Tag: reactive extensions

I will be on vacation beginning tomorrow. A week at the beach while recovering from a torn Achilles… I expect that I will be spending quite a bit of time in the house (with WiFi). Dew Drop posts will be sporadic until I return on June 28th.

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Top Links

• Using Web Services from an XNA 4.0 WP7 Game (Michael Cummings)
• CodePlex: Search Project Openings, New Ad Format, and more (Matt Hawley)
• The Weekly Source Code 52 – You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means. (Scott Hanselman)
• Unity Extension For Disposing Build Trees On TearDown (Rory Primrose)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF & Mex are correct, but why is my metadata not published???? (Derik Whittaker)
• Retrieve Security Information of Files using .NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Working with the bit.ly API to shorten URLs (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services: Part I and Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part II: Query Methods (Stephen Forte)
• Hide the Quick Find and Quick Replace Tool Window After the First Match and Auto Hide All Tool Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Command Image Changing Extension (Ryan Molden)
• Run Cassandra As A Windows Service (Nick Berardi)
• Connection Pooling in ADO.NET (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• A Couple Useful Powershell Commands for working with Ruby/IronRuby (Bobby Johnson)

 

Web Development

• common css mistakes/putting a stop to them (Niels Matthijs)
• Announcing jQuery Fundamentals: An Open-Source jQuery Training Curriculum (Rebecca Murphey)
• Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute support through progressive enhancement (Robert Nyman)
• Parameterization vs. Web.Config Transformation (Vishal Joshi)
• Build a List Tree with the Beauty of jQuery (Stoimen Popov)
• Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials (Vitaly Friedman)
• The query parameter ‘$format’ begins with a system-reserved ‘$’ character but is not recognized (Chris Love)
• Issues with modal overlays on the web (Janko Jovanovic)
• Reactive programming with WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Real Customer Involvement" Now Online (James Shore)
• Get to No as fast as possible (Tim Hibbard)
• p&p – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2, Drop 1 (CodePlex)
• Setting up automatic test runs after compilation in VS2010 (Eric Hexter)
• Make the JavaScript Test Pass (K. Scott Allen)
• Automating scheduled tasks (Jimmy Bogard)
• Less is More Redux (Peter Bromberg)
• Modeling Websites and Native Code (Somasegar)
• TestApi v0.5 Released! (Ivo Manolov)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Device Requests (Brandon Watson)
• Revisiting the Code Not Taken [Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight] (David Anson)
• Three Hotfixes for WPF Memory Leaks (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CinchV2 : Article 2 (Sacha Barber)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta Now Available (Silverlight Team)
• Using d:DesignSource for design-time DataGrid grouping with sample data (Jack Ukleja)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Patterns of Parallel Programming – TechEd Talk Online (Ade Miller)
• Video: 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes! (Sara Ford)
• Video: What’s New in Expression Blend 4 (Eric Hagan)
• StartUp Podcast Show #71 Nilofer Merchant on the New How of business (Bob Walsh)
• Community Megaphone Show #12 with guest Frank La Vigne (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Wizards of Smart – Heroku, Cloud, and Iron Ruby (Jonathan Birkholz)

 

Community / Events

• Survey for Interesting Finds followers (Jason Haley)
• SQLAuthority News – Interview with SQL Server MVP Madhivanan – A Real Problem Solver (Pinal Dave)
• Training classes for DevExpress Silverlight products? (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the scenes with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’ (Chris Ziegler)
• Rock out in the Microsoft candidate experience lobby (Kelly)
• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint – with the MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)

 

Database

• Replace SQL Server DateTime records of a column with UTC time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Shrink, Damn’d Log! Shrink, I Say! (Jeremiah Peschka)
• XQuery Lab 57 – Getting Started with OPENXML (Jacob Sebastian)

 

SharePoint

• Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free… With open arms we welcome Notes Admins and Developers to SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Defining Actions for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Hrayr Diloyan)
• Mapping the Office Item Type for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Phill Duffy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Inside the Microsoft Certified Master Program (Brent Ozar)
• Announcing Windows Embedded Handheld (Chris Koenig)
• Interviewing .NET Developers (JP Hamilton)
• Introducing Zoho Wiki 2.0 (Susan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #624 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2010 — #885 (Dave Campbell)
• Highlights from the Google I/O Wave Developer Sandbox (Pamela Fox)

 

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin