Dew Drop – January 13, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 1 of Undefined (Hadi Hariri)
• Castle Windsor 2.1, Dynamic Proxy 2.2 and more released! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Weekly Source Code 47 – ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data: FilterRepeaters and Dynamic Linq Query Generation (Scott Hanselman)
• Don’t Let Your Code Marry An Axe Murderer (K. Scott Allen)
• A Ruby on Rails Tutorial for .NET Developers (Mike Ceranski)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The TekPub LINQ Challenge And The Sieve Of Eratosthenes (Justin Etheredge)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 2 – Simple Optimizations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How to transform old properties to automatic properties with a simple search and replace (Daniel Cazzulino)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1A. A Delegate Factory Facility (Mike Hadlow)

 

Web Development

• Running FubuMVC on Mono (OSX) (Tobin Harris)
• Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls: The Ultimate DataPager Interface (Scott Mitchell)
• Take your MVC User Controls to the next level (David Ebbo)
• Ambiguous Controller Names With Areas (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 4 – CDN (Karl Seguin)
• Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery – Update (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Determining A Significant Change In A Web Page (Nick Berardi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Non-functional Architectural Woes (Udi Dahan)
• Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• C# Test Builder Pattern: My current thinking (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and Desktop .NET Integration (Jeremiah Morrill)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tutorial: Publish a Access 2007 database to the web and The Visual Studio Documentary: Tony Goodhew full length interview (Tina Wood)
• Hello Windows Azure! (Ryan Dunn)

 

Community / Events

• Pluralsight On-Demand! New Releases: Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, BizTalk and more! (Bob Familiar)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Upcoming Silverlight 4 talk: January 19 (David Makogon)
• OMG! Someone Stole My Code (Davy Brion)
• Wrox on the Road – Wrox authors coming to a conference near you (Jim Minatel)
• “Zero to XAML in 4 hours” – Free in person training from Microsoft and Paul Sheriff and Free in person day long Silverlight/Blend Training – “Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour” (Greg Duncan)
• Looking Back at my 2009 Technology Predictions (Stephen Forte)

 

Database

• The SQL developer gap (Warning: rant coming up) (Jamie Thomson)
• IN vs INNER JOIN (Gail Shaw)
• Mirroring SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Migration QuickStart (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Announces SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: Test-SPContentDatabase – Key to Successful Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• Business Connectivity Services PassThrough & RevertToSelf (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Android 2.1 SDK released for developers (PhoneArena Team)
• Coming Soon: Stack Overflow T-Shirts (Jeff Atwood)
• 4 Web Tools You May Have Missed (Darrell Etherington)
• 94 more secret Windows shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Kodu for PC Technical Preview Available RIGHT NOW (Matthew MacLaurin)
• VUE Turns Your Mind-Mapped Ideas Into Presentations (Lisa Hoover)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: iPod: The Missing Manual, Eighth Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTM89 (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Kolb’s Model to learn about iPhone Development (Patrick Kua)
• The New Slide Show in PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
• Coder’s Game: The Queue ICPC Challenge Problem (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #516 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2010 — #776 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

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