Dew Drop – December 15, 2008

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Announcing Unity 1.2 for Silverlight (Chris Tavares)
• Silverlight 3 – What We Know So Far & What We Can Predict (Part 1 of 2) (Bart Czernicki)
• Silverlight No Selection ListBox and ViewBox (Mike Ormond)
• What a Beautiful, Though Distracting, Flash Website! Let’s Do It in Silverlight  🙂  (Jose Fajardo)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Themes (Dave Schinkel)
• T4 Templates for Fluent NHibernate (David Hayden)
• Automate Boring Tasks with Rake in .NET (Tobin Harris)
• On the Potential Abuse of the var Keyword (Jason Olson)
• Case Insensitive String Comparisons with LINQ Dynamic Query (Aaron Lerch)
• DrawableGameComponent Template (Pete)

 

Web Development

• The Perfect Storm Botnet (Rob Conery)
• Track Your Car Expenses in the Cloud! CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 1 – Introduction (Maarten Balliauw)
• Microsoft Released Anti-XSS 3.0 Beta and CAT.NET CTP (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Tip #34: Did You Know… How to Stop Hot-Linking from Your Site Using URL Rewrite in IIS 7.0? (Don Raman)
• Enterprise Services Buses (ESB) Drive SOA Adoption – Part 1 (Sam Gentile)
• The JavaScript Language Limitations That Every Programmer Should Learn (Brian Reindel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does Test-Driven Development Speed Up Development? (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• Increase Build Process Added-Value with Static Analysis (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Component Burden (Davy Brion)
• Hide your Design Decisions with Abstract Data Types (Matthew Doig)
• Making Frameworks Container Aware (Jimmy Bogard)
• Estimation Is Not For Accountability (It’s For Visibility) (Max Pool)
• The Three Pillars of Continuous Integration (Meera Subbarao)

 

Miscellaneous

• What’s on Your Desktop? (Dan Rigsby)
• Speed Dial for Firefox – A Must Have in Your Browser ToolSet (Dave Schinkel)
• Microsoft Live Labs Develops SeaDragon App for the iPhone (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 13, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for December 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for December 13, 2008 — #453 and Silverlight Cream for December 14, 2008 — #454 and Silverlight Cream for December 14, 2008 – 2 — #455 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #31 (Grant Palin)
• Links (12/14/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 72 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #244 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 15, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

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