Day: December 11, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Command Binding to Enhance Any WPF Control (Amit Raz)
• System.Xaml CTP (Rob Relyea)
• BlendSense: XAML Intellisense for Expression Blend (Karsten Januszewski)
• WPF = Code + Markup (Custom Pushpins for DeepEarth) (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Silverlight Toolkit – Release: December 2008 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Thinking with Blinders and The Database as a Service Anti-Pattern (Oren Eini)
• C# Design Patterns – The Decorator Pattern (Justin)
• How Do You Tame the Many Heads of the Hydra? (Kyle Baley)
• How MSIT Does Development (Stephanie Saad)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 2 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Dirty Code!!! (David Yancey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing a Textual DSL Using ‘OSLO’ (Dilip Krishnan)
• Using Sealed in CSharp (Dave Bush)
• Incorporate Layer Validation in Your Builds (Cameron Skinner)
• C# Collection Initializers (Richard Carr)
• Fluent NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• F# No Longer Vaporware (Chris Smith) – Link of the Day
• IPy RTW FTW! (Harry Pierson)
• .NET Rocks! – Bill Wagner on Advanced C# (MS Downloads)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Bill Wagner on ‘More Effective C#’ (Me)
• WCF 101 – Understanding Transfer Security Visually (Bart Czernicki)

Web Development

• WordPress 2.7 Available Now (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Script# – Literal Feature… How Did I Miss This One? (Jay Kimble)
• SubSonic 3 Alpha Updated (Rob Conery)
• Practical Javascript – Three Code Snippets to Get You Thinking (Brian Reindel)
• Discussion: Why Web Designers Often Use PHP Over ASP.NET? (Janko Jovanovic)
• RecaptchaMvc – Release: Beta 1 (CodePlex)

Career / Productivity

• Be a Keyboard Guru, not a Mouse Guru (Dave Schinkel)
• How to Motivate Developers – A Three Step Framework (Frank Kelly)
• The Zen of Results Free E-Book (J.D. Meier)
• Five Posts I Wrote That Will Help You Find a Programming Job, Recession or No Recession (Brian Reindel)
• Microsoft Live Labs Releases Online Bulletin Board Called Thumbtack (Brad Linder)

Miscellaneous

• Notes on Doing Development for Windows Live Writer for Oomph (Karsten Januszewski)
• What Editors/IDE Rock Your World? (Andrew Stopford)
• What Is the Primary Purpose of an ORM? (Scott Koon)
• Coding4Fun Book: The People and the Projects (Dan Fernandez)

More Link Collections

• WSOAC#39 – The QCon San Francisco Edition and WSDAC#27 – Martin Fowler on the Increasing Interest in the Database Space and WMOC#27 – MEF Preview 3 Released (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for December 10, 2008 – 2 — #451 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for December 10th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for December 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.12.08~2008.12.11 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #242 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 11, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: December 11, 2008 and Innovation Notes: December 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (Effective Software Development Series): Bill Wagner: Books ISBN: 0321485890 ISBN-13: 9780321485892