Dew Drop – September 22, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit (Aaron Skonnard)
• .NET University is Live (Charlie Calvert)
• Splitting Text into Words and Randomly Pick Items From a List and Passing Data Between Forms: Constructor and Write a Memorization Helper Application (Deborah Kurata)
• Why do ref and out parameters not allow type variation? (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Communication With a Background Thread in ASP.NET (Chris Love)
• Google Wave Extension Updates (Dan Peterson)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Developing Guidelines For Cloud Usage, Lessons From Social Media Gaffes (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Maarten Balliauw)
• Scale in the browser (Mads Kristensen)
• Expression SuperPreview – No VPCs required !!! (Joe Stagner)
• Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Using JqGrid with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pulled in Too Many Directions? Get Focused (Amber Riviere)
• Wa: The key to clear, harmonious design (Garr Reynolds)
• Make It Easy To Refactor (Jak Charlton)
• Concurrency Programming is Like Thinking in 5 Dimensions (Rinat Abdullin)
• 10 Reasons You Might Be Writing Coyote Code and Make BDD Your BFF (Rob Conery)
• Be More Efficient And Don’t Read This (Max Pool)
• Leading from the Front (Jim Holmes)
• The Agile Mindset (Patrick Kua)
• Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far (Leon Bambrick)
• TDD: Tests that give us a false confidence of coverage (Mark Needham)
• Mind Maps: Get Blog Ideas Fast (Meryl Evans)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Colorful Explosion (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 SketchFlow DataBinding (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast! (Bob Familiar)
• WebDevRadio Episode 69: Curtis Mitchell on Spark with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kimsal)
• Screencast: Understanding Task Dependencies, Lead and Lag (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Ping 30: Bing Images, Xbox anywhere, Browsers & Battery life (Laura Foy)
• SharePoint Forum Knowledge Base Feature released (Lightning Tools)
• Spring in 2009 with Eberhard Wolff (SE-Radio Team)
• Thirsty Developer 73 – Building a Bridge to PHP (Dave Bost)
• SQL Server Express: Overview (Zach Skyles Owens)

 

Community / Events

• Innovation Showcase Web Site Launched (Bob Familiar)
• Session Voting Open for SQLBits V (Simon Sabin)

 

Database

• Free eBook: “Protecting SQL Server Data” (Brad M. McGehee)

Miscellaneous

• Yet Another .NET Interview Questions List (Charles Chen)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (Jeff Moser)
• Output Redirection With Bash (Alan Skorkin)
• "Programming Scala" Is Now Available (Dean Wampler)
• There More Like Guidelines, Not Rules – Some Insight on How I Use Twitter (John Papa)
• That Posh is Delicious… Posh-Delicious that is (Greg Duncan)
• Two Different Ways of Running Virtual Machines on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows Workstation 2008 R2: An even better OS for a laptop (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Programming for Absolute Beginners (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #438 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2009 — #696 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.15 ~ 09.20 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 372 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 21st September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (9/21/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #545 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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