stack overflow – Page 55 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – September 12, 2010

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Top Links

This Developer’s Life 1.0.3: Problems (Rob Conery)
Trust Your Instincts! Or how to stay interested in programming (Mike Hadlow)
Patterns of Windows Phone Architecture Part III (James Ashley)

.NET / Visual Studio

Tips on Debugging : Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
Marble Diagrams and Rx (Abhishek Sur)
Find out how long your method runs (Gunnar Peipman)
Replace in Files: Tagged Expressions (Zain Naboulsi)
Chained null checks and the Maybe monad (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Relative Date Time Converter (Nigel Sampson)

Web Development

Using TemplateHint and other Model Metadata features in MVC (Arun Mahendrakar)
SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET A Little Background (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Learning: Study habits (Mark Needham)
Dependency Injection (Richard Carr)
Discussions On Software Development Are Good And So Is Programming. (Rajiv Popat)
Estimates sucks, especially when I pay for them (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Direct Volume Licensing for Expression Encoder Pro Announced (Allan P.)
Expression Encoder 4 Pro is getting GPU accelerated encoding (James Clarke)
Google Weather API on Windows Phone 7 and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
WPF 4.0 Progress Bar Control using Dispatcher Thread (Mahesh Sabnis)
Checking if a Remote (HTTP) File Exists (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Flash to Canvas Experiment: Bonsai Tree (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

WebDevRadio Episode 81: indieconf, client-side image resizing, moral dilemmas (Michael Kimsal)
Windows Weekly 173: The Fiddly Bits (Paul Thurrott)
Let’s Play TDD #13: The TaxRate Class (James Shore)

Community / Events

Go That Way, Really Fast (Jeff Atwood)

Database

SQL SERVER – Soft Delete Conversation – Your Opinion Needed (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

"Masterminds of Programming" (Jason Bock)
Configuring two wireless routers with one SSID (network name) at home for free roaming (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
F# Discoveries This Week 09/12/2010 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu

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MSDN Ultimate Contest #1 – Winner Announcement

I received a lot of great entries for the first MSDN giveaway this week, which made it very difficult to choose a winner. In the end I selected Marc Scheuner because I felt he most closely fits the ‘community influencer’ mold. He has been an MVP in previous years and has answered thousands of questions on Stack Overflow. I giving him the subscription will have the greatest impact on the community. I will be contacting Marc shortly to work out the details.

Remember there is still a second contest that does not end until next Friday. Check out the original post for all the information. The competition is still wide open!

Best of luck and congratulations to Marc!!!

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Dew Drop – July 7, 2010

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Top Links

Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 1 – Configuration, Actions and Conventions (Rob Eisenberg)
Introducing WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
Microsoft WebMatrix in Context and Deploying Your First Site (Scott Hanselman)
The Controlled Calculator: An example of combining models while showing other features of Spec Explorer (Robert DuWors)

.NET / Visual Studio

The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension is now officially a v1 (RTW/RTM, Released, Stable, etc, etc) (Greg Duncan)
Using the Tika Java Library In Your .Net Application With IKVM (Kevin Miller)
Custom Query Options on the WCF Data Services Client (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
Introducing Stacky: A .Net Client Library for the StackOverflow API (Luke Foust)
Navigating Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extending LINQ – Adding Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
First MonoTouch Book is out (Miguel de Icaza)
Hosting Windows PowerShell 2.0 under CLR 4.0 and The Case of The Failed Demo – StackOverflowException on x64 (Bart de Smet)
Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE (Shai Raiten)
Named Arguments versus Object Initializers (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

Microsoft’s WebMatrix, The Simple ASP.NET Editor (Chris Love)
WebMatrix & Razor: A new option for beginning developers (Dan Fernandez)
ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON (Dane Morgridge)
Determining an ASP.NET Page’s View State Footprint (Scott Mitchell)
New Windows Azure Book Now Available for FREE Download! (Windows Azure Team)
In the YUI 3 Gallery: Base64 and Y64 encoding (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests (Rey Bango)
Using Stringify With the New window.msPerformance in Internet Explorer 9 (Karsten Januszewski)
A GPU-Powered Shopping Experience with Amazon.com (Seth McLaughlin)
Resources: Windows Azure for PHP developers (Glen Gordon)
Pssst…Yeah you….Script Junkie…Check out this code… (Bob Familiar)
Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much? (Jonathan Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

A short diagramed guide of a few Model-View-* patterns (Greg Duncan)
#Ebook Deal of the Day – Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps – Only $9.99. Use code DDTAP (O’Reilly Media)
Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile in the Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)
Group feedback (Mark Needham)
Show Covering Tests with dotCover (Hadi Hariri)
Short-Burst Work (J.D. Meier)
Self-assessment – what have YOU learned lately? (Brian McNamara)
The great Standup Report controversy (Andy Singleton)
Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? (Vikas Hazrati)
xUnit.net – Release: v1.6.1 (CodePlex)
Your design sucks (Paul Boag)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian Developer Tools (MS Downloads)
Vuvuzela for Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
Using IDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
Banana SplitButton [A WPF-specific fix for SplitButton and some code analysis improvements for the Silverlight version, too] (David Anson)
XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 version 6.1 Silverlight 4 Support and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 for Cider version 2.1 Silverlight 4 Support (Karl Shifflett)
File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability (Kunal Chowdhury)
Printing in Silverlight 4 (Markus Egger)
Three essential plugins for Expression Blend (Avivo)
Smooth Morphing with Transition Effects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data (Rob Tiffany)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on psake (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 117 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bartek Bielawski, Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson Scripting Games 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
This Week In Silverlight – Kin RIP and Welcome new MVPs (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Agile Toolkit Podcast – ADP 2010 West – Ryan Martens – Rally Dev and the addition of Agile Zen (Bob Payne)
Intro to "Small Basic" with Vijaye Raji (Robert Hess)
Ping 64: IIS Express, IE Reversing the Trend, RIP Kin, Hulu Plus and more… (Laura Foy)
The GeekDads Episode #71: Must Have Bacon Beer! (Ken Denmead)
Lane McCullough: Dell hardware running IE 9 Canvas demos and Simon Calvert & Scott Hunter: WebMatrix and the new Razor Syntax (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

Events This Week – July 6th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
CodePlex: Upgrading all TFS servers to TFS 2010 (Matt Hawley)
Area 51: Asking the First Questions (Robert Cartaino)
Announcing a Ruby with Shoes Course (Satish Talim)

Database

SQL SERVER – Upper Case Shortcut SQL Server Management Studio (Pinal Dave)
Network compression and database mirroring (Simon Sabin)
Virtual Lab: Setting up Database Mail on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
Setting Up Replication And Manually Initializing The Subscriber (Shaun Stuart)

SharePoint

Practical Powershell for SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
Feature upgrade (part 2) – a sample to play with (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Notepad++ version 5.7 software update (Ben Palmer)
Sacrificing some IDE capabilities (Jay Fields)
New book: Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step (Carol Vu)
Firefox 4 Beta 1 now available for download (Darren Murph)
Reader Feedback: Is CompSci Education Failing? (Keith Ward)
Developing for the iPhone and Android: The pros and cons (Jonathan Hassell)
Remove Firefox 4.0’s big, ugly, unmovable orange button (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #637 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

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