Dew Drop – June 7, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Should We Return Null From Our Methods? (Lee Dumond)
• Stop Using Structs Everywhere (Chris Eargle)
• High Test Coverage Ratio is a good thing, Anyway! (Patrick Smacchia)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Test Category Filters (Rob Reynolds)
• The Fallacy Of ReUse (Udi Dahan)
• Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon (Roy Osherove)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 1) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• What Do You Value? and Productivity in the Cloud… (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Releases Sensor & Location Platform Development Kit for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• LINQ in Action samples available in LINQPad (Fabrice Marguerie)
• Connection Pooling: Implemention (Oren Eini)
• VS2010 help for the WPFer (Rudi Grobler)
• Parallel Stacks – Method View (Daniel Moth)
• Getting and compiling T4 Toolbox source code (Oleg Sych)
• Operation could destabilize the runtime – Reflection.Emit and common pitfalls (Mehfuz Hossain)
• F#: Explicit interface implementation (Mark Needham)
• Generic Value Object (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

Web Development

• How to Bridge the Client-Server Gap using AJAX and jQuery-Part 1 (Jonathan Chaffer & Karl Swedberg)
• Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• Book review: jQuery in Action (Peter Eysermans)
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and VS 2010 plan now public (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Project Natal, Qex for SQL, and Bing for Devs (Dan Fernandez) – Link of the Day
• 10-4 Episode 22: Simplifying Data-Driven Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)

 

Community / Events

• 20 Developers to Follow on Twitter (Ben Parr)
• MSDN Roadshow Slide Decks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bridging the gap between communities – ColdFusion and SOTR (Sebastien Lambla)

 

Database

• T-SQL MERGE: My New Friend (Charles Chen)
• Thinking outside the box – impressive (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQLAuthority News – Using SQL Server 2008 Extended Events – White paper By Jonathan Kehayias (Pinal Dave)
• Favorite SSMS Options – and some gotchas (Kimberly L. Tripp)

 

SharePoint

• WCF and SharePoint: context != context (Waldek Mastykarz)

 

Miscellaneous

• WINDOWS 7 FAQ: Top Answers to First Time User’s Questions and Free Ringtones for Your Mobile Phone "Hidden" Within Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Outliers (Dave Burke)
• Twitter finally verifies verified accounts rumor (Jay Hathaway)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2009 and LINKBLOG for June 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #56 (Grant Palin)
• June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Discoveries This Week 06/07/2009 (Rick Minerich)

 

Book of the Day