Month: January 2008

Daily Bits – January 20, 2008

Telecommuting Not So Great For Those Left Behind

The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer (Rob Walling)

C# by Contract – Using Expression Trees

Constants on the Left Are Better, but This Is Often Trumped by a Preference for English Word Order (Jeff Moser)

HealthVault: Batching Up Queries to Speed Things Up (Eric Gunnerson)

8 New Video Tutorials on WindowsClient.NET

Windows Could Get Early Release for Good Behavior (Brad Linder)

Free Copy of Visual Studio 2008 (Jon von Gillern)

WCF Web Programming Model Documentation (Steve Maine)

How to Attain Serenity Before Giving a Speech (Tim Warner)

Best C# Web Sites (Timm Martin)

Agile Development – Outside In (Jeff Patton, via Clarke Ching)

Introducing the Smart Bag for ASP.NET MVC… and Soliciting Feedback (Jeffrey Palermo)

PowerShell: Block Comments (PowerShell Team)

.NET Framework Debugging 1, Reflector 0 (Russell Ball)

Avoid API Breaking Changes (Patrick Smacchia)

Using Reflector to Search Through Code and Resolve .NET Issues (Tess Fernandez)

TDD Anti-Patterns (James Carr)

 

Other Links Blogs

Links for 2008-01-19 and Links for 2008-01-20 (Sam Buchanan)

Link Listing – January 18, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

1 Link Today (2008-01-19) (Matt Hinze)

Interesting Finds: January 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)

LINKBLOG for January 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

 

Book of the Day

 

Daily Bits – January 19, 2008 (Early Edition)

Book Review: Pro LINQ – Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 (Avi Wortzel)

Visual Studio 2008 Slow in Design Mode (Mehul Harry)

Smarter Logging with MSBuild (John Robbins)

Reopen Closed Tabs in Firefox with Your Keyboard (Danny Mendez)

The Caffeinated Coder Has Moved (Max Pool)

Top 10 Estimation Best Practices (Mike Griffiths)

Try-Catch in SQL Server 2005 Is Your Friend (Derik Whittaker)

Clarification on VBA Support (Joseph Chirilov)

Tutorial on Writing Your Own Code Analysis Rule (David M. Kean)

F# Compiler (zip) (MS Research Downloads)

Missing Gunderloy’s Daily Grind? How About an Alternative? (Jay Kimble) – <Shameless Plug>Of course, I recommend ‘Daily Bits’ as another alternative.</Shameless Plug>

Format-XML (Windows PowerShell Team)

CodeProject: WPF Amazon Explorer Using 3D (Sacha Barber)

Today’s Other Link Blogs

Links for 2008-01-18 (Sam Buchanan)

Link Listing – January 17, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Friday (01-18-08) Edition of the d-bug Link Farm (Brian Reindel)

Interesting Finds: January 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)

1 Link Today (2008-01-18) (Matt Hinze)

The Morning Brew #13 (Chris Alcock)

LINKBLOG for January 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency: Books: Tom DeMarco

 

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Daily Bits – January 18, 2008

Advanced CI: Integrating Web Applications (via Christopher Steen)

LINQ to Google (via Matt Hinze)

The Way Programming Should Be – Easy (via dzone)

Database Skills: A Sane Approach to Choosing Primary Keys (via Arjan’s World)

Register for the Triple Product Launch Event Near You Today (Several mid-west launch events are now open for registration)

The Majesty of the Mythical Man-Month (via Jason Haley)

.NET Framework Library Source Code Release (more info from Sam)

Hello World of Rhino Mocks (via DotNetKicks)

Wikipedia Goes Video

Moving to the Channel9 Team

Get Namespaces from an XML Document with XPathDocument and LINQ to XML (ScottHa)

WPF UI Automation Testing with MbUnit

Serializable Isolation Levels on Rows That Do Not Exist

Insert Wikipedia Link Plugin for WLW (via Steve Clayton)

Visual Studio 2008 New Multi-Threaded Debugging Feature (via DotNetKicks)

Measure Memory Consumption of Creating Object or Executing Functions in C# (via DotNetKicks)

MS MVC Rails Blocks Refactored (via Christopher Steen)

AgilePhilly Wiki

 

Book of the Day