Gadgets – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 11, 2008

.NET

Prism, CAB, and WinForms Futures (Glenn Block)

PowerShell

In Praise of TypeConverters – Spread the Love (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Zune Clock Has Arrived (G. Andrew Duthie)
Twitter This, Twitter That… (Rick Strahl)
Turning Off Automatic Syncing in Zune – How’s It Done? (Mike Walsh)
SlickEdit 2008 at First Glance (Dave Campbell)
Hello World! (Chris Deluca) – A developer on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site begins blogging.
Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live and First of Many New Live Developer Articles (John O’Brien)
Wix Widgets, Some Ideas (Amit Knaani)
Three Reasons to Use Disqus (Fred Wilson)
My Verdict on Disqus: Two Thumbs Up (Matthew Ingram)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-10) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for May 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Everyman Links for May 9, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Professional SlickEdit (Programmer to Programmer): John Hurst: Books

Technorati: .net development, patterns & practices, blogging, disqus, powershell

Dew Drop – May 8, 2008

Web Development

Why You Should Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object (Shahar Abramovich)
New Release of SmartTools for SharePoint (Jan Tielens)

Miscellaneous

3 Places to Keep Your Pocket Code (Besides Your Pocket) (Max Pool)
Day-to-Day with Subversion (Bil Simser) – Link of the Day
35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
Messenger TV Is Coming Soon (Sunshine)
Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop (Michael Arrington)
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Announcement (OOO Marketing)
Halo, Office 2007, Safari Now on U3 (With the Help of One Man) (Everything USB)
iRex’s iLiad Book Edition e-book Reader (John Brownlee)
Amazon Kindle on the Road (Rick Strahl)
How to Make Late Software Even Later (Casey Charlton)
Social Networks/Blogging and Self-Improvement (Rhonda Tipton)
Intwition Shows You Who’s Tweeting About Your Blog (Brad Linder)
Service Pass-Through in Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

.NET

A Limitation of Lambda Expressions and Overloaded Extension Methods (Omer van Kloeten)
Covariance and Contravariance, Part Eleven: To Infinity, but Not Beyond (Eric Lippert)
Do You Really Need a Data Access Layer with LINQ? (Jason Young)
Introducing Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for Short) (Aaron Jensen)
Exception Handling – Do’s and Don’ts (Misbah Arefin)
Building an F# Powered Indexing System (Kurt)
A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Four (Will McGurk)

Silverlight / WPF / Popfly

The Silverlight Tutorials & Book & More and Dynamically Creating and Destroying Containers and Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back to You (Jesse Liberty)
WPF For Line of Business Applications (Marc)
Silverlight, WCF and LINQ to SQL (John Papa)
Capping Your Actor’s Speed (Ben Anderson)
Creating a Computer Game with My Granddaughter (Michael Leonard)
Prism vs Framework XXX (Glenn Block)
Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator (Tim Sneath)
Popfly Game Creator: Video Walk-Thru (Jason Flynn)

Visual Studio

Unescape My Strings (Sergio Pereira)
Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) (David Weller)
Using Database Projects for Visual Studio (Ira)

Events / Community

Our .NET Community (Julie Lerman)

SQL Server

Should SQL Server Have the CREATE [OR REPLACE] PROCEDURE Syntax? (Denis Gobo)
What’s the Difference in a GDR, a Cumulative Update, and a Service Pack? (Joe Webb)
How to Rename Database Objects to Comply with Naming Conventions (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

Daily Find #64 (Tim Boland)
Links Today (2008-05-07) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for May 07, 2008 — #269 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for May 7 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: May 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links (5/7/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #89 (Chris Alcock)
New and Notable 239 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures: Microsoft Corporation: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, sql server, silverlight, microsoft cui, wpf, popfly game creator, wcf, linq, neuron 2.0, f#, twitter

Printing on Paper – Don’t Do It, Man!

Over the weekend, my friend and former co-worker, Matt Walker, blogged about the ‘need’ to print documents on paper. I couldn’t agree more, and wanted to add a couple of points to the discussion.

For anyone who has issues reading from an LCD or CRT for long periods of time, you can pick up a Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle. Sony’s device will display .doc, .rtf, .pdf, and .txt files out of the box. PDFs can be a little hard to read on the device because of how they are scaled, but there are 3rd party tools out there to convert PDF to RTF.

Matt talks about a free tool to print to PDF files. Another e-printing option built into Windows Vista is the “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” printer. You can create a portable document without installing any 3rd party tools. This option is for anyone who exclusively uses systems that can read the .xps format.

Peace out!

Technorati: print to pdf, print to xps, paperless