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Dew Drop – September 13, 2011

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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

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Dew Drop – August 21, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

ThreadLocal storage in .NET and What is SynchronizationContext all about (Abhijit Jana)
Using Custom Classes with Application Settings (Richard Carr)
NuGet’ing inside the firewall, with TFS Continuous Integration bonus power too (or "How to go from TFS CI to your Private NuGet server with TeamBuild") and Kinect to transform video training/podcasting/teleconferencing? and Adding awesome lighting effects to your XNA game… and Flight Kintroller (Greg Duncan)
New e-book: FRIENDLY F# with game development and XNA (Joh)
Kinect: Using VC++ with Kinect (Surf4Fun)
TeamPulse R2 2011 is Here! (Team Pulse Team)
Using Rollback in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools and Using Work Item Tracking Search in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools (Mike Fourie)
The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for .NET Developers (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
Slow OracleConnection Creation (Geoff Hudik)
Thoughts on MassTransit on other languages (Dru Sellers)

Web Development

Trigger update to jQuery Tablesorter on dynamically modified table (Hajan Selmani)
Video Sitemap Action Result for ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Changing Selection Color using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Using and Writing Polyfills for Building Modern Applications (Rey Bango)
Fetching Web Roles details using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Pain Driven Development (Mark Needham)
The Pomodoro Technique Summary (Evgeny Goldin)
New book: Solid Code (Optimizing the Software Development Life Cycle) (Devon Musgrave)
Generate easy, up-to-date Rails API docs with Cucumber (Matthew Nielsen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Writing inline Code in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
Using WCF RIA Services With LightSwitch: I Know You’re Scared, I Understand (Michael Washington)
Upload Files from Windows Phone (Chris Koenig)
Nested ListBox binding in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Frameworks used inside my WP7 application (Pieter de Rycke)
Publishing a Mango Update to an Existing App (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Major Nelson Podcast Show 408: Pre-Pax, Cake and more (Larry Hyrb)
Engadget Podcast 253 – 08.19.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 100 – 08.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Cloud Cover Episode 56 – Logging, Tracing, and ELMAH in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
TWC9: August 19 2011 (Brian Keller & Nic Fillingham)
Windows Phone Radio – 39 (Brian Seitz)
Microsoft Campus Tours – Building 4 Refurb (Nic Fillingham)
Windows Weekly 222: Bye Bye webOS (Paul Thurrott)
The GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
This is my next Podcast 020 – 08.19.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

We Need Your Help! (Kevin Griffin)
Speaking at BUILD (Josh Twist)

Database

Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer – Book Review (Mark Broadbent)
Repeating Column Headers on Every Page in SSRS Doesn’t Work! …Or Does It? (Melissa Coates)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Introduction to Page Split – Day 20 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – All about SQL Statistics – Day 21 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – "Denali" – PERCENT_RANK() Analytic Function (Vishal)
What Will Be New for Reporting Services in 2012? (Paul Turley)
Thoughts on DBA Professional Development (Jeffrey Yao)
Methods for populating a data warehouse (James Serra)
Free online class, "Introduction to Databases," coming this fall from Stanford University (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

Simple guide to running Git server on Windows, in local network (kind of) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
How to REALLY hurt yourself with PSEXEC – Deleting the Undeletable Registry Key and More (Scott Hanselman)
I’ve Built A Windows Azure Application… How Should I Market It? (Yvonne Muench)

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jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

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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 – September 13, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 21, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 17, 2011

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