Dew Drop – June 11, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Interfaces with xUnit Theories (Ade Miller)
• The Seven Pillars of an Agile Team: Introduction and One pillar of an Agile team: product sense (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Hope is Not a Risk Management Strategy (Cory Foy – via Scott Koon)
• Should you learn frameworks or principles (Ian Cooper)
• Remember to delete your MSTest TestResults on your build server (Derik Whittaker)
• Design Patterns and Dependency Injection (Elijah Manor)
• Coding: Keep method/variable names positive (Mark Needham)
• Simplest versus first thing that could possibly work (Jimmy Bogard)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 7 (Rajiv Popat)
• Nine Women, One Month (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Integrating a custom test runner with TeamCity (Joshua Flanagan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate – query only properties (Oren Eini)
• Where’s the 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2010? (Brian Keller)
• Very simple IronRuby MVC sample application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Dotfuscator in Visual Studio 2010 (Charlie Calvert)
• POCO in the Entity Framework : Part 3 – Change Tracking with POCO (Faisal Mohamood)
• D3: Release 0.0010 (Dan Simmons)
• The Most Powerful Development Tool Ever Made (Justin Etheredge)
• Code Only (Alex James)
• How to view the return value of a C# or VB method in the VS Debugger and An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part III) (Habib Heydarian)
• NHibernate : Some Naked Thoughts (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day

 

Web Development

• Getting Started with Heroku on Windows (Ben Scheirman)
• Sending an XML document object to PHP with jQuery (Brian Reindel)
• Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC – Part 3 the source code. and Part 4 the Partial View Inputs and Part 5 the Required input (Eric Hexter)
• SubSonic 3.0: The SimpleRepository and SubSonic 3.0: ActiveRecord (Rob Conery)
• The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (Jeff Moser)
• Afternoon of ASP.NET MVC [16 June] (free Headspring event) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Building JavaScript / HTML based Applications using Adobe Air for FREE (Chris Pietschmann)
• Programming SEO – RSS (Dave M. Bush)
• IIS SEO Toolkit: Sitemaps overview (illustrated) (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight toolkit with ADO.NET Data services , Drill-down Charts using Astoria (Phani Raj)
• Launching views using Jump Lists (Rudi Grobler)
• Blend and Visual Studio – Why Two Tools? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• WPF Sample Series – ListBox Grouping, Sorting, Subtotals and Collapsible Regions (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Attached Properties: Binding.UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged (Michael Sync)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Framework++: Moving Forward and Staying Compatible with the Past and Jimmy Schementi: Inside IronRuby (Charles Torre)
• MVP dnrTV Episode 140 features me… (William Vaughn)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series is complete (Rockford Lhotka)
• Podcast #57 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 49: Search with Bing and Wolfram Alpha (Jon Galloway)

 

Community / Events

• The MSDN Northeast Roadshow: It’s What’s For Dinner (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Firestarter Deck and Links (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Results – Community Radio Narration Contest (Steve Andrews)
• Introducing NETOOP (The .NET Object Oriented Portal) (Joe Stagner)

 

Database

• System Objects in TEMPDB (Gert Drapers)
• Local Data Cache – Client Must Reinitialize Database (William Vaughn)
• Avoid Conversions In Execution Plans By Using sp_executesql Instead of Exec (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Elegant WSS Site collection backup script (Sean Wallbridge)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bing and your browser (Debapriya Ray, Beatrice Oltean, Alessandro Catorcini & Bill Pardi)
• Aviary launches Firefox plugin for image editing, audio editor coming soon (Brad Linder)
• Project Natal in Use (Frank La Vigne)
• New Google Toolbar wants to be your next ‘Start’ button (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Preparing your online profile for employers (Meghan Peters)
• An Overview of Wrox Series (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft will soon unveil free virus software (Paul Thurrott)
• Weekly Release: WebORB Integration and More (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How To Maintain Your Technical Skills (Michael Ceranski)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #366 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (6/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 330 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 10th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 10th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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