Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – November 22-23, 2008

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 4 Steps to Ensure You’re the Worst Developer Ever! (Justin)
• Building Frameworks: It Is One Day or Three Months (Oren Eini)
• Is Microsoft Interested in Helping Architects? (David Solivan)
• Do Not Test Private Methods (Chad Myers)
• NDepend – The Massive Code Analysis Tool for Every Developer (Muhammad Mosa)
• Why on Earth Would a Developer Do This? (Davy Brion)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Back to Basics: Generics (Karl Seguin)
• The Misuse of var in .NET – It’s Bad Programming! (Anders Bursjöö)
• How to Create a WCF Client Proxy Without Having a Deployed WCF Service (Sacha Barber)
• Dude, Where’s My LINQ DML? (Bart de Smet)
• WCF REST Starter Kit Hands On Labs – Release – 2008-11 (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Web Development

• Facebook Apps on Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Live Framework CTP Updated (Kevin Ledley)
• Combining jQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day

 

Silverlight / WPF

• A Better Multi-Page Solution (Jesse Liberty)
• Prism v2 – Drop 6 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) (Erwin van der Valk)
• In-Place Editing for Silverlight Using Styles and Templates (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight Glass Button (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight DataBinding Basics (Timothy Khouri)

 

Events / Community

• ALT.NET Online Open Meeting (Chad Myers)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #19: Windows Azure – The Overlord in the Cloud (Keith Elder)
• The NHibernate Community (Oren Eini)
• Welcome Davy Brion to Elegant Code (David Starr)

 

PowerShell

• Verbs vs. Nouns by Snapin (Jeffrey Snover)

 

Miscellaneous

• How Important Is the Problem of Whether or not P=NP? (Leon Bambrick)
• Setting Up Subversion on Windows Home Server (Ade Miller)
• 1 Year Anniversary (Chad Myers)
• Live Mesh or Live Sync? Microsoft’s Branding Problem (One of Many) and The Anti-Beta Revolution. Or Is It a Counter-Revolution? (Zoli Erdos)
• Why the New Zune Pass Should Be Irresistible (Ed Bott)
• New VSDB Blog (Gert Drapers)
• $500 Million in Advertising??? Did I Use the Jump the Shark Joke Already? (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2008 — #434 and Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2008 – 2 — #435 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for November 21, 2008 and LINKBLOG for November 22, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for November 21st, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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