Month: December 2008

Lots of buzz around Oxite today… not exactly positive buzz.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Advanced C# – Unsafe Mode (Dave M. Bush)
• Learn a New Language Every Year? (Julie Lerman)
• Debugging UI (Aaron Lerch)
• Launched My Personal CodePlex Project: http://www.codeplex.com/mostlylucid (Scott Galloway)
• Windsor WCF Integration (Mike Hadlow)
• Using Classifications in MGrammar’s Intellipad and ADO.NET Data Services for Multiple Databases? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Dynamic Data: Annotating Your Data-Driven World (Jonathan Carter)
• SonicFileFinder 2.1 Released (Jens Schaller via Roland Weigelt)
• Query Data with Parallel LINQ (Charlie Calvert)

Web Development

• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) – The Model-View-Controller Pattern (Nick Berardi)
• Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML (Brian Reindel)
• Redirect Routes and Other Fun with Routing and Lambdas (Phil Haack)
• New ASP.NET MVC Sample – Oxite – Needs Some TLC (Scott Koon)
• IE8 Readiness and IETester (Sergio Pereira)
• Removing the .SVC Extension from WCF REST URLs (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET Development: MVC vs. Web Forms (Rachel Appel)
• XSS Follow Up: Search Suck (Rob Conery)
• Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?! (Karl Seguin)
• Oxite (Javier G. Lozano)
• CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 2 – Cloud-Enabling CarTrackr (Maarten Balliauw)
• A Tale of WebTests, IIS Application Pools and Assembly Load Exceptions (Josh Twist)
• My Quick Take on Oxite (Chad Myers)
• MVC/jQuery Meets Xmas Music Project (Josh Schwartzberg)
• jQuery – Calling Your Own Functions (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban in Software Development. Part 2.5: A Variation on Queues – Pipelines for WIP and Done (Derick Bailey)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 3 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Business Readable DSL (Martin Fowler)
• How My Team Does Agile (Tom Hollander)
• UML Request for Information (Cameron Skinner)
• Framework Design Guidelines: An Appeal for Consistency (Brad Abrams)
• Introduction to TestAPI – Part 1: Input Injection APIs (Ivo Manolov)
• Domain Models in Presentation Frameworks (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• Model Driven Development with “Oslo” (Gunther Lenz)
• SOA Anti-Pattern: The Knot (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Unity for Silverlight from patterns & practices (Ade Miller)
• Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF (Walt Ritscher)
• What Can You Make with 10k of Silverlight or WPF? (Adam Kinney)
• My WPF Bookshelf (Roland Weigelt)
• Silverlight SEO (Boyan Mihaylov)

Database

• Generating XML Schema Documents Using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2005 SP3 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server – Find Collation of Database and Table Column Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Has Been Released (Denis Gobo)
• Database Normalization (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• SQL Server Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Technologies (MS Downloads)
• Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)
• Microsoft Releases a WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint and SharePoint Workflow Forms Development with ASP.NET 2.0 Pages… Without the Pain! (Andrew Connell)

Events / Community

• Video NINE Questions with Jennifer Marsman (Chris G. Williams)
• Events This Week – December 15th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 2008: A Developer’s Retrospective (Meera Subbarao)

Miscellaneous

• Second Birthday for CodeClimber and Windows Live Writer 2009 RC Released (Simone Chiaretta)
• Photosynth Experimental Silverlight Viewer, View Synths on Any Computer and Windows Live Essentials Beta Released (Sunshine)
• Zapproved Opens Doors to Help You with Approvals (Aliza Sherman)
• Two Resources for Web Workers: Finding Jobs and Professional Development (Darrell Etherington)
• Mooncake Brings DeepZoom to Flickr and SmugMug (Sarah Perez)
• Why Isn’t a Good Team Player Good for a Team? (Andy Singleton)
• Windows 7: Continuing Our Discussion on Performance (Michael Fortin & Steven Sinofsky)
• Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback (Jeff Atwood)
• Is Programming Really Appropriate for a Seven Year Old? (Brian Reindel)
• Info: What I’m Running (Eric Charran)
• Live Mesh: The Killer App for Netbooks (Steve Clayton)
• Gingerbread Architecture for All (Aidan Chopra)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2008 — #456 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for December 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for December 15th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links of the Week #64 (David Vidmar)
• New and Notable 281 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #245 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 16, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Microsoft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (PRO-Developer): Dino Esposito, Andrea Saltarello: Books ISBN: 073562609X ISBN-13: 9780735626096