Month: September 2008

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Teaching TDD Worth It? (Davy Brion)
• Options Have Value. Options Expire. (Corey Ladas)
• Testify (Tony Rasa)
• What’s Up with Unit Testing? Part I (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• So, What Is Duck Typing? (Joel Ross)
• Let’s Go Back to the Basics of Cohesion and Coupling (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Ten Tips to Maximize the Return on Your TDD Investment (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Web Development

• What Was Stack Overflow Built With? (Jeff Atwood)
• What Has Happened to BlogML? (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #6 – Ajax (Stephen Walther)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using IContextChannel Extensions to Store Custom Data (Dan Rigsby)
• Zune Minesweeper – Release v3.0 (CodePlex)
• Creating a 3D Space Invaders Game From Scratch in XNA (Judah Himango)
• Active and Current (Stack Frame and Thread) (Daniel Moth)
• The Snippet Designer Is Released (Matt Manela)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating Custom Controls – A Common Starter Application (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight – Drawing Outside the Control Region (Mike Taulty)
• XAML Power Toys 2.0.8 Released New Features (Karl Shifflett)
• How to Get the Char(acter) and VirtualKey from a WPF KeyDown Event (Joel Bennett)

 

Database

• Comprehensive Table of Contents (Ken Downs)

 

Events / Community

• What Is Your Strategy for Becoming a Better Developer? (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Charity Fragathon Is Almost Here (Chris G. Williams)

 

Miscellaneous

• Don’t Go for the Doughnut (Max Pool)
• Microsoft’s Vision on Software + Services (Gunther Lenz)
• Seth, You Need to Get Out More (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 60 (Rhonda Tipton)
• LINKBLOG for September 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links of the week #54 (week 38/2008) (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.09.15~2008.09.21 (yuanjian)
• Links (9/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #73 (Darren Stokes)
• Weekly Links #19 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #184 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Web Development

• Suteki Shop at REMIX (Mike Hadlow)
• SharePoint for Developers: 3. Introduction to SharePoint Data Structures (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Facebook Application – MSDN East Coast News (What I’ve Been Working on Lately) (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Hanselminutes Podcasts 130 – JavaScript Gets Faster: Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla Corporation and Creator of JavaScript (Scott Hanselman)

 

Design / Methodology

• Do the Right Thing. Assuming You Know What That Is. (Kyle Baley)
• Interfaces and Isolation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Architecture – It Is Always a Trade-Off (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Silverlight and WPF – Sharing Library Projects (Mike Taulty)
• A Spider-Type Control Tree Thingy for WPF (Sacha Barber & Fredrik Bornander)
• Cosmos – C# Open Source Managed Operating System (Chad Z. Hower)
• A Graph Tree Drawing Control for WPF (Darrell P.)

 

Database

• Geek City: Too Many Columns! (Kalen Delaney)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why People Like Open Source (Larry Clarkin)
• Recommended Books: Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Davy Brion)
• Book Review: Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Microsoft’s Secrecy Gameplan Tested as More Win7 Screenshots Leak (Mary Jo Foley)
• Introducing the "Dirty Little Secrets" Screencast (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What Is Your Strategy for Becoming a Better Developer? (Justin Etheredge)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for September 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Top 10 Windows Forms Articles You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Yet Another Post on MVP vs MVC (Glenn Block)
• New Guidance Package on Microsoft Data Access Technologies (David Hayden)
• Architecture by Baseball: The Managers (Larry Clarkin) – Link of the Day
• The Future of Software Testing (Part 5) (James Whittaker)
• Goodbye Mocks, Farewell Stubs (Roy Osherove)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Convenient CLR Methods Aren’t Always the Best for LINQ to Entities (Julie Lerman)
• Barnes Begins Project Nexus (Adam Kinney)
• XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta – Released with 64-bit Support and Installing Alien Game on a Zune Using XNA Game Studio (Dan Rigsby)
• Language Translation on Paste with the Clipboard History Plug-In (Mark Miller)
• Herding Code Episode 18 – Functional Programming and F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• CSLA .NET 3.6 (Silverlight and Windows) Pre-Release (080919) (Rockford Lhotka)
• Binding and Using Localized Enums in WPF (Sacha Barber)
• Building a Zune Playlist (Matt Gertz)

 

Web Development

• MvcContrib – Now with SubController Support for ASP.NET MVC (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Creating RESTful WCF Services – Did You Know? (John Papa)
• Scale, Move and Rotate Controls in Your GUI (Anders Bursjöö)
• jQuery.position() on Invisible Element Fails (Rick Strahl)

 

Events / Community

• SharePoint Best Practices Conference Was a Huge Success (Mark Schneider)
• Microsoft PDC Agile Pre-Conference (Ade Miller)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2.0 Released (Sarah Perez)
• What Topics Are Important to You? Survey Results (Jesse Liberty)
• Working Remotely From Home, Telepresence and Video Conferencing: One Year Later (Scott Hanselman)
• SQL Server 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers Complete List Download (Pinal Dave)
• Windows 7 M3 Build 6780: Pictures and Videos (soon) (Zhou) – 35 screenshots of Windows 7 are up.
• Google Chrome Memory Usage – Good and Bad (Mike Belshe)
• HL7 Schema Generation Tool (Roberto Ruggeri)
• Windows Home Server to Be Included in the Microsoft Action Pack from October (Terry Walsh)

 

More Link Collections

• Clearing the Cache – Blogging Edition (Scott Blitstein)
• LINKBLOG for September 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• REST in WCF Series (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Cream for September 19, 2008 — #373 (Dave Campbell)

 

Book of the Day