April 2008 – Page 8 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 10, 2008

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.NET

Working with Signed Non-Decimal and Bitwise Values (Ron Petrusha)
LINQ to NHibernate – The Day After (Kyle Baley)
Is It Possible? .NET Applications for iPhone? (Amit Raz)
Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services to Ship with VS 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 (Elisa Flasko)
The Weekly Source Code 23 – Big Solution Edition (Scott Hanselman)
Tahoe .NET Micro Framework Development Platform (Michael Schwarz)

Web Development

The MVC Storefront (Oren Eini)
6 Free Online Editors for Your ASP.NET Site (Devintelligence)
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
How to Get Detailed Info About All Online Visitors That Are Currently Browsing Your ASP.NET Website? (Slobodan Pavkov)
App Engine World (Dan Byrne-Hume) Your one-stop resource for Google AppEngine

Blogging

32 Unique RSS Icons Usage (wpzoom)
Sticky Search For FriendFeed (Steven Hodson)

Miscellaneous

WEBook: Book Publishing By the Masses (Aliza Sherman)
Measuring Productivity of Individual Programmers (Steve McConnell)
Book Review: Hacking Vim (Aaron Jensen)
We Don’t Use Software That Costs Money Here (Jeff Atwood)
Dear Software Tool Vendors, RE: I’m Breaking Up With You (Jimmy Bogard) – This was a close runner-up for link of the day.
Unit Test Project Structure Poll (Phil Haack)

Silverlight

Sparkling Client Podcasts on Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 2.0 Map / DataGrid Demo (Part 1) (Jason Zander)
Silverlight 2 Networking Options (Dan Wahlin)

Visual Studio

Using VSTS for Distributed Development (Stephanie Saad)

SQL Server

Download Free eBook: Introducing SQL Server 2008 (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 9, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 162 (Harry Pierson)
Links Today (2008-04-09) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for April 9, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #70 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #184 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations: Clay Shirky: Books

Technorati: daily links, silverlight, sql server 2008, asp.net, ado.net, entity framework, .net development, friendfeed

Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.2 – Call For Speakers

(via email from Bill Wolff)

May 17

Code Camp 2008.2

Saturday
Fort Washington, PA

philly.net Partners with DeVry for Expanded Code Camps

Our second major event at DeVry University in Fort Washington will happen on May 17, 2008 from 8:30-5:00 and will feature 8 tracks and 40 sessions.

Call for Speakers and Sponsors

We are looking for 40 good speakers. Share your .NET, SQL, SharePoint, BizTalk, or Visual Studio knowledge with your peers. We are always looking for new talent. Contact Bill Wolff or Steve Andrews for details.

Andy Schwam developed a new sponsorship program. There are three levels for Code Camp contributors. You can also reserve future monthly meetings. Please contact Andy for details.

Registration opens April 23 at the monthly meeting

Check the Philly.NET web site soon for speaker sessions and other details.

Technorati: msdn, .net users groups, code camps, microsoft, visual studio, .net framework

Dew Drop – April 9, 2008

Events/Community

Tips on Starting a User Group (Frank La Vigne)
BDD: Coming to a Theater Near You? (Tonight!) (Brian Donahue)

Silverlight/Web Development

AJAX vs. Silverlight and .NET (Nikhil Kothari)
Json.NET 2.0 Beta 3 – Turkey Test Approved (James Newton-King)

.NET

Data Binding an Enum with Descriptions (Scott Dorman)
A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part One (Will)
Book Review: GDI+ Custom Controls – PACKT Publishing (Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das))

Design/Methodology

Following Principles (K. Scott Allen) – Link of the Day
Make the Most of Your Test Coverage Data (Patrick Smacchia)

Blogging

Find New People to Follow on Twitter with Twubble (Brad Linder)
WordPress 2.5 Released, and All Eyes Turn to 2.6 (Kristin Shoemaker)

Miscellaneous

Drop Dead Sexy Time Tracking with Klok (Scott Blitstein)
Alternatives to the Home Office (Celine Roque)
Rediscovering Arcade Nostalgia (Jeff Atwood) – I love this stuff. I have yet to build my own MAME machine, but I have an external HDD filled with arcade and classic console emulators.
Create PDFs via Code with Adobe Share API (Raymond Yee)
Packing Light For Travel with Power and Geek Style (Scott Hanselman) – Kindle is nice, but I love the PDF support in the Sony Reader.
The Case Against Overtime (Russell Ball)

Link Collections

Links Today (2008-04-08) (Matt Hinze)
Interesting Finds: April 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Weekly SOA Crumbs #13: The Google Application Platform Push (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight Cream for April 9, 2008 – #247 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Bits for April 8, 2008 (Dave Burke)
The Morning Brew #69 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day (Ok, it’s a DVD today…)

Zappa Plays Zappa (Fan Pak): Zappa Plays Zappa: Movies & TV

Technorati: daily links, .net development, json.net, silverlight, ajax, dweezil zappa, zappa plays zappa, bdd