Category: books

Web Development

• Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Free Utility: Web.Config Editor (Ahmed Mohammed AL-Sayed)
• Compatibility and IE8 (Chris Wilson)
• ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit – Ajax Enabled with .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 (Brad Abrams)

WPF

• New in WPF 3.5: 2. Support for IDataErrorInfo (Josh Twist)
• Intellisense-Like Method Selection Pop-Up Windows (WPF) (Igor Moochnick)

Blogging

• MyBlogLog API Launches (John Musser)
• WordPress.com Users Now Get 3gb of Online Storage (Brad Linder)
• Pownce Goes Live (Christina Warren)

Personal Improvement / Productivity

• Seven Things I Want to Do Differently in 2008 (Russell Ball)
• Successful Development Environment (<unknown name>)
• 50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar (Christian Laun) (via Paul Thurrott)

Misc

• Teaching My Daughter to Code (Michael Kölling)
• Dealing with Hierarchical Structures in Databases (Oren Eini)
• The Essential Agile Reading List (thekua.com)
• MSDN Subscriber Downloads Is Changing (‘Subscriptions Blogger 2’ – How did your parents come up with that name??)
• Reinventing the Clipboard (Jeff Atwood)

.NET

• New* .NET 3.5 Feature: AddIn Framework (Part 1 of 3) (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Book Review: C# 3.0 Design Patterns (O’Reilly) (Peter Bromberg)

 

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 217 (Sam Gentile) Keep ’em coming as often as you are able, Sam.
• 2 Links Today (2008-01-21) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for January 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• links for 2008-01-22 (Sam Buchanan)
• Link Listing – January 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #15 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 25 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Book of the Day

 

Telecommuting Not So Great For Those Left Behind

The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer (Rob Walling)

C# by Contract – Using Expression Trees

Constants on the Left Are Better, but This Is Often Trumped by a Preference for English Word Order (Jeff Moser)

HealthVault: Batching Up Queries to Speed Things Up (Eric Gunnerson)

8 New Video Tutorials on WindowsClient.NET

Windows Could Get Early Release for Good Behavior (Brad Linder)

Free Copy of Visual Studio 2008 (Jon von Gillern)

WCF Web Programming Model Documentation (Steve Maine)

How to Attain Serenity Before Giving a Speech (Tim Warner)

Best C# Web Sites (Timm Martin)

Agile Development – Outside In (Jeff Patton, via Clarke Ching)

Introducing the Smart Bag for ASP.NET MVC… and Soliciting Feedback (Jeffrey Palermo)

PowerShell: Block Comments (PowerShell Team)

.NET Framework Debugging 1, Reflector 0 (Russell Ball)

Avoid API Breaking Changes (Patrick Smacchia)

Using Reflector to Search Through Code and Resolve .NET Issues (Tess Fernandez)

TDD Anti-Patterns (James Carr)

 

Other Links Blogs

Links for 2008-01-19 and Links for 2008-01-20 (Sam Buchanan)

Link Listing – January 18, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

1 Link Today (2008-01-19) (Matt Hinze)

Interesting Finds: January 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)

LINKBLOG for January 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

 

Book of the Day