Day: April 29, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

• More Articles on Trust (Brad Appleton)
• Stop Using Process Template X with Process Y (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• The insurance of software, or “How to take joy in being risk-averse” (Kyle Baley)
• Empowered, Whether You Like It or Not (Jurgen Appelo)
• Strategic Design (Jérémie Chassaing)

Web Development

• Image Transforms with the ASP.NET Generated Image Control (Scott Mitchell)
• The ASP.NET Diet Part 2 – Making a Thin Contact Form (Chris Love)
• JavaScript for C# Developers: Date Basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Ship It! Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Design Tool (Karsten Januszewski)
• Move Over ASP.NET WebForms and MVC! (Jonathan Oliver)
• How to handle non-English characters in ASP.NET MVC routes (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Free ASP.NET MVC “NerdDinner” Tutorial Now in HTML (Scott Guthrie)
• Using of JSON Result in Asp.net MVC 1.0 (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Testability and TDD are not reasons to use the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Jeffrey Palermo)
• IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Tip #58: Did you know…How you can import/ export HTML Per Tag options in VS? (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
• Now Published: Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress) (Steve Sanderson)
• Glimmer: visually build jQuery animations and stuff (Bertrand Le Roy)
• jQuery and Google Maps #2: AJAX Storing and Retrieving Points (Marc Grabanski)
• Book review: Learning Ext JS (Maarten Balliauw)
• Fame and Fortune await for those who play with IE8 (Mike Ormond)
• Validation – Part 3 – Server-Side and Presenting CodeBetter.Canvas (Karl Seguin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetSharp Has a New Demo Application (Casey Charlton)
• ClickOnce Application “This operation is only supported on Windows 2000 SP3 or later” Error (Ryan Farley)
• F#: Overloading functions/pattern matching (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Navigation Part 3 (David Hill)
• Gotchas for Web Services in Silverlight (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Where are the RIA “killer apps”? (Kas Thomas)
• “Getting Started with Silverlight” (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Brian Noyes on Selecting the Correct Client Technology (Bob Familiar)
• First Look of Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 Available On Demand During May, June (Bruce Kyle)
• Harry Pierson: Intro to Lang.NET 2009 and Anders Hejlsberg and Gilad Bracha: Perspectives on Programming Language Design (Charles Torre)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 3 – Expression Blend and Silverlight and SharePoint for Developers Part 4 – Calling SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight (Kirk Evans)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 140 – ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Databinding with Wally McClure – audio (Wally McClure)
• An Introduction to the IE8 Developer Tools (Mike Ormond)
• Interview – Andrew Fryer with Mike Taulty on LINQ and DBAs (Mike Taulty)

Community / Events

• Arizona Events May/June 2009 (Dave Campbell)
• Announcing the re-release of MSDN Code Search Preview (Joe Stagner)
• The State of Things – A Brief Review Before Tech Ed. (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• Comparing the Chicago Highway System to your Disaster/Recovery Plans (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – Shortest Code to Perform SSN Validation (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 is now on windows update (Simon Sabin)
• How To Disable Autogenerated Comments When You Script Out Objects (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Time and Space Tradeoffs in Version Control Storage (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Is Out, Boasts Serious Performance Boosts (Adam Pash)
• Miro wants you to adopt a line of code and help fund open video on the net (Cory Doctorow)
• Java vs .NET Developers (Greg Young)
• Windows Internals: Now with more content! (Devon Musgrave)
• Forms (Steve Tibbett)
• WriteRoom for Google Docs Adds Distraction-Free Writing to Your Browser (The How-To Geek)
• SharePoint 2007 SP2 available for download (Todd O. Klindt)
• Don’t Give Bile a Permalink – Finding Balance within The No Asshole Rule and The Weekly Source Code 41 – Searching Code, Sharing Code, and Reading Code (and Comments) (Scott Hanselman)
• Panda introduces cloud-based free antivirus (Seth Rosenblatt)
• How to receive email notifications for newly-submitted patches? – #023 (Sara Ford)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #337 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 28, 2009 — #582 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 26 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for April 28th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day