Day: February 24, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Git’s lack of respect for immutability and the Best Practices for a DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Testing ASP.NET MVC with QUnit – Part 1 (Brady Gaster)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Factored Types (Brad Abrams)
• Decade of Agile, Dawn of Lean (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• Test types and Continous Integration (Laila Bougria)
• Ninject.FilterInjector v1.5: now injecting inside all kind of filters (Simone Chiaretta)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preview of Code Contract Tools Now Available (Melitta Andersen)
• SharePoint Developers Get Big Boost in Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
• Talking Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework (Joel Reyes)
• Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types (Derick Bailey)
• Book review: LINQ in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Thoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Declaration of Awesomeness for the Mono Compiler (Scott Koon)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #27: Present and Future of the C# Language and Demystifying WCF on DNRTV (Keith Elder)
• Tips & Tricks for the Visual C# Integrated Development Environment (Lindsay Rutter)
• Use IDispatchMessageFormatter and IClientMessageFormatter to Customize Messages in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Custom Destinations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Nintender – Open Source Nintendo Emulator in C# – Release: v.001 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes, the basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• IE6 Warning – Stop Living In The Past – Get off of IE6 (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating and Consuming Syndication Feeds in ASP.NET 3.5 (Scott Mitchell)
• JavaScript Function Call Profiling (John Resig)
• Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign (Simone Chiaretta)
• SharePoint Online and jQuery (Stephen Cummins)
• JavaScript, time to grok closures (Sergio Pereira)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create a Drag & Drop / Move, Zoom In & Out Content Control (Amit Raz)
• New Preloader for Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Excellent Tool For Silverlight Developers (Davy Brion)
• Drawing with Ink in ASP.NET using Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application (Tim Sneath)

 

Community / Events

• The official unofficial MIX09 Tweetup (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – February 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MIX09 ticket winners (Tim Heuer)
• Heading to MIX 09 and Presenting Too (John Papa)
• The Importance of Code Camp in a recession (Stephen Forte)

 

Database

• Advanaced TSQL and performance tuning (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 – CTE’s (Michael Ceranski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 3.1 installed on Nokia N95 (Tim Conneally)
• Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) Will Sync Tabs with Firefox on Your Desktop [Fennec] (Adam Pash)
• Social Desktop extends REST to your desktop (Jamie Thomson)
• Twitter PowerShell Script (Sarah Perez)
• Commodore 128 (Pete Brown)
• Web Work 101: Telecommuting – Out of Sight Doesn’t Have to Mean Out of Mind (Judi Sohn)
• (Officially) Announcing the Resident Evil Limited Edition Console (Larry Hyrb)
• Now, Discover Your Strengths (Steve Rowe)
• HowTo: Hello "Cloud-Computing" (Robert Muehsig)
• Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck? (Michael Nygard)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #293 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Listing – February 23, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2009 — #526 (Dave Campbell)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Resources (Rachel Appel)
• CloudNews for February 23rd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day