Dew Drop – October 15, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• F# First Class Events – Composing Events Until Others (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
• TFS Build: _PublishedWebsites for exe and dll projects. Part 2 (Mike Hadlow)
• Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C# (Peter Kellner)

 

Web Development

• Generate Metatags for ASP.NET Pages Dynamically (Deepak Choudhari)
• qTip Tooltip with jQuery UI ThemeRoller Support (Elijah Manor)
• Build pretty clean URL for your dynamic pages using JavaScript (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• A generic way to find ASP.NET ClientIDs with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Using Adaptive Streaming with Encoder 3 (Jeff Paries)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt Quadrant (Martin Fowler)
• UI Mockups (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Performance Counters Added to MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• The Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Is Here! (David Hill)
• There’s Only One Thing You Can Learn From Code Coverage (Davy Brion)
• Integrating Exception Handling Into the Development Cycle (Lee Dumond)
• Cosmo: project status panel (Leon Bambrick)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 1 & 2 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban! (Michael C. Neel)
• The Art of Unit Testing (Michael Sonsino) – A review of Roy Osherove’s awesome book.
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Gone are the Days of Simple Developer Tools (Rob Bazinet)
• A simple way to know you’re missing some leadership skills (Roy Osherove)
• Defining the problem : How business works (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Dependency Injection (Grant Palin)
• Releasing psake v1.00 & psake v2.00 (James Kovacs)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 – Magic, Mind-Controlled Interfaces and What Makes an Experience Architect (Craig Shoemaker)
• ARCast.TV: Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the Next Software Boom (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Donald Farmer on Gemini (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV Special – Jim Wilt on Increasing Solution Adoption Success Using Architectural Skills (Bob Familiar)
• Immo Landwerth: Future Directions of Native Image Generation via NGen (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #70 (Jeff Atwood)
• Interview with Fujitsu on Document Scanning Systems with SharePoint-Episode 36 (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)
• Countdown to PDC09: Coding4Fun Meets PDC (Larry Larsen)
• PDC09 Workshop: Microsoft Technology Roadmap (Robert Hess)
• Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps (Kirk Evans)

 

Community / Events

• p&p Summit 2009: Developing for Multi-Core (Ade Miller)
• PDC 2009 – I can’t wait! (Brad Abrams)
• Unbridled Endorsement of the Best Code Camp Ever (Sara J. Chipps) – Philly.NET FTW!!!
• I’ll Give Away Signed Books + Mentoring Workshop Seats @ SharePoint Conference 2009 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow new dates announced! Arming you with Windows 7 and Silverlight keys to success. (Dave Isbitski)
• Southern Maryland GiveCamp Announced! : GiveCamp.org (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus (Peter Kellner)
• SQL University and why you should be attending (Ted Krueger)

 

Database

• UDF Overhead – A simple example (Dave Ballantyne)
• Considering surrogate keys for Unknown members (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure CTP 2 (Jim O’Neil)

Miscellaneous

• Integrated Interface for Google’s Services (Alex Chitu)
• Windows 7 on Family Guy: First Sneak Peek: (Blake Handler)
• Re-imagining the Desktop with 10/GUI (Frank La Vigne)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 3 – Is it better to use embedded objects or association in a CIM model? (Kapil Mathur)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #455 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for October 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 14th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 382 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #562 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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