Dew Drop – October 15, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• XAML Power Toys 3.3.0.1 (Karl Shifflett)
• Oslo’s Place in the Modeling World (Clemens Reijnen)
• Functional C# – Implementing Async Computations in C# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Code Generation – Best Kept Visual Studio Secret (Scott Hanselman)
• Per Request Activation with Ninject (Joel Ross)

 

Web Development

• Introduction to Community Server REST API (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Object Oriented Programming with JavaScript (Shahar Yair)
• Silverlight Controls – Look Nicer, Taste Great (Jesse Liberty)
• Calling Secure (SSL) Services from Silverlight 2 and Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Service Proxy Generation (Tim Heuer) – Links of the Day
• Web Platform Installer (Phil Haack)
• Enabling Auto-Detection of Response Type in jQuery (Mike Nichols)
• The New York Times Releases Its First API (Andres Ferrate)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Acceptable Test Failures (Jimmy Bogard)
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Grant Palin)
• Scrum Bestiary – The Pig (Ade Miller)

 

Events / Community

• Looking Forward to PDC (Jon Flanders)
• Geeks – Let’s Band Together to Help End Poverty (Dana Coffey)
• How You Can Code Global Poverty Away (Max Pool)

 

Database

• New Date Data Types in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Scott Mitchell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Interview Developers for the Right Fit (Maggie Longshore)
• Continuous Improvement – One Developer’s Journey (Tim Barcz)
• It’s Here… Adobe Ships Creative Suite 4 (Photoshop News)
• Microsoft Survey Teases "Oahu": Affordable Consumer Version of the Surface Computer, Hypothetically (Long Zheng)
• Microsoft Announces 20 Editions of Windows 7! (j/k) (Rob Beschizza) – Funny stuff.

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 14, 2008 and Innovation Notes: October 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 14, 2008 — #396 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.10.13~2008.10.15 (yuanjian)
• Everyman Links for October 14, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #201 (Chris Alcock)

 

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