tdd – Page 51 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Use of SpinLock for ThreadLocking and Use of Interlocked in Race Condition and Barrier in .NET 4.0 and Not able to view all the running Worker Process in Visual Studio – Process Attach Window – Resolution (Abhijit Jana)
Parallel ForEach Loop (Richard Carr)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method (James Michael Hare)
Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
Kinect Reception–Introduction (Shai Raiten)
Unity Auto Registration (Jimmy Larkin)
RavenDB Lazy Requests (Oren Eini)
Declaring various properties using CodeRush code generation tools (Alex Skorkin)
Do you want a faster File.Exists / FileInfo.Exists / Directory.Exists ? I do ! (Jonathan Antoine)
Blog Post: How To: Activate & Deactivate (Autumn Wilkins)
A gentle introduction to dependent types (Cédric Beust)
Adding translation to your apps is a dot away with the "Bing Translator .NET Extension Methods" open source project (Greg Duncan)
PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) (James Curran)
Going Asynchronous (Chris Eargle)
Updated Course: Developing Windows Concurrent Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

The HTML5 Paradigm Shift–Don’t Miss The Next Wave (Chris Love)
HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Let’s You Access Remote Systems (Rey Bango)
Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position (Scott Hanselman)
Call ASP.NET Page Methods using your own AJAX (Abhijit Jana)
Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com (George Puckett)
A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI (Stephen Forte)
Powerful PHP: Less Known String Manipulation (Stoimen Popov)
AJAX Series Part 1: Building a Web Applications with Third-party Controls in Real Time (Carl Bergenhem)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum basics: The sprint (John Rayner)
Compliance – Development Teams are Product-Oriented (Peter Saddington)
A Brief Introduction of Fundamental OOP (Chris Eargle)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header (Deyan Ginev)
Who says you can’t run Silverlight on Android ? (Don Burnett)
Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Windows Phone Design Tips #3 (Andrew Spooner)
Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
2000 WPF Things #368 – Specifying Blackout Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar (Nikolai Tillmann)
RadChart for Windows Phone – going to the pole (Georgi Atanasov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #129: Root Cause Analysis (James Shore)
G4 TV’s Jessica Chobot tours Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
Defrag: 4k Drive Backup, Office Add-on in IE, Forcing Aero Glass On (Larry Larsen)
Hot Apps: Beards & Beaks, Kill The Duck, Fantastic Finger Fun, Angry Birds Scoop, Eventful (Laura Foy)
A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast" (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone Dev Pocast Episode 030 – “Phonies vs. Ninjas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Charlie Wood Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

FREE Course On Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit Course (Satish Talim)
HTML5 Web Camps – Special Guest Announcement (G. Andrew Duthie)
The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
Philly Geek Awards: The Sponsors (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile (Philip Japikse)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
How to report a SQL Server performance problem (Jack Vamvas)
SQL Server: Last Day Previous Month without DATEADD and DATEDIFF (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – The Clustered Index – Simple Understanding – Day 19 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST() (Vishal)
[SSIS] OnPipelineRowsSent event (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

SP2010 Continuous Integration – Installing TFS2010 (inc. Build and Test agents) (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Windows 7 Tool Roundup: Small But Explosive, Just Like Dynamite (Pete Seale)
Slides from PowerShell Deep Dive sessions (Dmitry Sotnikov)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

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Dew Drop – August 3, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Monadic Parsing in F# (Frank Thomsen)
Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 3 and Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Developing a “Real” Outlook Social Connector Provider (Greg Duncan)
Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) – And Updated NuGet Packages (Jeff Handley)
C#: DateFormat separator issue with ToString() method (Raghav Khunger)
TFS API Part 39 – Show Deleted Items in Source Control (Shai Raiten)
PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension – Release: v1.4.1 (CodePlex)
BugTracker.NET – Release: v3.5.2 (CodePlex)
Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update (MS Downloads)
Using schema with NHibernate and SqlLite (Gian Maria Ricci)

Web Development

Use ASP.NET’s HttpHandler to bridge the cross-domain gap (Dave Ward)
HTML5 Periodic Table of Elements (as in HTML5 Tags… ) (Greg Duncan)
Consuming a POX WebService in .NET and C# – Searching ISBN Numbers. (Joe Stagner)
PHP 5.4 features poll: the results and Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Foreign Method (Giorgio Sironi)
JavaScript performance: Array.prototype versus [] (Axel Rauschmayer)
Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Measuring Mobile Site Performance Using the W3C Navigation Timing API (Joe Marini)
Improve PHP Performance with Phalanger for .NET and Mono (Jonathan Allen)
Update Wijmo Charts in Real Time (Kevin Griffin)
A client side Glimpse to your PHP application (Maarten Balliauw)
Windows Azure Security Review (Buck Woody)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: OverloadedGetterSetter (Martin Fowler)
Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
Which is easier, Scrum or Lean? (Matt Barcomb)
An Agile Retrospective by Jeff Sutherland (Aaron Bjork)
Sample Application for .NET 4.0 – Layered Architecture and DDD Patterns Sample Applications (JD Meier)
TDD Or Not TDD Guest blog by @avi_kaye (Tal Druyan)
Requirements-Driven Development For The Lose (Peter Saddington)
Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting (Dave Borowitz)
Is it worth it? (Joh)
5 Big Usability Mistakes Designers Make on Carousels (Anthony)
Thoughts on MicroOrms (Chris Brandsma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Writing a Multiplayer Game (in WPF) (Paulo Zemek)
Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone emulator keyboard shortcuts (Arian Kulp)
WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers : From Core Data to LINQ to SQL (Kevin Hoffman)
Using Custom Themes in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
Understanding XAML Screen Layout (Paul Sheriff)
2000 WPF Things #356 – RadioButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray (András Velvárt)
What is Visual Tree and Logical Tree in WPF? (Abhijit Jana)
Installing the RTM version of NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Pamela Brasil)
Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta: script sharing in the cloud (Nikolai Tillmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Channel 9 Exit Interview: Tina Moving to Xbox Team (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #128: 2^7 (James Shore)
Run as Radio Podcast – A little Denali (Kevin Kline)
Yet Another Podcast #45–Rey Bango (Jesse Liberty)
Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign (Dan Fernandez & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

SharePoint Saturday DC – The Conference (G. Andrew Duthie)
I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 Conference in Chicago (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
Looking for Agile Authors (Johanna Rothman)
Webcasts: Microsoft Press Author Presents Windows 7 Troubleshooting Series (Kim Spilker)
BUILD Windows Conference Sells Out, Content Will Be Available Online (Bruce Kyle)

Database

Report Authoring on the SSIS Catalog [link] (Jamie Thomson)
Microsoft SQL Server Internals & Architecture Matter! (Kevin Kline)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding Apostrophes in String and Text – Day 3 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
TSQL Tip O’ the Week – 8/2/11 – Records Per Day (Andy Lohn)

Miscellaneous

New Formats for Free Microsoft Press eBooks (Carl Diltz)
Putting the “I” in Health IT (Bill Crounse)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Tap, Move, Shake: Early Release – Only $15.99 w/code DDSHK #iPhone #iPad (O’Reilly Media)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson

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Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 3, 2011

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