Dew Drop – March 27, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Complexity Pig (Ade Miller)
• Scrum-It’s not about completing the sprint (Anne Epstein)
• Done, Done, Done: The Cult of Done Manifesto (Bobby Johnson)
• Book Review: Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Jason Haley)
• The flow of team software design (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Always Assume That You’re The Problem (Justin Etheredge)
• First steps with Lightweight Test Automation Framework (Steve Sanderson)
• Updated Release Burndown Spreadsheet Template (Steve Donie)
• Stumbling Through Mediocrity (James Shore)

Web Development

• MVC Beta to RTW upgrade issue – AddModelError and NullReferenceExceptions (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC: Implement Theme Folders using a Custom ViewEngine (Chris Pietschmann)
• Friday Books – jQuery UI 1.6: and ASP.NET MVC – Routing (Dave M. Bush)
• Beginner’s Guide To Ruby On Rails: Part 2 (Jan Varwig)
• MvcContrib v1.0 Released! Download now (Jeffrey Palermo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lazy loading w/ NHibernate and Remoting do not play well (Derik Whittaker)
• Cascading Filters – for Dynamic Data v1.0 (Steve)
• Build a Simple Gmail Notifier Using Windows Forms (Shoban Kumar)

Silverlight / WPF

• Kaxaml – The best lightweight XAML editor (Taimur Asad)
• WPF in F# (Charles Petzold)
• Implementing SelectedValue with the Silverlight ComboBox (Mike Hillberg)
• .NET RIA Services Resources (for March 2009 Preview) (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• The Weekly Source Code 39 – Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3 (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 – Use Integers for Layout Calculations (Mike Snow)

Postcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #173: A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown (Scott Hanselman)
• Colaab, review and collaborate in Silverlight and WPFFX running in the Silverlight 3 Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Agile Toolkit: Tips and Advice – Time Boxes (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #96: Creating SOLID Code: Dependency Inversion Principle (Derik Whittaker)
• MIX09 Keynote and Session Videos (Mike Swanson)
• The History of Microsoft – 1982 (Tina)
• Dave Hoover on Software Craftsmanship (Mike Moore)
• Intro to CSLA .NET video by Andrew Hallmark (Rockford Lhotka)

Community / Events

• The Future of Software Conferences is … Software (Dino Esposito)
• Did anyone have a new SharePoint Codeplex release between 24th Feb and March 9th? (Mike Walsh)
• Saturday’s New England Code Camp (Number Eleven!) Carpooling from VT? (Julie Lerman)
• Stir Trek (no, that’s not a typo) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Wednesday, April 1st, 6:30pm – Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service (Christopher Steen)
• Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 – April 18, 2009 – Registration Is Now Open! (Bill Wolff) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

• Tied Variables in PowerShell (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

SQL Server

• Disable SQL Agent Jobs with TSQL based on events (Ted Krueger)
• Answers To The SQL Server Quiz: Can You Answer All These Post (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Release Candidate Coming to Public May 2009 (Adam Pash)
• My Own Aroma (Peter Seale)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Made to Stick (Dave Burke)
• Updating the Windows 7 release schedule and Is IE8 really fat and slow? (Ed Bott)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Four: Boustrophedonic (Eric Lippert)
• Technet slips Windows 7 RC info (Steven Bink)
• You can rename the URL for your CodePlex project? – #003 (Sara Ford)
• Vuze Integrates with Xbox 360 and An Even Easier Way to Change your Windows 7 Login Screen (Sarah Perez)
• Facebook is lucky it missed buying Twitter and now should eat Yelp (Robert Scoble)
• Google Docs adds vector-based diagramming with new drawing tool (Lee Mathews)
• Windows 7 Might Block Third-Party Video Codecs (Matt Buchanan)
• Microsoft DreamSpark now available for High Schools! (Michael Cummings)
• How to quickly get started with Git/GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)
• Don’t Like It? Code It Yourself! (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #316 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2009 — #553 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #120 (Tim Boland)
• Links (3/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for March 26th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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