Dew Drop – March 8, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Introducing Typemock Test Lint (Roy Osherove)
• Developer Certification WTF? (Uncle Bob Martin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number (Zain Naboulsi)
• DataTemplate in Generic.xaml – it should be the next ToString()! (Rob Relyea)
• Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes) (Scott Guthrie)
• Comparing LINQ to SQL vs the classic SqlCommand (Al Pascual)
• Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog and Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Windows Azure Tools from 3rd parties (Hanu Kommalapati)

 

Web Development

• Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
• Preview Tools in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript: The Good Parts – Only $9.99! Use code DDJSG (O’Reilly Media)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Your Developers Don’t Want To Swap Pairs – Practical Agility (Alan Skorkin)
• Less is More, Slower is Better (J.D. Meier)
• Ubiquitous and unambiguous ? (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Stop Cloning Teams. Encourage Diversity In The Approaches Taken. (Rajiv Popat)
• A movement called weekend testing – What it can do you and your testing career? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Role Specific Interfaces: DIP And ISP In Action (Derick Bailey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 87: Ironing It All Out with Jimmy Schementi (Dave Bost)
• Major Nelson Show 352: Xbox LIVE Profile Policy change, SXSW community event and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Great SlideShare from the always outspoken and beloved Scott Barnes of Readify.Net (Don Burnett)
• My "What’s New in Silvelright 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler (Oren Eini)

 

Community / Events

• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)
• Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps? (Jeff Wilcox)
• My First Week as a Developer Evangelist (Sara Ford)
• Introducing the MVC Melee!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• A few announcements for those in the UK (Scott Guthrie)

 

Database

• Geek City: More About Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)
• 03-08-2010 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Sending an email inside of SSIS to a Gmail account (Kevin Goff)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL SERVER 2008 R2 Pricing (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market (Sebastian Anthony)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #554 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #110 (David Vidmar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #95 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #25 – MSMVPs.com (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 135 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 406 (Sam Gentile)

 

The Geek Shelf

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