Dew Drop – June 23, 2009

 

Web Development

• Spark View Engine – Release: Spark v1.0 (CodePlex via Chris Alcock) – Link of the Day
• The Perfect Web Framework (Chad Myers)
• Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 (Chris Love)
• Make Web Requests Programmatically in .NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• MVC – Using Custom Routes (Michael Ceranski)
• Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman – AjaxView, Performance Profiling of AJAX web sites (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When DDD Should Be Considered (Jérémie Chassaing)
• NH Prof: Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
• Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development (J.D. Meier)
• We Are Not Doing DDD – Part Two – CQS (Jak Charlton)
• Reducing Resistence to Dependency Injection (Patrick Kua)
• NCover v3.1.4 released! (Joe Feser)
• A Kanban Sidebar – Take 2 (Karl Scotland)
• Seams: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Developing Windows Services with .NET (Henning Krause)
• NHibernate – <natural-id/> (Oren Eini)
• How to Get Started Testing, Publicizing Your Applications on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Announcing: Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 (Carl Perry)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework (Diego Vega)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: POCO Templates for Entity Framework and Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (Alex James)
• Why Doesn’t C# Implement "Top Level" Methods? (Eric Lippert)
• (VS2010 Beta1) Native Parallel Programming: ConcRT example — Debugging TwentyFour (Feng Yuan)
• “The” IronRuby Tutorial (Jimmy Schementi)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Using Windows Search in your applications (Josh Twist)
• The Rest of EF4 – Feature CTP1 Released today (Julie Lerman)
• F#: Continuation Passing Style and Visual Studio/Resharper: Changing the order of arguments (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML node loop example: finding all named object instances (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Sahil Malik’s Sharepoint Checklist (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Dynamic IT, Trends in IT Operations (Bob Familiar)
• Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight and Skins for WPF and Silverlight (Jared Bienz)
• Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Toolshed Tooltip #11 – DotNetNuke and Web Installer from Episode 2 and #12 – Virtual PC from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Ping 17: Microsoft sues over ClickFraud, Soapbox scales down, Project Natal & Bing on Fallon (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Yet There is an Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Met Eric Evans at ParisJug (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Girl Developer the News (Sara J. Chipps)
• Free Webinar: 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation (Steve McConnell)

 

Database

• Get Performance Tips Directly from SQL Server (Ian Stirk)
• NH Prof: NHibernate Profiler vs. Sql Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Exporting XML data from SSIS – nugget (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 – 2008 – Delete Duplicate Rows (Pinal Dave)
• Replace Your Case When Then Else Syntax With the Sign Function In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available – Adventure Works Travel (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 (Greg Hitchcock)
• The Upcoming Smashing Book (Smashing Magazine)
• Tethering iPhone 3G on Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
• Services from Zoho, Software from Microsoft: Announcing Zoho Office for SharePoint (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Flash 10 for smartphone beta coming this October (Ross Miller)
• Windows 7 RTM: Scheduled for July 13, 2009! and Microsoft’s Windows 7 Entertainment Center: Part 2 (Stephen Chapman)
• Small Basic API Reference (Vijaye)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #374 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for June 22nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 21st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (6/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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