Dew Drop – March 12, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• JavaFx vs Flash vs Silverlight (Terence Tsang)
• What I Use for Silverlight Development (Shawn Wildermuth)
• MVVM notes and references (Corey Schuman)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Things we wish Microsoft would fix in Visual Studio 2010 (Jason Short)
• Right click, New Visual Studio Solution (Ben Scheirman)
• Guidance for building Sharepoint Applications with Visual Studio Team System (Charles Sterling)
• devhawk_ipy and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Refactoring (Harry Pierson)
• Fluent NHibernate: Conventions Rewrite (James Gregory)
• Team System 2010 Roadmap (J. Bienz)
• Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Rangers Ship New SharePoint guidance! (Ted Malone)
• Implementing a WCF Service Firewall Part II of N (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnitEx: Test Driving NUnit’s 3.0 API and New Poll: What Kind Of Testing Do You Do? and Continuous Failure (Davy Brion)
• Workability (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• OO: Reducing the cost of…lots of stuff! (Mark Needham)
• Feature Teams or Component Teams? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• BDD on Steroids (Mo Khan)
• Jay Fields on Pairing and Conversation with Paul Pagel (Corey Haines)
• 100,000 Downloads of Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (J.D. Meier)
• Fumbling toward automation: running JavaScript tests with Watir (Joe White)
• Oppression, Revolution and the Future of Scrum (Tobias Mayer)
• The List – Keep Yourself on Track (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Bare Minimum (Karl Seguin)
• Developing with Source Code Control – Best Practices Part 2 (Peter Ritchie)

 

Web Development

• Twitter Stats using Greasemonkey & jQuery (Elijah Manor)
• Web Slice and Feed Authentication – Developer Guidelines (Amy Placzkiewicz)
• Making a jQuery Plugin Truly Customizable (James Padolsey)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (1 in a series) (Sara J. Chipps)
• Client Rendering Views with Spark and ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• Calculating the Size of SOAP Messages (Davy Brion)
• ASP.NET MVC RC Finally Working for Me (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Database

• Designing a document database: Replication (Oren Eini)
• Where should the ON clause go? (Simon Sabin)
• Building Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Microsoft Bringing SQL Server to the Cloud (Steve Clayton)
• Backups are for sissies!!! (Ted Krueger)

 

PowerShell

• Want to Influence the PowerShell Cookbook V2? (Lee Holmes)
• Out-GridView Revisited (Xin Li)
• Reserving keywords (Jason Shirk)

 

Community / Events

• Rebel DE Yell (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IronPython at PyCon (Harry Pierson)
• Progressive Audio Webinar (William Vaughn)
• Podcast #45 (Jeff Atwood)
• Coming at Mix 09: Adding Messenger to your site gets better and (much) easier (Kip Kniskern)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Windows 8 will be Version 6.11 (and other Insider Tidbits) (Blake Handler)
• Google Reader starts a conversation (Dolapo Falola)
• Chiming In On Sexual Harassment (Andy)
• Stop Blaming Technology and Own Up to Responsibility (Bil Simser)
• What’s in a version name? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile App store details (Brad Linder)
• Mirroring Subversion from Windows (Christopher Bennage)
• MSDN Subscriptions web site – February 2009 release (Chris Deluca)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Future Files (Dave Burke)
• Windows 7 build 7057 torrent appears on Mininova (Lee Mathews)
• Sony Reader PRS-700 (Spence Harbar)
• Start With Windows Mobile (Steve Clayton)
• Photosynth Comes to the iPhone (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft Unveils Windows Mobile App Store Details (Brad Linder)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #305 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2009 — #538 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for March 11, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Twitterings #19 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 304 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day