Month: May 2009

Silverlight / WPF

• RIA Services Contrib – Release 0.51 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight Animation Tip (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3 and A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Validation. Hey! You’re Done! (Jesse Liberty)
• Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit (Lester Lobo)
• WPF design flaw of the day: no initial focus (Joe White)
• Playing around with Syntax Highlighter (Pete Brown)
• WPF : Attached Commands (Sacha Barber)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – Demos of new features (Velvárt András)
• More Validation Fun – But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Did You Know? Silverlight Class Library Can’t Be Named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
• NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
• Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
• Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
• Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
• A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
• Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
• How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
• jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
• Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
• yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
• Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released (Jason Young)
• Agile Meets The Recession and The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)
• Artisanal Retro-Futurism ⊗ Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism (Brian Marick)
• How Many Bedrooms Did You Say? (Max Pool) – Link of the Day
• On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries… What About Don’t Repeat Yourself? (Davy Brion)
• A Culture of Microcomponents (Ben Scheirman)
• Pex 0.12.40430.3 : Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs… and Stubs as Parameterized Models with Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Pair Programming: When your pair steps away (Mark Needham)
• The Hunt For Simplicity (Justin Etheredge)
• Mocking for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Remote Retrospectives with Twiddla (Jim Holmes)
• Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Michael Janke)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Can we avoid tooling to prevent spaghetti code? (Patrick Smacchia)
• Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? 🙂 (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
• Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
• This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
• Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
• 10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
• Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
• Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

• IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
• Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
• Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
• Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
• INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
• Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

• Geek City: Controlling Lock Granularity (Kalen Delaney)
• Real World Perspectives on the Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Doing my SQL myths session on Live meeting (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL Commands and SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column and SQL SERVER – Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications – SQL Server Certifications (Pinal Dave)
• Create a new embedded Firebird database (DotNetFacts)

SharePoint

• Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
• SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
• Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
• Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
• Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
• Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
• XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
• Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
• Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
• Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
• A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
• Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
• Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
• Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
• Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
• iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books ISBN: 0321534468 ISBN-13: 9780321534460