Dew Drop – April 26, 2008

 

Events/Community

• Hallway Conversations (Dave Laribee)
• Slides and Code From Presentation in Atlantic City (Jesse Liberty)
• Raising the Bar (Jimmy Bogard)
• Heading to Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) Where We’ll Show PowerShell CTP2 (Jeffrey Snover)
• Speaking Dates: Sam Gentile 2008 (Sam Gentile)
• Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations (Allison Randal)

 

Design/Methodology

• TeamLive.com Launch (Dave Gouge)
• The Anatomy of a ‘Small’ Software Design Change (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Being a ‘Nice’ Programmer (Dave)
• Donald Knuth Rips on Unit Tests and More (slashdot)

 

.NET

• Linq2Sql – Explicit Construction of Entity Exception (Derik Whittaker)
• xUnit.net Goes 1.0 and Unit Testing F# (Matthew ‘CodeBetter’ Podwysocki)
• Hack: Parallel MSBuilds From Within the Visual Studio IDE (Scott Hanselman)

 

Silverlight/WPF

• User Controls: Tutorial Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Flickr Example (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight Streaming Video Uploading (Zhiming Xue)

 

Web Development

• Visual Studio’s JavaScript Editor Really Needs a Function/Class Viewer! (Rick Strahl)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 109 – ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Scott Hunter (Scott Hanselman)
• Wix: The Bold Web Content Creator (Mark Hendrickson)
• Where Should the ASP.NET Team Release Stuff? (Scott Galloway)
• 51 Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples (noupe)

 

Miscellaneous

• Can Something Really Be Miscellaneous? (Mike Hall) – This is.   🙂
• Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look (Kevin Purdy)
• ARS Technica Articles on Commodore Amiga (Michael Janke)
• Building Your Own Home Theater PC (Jeff Atwood)
• Now Available: Wrox Blox on Extending the MOSS Publishing HTML Editor Field Control (Andrew Connell)
• CBS SportsLine Founder to Launch OPEN Sports Network (Jason Kincaid)
• What Is This Live Mesh and Why Do I Care as a Developer? (Marc)
• One of My Favorite, Unsung Features in Visual Studio (Julia Lerman)
• WordPress 2.5.1 Security Update (Christian Warren)
• Do You Want a Live Mesh Invite? Have an Invite to Share? (Long Zheng)

 

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 25, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 234 and New and Notable 235 (Sam Gentile)
• Links Today (2008-04-25) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 25, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #61 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2008 – #259 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.26 (gOODiDEA)

 

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