Day: November 27, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Build and Layer Validation (Cameron Skinner)
• Entity Framework 4: Part 1 – Simple Model First (Eric Nelson)
• Reactive Framework Extensions Generator (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Fun with Mono.Cecil (Louis Salin)
• Going Interactive with the Reactive Extensions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Purpose, Revealed (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 released (Imran Hussain)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Lee Matos)
• ASP.NET + StructureMap = Epic Win (Stephen Wright)
• Really Easy Way To Partition an ASP.NET MVC With An Admin Area (Tobin Harris)
• Book review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development and Supporting multiple submit buttons on an ASP.NET MVC view (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Default Parameter Values (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Cucumber intro (Leon Gersing)
• Agile is not Scrum (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• A Day in the Life of a Scrum Team (Brian Marick)
• Local variables are evil (or just irritating) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Four Kinds of Trust (1): Trust Your People (Jurgen Appelo)
• Why SketchFlow is not a mockup software (Simone Chiaretta)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: lots of little fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Programmer Tip: A Passionate Contributor Is Better Than A Self Proclaimed Alpha Geek. (Rajiv Popat)
• Review: Test-Driven Development by Example (Grant Palin)
• Microsoft Test and Lab Manager and security and permission settings (Clemens Reijnen)
• TDD: Testing delegation (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight and RIA Services: Managing Your Codes and Silverlight and RIA Services: Binding to a DataForm and Silverlight and RIA: Adding a ComboBox to a DataForm (Deborah Kurata)
• WCF RIA Services Binding Deep dive (Fredrik Normén)
• Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 1 (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• WPF Tips and Tricks Part 2 – Panels (Jason Rainwater)
• The MVVM Framework Tour – This time, Silverlight styling! (Greg Duncan)
• Concluding "New WPF Features" Series (Lester Lobo)
• Opinions: View() or Window()/Page()? and Magellan and WPF Page management woes (Paul Stovell)
• Windows7 / VS2010 / WPF 4 Demo App and WPF : RatingsControl That Supports Fractions (Sacha Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from PDC, it’s My .NET Story! (Carl Franklin)
• Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• C9 Lectures: Brian Beckman – Covariance and Contravariance in Physics 1 of 1 and C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 9 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Contract (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Set Your Data Free (Zach Skyles Owens)
• This Week in Testing Episode 5 – You know what really bugs me? (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
• Thirsty Developer 79: Tim Heuer on Silverlight 4 (Dave Bost)

 

Community / Events

• PDC09 List Updated and MP4, WMVHigh RSS feeds now available too (Greg Duncan)
• Free GSPUG Webcast on Dec 1: Delivering SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Events This (and Next) Week – November 25th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Geek Profiles – Scott Guthrie (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight MVP List on Twitter (John Papa)
• Windows Azure Storage at PDC 2009 (Brad Calder)

 

Database

• SQL Server Single Character Functions and SQL Server Soundex Functions (Richard Carr)
• Temporary procedures : T-SQL and SQL Server Acronym Overload (Jamie Thomson)
• How to Get Table Sizes in SQL Server (Keith Elder)
• Whats in what edition SQL 2008 R2 – Stream insight only in Data Centre Edition (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Office 15: A SharePoint Developer’s Dream? (Stephen Chapman)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Reading Guide To Becoming A Better Developer (Davy Brion)
• Word Clouds in PowerPoint with PowerShell (Mike Ormond)
• PowerShell Configurator (PSConfig) – Server configuration power via PowerShell goodness (Greg Duncan)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/26 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows 8: Death by Road Map! (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: ‘Nobody’s going to be 100% open’ and Microsoft ‘worked with Apple’ for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Atari classics are back and free to play! Asteroids, Lunar Lander and MORE! (Sebastian Anthony)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #485 and The Morning Brew #486 (Chris Alcock)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – NOV ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Book of the Day