Dew Drop – August 18, 2008

 

Silverlight

• Silverlight/.NET vs Flash/Flex (or Not) and My Silverlight Wishlist (Pete Brown)
• From-To Animation vs. Linear Keyframe (Jesse Liberty)
• Passing Entities Between WCF and Silverlight (John Papa)
• Silverlight 2 + WCF Service Deployment Issue (Rudi Grobler)

 

Design / Methodology

• Entities, How Many Ways Do I Count Thee? (Phani Raj)
• Why the Database as a Service Is a Bad Idea (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• The Perils of a FUI: Fake User Interface (Jeff Atwood)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Immutability (Freezables) (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

.NET /  Visual Studio

• Why You Should Always Unsubscribe Event Handlers (Davy Brion)
• Using LINQ to SQL XML Mapping Files – Step by Step (Dan Wahlin) – Link of the Day
• Rulesets on Operations in WCF with Validation Application Block (Thomas Bruusgaard)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Three-Tiered w/ Client-Side Data (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Invaluable CSS Resources (Dana Coffey)
• Will You Need a Javascript Framework on Your Next Project? (Brian Reindel)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Detailed Explanation of Transaction Lock, Lock Type, Avoid Locks (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lessons on Blogging From Jon Stewart (Tim O’Reilly)
• Twitters Adds Threaded Replies; Complicates Developers’ Lives (Mark Hopkins)
• PowerShell and SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 17, 2008 – [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Links #14 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #160 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #271 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Visual Studio Links #66 (Darren Stokes)

 

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