sironi)
- Start Believing In Yourself and Monkey Patching FTW! (Davy Brion)
- The Advantages and Drawbacks of Agile Software Development and The Nature of Software Development Methodologies – Cowboy, Waterfall and Agile (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
- User Stories Belong to Everyone (Scott Bellware)
- Continuous Reflection *Before* Time Management (Jurgen Appelo)
- Release management, or “How to de-version your app” (Kyle Baley)
- Automation for the People (because Everybody Doing It Manually Hurts) (Matt Stine)
- Coding: Write the first one ugly (Mark Needham)
- The Power and Future of LightSpace — It’s Just Natural (Steve Clayton)
- Extending Metro UI into the programs we use (Steven Hodson)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 3 – LoginCommand) (Baba)
- Silverlight: Embed IronRuby/DLR Scripting within XAML using IValueConverter and Custom UserControl (Chris Pietschmann)
- Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa (Abhishek Sur)
- MVVM: Why I like it and how I learned it (Andrew Connell)
- Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 6 – Blogs and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 7 – Collections (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Fix WP7 Dev Tools Install Issue: Setup cannot be run in Program Compatibility Mode and Silverlight Animation Class Diagram
- A Real WPF 4.0 WebBrowser (Chris Cavanagh)
- Windows Phone 7 Firestarters – feel the excitement! (Dave Isbitski)
- There’s no substitute for customer feedback! [Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance now a bit easier with LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates] (David Anson)
- One Application in Both WPF and Silverlight (Khawar Yunus)
- Disable Javascript error in WPF WebBrowser control (Al Kampfer)
- Windows Phone 7 XAML Design Templates (Karsten Januszewski)
- Free online function graphing with Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
- Display Images from Database in Windows Phone 7 (WP7) using WCF service (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Windows Phone 7 Launches Next Week – More Specs Leaked (Mitch Pronschinske)
- Windows Phone 7: Beating the Boot-time Blues and Windows Phone 7: Jumping through the Back Stack (Nick Randolph)
- Double-width tiles (Rudi Grobler)
- Simulating Bandwidth (Kirupa)
- ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Thomas Martinsen)
- Looking forward to Windows Phone development… (Sarah D.)
- Top 10 Tips for Submitting your App to Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (Sara Allison)
- Rolling out Windows Phone Marketplace for Launch (Todd Brix)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Windows Weekly 176: Complete With Felt Blood (Paul Thurrott)
- Technology & Friends Episode 118: Mike and Cicelie Neel on Geek Relationships (David Giard)
- Sparkling Client Podcast Show 108: The HTML5/Silverlight “Controversy” with Scott Barnes and Windows Phone Unleashed Portland Recap (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
- Web Camps TV #5 – Microsoft Commits Code to jQuery! (James Senior)
- Agile DC – Washington DC’s regional agile conference (Bob Payne)
- Ping 77: Keeping Windows Phone 7 fast, WordPress, Tweets, SecondLife (Laura Foy & Paul M.)
- Introducing News Framework for Windows Phone 7 (CodeTV)
- Let’s Play TDD #29: More Failing (James Shore)
- Countdown to PDC: Tips for Exploring Seattle and A Look Behind MSR’s Lightspace (Larry Larsen)
- Windows Phone 7 Promotional Video (Richard Hay)
Community / Events
- Windows Phone Press Event on October 11th (Brian Seitz)
- MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
- Are you a good fit for Microsoft? Show us (Part II of III) (Sandeep Sood
) - Author news: Discount on Windows internals training (Devon Musgrave)
Database
- SQL Server Database Maintenance Checklist (Brad M. McGehee)
- Duplicate a Column in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more… and SQL SERVER – Find Total Number of Transaction on Interval and SQL SERVER – Error : Fix : Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) (Pinal Dave)
- MongoDB (Steve Jones)
- LooksAlive and IsAlive checks by Microsoft Cluster Service (Pradeep Adiga)
- Return of Index Analysis Part 1 (Jason Strate)
- Take your script library with you [T-SQL] and Changing the security context with Dynamic SQL [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Interactive Session #11: Units of Measure (2#4u)
- Here comes Google TV (Ambarish Kenghe)
- More Hilo–Sharing Photos with Hilo! (Aseem Datar)
- Netduino, Netduino Plus, Fez Panda, Arduino Deumilanove (Pete Brown)
- Windows Slates coming at Christmas, unveiled on October 11 (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 3, 2010 and Interesting Finds: October 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- Windows Client Developer Roundup 044 for 10/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
- Cool list of Client Side MSDN Resources for Web Developers (Joe Stagner)
- Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 2, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 3, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- Everyman on Scarcity, a Faster Website, More than Attention, a Moore’s Law Infographic (Dave Burke)
- F# Discoveries This Week 10/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
- Weekly Link Post 164 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Links of the week #131 (David Vidmar)
- The Morning Brew #699 and The Morning Brew #700 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for October 03, 2010 — #959 and Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2010 — #960 (Dave Campbell)
The Geek Shelf
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