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Dew Drop – January 14, 2012 (#1,242)

Database

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Windows 8: What we learned this week (Mary Jo Foley)
Rake. Huh? and Rake Fundamentals: tasks with prerequisites and Rake Fundamentals: rakefiles and tasks and Rake Fundamentals: file tasks and Rake Fundamentals: directory tasks and Rake Fundamentals: FileLists (Dale Smith)
What I Use: Evernote and Microsoft Word for Writing (Paul Thurrott)
The TED imperatives (Seth Godin)
Skype to Come to Windows Phone as App First – Baked Into OS Later? (Coming Soon?) (Antonio Hernandez)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

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Dew Drop – October 25, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Using MongoDB with the Official C# Driver (Ercan Anlama)
Automatic Tag Update in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
C# As A Scripting Language In Your .NET Applications using Roslyn (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Designing Action and TryAction members (Rory Primrose)
Entity Framework, The Five Years Plan, And Building Software on Future Features (Oren Eini)
Continuation Tasks (Richard Carr)
OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)
OData Service Validation Tool Update: New feature and rules (Turker Keskinpala)
CodeRush Code Issues for interfaces (Alex Skorkin)
Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
Window Manipulation with the Microsoft Touch Mouse – Window Touch v1.0 (CodePlex)
APress Deal of the Day – 25/Oct/2011 – Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Tatworth)
Calculating Distance In Bing Maps (Dani Diaz)
Enterprise Library community extensions ported to v5, released via NuGet (Grigori Melnik)
.Net Framework 4.0.2 Release Information Rollup (Greg Duncan)
Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified and Updated Code Mastery demo (Rockford Lhotka)
If the shell is written in C++, why not just export its base classes? (Raymond Chen)
Getting Started with the .NET Gadgeteer – Part 1: Background, Setup, and Hello World (Pete Brown)
Displaying Lync Online Meeting Appointment Details using the EWS Managed API (Glen Scales)

Web Development

Typemock: Better support for ASP.NET MVC (Avi Kaye)
Magic: The Gathering in JavaScript and HTML5 (John Esposito)
CSS3 Advanced Selectors (Pad Gallagher)
A Fun Little JSON Murder Mystery With IE9 and Rails, Models and Business Logic (Rob Conery)
Some More Thoughts On OAuth 2 Sample (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

ScrumPig 2 Backlog Filter Syntax (Howard Dierking)
Scrum with dev11: Creating a Scrum team identity (Martin Hinshelwood)
How to Design Content Filters for Better User Browsing (Anthony Tseng)
Models for a view (some objects are more equal than others) (Peter van Ooijen)
Retrospective: The 5 whys (Mark Needham)
How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Command-Query Separation on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

XAML Magic: Turning an Ugly Silverlight Duckling into a Beautiful Photoshopped Swan (Samuel Jack)
The Windows Phone Inner Circle is coming to your city! (Brian Seitz)
Tombstoning with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (and KnockoutJS) (Colin Eberhardt)
10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3 of 10) (Michael Crump)
The Financial Face of RadChart for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
Designing My First (Public) Windows Phone App (Glen Gailey)
Build Scalable Mobile Apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone on Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
2000 WPF Things #415 – Setting Grid Row Height and Column Width Properties to Absolute Values (Sean Sexton)
LOB Chronicles Episode 11: Bringing in the Controls (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Alexander Groß Deals with Machine Specifications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse (Jon Galloway & Co.)
Distributed Podcast Episode 10: /dev/random (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 27 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for October 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Microsoft Idea Week for student developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
I am Coming to Washington DC for 2 Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)
SQLAuthority News – Meeting SQL Friends – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
sharepoint saturday uk–12th november 2011 (Brett Lonsdale)
Interview: Maarten Balliauw, Main Contributor to the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (and much more) (Brian Swan)
Want to be a Microsoft Student Partner? (Chris Koenig)
YUIConf 2011 Update: Announcing More Talks and a Free Workshop! (Jenny Donnelly)
Upcoming events (Michael Eaton)

Database

Dataflow mechanics [SSIS] and Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)
Database space use (David Forck)
When will you be able to start using "Data Explorer"? (Data Explorer Team)
My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

Announcing the New Microsoft Press Exam Ref Series (Karen Szall)
Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced: Roll on 2013! (Peter Cooper)
Nokia May Offer Windows 8 Tablets (Robert Boland)
Reading more than ever: An analysis of four lazy years with an Amazon Kindle and no dead trees (Scott Hanselman)

The Geek Shelf

Rails 3 in Action by Ryan Bigg

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Dew Drop – August 17, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Some special monads in F# – Part 5 of n – Application: Poker (Steffen Forkmann)
Real World .NET 4 and C# (Christian Nagel)
Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse (Telerik Team Pulse)
MVVM your Kinect code (Greg Duncan)
DXCore Expression Lab tool window for observing the parsed source code trees (Alex Skorkin)
Clojure and the CLR (K. Scott Allen)
Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
Mono.Addins – Release: v0.6.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm (Derek Johnson)
Dealing with singular plural phrasing (Phil Haack)
An Issue with Area in ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB.NET) (Imran Baloch)
ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
#Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD246 (O’Reilly Media)
Windows Azure Storage Libraries in Many Languages and Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
CSS3: Animations vs. Transitions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
How to execute/run a shell script as root from a PHP script? (Svetoslav Marinov)
Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum basics: The process (John Rayner)
Understanding Enterprise Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
Agile Innovation Games (Peter Saddington)
Are Workflows Really That Bad? (Hint: Maybe They Aren’t) (Sasha Goldshtein)
A New Era in Application Development, Part I (Stephen Forte)
Technical Debt (Charles Max Wood)
Macto: Looking at warrants (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Beginners How to: Programmatically set common Control properties and How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
Silverlight testing framework support in the Unit Testing Service (Alex Skorkin)
Windows 8 and the Death of Silverlight (Chris Eargle)
Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight (Kunal Chowdhury)
Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
2000 WPF Things #366 – Binding a Calendar Control’s SelectedDate Property to a Nullable DateTime (Sean Sexton)
On a path to a generic About page (Andrej Tozon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 03 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 (MS Podcasts)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 74: Mobile Web Is Not What The Other Guys Say It Is (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
Episode 158 – PowerScripting Podcast – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse Talk NuGet and PSGet (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Engadget HD Podcast 261 – 08.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Keyvan.TV Episode 1 – Pilot (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

Let Critical Path Training send you to the SharePoint Conference 2011! (Andrew Connell)
Will Microsoft reveal a new IDE at the BUILD conference? (Daniel Fisher)
Get Trained on Sweet, Sweet Mango! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Author news: Sign up for Mango Jump Start August 23-24 (Kim Spilker)
Empathy and Open Source (Joe Mayo)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (Glenn Berry)
Deleting Data in Small Chunks on SQL Server (Jason Crider)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Sparse Data and Space Used by Sparse Data – Day 17 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – Copy Results with Headers – Management Studio (Vishal)
T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause (Henrik Sjang Davidse)
Adding custom folders to your SSMS Object Explorer with this free addin… (Greg Duncan)
Knowing what your doing with NOLOCK… (Greg Duncan)
Calculate table size with existing data (Jack Vamvas)
Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today (Jason Brimhall)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing (Mary Jo Foley)
The anatomy of Xcode’s project window (O’Reilly Media)
Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone (damaster)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

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Dew Drop – October 25, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 17, 2011

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