Dew Drop – January 14, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• In Search of Wild Repository (Mike Hadlow)
• Unit Testing in VB.NET – with TypeMock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or Is It? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Improving Our Industry: It’s Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward (Derick Bailey)
• TDD Using Dependency Injection – Step 1. Refactoring (Andrew Woodward)
• Pex – Automated Whiteboard Testing for .NET (v0.9.40105.0) (MS Research)
• SOA Is Dead? It’s About Time! (Kurt Cagle)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)
• Agile in 6 Words (Brian Button)
• Leadership 101: Calm in a Storm (Jim Holmes)
• Bad Apple Behaviors (David Starr)
• The Story of the Lazy-Loading Lunchbox (Dylan Beattie) – Co-Link of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Would the CLR Be Different? (Matthew Podwysocki) – Co-Link of the Day
• Microsoft "Oslo" MGraph – the Next XML? (Lars Corneliussen)
• Fluent NHibernate: Mapping Private and Protected Entities (James Gregory)
• Installing Team Explorer 2008 on Windows 7 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• NHibernate + XML Columns (Joey Beninghove)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation Framework – xVal – jQuery Validation Support (David Hayden)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Managing Static Files & Browser Caching (Joel Ross)
• jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation (John Resig)
• SSL Certificates and WWW. Prefix on Domain Names (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Resizable WYMEditor with jQuery UI Resizable (Marc Grabanski)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #81 – How to Scale Your Silverlight Control (Mike Snow)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Are YOU Going to the Microsoft Developer Conference? (James Bender)
• Presenting Keynote at MDC in Washington, DC (Stephen Walther) – I’ll be there. DM me on Twitter to track me down.
• Top 20+ jQuery Tweeple to Follow (Elijah Manor)
• Developer Faceoff: Sergio Pereira vs. Angelo Anolin (Max Pool)
• Where in the World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From? (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code Episode 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon, Jon Galloway)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Joe Duffy on ‘Concurrent Programming on Windows’ (Me) – Q&A with Joe and a free chapter excerpt download from his book!

 

PowerShell

• DateTime Casts Are Language Primitives (Lee Holmes)
• Switching Website Root with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)

 

Database

• Transact SQL e-Learning Collection Now Available (Simon Sabin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Free Themes, Gadgets, Wallpaper for Windows 7 Beta (Lee Matthews)
• Office 14 Revealed: Part 2 – Security and Part 3 – A More Far-Reaching Fluent UI and Part 4 – Improving Desktop TCO (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft (Finally) Updates Live Mesh for Windows 7 Compatibility and Windows 7 Beta Users: Run, Don’t Walk, to Download the MP3 Patch (Paul Thurrott)
• My Favorite Feature in Windows 7 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Select Testers Get Office 14 Alpha Release (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Telecommute (as If You’re Right in the Office) (Joel Durham Jr.)
• DSLs: Ready for Prime-Time? (Ted Neward)
• Exchange 14 Video (KC Lemson)
• Refcardz — Free Cheat Sheets for Developers (DotNetShoutout)

 

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 13 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 — #484 and Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 – 2 — #485 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.13~2009.01.14 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #264 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 14, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 13, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

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