Dew Drop – January 21, 2010

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Top Links

• Comparing NHibernate and EF4 (Chris Sells)
• Add a Flickr widget to any web site with jQuery (Dan Hounshell)
• WPF for the Web guy…a story of pain, despair and learning (Scott Galloway)
• Passing NULL into Overloaded Methods in unit tests… (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone teaser for Mix10 (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing a Parallelized Octree in F# (Ade Miller)
• The Project Location Is Not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• Looks the same – with half the overhead! [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output; Can you do better?] (David Anson)
• A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• Controlling Application Lifetime In Topshelf and Configuring Topshelf Using A StructureMap Container (Kevin Miller)
• Functional collectional parameters: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Using Generate from Usage — vstipEdit0011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net (Harish Ranganathan)
• Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Part 3 (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Crenna)
• ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 (Hadi Hariri)
• Implementing a jQuery Modal Window in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Click and Retrieve the Value of a GridView Cell using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using Custom Security Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers (Nick Berardi)
• HttpContext.Items and Server.Transfer/Execute (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Collaboration Patterns – Part 1 and Collaboration Patterns – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• When the design violates the principle of least surprise, you don’t close it as By Design (Oren Eini)
• If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach (JD Meier)
• Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership (Christophe Louvion)
• Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes (Jurgen Appelo)
• Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints (Karl Scotland)
• Using Glance to visualize Code Metrics (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• Creating torn images (Coding4Fun)
• My Silverlight 4 Book Now Available for Pre-Order (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.8 (Koen Zwikstra)
• XamlPadSample – Step 1 (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 39: CLR 4 Security and Sandboxing (Jason Olson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #80 (Jeff Atwood)
• Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI (Laura Foy)
• MVC 2 – Template Helpers and MVC 2 – Areas and MVC 2 – DataAnnotations and Parallel Computing (Martin Esmann)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 2) (Dror Helper)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells (Scott Hanselman)
• Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Asking the Mountain To Come To You (Rob Conery)
• What do I have in store and hope for 2010 (Chris Woodruff)
• Life With My Geek: The Cave Phenomenon (Elle Starr)
• Zoho Reaches Out To Open Source Community (Krishnan Subramanian)
• My CodeMash 2010 experience (Bill Wagner)
• ALT.NET: Looks Like its Introspection Time Again! (Steve Bohlen)
• What can you get with 10KB of Ruby or Python code? (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

• Performance Tuning Methodology Preferences (Buck Woody)
• XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Step by step (aka Dummies or Busy Dev Guy) guide to installing SharePoint 2010 in a virtual machine free eBook (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Secure Store Services (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Google Chrome OS the Easy Way (Chris Leeds)
• Introducing the Windows Experience Pack (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs (Ben Kepes)
• Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• “What’s New for Developers in Outlook 2010” (Greg Duncan)
• Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows Powershell cmdlets for WMI (Kapil Mathur)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Sustainable Network — Only $9.99! Use discount code TSNE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 20, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #522 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 — #783 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

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