Month: August 2009

 

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Composing Functions (Steve Horsfield)
• Prototyping DSLs in F#: Parsing and Semantic Checking (Adam Granicz)
• Soma Blog on New Features in C# 4.0 (Charlie Calvert)
• Templated E-Mail using .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Running 64-bit Binary References in Visual Studio (Dave Schinkel)
• Visual Studio Team System for Small Teams (David Starr)
• Using Accessibility Modifiers on Auto Properties (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Iterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators? (Eric Lippert)
• All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 1 (Vishal Joshi)

 

Web Development

• Keyboard Enabling a Web Form (Chris Love)
• 404 Error When Running Web Applications in IIS 7 (Dave Schinkel)
• Tip #93: Did you know … PHP and Custom Error Pages configuration? (Kern Handa)
• Tracing Windows Azure Apps to Storage (David Lemphers)
• 50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials (Smashing Magazine)
• On the Fly DropDown Editing with jQuery (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does YAGNI Mean You Ignore The Obvious (Alan Skorkin)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Reasoning and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Mapping and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: CRUD and Concepts & Features in NH Prof: Filtering (Oren Eini)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Mapping Classes To Tables and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Out Of The Box CRUD Functionality (Davy Brion)
• Time Management Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• How about a StoryTeller Preview Release! (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Stars & Craftsmanship (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIV: Persisting proxies (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• More than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Learning: Thoughts on doing so more effectively and Pair Programming: Keeping both people engaged and Book Club: What I’ve learned about DDD since the book (Eric Evans) and Rock Scissors Paper: TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• The Correct Process Guides Us (Tracer Architecture Cont.) (Max Pool)
• 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Patrick Kua)
• Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practices (Steve Sanderson)
• Identify Code Structure Patterns at a Glance (Patrick Smacchia)
• Refactoring Day 24 : Remove Arrowhead Antipattern (Sean Chambers)
• Review of ANTS Memory Profiler (Scott Seely)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Type-On Text for SketchFlow with a Behavior (Christian Schormann)
• How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation (Josh Smith)
• Creating Master Details Application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ to XML (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures (Brad Abrams)
• Roget’s Hierarchical Thesaurus in a Silverlight App (Charles Petzold)
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data (Brian Button)
• Using one platform to build another [HTML 5’s canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!] (David Anson)
• The Application Class and Application Services in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Read singleton approach in WPF application (Tamir Khason)
• Cinch does ok (Sacha Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on Convention over Configuration (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud (Bob Familiar)
• WebDev Radio Episode 68: Frank Wierzbicki on Python, Jython, Java and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Enhanced Interaction with Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• Rob Greenlee on Zune Podcasting (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Herding Code 58: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 2) (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show #329: DiRT2, Arkham Asylum and Shadow Complex (Larry Hyrb)
• Google Wave API Hackathon & Federation Day: Videos Available Now! (Pamela Fox)
• Ping 26: NFL & Silverlight, Movie Maker, Students, Win7 free trial (sorta) (Laura Foy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #1 (Stephen Forte)
• Episode 143: API Design with Jim de Rivieres (SE Radio Team)
• ToolShed Tooltip #22 – Channel9 and the Tool Shed … A Treasure Chest of Resources (Russell Fustino)
• Episode 81 – PowerScripting Podcast – David Warburton talks about AutoPowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Events this Week – August 24th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The fall line-up and event list – we hope to see you there! (Kimberly Tripp)
• CodeMash is coming (Maggie Longshore)
• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Tuesday Morning (Scott Guthrie)
• PASS Board of Directors – Call for Nominations (Steve Jones)
• Benefits of TDD and Pair Programming (Course Day #1) (Roy Osherove)

 

Database

• Examining database shared locks using sys.dm_tran_locks (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Index Seek vs. Index Scan – Diffefence and Usage – A Simple Note (Pinal Dave)
• Scripting all jobs on SQL Server 2005/2008 into one file (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Search: Improving the Relevancy of Search Results (Bob Mixon)

 

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell REPL, by Example (Pete Seale)
• Free OneNote 2007 PowerToy "THE" for Extracting Highlighted Text from a Page (Blake Handler)
• How A Ruby Case Statement Works And What You Can Do With It (Alan Skorkin)
• Integrate Data with New Microsoft Office 2010 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft OneApp announced (Steve Clayton)
• Nokia to deliver Windows 7-powered netbook with 12 hours of battery life (Paul Thurrott)
• Playing around with Posterous; post on “social media wars” (Robert Scoble)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 23 – 2009 and LINKBLOG for Aug 24 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #418 and The Morning Brew #419 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2009 — #672 and Silverlight Cream for August 24, 2009 — #673 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #88 – “Oh, look!” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.19 ~ 08.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #67 (Grant Palin)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/23/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Interesting Post… 8/17/2009 through 8/22/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (8/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 24th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 107 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

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