January 2010 – Page 9 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 7, 2010

Got the year right in today’s title. Thanks to Jason for the nudge… 🙂

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Top Links

How to meet other craftsmen (Sebastian Hermida)

The source code IS (still) the executable [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4] (David Anson)

Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs (Bob Bartholomay)

.NET / Visual Studio

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Functional fun and taming side-effects (Bart de Smet)

Much Ado About Monads – Reader Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 3 (Simon Brown)

Agile Tenet #8 – Sustainable Pace (Julie Stickler)

Review of "Agile Coaching" by PragProg press (Jason Meridth)

Writing Internal DSL’s in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4.0 (Carl Franklin)

Community / Events

Announcing PowerShellGroup.org – A home for PowerShell User Groups (Joel Bennett)

Microsoft CES 2010 Keynote and CES 2010 Xbox news (Larry Hyrb)

Miscellaneous

wmic vs WMI Powershell cmdlets (Kapil Mathur)

Television of the future isn’t just on your TV (Ted Malone)

Create a System Restore Point in 1-click with Quick Restore Maker (The Windows Club)

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The Morning Brew #512 (Chris Alcock)

Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2010 — #770 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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Dew Drop – January 6, 2010

Playing catch-up after outage…

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Top Links

Microsoft Confirms Xbox Natal To Ship "Holiday 2010" (Kat Hannaford)
NBDN Remote Pilot/Beta – February 8-12 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work (Roy Osherove)
Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

jQuery and ASP.NET UpdatePanel (Dave M. Bush)
Bob Dylan Meets HTML5 (Molly E. Holzschlag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? (Gojko Adzic)
Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container (Jarod Ferguson)
3 Ways to Know Something (JD Meier)
How Dovetail uses StructureMap with NHibernate (Jeremy D. Miller)
Architecture Journal 22: Taking BI Beyond the Business Analyst (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms (Fredrik Normen)
Silverlight and styles (Gabriel N. Schenker)
Silverlight 4 OOB: Please remove the My-Folders restriction. It doesn’t work anyways. (Ingo Rammer)
The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend (Josh Smith)
Fonts and Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)
iMeta Agility & Silverlight (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Telerik (Ben Riga)
Mike Ziock: Microsoft Online Services Operations (Charles Torre)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals and Practices and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC and AJAX and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup and Working with Data and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing and Controllers (Emily Gibson)
The Access Show: Access Developer contest – win an Xbox 360, Zune, or Windows 7 (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 2 (Simon Brown)
Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries (Adam Kinney)

Database

MERGE and OUTPUT – the swiss army knife of T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
How to obtain RecordCount (or Number of cases) from a DMX query (Steve Simon)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Content Type Publishing Setup (Charles Chen)
Sharepoint and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
SharePoint Visual Studio 2010 extensions on CodePlex SPVSX (Paul Andrew)
Editing .cmp files to fix lookup field issues (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Leveraging WMI to Monitor Your Enterprise (Mike Ceranski)
Video Review: Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras and Your Life’s Workflow (Scott Hanselman)
Why do big companies suck? (Scott Berkun)

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Interesting Finds: January 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #511 (Chris Alcock)
Tech Tweets for 6-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)

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Dew Drop – January 5, 2010

…and we’re back! Sorry for the outage over the last 36 hours. Here’s yesterday’s Dew Drop. I’ll probably skip 01/06 and come back with an XL version of the Dew tomorrow. Thanks for reading/clicking!

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Top Links

Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette (Matthew Johnson) – An addin for VS2010 to work around the lack of built-in themes for the IDE.
Essential F# DZone Refcard by Chance Coble & Ted Neward (Greg Duncan)
T4MVC 2.6.10: fluent route value API, shorter way to refer to action, and more (David Ebbo)
MVC Integration Changes in Autofac Beta 2.1.6 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
What the Office team will be talking about at CES (Rachel Bondi)

.NET / Visual Studio

Open .sln File as Elevated User (Jason Haley)
NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0 (Oren Eini)
BOOK : Murach’s C++ 2008 (Joe Stagner)
Overloading Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
Creating WCF Service using Workflow 4.0 Beta 2 (Mahesh Sabnis)
F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
AutoMapFilter meet IJoinedFilter (Wes McClure)

Web Development

Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)
BOOK – ASP.NET 4.0 by Joydip Kanjilal (Joe Stagner)
ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

UI Automation tools snake oil? (Jimmy Bogard)
Don’t Strive For Perfection (Davy Brion)
BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 3: Scenario outlines and tabular templates (Gojko Adzic)
Production profiling security considerations (Oren Eini)
Agile Tenet #7 – Usable Doc as a Measure of Progress (Julie Stickler)
FubuMVC Diagnostics Sneak Peek (Jeremy D. Miller)
A web store using FubuMVC and CQRS and Test Driven Spikes (TDS) (Mark Nijhof)

Silverlight / WPF

Extending the SLHVP Player to be a Platform (Jesse Liberty)
Bing Maps 3D, WPF, and Windows 7 MultiTouch (Marc Schweigert)
Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog (Mike Taulty)
Silverlight – Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink (Fredrik Normén)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
Pluralcast #5: The Lean Sensei (David Starr)

Community / Events

The Virtual PowerShell Group (Joel Bennett)
Northeast Roadshow: Finding Developer Help (Chris Bowen)
Community Coding Contest 2010 – Looking for Input and Prizes (Chris Pietschmann)
Stack Overflow: Where We Hate Fun (Jeff Atwood)
Predictions for 2010 Part I- Beyond .NET (Stephen Forte)
2010 Predictions, 2009 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
January 2010 Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)
Should PASS hold the conference on the East coast (Simon Sabin) – Yes! 🙂
Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement (Silverlight Team)
MVC 2 in Action book conducting public reviews (Jeffrey Palermo)
Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

SQLPSX v2 – PowerShell for SQL Server has been PowerShell 2’ed (Greg Duncan)
SQL SERVER – SQL Server RDL Specification (Pinal Dave)
TSQL Challenge – Remove duplicates from a string (Simon Sabin)
SQL Azure CTP Testers Can Upgrade Their Accounts To Paid Commercial Subscriptions Starting Today (Denis Gobo)
MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing (Krishnan Subramanian)

SharePoint

Planning for Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

Using Windows 7 GodMode to create keyboard shortcuts to settings (James Clarke)
First Cousins Once Removed (Eric Lippert)
The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009 (Frank La Vigne)
Workaround for Start-Transcript on native processes (Tianjie (James) Wei)
Oh, no. My TortoiseSVN overlays are missing (Sergio Pereira)
Case of the Missing PC Speaker Beep in x64 Win7 (Larry Larsen)
An Exercise in De-Obfuscation (Lee Holmes)

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Tech Tweets for 4-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
The Morning Brew #510 (Chris Alcock)
Independent Consultant Notes: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
A Feed You Should Read #18 – F# Discoveries This Week (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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