Dew Drop – December 17, 2009

 

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Top Links

• Blogging With OneNote 2010 Beta (Will Kelly) – Looks like OneNote is borrowing from Windows Live Writer. I’ll have to take a peek.
• Silverlight 4 HTML Puzzle: How Does It Work? (John Papa) – John takes a closer look at one of the Silverlight 4 apps demoed by ScottGu at PDC09.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Article: 10 Features in .NET 4.0 that made Me Smile (Michael Kennedy)
• Greatest Prime Factor in F# (Scott Seely)
• Astoria V.Next Ships for .NET 3.5 SP1 -> Versioning Issue (Stephen Forte)
• Reading an Xml File in T4 Templates (Gil Fink)
• C# Continuation Monad (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Developing iPhone Apps in .NET (Eve Turzillo)

 

Web Development

• Mastering jQuery now available at TekPub (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET: Setting Focus in Modal Dialogs (Deborah Kurata)
• JavaScript Part 1 – hello JavaScript! and JavaScript Part 2 – The Free Stuff and JavaScript Part 3 – Prototype Based Language and JavaScript Part 4 – the "this" operator (Leon Gersing)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Strategy: Hiding Out In the Open (Tim Barcz)
• Coding: Naming (Mark Needham)
• Agile Tenet #1 – Satisfy the Customer (Julie Stickler)
• Unit Tests And Silverlight (Davy Brion)
• Postulating Extreme Web UI Scalability (Jonathan Oliver)
• Why is Agile so Hard to Sell? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The big picture of software development (Jimmy Nilsson)
• Explicit Structural Typing (Duck Typing) (Christopher Diggins)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight-powered Virtual DVD now available from Tesco (Silverlight Team)
• Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow! Wow! (David Lemphers)
• Rotate your text in the WPF DataGrid Column Headers (Margaret Parsons)
• ViewModel Pattern and Speech as UI. Help me Obi Wan, where’s the View? (Pete Brown)
• Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text (Cheryl Simmons)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Corey Haines on Software Craftsmanship (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• This Week in Test: Episode 7 – Survivors (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #77 (Jeff Atwood)
• A Look Behind Mouse 2.0 (Larry Larsen)
• IronRuby sketch up (Coding4Fun)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dave Campbell (Nic Fillingham)
• Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin: Introducing Incarnate (Charles Torre)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Retry (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• New gameplay video with D&D on Surface (Eric Havir)

 

Community / Events

• A Tribute to the Road Warriors – Top 20 Most Travelled SharePoint People in 2009* (Joel Oleson)
• What ASP.NET (MVC) Developers can learn from Rails – 4th Feb 2010 (Chris Canal)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Hub-And-Spoke: Building an EDW with SQL Server and Strategies of Implementation (Pinal Dave)
• Script Task vs Flat File Connection Management (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Server CASE Expressions (Richard Carr)

 

SharePoint

• How to Prioritize Business Needs Before Implementing SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 File Validation (David B. Heise)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/17 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Releases MFCopy for Copying Windows 7 Multimedia Files (Blake Handler)

 

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 16-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #500 (Chris Alcock) – Congrats to Chris and the ‘Brew!
• Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2009 — #757 (Dave Campbell)

 

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