Day: April 30, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IntelliSense Driven API Design (Kendall Miller & Jay Cincotta)
• Unit Testing/Mocking on .net cf (Chris Brandsma)
• Fundamentals – Introduction (Juliën Hanssens)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 2 (Rajiv Popat)
• A Shack in the Woods, Crumbling at the Core (Michael Janke)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate – The difference between Get, Load and querying by id (Oren Eini)
• Odd StreamReader/StringBuilder behavior… (Chris Williams)
• Initializing An Array inline (Dave M. Bush)
• WCF tracing FAQ (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET – Now with More Options (Shoban Kumar)

 

Web Development

• Win Your Copy: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition in C# and VB and Video: In the Brain of Abid Quereshi – Introduction to Moq (Me)
• S#arp Scaffolding with Ext JS (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Walkthrough (Phil Haack)
• Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool (Chris Schmich)
• Yahoo’s YQL Makes the Internet Your Database (John Musser)
• Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS? (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Sample Chapter Available (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Adding jQuery to your site with Glimmer (Tim Heuer)
• Better, Stronger, Safer jQuerify Bookmarklet (Karl Swedberg)
• ASP.NET for Web Designers: Introduction (Janko Jovanovic)
• The Four Pillars of ASP.NET (Paul Litwin)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Keeping the WPF Tab Control from destroying its children (Eric Burke)
• how to build an outlook style application with prism v2 – Part 2 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• First Experience With Behaviors In Silverlight 3 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control (Jesse Liberty)
• Paste your REST API definition as strong types (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Wonders: An Alphabetical Compendium of WPF Controls (Rod Stephens)
• DeepZoomPix: Experience Your Photos Like Never Before (Silverlight Team)

 

Community / Events

• Philly ALT.NET Meeting: Mobile "i" for the .NET Guy (Brian Donahue)
• Brian Harry on Visual Studio 2010 at the linked User Group April 30th (Charles Sterling)
• NINE Questions with Julie Lerman (Chris Williams)
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In The .NET World (Davy Brion)
• Enterprise Developer Conference – Streaming Live Sessions (Jeff Barnes)
• Congratulations to the First Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters! (Dave Pae)
• C’mon, You Guys, We Can Do Better Than This (Sara Chipps)
• Challenge to MS Evangelists: Real Examples. Tests, Even (Jim Holmes)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert – Erik Meijer and Lars Bak: Inside V8 – A Javascript Virtual Machine and Emmanuel Stapf: Eiffel and Contract Oriented Programming (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #51 (Jeff Atwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #106: Learning the Adapter Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• Vijay Gajjala on the Geneva Server (Donovan Follette)
• 3 Men and a Whiteboard on ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ormond)
• Silverlight 3 – System Colours and Silverlight 3 Beta – Cached Platform Extensions and Silverlight 3 Beta – Writeable Bitmaps and Silverlight 3 Beta – GPU Acceleration and Silverlight 3 Beta – Validation and Silverlight 3 Beta – Extensible Application Services and Silverlight 3 Beta – Network Status Detection (Mike Taulty)
• BizTalk Server – Development Best Practices (1/2) (Johan Lindfors)
• Herding Code 45: Larry O’Brien on Domain Specific Languages (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 68 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage from the PowerShell team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 6 – Custom web services (Kirk Evans)
• Tim Aidlin – Glimmer, a JQuery Interactive Design Tool (Robert Hess)
• What’s New In SQL Server Integration Services 2008 (Carla Sabotta)
• Test Driven Development Part Deux–The Rest Of The Story-Episode 23 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Office Casual – How to get your resume noticed (Tina)

 

Database

• Using SQL Functions in Criteria Restrictions (Davy Brion)
• How to Use The SQL 2008 Resource Governor (Michael Ceranski)

 

PowerShell

• Updated Powershell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Things more likely to kill you than Swine Flu (Lee Holmes)
• Some Thoughts on Cablevision’s 101 Mbps Speed (Eric Rabe)
• 13 BlackBerry apps for the social networker (Don Reisinger)
• How to be a great speaker (Simon Sabin)
• How to tag a project – #024 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Will Release in 2009 (Ray Comvalius)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #338 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2009 — #583 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 04.23~04.30 (yuanjian)
• Visual Studio Links #115 (Darren Stokes)
• CloudNews for April 29th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day