Dew Drop – March 17, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Maximizing Value with Agile Release Planning” Recording (James Shore)
• Aspect Oriented Programming in C#.NET: Part I (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Beginning Mocking with Moq 3 – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Aluminum Wiring in Your Software (K. Scott Allen)
• How I Learned to Program Manage an Agile Team after 6 years of Waterfall (Sara Ford)
• Agile Methods – Delivering Software Faster (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Introduction to test-doubles (Laila Bougria)
• Why Don’t We Learn? (Davy Brion)
• Ken Sylvester on Top 5 Characteristics of Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• DDD and Repositories. Without NHibernate but with Lazy Loading (Peter Van Ooijen)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: getting caught out with closures (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts (Chris Brandsma)
• Introducing Sueetie Patterns and Origins (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC TIP – Keep your controllers and actions thin (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET AJAX SlideShow Extender – Some Common Tips and Tricks (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Talking Points: WCF and RESTful Services (Part II) (Joel Reyes)
• External ITemplates and Hierarchical Databinding (David Fowler)
• Web Packaging: Installing Web Packages using Command Line (Vishal R. Joshi)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Rounded Corners – and holes! (Chris Cavanagh)
• MVVM Mediator Pattern (Sacha Barber)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #28: Networking Silverlight (Keith Elder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services V1.5 CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting Automatic Property Values in a Struct’s Constructor (Black Wasp)
• Unicode in regular expressions (Jimmy Bogard)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #1 (Damien Guard)
• linq and the dry principle (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Programming Entity Framework (Jarod Ferguson)
• Mapping Stored Procedure Results to a Custom Entity in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• MSBuild Extension Pack – Release: 3.5.2.0 (CodePlex)

Database

• Designing a document database: Remote API & Public API and Designing a document database: What next? (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

• Social Networking not a replacement for In Person Networking (Brendon Schwartz)
• Join In with MIX09 Live Content Online (Bruce Kyle)
• XBOX LIVE Community Games Best Practices talk with Andy (The Zman) Dunn (Chris G. Williams)
• MIX09 Minus 1 (Dave Campbell)
• Events This Week – March 16th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Local Boy Makes Good (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 build 7057 – Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous builds (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Why Service Virtualization Matters (Aaron Skonnard)
• Cloud Computing hits the mainstream press (Andy Singleton)
• Small Basic on Facebook (Vijaye R.)
• FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Getting Things Done with Gmail Tasks (Simon Mackie)
• Azure joins the “crash club”: down for 22 hours (Kip Kniskern)
• Open Source Maturity Model Explored (Tim Barcz)
• Things you know now (Joe Webb)
• 2nd Annual RossCode.com March Madness Pool Contest (Joel Ross)
• Weekly release: A Proper Certificate! (Marco Botton)
• Focus on fun and step into freedom in your career!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• How to Embed Your Windows Live Calendar on Your Website (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #308 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 16, 2009 — #543 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 85 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for March 16th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Programming Entity Framework: Julia Lerman: Books ISBN: 059652028X ISBN-13: 9780596520281