May 2008 – Page 11 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 4, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

Popfly Game Creator Alpha Goes Live! (Ben Anderson) – Some great info from a developer on the Popfly team… Link of the Day
patterns & practices: Prism – Release Drop 05-02-2008 (CodePlex)
Update to Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released (Dan Wahlin)
The Story of Ruby and Python in Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)

Web Development

Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
Json.NET 2.0 Released (James Newton-King)

.NET

Smart Thread Pool – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
Remote Desktop Client Wrapper for RDP 6.1 ActiveX Control – Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
Unit Testing Events (Patrick Klug)
Managed Extensibility Framework (Krzysztof Cwalina)
Unattended Installation For the .NET Framework 3.5 (Jacob Hodges)

Events/Community

ESB Guidance Webcast Next Friday (May 9th 2008) (Brian Loesgen)
PDC 2008 Conference Scheduling Using a Genetic Algorithm (Mike Swanson)

Miscellaneous

Twitter 101: Clarifying the Rules for Newbies (Corvida)
Neuron ESB Management Experience (David Pallmann)
Scale and Performance Lessons Learned From a Live Deployment and SearchBeta Hardware Configuration (Dan Blood)
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer: Full Text of Ballmer Letter to Yang and Yahoo! Responds to Withdrawal – Issues Statement (Kip Kniskern)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight Cream for May 3, 2008 – #265 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2008 – 2 – #266 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.04 (gOODiDEA)
Innovation Notes: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed: Ray Rankins,Paul Bertucci,Chris Gallelli,Alex T. Silverstein: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, neuron esb, silverlight, deep zoom, asp.net mvc, twitter

Dew Drop – May 3, 2008

Silverlight/WPF

Keeping Up With Silverlight (Dave Campbell)
Expression Studio 2 Ready For Download (John Papa)

Popfly

Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha (Popfly Team)
Video: First Look at Popfly Game Creator Alpha (Adam Nathan & Suzanne Hansen) – Link of the Day
Popfly Game Creator Alpha Launches! (Dan Fernandez)
Popfly Game Creator! (What I’ve Been Doing the Last 6 Months) (Adam Nathan)
Why Build a Game Creator? (John Montgomery)

Web Development

MVC Storefront, Part 7: Helpers and Routing and Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)

.NET

Video: XNA Framework Games Running on Zune (Mike Klucher)
10 Tips to Improve Your LINQ to SQL Application Performance (Sidar Ok)
IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
Adventures in F# – F# 101 Part 9 (Control Flow) (Matthew Podwysocki)
Help and IntelliSense for the Expression Encoder Object Model (deanro)
How the Garbage Collector Works – Part 1 and Part 2 (dotnetfacts)

Design/Methodology

Composition vs. Inheritance… (Jay Kimble)
When to Make an Action Invisible or Disabled (Dan Rigsby)
How to Not Screw Up Your Application Object Model – Don’t Go All OOP on Me! (Keith Elder)

Blogging

Minor Spaces Update, and More From Windows Live Blogs (Kip Kniskern)
Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict (Sarah Perez)
RFC: OpenTweets – Why Is Microblogging Centralized? (Scott Hanselman)
Witty Twitter 0.1.8.3 Published (Keith Elder)
ReMIX Bling For My Blog (Philip Beadle)
Snooze Chatty Twitter Friends (Gina Trapani)

SharePoint

My Personal Web Part Project (Liam Cleary)
Colleagues, Social Distance & Relevance in People Search, and other Social Networking tools in SharePoint (Mark Arend)
New “stsadm -o updatealert” Command in the SharePoint Administration Kit (Mike Walsh)
Some SP 2007 Books at Bargain Prices! (Mike Walsh)

SQL Server

Testing for SQL Server Vulnerabilities (Denis Gobo)

PowerShell

Windows PowerShell v2 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
Announcing the Release of Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell v2 (Hemant Mahawar)

Miscellaneous

I Am Not a Technical Writer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Web Worker 101: Cashflow Management (Mike Gunderloy)
Microsoft’s Cloud Jigsaw (Steve Clayton)
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools (Mark Harrison)
Neuron-ESB 2.0 Ships! (Brian Loesgen)
Map Your Mind 2.0 (Rafe Needleman)
Free Full Version of WinRAR 3.62 (Windows) (slickdeals) – I know some people prefer 7zip these days, but I’m still a WinRAR guy.

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: May 2, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #23 (Darren Stokes)
Silverlight Cream for May 2, 2008 – #264 (Dave Campbell)
New and Notable 236 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.03 (gOODiDEA)
Link Listing – May 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Windows PowerShell in Action: Bruce Payette: Books

Technorati: .net development, popfly game creator, garbage collector, silverlight, twitter, powershell, sql server, sharepoint, asp.net mvc, xna game studio

MS Popfly Game Creator Alpha

I just saw that an Alpha version of Popfly Game Creator has launched today. Here’s a screenshot of what you see when you select New Game.

There are several templates to choose from or you can start from scratch. I hope a refresh of the Visual Studio plugin with game support is soon to follow.

Technorati: popfly, online games, web development