Month: December 2009

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Top Links

•  use Less to reduce CSS clutter! (Coding4Fun) – Info on .Less, a .NET port of a Ruby Gem.
• Mary Poppendieck on “The Tyranny of The Plan” (Christophe Louvion) – A video from the 2009 UK Lean Conference
• ASP.beer Seattle (Javier G. Lozano) – A meetup during the MVP Summit in February. I’ll be there!
• So Long Tehran and Thanks for All the Fish (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Keyvan has made his way to the U.S. to continue his studies. Join me in welcoming him!
• Confessions of a First Time Manager (Tim Barcz) – Some lessons learned from Tim.
• Creating Team Trust (Johanna Rothman) – Some team leadership tips from Johanna on Roy Osherove’s “Five Whys” blog.
• ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight – Options for Hooking a View to its Model (Nikhil Kothari) – Nikhil looks at some MVVM options with Silverlight.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Passing JavaScript Objects to the CLR World (Mohammad Azam)
• Two reasons that Assembla is the best way to deliver or get code (Andy Singleton)
• Garbage Collection in .NET – How it really works (Techie Mate)
• Compiling F# code for the XBox 360 (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515) (Brad Abrams)
• Remote Command Service for Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Agatha Feature Suggestion: Caching and Agatha’s Caching Layer Implementation: First Draft and Using NHibernate In Your Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Killer Feature for VNext – Language Embedded DSL (Kathleen Dollard)
• Programmatically Increase, Decrease and Mute the Volume (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Code for My Blog is On Github (Rob Conery)
• Using Fiddler to Capture RIA Services (Andy Beaulieu)
• Roll your own AJAX Extender for JQuery Calendar (Brendan Kowitz)
• ASP.NET: Gradients and ASP.NET: Buttons (Deborah Kurata)
• Enabling IoC in ASP.NET ActionResults (or, a better ActionResult) (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC ControllerFactory for Unity and the reasoning behind it (Simone Chiaretta)
• Generating Dynamic HTML Tables with jQuery From an In-Memory DataTable (Michael Ceranski)
• A free standing ASP.NET Pager Web Control (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is Not Scrum, Part 2 (David Starr)
• 5 Simple Steps to Execute Unit Testing Using NUnit (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Name that refactoring: 1 and Name that refactoring: 2 (Brett Schuchert)
• NDepend And Lack Of Cohesion Of Methods… Not to be trusted (Davy Brion)
• Keeping Close to Users – Everyone Should be Tech Support for Someone (Julie Stickler)
• The Art of Subliminal Productivity (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Understanding Perceived Performance and More on Perceived Performance (Howard Dierking)
• TDD: Only mock types you own (Mark Needham)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Mike Hadlow)
• Entity Framework Profiler is now in public beta and ÜberProf new feature: Programmatic Integration (Oren Eini)
• Picking Between Your Official Designation And Your Secret Titles. and Programmer Tip: Look Out For The Best Alpha Geeks And Learn From Them. (Rajiv Popat)
• Four Kinds of Trust (4): Trust Yourself! (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 3 – Extending the container with custom use cases (Marcus Bratton)
• The Art of Color (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Wish List (Deborah Kurata)
• Magellan Transitions and Magellan Action Results and Magellan Exceptions (Paul Stovell)
• Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• My XAP file is 5 Mb size, is that bad? (Braulio Diez)
• Make Your WPF Applications Adapt to the Host Machine (Srinath MS)
• Using a different mscorlib for F# in Visual Studio (Silverlight and probably XNA too) (Steve Gilham)
• 12 Days of RIA – Day 5 – Read Only Data (John Pelak)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 and Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Exchanging Data between Silverlight 3.0 User Controls using Dependency Properties and Events (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 134: Prestige Mode (Paul Thurrott)
• Hidden Gem from PDC Videos (Jason Haley)
• ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Silverlight Web cam apps, VS extensibility, Explorer shell extensions (Dan Fernandez)
• Enterprise Library 5 Video from PnPSummit (David Hayden)
• Rx API in depth: Concat, Catch and OnErrorResumeNext (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Herding Code 65: Scott Hanselman on His Secret Ninja Squad and Jon’s new job (bonus: netbook operating system install clinic!) (Jon Galloway)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 7: PeerChannel Basics (Jeff Brand)
• Technical Preview for CAT.NET 2.0 (Jossie Tirado)

Community / Events

• IronRuby @ RubyConf – Part 3: Sneaking Ruby to the top (Jimmy Schementi)
• French MVP Launches Windows 7 Tutorials Site! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• SQL Server Query Plan cache – what is it and why should you care? (Damien Guard)
• Introducing SQL Server to Oracle and Dynamic SQL Server connections in Reporting Services (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Query Commenting/Uncommenting Quick Tip (Erik)
• SQL SERVER – White Paper – Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 vs. MindTouch the Battle of the Platforms (Mark Fidelman)
• BCS Webinar Slides (Nick Swan)
• Video Blogging with Javascript and the Media Web Part (Mihai Coman)

Miscellaneous

• Mark Anderson to Microsoft: Your consumer business is dead (Todd Bishop)
• Google Apps highlights – 12/11/2009 (Jeremy Milo)
• P80 Windows Home Server add-in update (Ben Palmer)
• Stack Overflow Rack Glamour Shots (Jeff Atwood)
• Jive Software vs. MindTouch – a Guide for Decision Makers (Mark Fidelman)
• WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API (Leena Rao)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #497 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2009 — #755 (Dave Campbell)
• AppFabric a.ka. "Dublin" Links (Sam Gentile)
• Links of the week #101 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.08 ~ 12.14 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #83 (Grant Palin)
• Links (12/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 123 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/14/2009 (Pete Brown)

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