Dew Drop – May 25, 2010

I’ll be having surgery on my torn achilles tendon in a few hours. There may or may not be a Dew Drop post tomorrow, depending on how I am feeling.

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Top Links

• Creating a Fluent Interface with C# (Deran Schilling)
• OData Basics – At the AZGroups "Day of .NET" with ScottGu (Scott Hanselman)
• Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released (Grigori Melnik)
• 10%, Take Two (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods (Derick Bailey)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Contracts Survey (BCL Team)
• Exception Handling in the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC, OLE DB, and for SQL Server (ADO.NET Team)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.1 released (John V. Petersen)
• Want to write Managed IE/Shell Extensions, but thought that was “bad”? That was the past… With .Net 4 the world of Managed Extensions is now open to you. (Greg Duncan)
• Template Driven Assembly References (Rory Becker)
• Use the Microsoft Addin Framework, MAF to Create Highly Scalable Classes in Any .Net Application (Jeff)

 

Web Development

• Book Review: JavaScript – The Good Parts (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The jQuery Course Prerelease – Learn More (Marc Grabanski)
• Catching clicks with clickCatcher before your JavaScript files have loaded/events been applied (Robert Nyman)
• jQuery.validate and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together (Simon Ince)
• Sort Items of a BulletedList Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Advanced Migrations (Oren Eini)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns In C# – Singleton Design Pattern (Richard McCutchen)
• Great new intro article on SOA in Plain English (Sam Gentile)
• 7 Tips for Managing a Remote Work Force (Mitchell Harper)
• Docx 2 UnitTest – an interesting tool for VS2010 (Dror Helper)
• Introduction to unit testing in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MSF-A+SDL Process Template for VS 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Project Greenfield: Testing the TDD Waters (Joel Cochran)
• Exclude a team member – and you’re an idiot (Roy Osherove)
• An Overview of Lean Software Practices (Jared Richardson)
• Exploring Selenium 2: Introduction & Lessons Learned in Selenium 1 (Jim Holmes)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 and Adding Project References (Derik Whittaker)
• Perf Tools for WPF (.NET 4) (Lester Lobo)
• A Distributable (.exe) Silverlight OOB Application (Alnur Ismail)
• 20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file (András Velvárt)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 81: Simplicity, balance, and focus in teaching software development (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 113 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell Talks Citrix and Other PowerShell Goodness (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Making of Office 2010 – Abigail Welborn, Software Development Engineer – Microsoft Access (Tina Wood)
• Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 14 – Build Mastery with Jason Stangroome (Richard Banks)
• New open source projects to facilitate interoperability with Outlook .pst data files (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)
• endpoint.tv – Activities and Designers with Matt Winkler (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• The Engadget Show – 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A, AT&T GNOC tour, Sprint EVO 4G (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #176: Going Lazy with System.Lazy (Derik Whittaker)
• Ping 59: Private Cloud strategy, Gadget predictions, Microsoft is the most social company, Free Robotics (Laura Foy)
• My "Git Branching and Workflows" presentation at Austin Code Camp 2010 (Jason Meridth)

 

Community / Events

• East Coast PASS Event Options (Jack Corbett)
• Google Summer of Code 2010: Let the Coding Begin! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What’s it like to work for Bing? (Eugenia Sawa)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – SQL Azure vs. SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

SharePoint

• New Book: SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating (Joel Oleson)
• Check out Social Squared (Nick Swan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Who’s afraid from C++ (Dror Helper)
• Every Program There Is, Part Nine (Eric Lippert)
• PSAM (PowerShell Admin Module) = PowerShell Share Fun (Greg Duncan)
• Gitosis and Gitweb – Part 1 – Setup and Part 2 – Add Projects and Contributors (Jason Meridth)
• Apple’s five stages of Google grieving (Joe Wilcox)
• The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 1 (Joey Beninghove)
• 100 DZone Refcardz And Counting… and DZone Refcardz: There Will Be An App For That (James Sugrue)
• The results are in: Google’s Pac-Man homage cost the world $120,483,800 in just one day (Sebastian Anthony)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/24/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2010 — #868 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 146 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #607 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK