Day: December 30, 2009

 

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device???  🙂
• Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
• Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
• Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
• 4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
• No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
• Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

 

Web Development

• Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
• 4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
• Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
• When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
• Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
• Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

 

Community / Events

• Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

 

Database

• Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
• 10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
• Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
• Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
• Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

 

More Link Collections

• 2009’s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
• The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows 7 Inside Out