Dew Drop – January 6, 2010

Playing catch-up after outage…

 

Jump to: Top Links | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

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)

 

More Link Collections

• 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)