Day: May 30, 2008

 

Design / Methodology

• When Does Design Happen in Agile? (Ian Cooper)
• Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? (Ben Northrop) – This guy’s just begging for a comment flame war. Don’t let Bellware see this one.   🙂

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 – Part One and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four (Faisal Khan) – Nice four-part series on Silverlight animation. Link(s) of the Day.
• WPF Multipage Reports – Part II – Data Grouping (Jan Repisky)
• Revolutionizing the User Interface (Introducing MenuKiller for WPF) (Zlatan Dzinic)
• Awesome DeepZoom Demo (Pete Brown)
• Chiron (Jimmy Schementi) – "This contains Chiron.exe, the Silverlight development web server for Dynamic Languages, with a fix for the IPv4/6 issues."
• Trying Out Binding.StringFormat (Mike Hillberg)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF and Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby)
• What’s Wrong With this? (Alan Mendelvich) – I’m not a fan of this. Code readability issues should be resolved with proper naming conventions.
• WCF Callbacks: A Beginner’s Guide (Barry Dorrans)
• Detailed Code Metrics with NDepend (Maarten Balliauw)
• ReSharper Introspection Severity and the var Keyword (David Hayden)
• Utilizing Your .NET Projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports – Part 2 (Eric Landes)
• What’s on Your Entity Framework v2 Wish List? (John Papa)
• Foundations of Programming – Part 8 – Back to Basics: Exceptions (Karl Seguin)
• Fluent Interfaces and Readability (Joel Ross)
• No More null Checking on Your IEnumerables Before You Iterate Over Them (John)
• IronRuby and Rails (John Lam) – Congrats to John and the IronRuby team!

 

Web Development

• ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hawley)

 

SharePoint

• Pimp My Content Deployment Job (Stefan Goßner)
• Updating Pages Library with Default Page Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Development (MS Downloads)
• One CAS Policy for Many Web Part Assemblies (Patrick Tisseghem)

 

Miscellaneous

• Deep Fried Bytes Podcast Is Live (Keith Elder)
• Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Review (Scott Hanselman) – I need to get this for my wife.
• Get Your Learning On!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Holy Crap – I Like to Write Specs! (Mike Desjardins)
• Gmail Labs? (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Automating the PowerShell Script Repository (Joel Bennett)
• Authorization and Encryption in Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Turbografx Emulator Hits iPhone (Rob Beschizza) – Ok, now I officially need an iPhone.
• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (Jeff Atwood)

 

Blogging / Community

• Calm Days for the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Great Podcast About the Development Community (Rhonda Tipton)
• Using FriendFeed’s Public Links (Sarah Perez)
• Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind (Scott Hanselman)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-29) (Matt Hinze)
• Squeezed Links: May 2008 (Max Pool)
• Links (5/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for May 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing – May 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #104 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day