Dew Drop – July 22, 2008

 

Web Development

• Web Development as Tag Soup (Jeff Atwood)
• DropThings: Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal – New and Improved (Brad Abrams)
• The Weekly Source Code 30 – Spark and NHaml – Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 Available (Bertrand Le Roy)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #22 – Return a View Without Creating a Controller Action (Stephen Walther)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Known Type Provider (Davy Brion)
• What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB (Kathleen Dollard)
• Running Your Build/Source Code From a RAM Disk (Eric Hexter)
• Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 1 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
• NHibernate.LINQ with ADO.NET Data Services (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Evolution of C# Delegate Syntax From .NET 1.x to 3.5 (Bart Czernicki)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patch Management Approaches Using Centralized SCM and How a Blocking Remote Call Can Take Down an Application (Oren Eini)
• No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net (Ade Miller)
• Mocking Dilemma, Solved! (Davy Brion)
• The Code Reuse Myth (Brian Reindel)
• Leveraging Unit Tests as Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors (Schalk Neethling)
• The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I Want to Know What You Mean. What You Meant. What You Will Mean. Every Time. (Anne Botha)

 

Silverlight

• Check Out Our New Learn Page! (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun Silverlight Game: Crayon Cannon (Dan Fernandez)
• Silverlight 2.0 – Concepts to Become a Master Series (Part 1 – .NET/C#) and (Part 2 – WCF) (Bart Czernicki)

 

Events / Community / Blogging

• Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals in Big Apple (Sam Gentile)
• Events This Week – July 21st, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Has/How/Why Tech Blogging Has Failed You (Robert Scoble)
• PEST (James Whittaker)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Declarative Data Validation Presentation – Charlotte Developers Guild (Karl Shifflett)
• Upcoming Conferences with Plenty of SharePoint Oriented Content (Lawrence)
• WordPress Tips + Things You Can Do After Installing WordPress (Amit Agarwal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Review: The Annoted Turing by Charles Petzold (Michael C. Neel)
• Live Mesh Updated (Sarah Perez)
• Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Messenger Plus! Skins, Scripts Etc. (Sunshine)
• Pre-Beta Mac Client for Live Mesh – Review Only (Chris)
• What I Look For in an Interview Candidate (Pete Brown)
• How to Become a Good Developer? (Gunnar Peipman) – Link of the Day

 

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – July 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• New and Notable 255 (Sam Gentile)
• Visual Studio Links #55 (Darren Stokes)
• Weekly Links #10 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 — #330 and Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 – 2 — #331 (Dave Campbell)
• Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170 (Harry Pierson)
• Bookmarking the Web – w29/2008 (Erwin)
• The Morning Brew #141 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day