Category: Development

Daily Bits – January 16, 2008

Dr. eX: How Can I Programmatically Add a Database Connection to the Server Explorer ToolWindow with My Add-In?

You Are Creating Bugs in Your Software (via Jason Haley)

Neudesic NuCon 2008 New York and Chicago

Nothin’ But WPF (Training in New York)

What Do You Want to See in the 2nd Edition of Framework Design Guidelines?

Have I Got a Book in Me?

VSX Community Letter for January 2008

TypeMock Snippets for Visual Studio (via Trumpi’s blog)

But… My Brain is Already Full! (via Steve Pietrek)

TDD Is Also an Organizational Process (via Arjan’s World)

NLinq Release Candidate Available on CodePlex

Book Review: Continuous Integration

PowerShell: “Highway to Hell”?

Real Technology Heroes (via Rob Teixeira – TheRuntime.com)

Blog Stats are Confusing – GETs, Views, User-Agents, Readers, Eyeballs (ScottHa)

CSLA .NET 3.5 Jan 15 Preview Release (Rocky Lhotka)

 

Book of the Day

 

Daily Bits – January 15, 2008

Halfway through the first month of the new year already. How’s everyone doing on their resolutions?

Why Not Remote Developers?

Philly.NET Code Camp 2008.1: What an Awesome Day!!! (via Jason Haley)

How to Writer a Killer “How To” Article in 7 Easy Steps (via Jason Haley)

Cross Browser Transparency with .PNG (via dzone)

Attach to ASP.NET Process with One Keyboard Shortcut (via DotNetKicks)

Free Professional Diff Tool from SourceGear (via DotNetKicks)

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Certification Exams

Windows Home Server Unsupported Feature – Backup Duplication

13 Comparisons Between Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services

SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the Ports Begin… (via GameDev.Net)

I’m Getting Errors in the Visual Studio Designer Using a Custom Attached Property, Help!

Ajax Data Controls 1.0 Released on CodePlex

Ajax Patterns, the C# 3.0 Way (via dzone)

The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites (via dzone)

8 Things You Can Do to Get Work Through LinkedIn (via dzone)

Managing Client Expectations

The Oversimlified Specification Anti-Pattern

Top 10 MSDN & TechNet Blogs

ASP.NET Multiple File Uploader

Breakthrough Promises 40-Hour Laptop Batteries (via WinBeta)

Windows Home Server Will Not Be Made Available to MSDN Subscribers (via WinBeta)

 

Book of the Day – Prerelease Edition

 

Philly Code Camp 2008.1 – Links and Info

Here’s a list of sessions I attended and some links and info on each of them.

  • Top Ten Tools Tips and Tricks (Travis LaBorde)
    • Link to tips
  • Designing for Extensibility: Patterns and Practices that Can Make Your Software More Flexible (Mitch Ruebush)

First IASA Philly Chapter Meeting will be at Microsoft Malvern in the first week in February.

  • Crash Course on LINQ and VS2008 Language Enhancements (Kevin Goff)
  • Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures (Sam Gentile)
  • Spring.NET (Mark Pollack)
    • Spring.NET Home Page
  • Using Refactoring to Hunt Down Code Smells (Todd Snyder)
    • Todd’s Blog on Infragistics.com

Next Philly Code Camp will be in May and will be back at DeVry University in Ft. Washington, PA. It was a really great event. Almost 400 people attended, and the guys did a very respectable job of putting this thing together. I didn’t hear any negative comments from other attendees around me. The only minor issue I saw was that too many people wanted to see Kevin Goff and Mitch Ruebush speak. It was standing room only in those talks. Thanks to Bill Wolff and everyone at Philly.NET!