January 2008 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Daily Bits – January 23, 2008

Shake it off and move ahead.

Misc

Études for Excellence (James Shore)
Defensive Coding Best Practice (Derik Whittaker)
What to Do If You’re Laid Off in 2008 Recession (Robert Scoble)
KidsCodeZone.com – Let’s Get This Party Started! (Rick Ross)
Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.6.0.4 Production (CodePlex)

Agile

Choosing an Agile Process – Part 6: Books and Reading (Ade Miller)
How Agile Are You? (Take This 42 Point Test) (Kelly Waters)

Visual Studio

Issue: Migrating Web Application Projects Between VS 2005 and VS 2008 (Rick Strahl)
Some Essential Visual Studio Tools (Jim Bogard)

WPF

Why So Few WPF/XAML Grid Controls? (Rocky Lhotka)
Mindscape Ships the WPF Property Grid (JD Trask)
Minority Report-Like Interaction in WPF (Simone Chiaretta)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC and User Group Fun (K. Scott Allen)
Extending the GridView to Include Sort Arrows (Scott Mitchell)

Other Link Blogs

New and Notable 218 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: January 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
7 Links Today (2008-01-22) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for January 22, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-01-23 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #16 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code: Books: Allen Holub

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Daily Bits – January 22, 2008

Web Development

Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Free Utility: Web.Config Editor (Ahmed Mohammed AL-Sayed)
Compatibility and IE8 (Chris Wilson)
ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit – Ajax Enabled with .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 (Brad Abrams)

WPF

New in WPF 3.5: 2. Support for IDataErrorInfo (Josh Twist)
Intellisense-Like Method Selection Pop-Up Windows (WPF) (Igor Moochnick)

Blogging

MyBlogLog API Launches (John Musser)
WordPress.com Users Now Get 3gb of Online Storage (Brad Linder)
Pownce Goes Live (Christina Warren)

Personal Improvement / Productivity

Seven Things I Want to Do Differently in 2008 (Russell Ball)
Successful Development Environment (<unknown name>)
50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar (Christian Laun) (via Paul Thurrott)

Misc

Teaching My Daughter to Code (Michael Kölling)
Dealing with Hierarchical Structures in Databases (Oren Eini)
The Essential Agile Reading List (thekua.com)
MSDN Subscriber Downloads Is Changing (‘Subscriptions Blogger 2’ – How did your parents come up with that name??)
Reinventing the Clipboard (Jeff Atwood)

.NET

New* .NET 3.5 Feature: AddIn Framework (Part 1 of 3) (Shafqat Ahmed)
Book Review: C# 3.0 Design Patterns (O’Reilly) (Peter Bromberg)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 217 (Sam Gentile) Keep ’em coming as often as you are able, Sam.
2 Links Today (2008-01-21) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for January 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-01-22 (Sam Buchanan)
Link Listing – January 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #15 (Chris Alcock)
Weekly Link Post 25 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

C# 3.0 Design Patterns: Books: Judith Bishop

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Daily Bits – January 21, 2008

My T60 is having cooling issues this morning… keeps shutting down on me. I hope I get a loaner pretty soon. Some formatting and grouping added for your reading pleasure.

Events and Presenting

Philly Code Camp Sample Code (LINQ) (Milo Negovan)
The Sesame Street Presentation Rule (Jeff Atwood)
What Do I Do: Top sites, MIX08, and PDC08 (Mike Swanson)

.NET Framework

WCF – Handling Generic Messages (Glav)
EntitySpaces 2008 Preview (The EntitySpaces Team)
Windows Vista Controls for .NET 2.0 v1.2.1 (CodePlex)
.NET Framework 3.0 SP1 & 2.0 SP1 in Vista SP1 RTM? (Aaron Ruckman)

Web

ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox (with Script#) (Muhammad Mosa)

Misc

Designing an Entity Data Model (John Papa)
How To: Use Reflection to Test Your Code (Andy Davies)
Survey For My Blog Subscribers (Daniel Moth – his survey, not mine 🙂 )
NLINQ Release Candidate 2 (CodePlex)
How to Writer a Provider Model (Keyvan Nayyeri)

SQL Server

SQL Server 2008 T-SQL – Table-Valued Parameters (Simon Sabin)

Visual Studio

HowTo: Set Up Your Project for Windows Workflow (C# Style) (Chris LastNameUnknown)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 20, 2007 (2008 maybe? doh!) (Jason Haley)
Links (1/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – January 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
links for 2008-01-21 (Sam Buchanan)
Double Shot #127 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #14 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Programming WCF Services (Programming): Books: Juval Lowy

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