Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – September 12-13, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Taming Your Sequence’s Side-Effects Through IEnumerable.Let (Bart de Smet)
• A .NET Application that Never Dies (Bob Nadler)
• Quick Extension Method for Grabbing Exception.Data (Dave Schinkel)
• Storing an Image to a Database in .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Windows Azure Business Side Explained From Developer Point of View (Bruce Kyle)
• Under the Covers with MassTransit Endpoints (Chris Patterson)
• WCF and REST (Colin Jack)
• Event Subscribtion And Memory Leaks (Yet Again) (Davy Brion)
• Mini-Review of Code Rush (Jesse Liberty)
• T4 and CodeDOM – Better Together (Oleg Sych)
• Loading Assemblies In Separate Directories Into New AppDomain (Sacha Barber)
• Simplifying LazyLinq (Keith Dahlby)

 

Web Development

• Coding: An abstract class/ASP.NET MVC dilemma (Mark Needham)
• Confused about Windows Azure .NET Services? (Bill Zack)
• jQuery UI Datepicker and z-Index (Rick Strahl)
• Functional Construction for ASP.NET Web Forms (Keith Dahlby)
• Bridge from PHP to .NET through REST – Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services (Joe Stagner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does Software Development Have A Culture Of Rewarding Failure (Alan Skorkin)
• Automated Web Testing with the WebBrowserControl (Dave M. Bush)
• Rhino Mocks, Github & Continuous Integration Builds (Oren Eini)
• Some Initial Thoughts On Agile Developer Skills And Certification and A Coworker’s Response To The Future Of The Boutique Software Shop (Derick Bailey)
• How relevant is UML modeling today? (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• The Rake’s Progress – Part II (Michael Nichols)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 7. (Rajiv Popat)
• One Thing: Extract till you Drop. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• It’s turtles all the way down (Ian Cooper)
• Unit Testing – Do Repeat Yourself (Karl Seguin)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Helper Update: Fluid Container! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight AutoComplete ComboBox (Kirstin Juhl)
• Silverlight Spy 3 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight RIA Services and AutoCompleteBox (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: NFL goes Silverlight, VS 2010 features, new freebies (Dan Fernandez)
• Video: Expression Web 3 New Features (Me)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Mr. Escher, Your Software is Ready – Circular Dependency Cycle and Host Users Dependency Cycle and Dependency and Overview and Refactoring Notification (Howard Dierking)
• Countdown to PDC09: Visual Studio and .NET Framework Track Owner Tells All (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Author news: Orin Thomas reporting from TechED Down Under, part 2 (Devon Musgrave)
• What The CodePlex Foundation Means To The .NET OSS Developer (Phil Haack)
• Agile Architecture Presentation (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Some quick thoughts about the new Codeplex OSS initiative (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Analysis: CodePlex Foundation – The Terms of Mutual Surrender (Scott Bellware)
• Headspring hosts free Continuous Integration (CI) workshop Sept 15 and Mahendra Mavani teaching Refactoring workshop (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Database

• SQL Server Logical Bitwise Operators (Richard Carr)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA – Installing PowerShell (Josh Jones)
• Running a Server Side Trace (Joe Webb)
• Geek City: What do you intend with that lock? (Kalen Delaney)
• .Net SQLConnectionStringBuilder ApplicationName Property (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.2 and Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet (Pinal Dave)
• What I’ve Read and Recommend to Others – Joe Celko Edition (Wesley Brown)
• Automating DBA Tasks (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Inheriting Themes for SharePoint publishing sites (Greg Galipeau)
• Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 3 (Jan Tielens)

 

Miscellaneous

• More fun with Powershell (Gary Sherman)
• Setup Windows 7 Quick and Easy with VMWare’s Easy Install (Keith Elder)
• Top 250 best movies of all time (Steve Clayton)
• Software pick of the week: Windows 7 Logon Background Changer (Paul Thurrott)
• Analyzing Weblog Data Using the Admin Development Model (Jeffrey Snover)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 11, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 11, 2009 — #690 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 11th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links for the Week of 2009.09.12 (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

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