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Month: January 2009
Dew Drop – January 29, 2009
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Leadership 101: Open That Door! (Jim Holmes)
- Programming By Numbers (Justin Etheredge)
- My 2 Most Cherished Mistakes (Davy Brion)
- True Swiss Don’t Like Mocks! (Gabriel Schenker)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode #23: Functional Programming in C# with Oliver Sturm and #24: Chatting About F# with Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell (Keith Elder)
- Anonymous Methods, Lambdas, Confusion (Mike Taulty)
- Much Ado About Monads – Maybe Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Long Division (Eric Lippert)
- Installing Oslo SDK and Creating an Oslo Repository from Scratch (Alex Thissen)
- Using Fluent-NHibernate and Traditional .hbm.xml Files in the Same Project (Derik Whittaker)
- Managed Extensibility Framework Preview 4, a Grab Bag of Goodies (Glenn Block)
- LiveFX: Mesh and Live Framework Clients Can Now Run Side-by-Side (Jamie Thomson)
Silverlight / WPF
- A Comprehensive List to Silverlight Controls for Developers (Tim Heuer) – Link of the Day
- Interesting Silverlight Data Binding "Feature" (Rocky Lhotka)
- Life Changer XAML Tip for Visual Studio (Fabrice Marguerie)
- Live Framework SDK – Revised WPF Photo Sharing Application (Mike Taulty)
- Display Images from a Database in a Silverlight DataGrid Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
Web Development
- ASP.NET 4.0: ViewStateMode… Giving You More Control Over ViewState! and ASP.NET 4.0: Page.Keywords and Page.Description Simple, but Useful! (Scott Galloway)
- 15+ Tips to Speed Up Your Website, and Optimize Your Code! (nettuts via G. Andrew Duthie)
- Azure Issue Tracker Available for Download! Learn Cloud Programming the Dev Way – Through Code. (Dave Isbitski)
- Building AgiliTrain: Part 1 – Why ASP.NET MVC (Shawn Wildermuth)
- ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC 1 and T4 Templates – Add Controller… (David Hayden)
- PHPLinq 0.4.0 Released on CodePlex! (Maarten Balliauw)
Database
- How to Make Sure That the View Will Have the Underlying Table Changes by Using sp_refreshview (Denis Gobo)
- Using Ruby with SQL Server (Michael Ceranski)
PowerShell
- PowerShell LINQ: Skip-While and PowerShell LINQ: Take-Count and Take-While (Jared Parsons)
.NET Community / Events
- CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, February 3rd, 6:30pm – Building Data Centric Web Applications Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Christopher Steen)
Miscellaneous
- The Ultimate Dogfooding Story (Jeff Atwood)
- Introducing Measurement Lab (Vint Cerf & Stephen Stuart)
- IE8 Accelerator for FriendFeed (Adam Kinney)
- How to Make Your Own Theme Pack for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
More Link Collections
- Link Listing – January 27, 2009 and Link Listing – January 28, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
- Interesting Finds: January 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
- LINKBLOG for January 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2009 — #500 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #275 (Chris Alcock)
- CloudNews for January 28th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Book of the Day
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Mike Cohn: Books
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Dew Drop – January 28, 2009
Design / Methodology / Testing
- TDD: Design Tests for Failure (Mark Needham)
- House of Cards Design Anti-Pattern (Peter Ritchie)
- Points for Stories and the Perplexing Nature of Estimating Software and Practical Agile Is Not Just Notecards, Flowers, and Fairies (Jeffrey Palermo)
- The Significance of Code Reviews (Michael Ceranski)
- First Steps Toward Test Driven Design/Development (Muhammad Mosa)
- Manage Your Projects… Not Just Your Schedule (Part 3) (Dux Raymond Sy)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Importing and Exporting Custom Toolboxes in Visual Studio 2008 (Pete Brown)
- Digital Version of Programming Entity Framework Is Live! (Julie Lerman)
- New Managed Extensibility Framework Drop (David Kean)
- .NET Circuit Breakers (Tobin Harris)
- The VSTA Layer Diagram and the p&p App Arch Guide 2.0 (Clemens Reijnen)
- The 10 Second Visual Studio Makeover (Russell Ball)
- Top Visual Studio Add-Ins (David Ridgway)
- Annotating Code with .NET Reflector and Review Add-In (Ben Hall)
- .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Reliable Sessions Made Simple with WCF (Steve Stefanovich)
- Tales From High Memory Scenarios: Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
Silverlight / WPF
- Styling a Silverlight Chart (Rudi Grobler)
- XamlScenario: Determining If a XAML Document Is a "WPF" XAML Document (Rob Relyea)
- Silverlight Tip of the Day #88 – How to Handle Image AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR Errors and #89 – How to Use String Resources (Mike Snow)
- Managing Social Data in Silverlight: Do You Push or Pull? (Daniel Crenna)
- *chirp: A WPF Client for Twitter (at last) (Steve Clayton)
Web Development
- Windows Live Messenger IM Control Module for Drupal CMS (Jared Preston)
- ASP.NET MVC Custom Error Pages (Barry Dahlberg)
- ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
- ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate and Controls Collection Cannot Be Modified Issue with ASP.NET MVC RC1 (Phil Haack)
- Where Does ASP.NET Belong? And What ASP.NET Should I Use? (Chris Love)
- Reformat Your CSS on the Fly (Martin Hinshelwood)
- A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
- ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- What’s New for MVC Tools in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (Abhishek Mishra)
- ASP.NET MVC Options for Consolidating HTML (Jimmy Bogard)
- Making Individual Tables Read Only – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
.NET Community / Events
- .NET Fireside Chats – Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina (Me) – Q&A with Brad & Krys and an excerpt from chapter 9 of their book, Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition, available to download.
PowerShell
- Rename-Drive : Renaming Drives with PowerShell & WMI (James Brundage)
Database
- SQL Server – Generate a Single Random Number for Range of Rows of Any Table – Very Interesting Question from Reader (Pinal Dave)
Miscellaneous
- Enterprise Services Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 4 (Sam Gentile)
- A Fresh Thought for the Movie/TV Studios (Jeff Blankenburg)
- My List of Useful Mac Software (Bobby Johnson)
- Will Your Games Run on Windows 7? (Loyd Case)
- Applying for a Second Position After Having Been Declined Previously (Kenji Yamaguchi)
- New in Labs: Offline Gmail (Andy Palay)
- Windows 2008 R2 Features Part 1: Offline Domain Join (Parzival)
- Showcasing Windows 7 Platform with Applets (Riyaz Pishori and team)
More Link Collections
- New and Notable 284 (Sam Gentile)
- Interesting Finds: January 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
- Visual Studio Links #104 (Darren Stokes)
- LINKBLOG for January 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- CloudNews for January 27th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
- Creators Club Communiqué 15 (Kathleen Sanders)
- Squeezed Links: January 2009 (Max Pool)
- Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2009 – 2 — #499 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #274 (Chris Alcock)
Book of the Day
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams: Books
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