Day: August 13, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• On Fluent NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• Enumeration Classes (Jimmy Bogard)
• Updated Entity Framework Samples for RTM (Jaroslaw Kowalski)
• Problems with Team Explorer After Installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM (Martin Hinshelwood) – Luckily I didn’t encounter this problem.
• WCF: The Type Provided as the Service Attribute Could Not Be Found (Josh Twist)
• Concurrency on a Single Thread (G. Neverov)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 7 (Justin Etheredge)
• ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions – Release for VS 2008 SP1 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Contextual Binding with StructureMap 2.5 (Derik Whittaker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Build and Continuous Integration – Toolgasm Achieved (Roy Osherove)
• Testing Browser-Based WPF Applications (Charles Sterling)
• Encapsulating Test Data and Expectations (John Teague)
• Recovering a Project with ASP.NET MVC and Agile (Casey Charlton)
• Who Do You Design For: Clients or Users? (Brian Haught)
• Business Requirements Are Bullshit (Steve Yegge)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using CSLA Light Part 4 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Custom Controls: Weather Control Part 2 – The Slider (Denislav Savkov)
• Introduction to Layout Controls in Silverlight 2 (Dan Wahlin)
• 3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of My To-Do List (Jesse Liberty)
• Walk-through: Silverlight Flickr Client in IronRuby (Jimmy Schementi) – Link of the Day, if/when the link starts working again.
• Silverlight File Uploader (Silverlight Show)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #31 – Passing Data to Master Pages and User Controls (Stephen Walther)
• Scaling Web Applications – Recommended Readings (Eran Kampf)
• How to Easily Enhance Your Existing Tables with Simple CSS (Dave Ward)
• Google Unveils Open Source Security Tool (J.R. Raphael)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Abstractions & the Community and When NOT to Use ‘WHERE’ (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell Power User Tips: A Better Prompt (Joel Bennett)

 

Events / Community

• Philadelphia IT Architect Regional Conference, Sept. 23-24, 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• BarCamp Philly Kickoff! (Roz Duffy)

 

Database

• Understanding SQL Execution Plan (Part I) (Chirag Patel)
• SQL for Developers – 9 Reasons to Bother (Dave M. Bush)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Infrastructure Architecture Resources (Chandima Kulathilake)
• Announcing Faceted Search v2.5 (Leonid Lyublinski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Positively Negative (Davy Brion)
• Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves (Tom Giannattasio)
• Got Shoes? (Karl Seguin)

 

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #64 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for August 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 12, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• WMOC#15 – Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM and WSDAC#15 – Art of Gathering Business Requirements (Dilip Krishnan)
• Link Listing – August 12, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #157 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 13, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Double Shot #268 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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