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Daily Bits – March 3, 2008

Web Development

Next Generation Web Applications (Dino Esposito)
The Offline Wars About to Heat Up? (Robert Scoble)
Microsoft About to Reveal Web Apps Strategy? (Steve Clayton)

.NET

Json.NET 2.0 Beta 2 (James Newton-King)
Interesting LINQ Bits (David Vidmar)
Layering MMC 3.0 Snap-Ins on Top of Windows PowerShell (Bart De Smet)
Reusable Generic Directory Poller Utility Class for .NET (Troy DeMonbreun)

Blogging

Keyvan and His Feed – Last Episode (Keyvan Nayyeri)
10 Best Twitter Tools for WordPress Blogs (QTO)

SQL Server

Great SQL Server Blogs (Rhonda Tipton)
Is It Important to Declare Your Columns as NOT NULL (Simon Sabin)
The Requirements Are Always Wrong, or, Iterative Database Development (Kenneth Downs)

Silverlight/WPF

How To: High Performance Graphics in WPF (Tamir Khason)
Silverlight in SharePoint (Sahil Malik)
Design Tip for Developers – Proper Color/Alpha Values in Gradients (Dax Pandhi)

Misc

8+ Ways to Train Yourself to Be Creative (Travis Wright)
Recommended Book: Advanced Windows Debugging (Jason Zander)
Google’s Engineering Philosophy (Alex Chitu)
No Surprise Here – Offshoring Losing Popularity (Frank Kelly)
Focusing on Design (James Avery)
Microsoft Preps StartKey: A “Windows Comanion” on a USB Stick (Mary Jo Foley)
FastCompany.TV Launches (Robert Scoble)
Unit Testing, Playing Tennis, and the Lack of Absolutes in TDD (Jeremy D. Miller)
What Does It Take to Become a Grandmaster Developer? (Jeff Moser)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for March 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Link Post 31 (Rhonda Tipton)
Weekly Crumbs #9 (Dilip Krishnan)
Link Listing – March 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #44 (Chris Alcock)
2 Links Today (2008-03-02) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Advanced Windows Debugging (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series): Mario Hewardt,Daniel Pravat: Books

Technorati: daily links, windows debugging, microsoft, .net development, sharepoint, silverlight, wpf, sql server

Daily Bits – March 1, 2008

Community

Planned Agility at Philly ALT.NET (Steve Eichert)

Misc

Sam Gentile’s Inessential List of Tools (Sam Gentile) – Some great tools on Sam’s list.
A Few Vista Hidden Gems (Todd Sharp)
API Testing Best Practices (Josh Poley)
MySong, from Microsoft Research, Makes Your Singing Sound a Lot Better Than It Really Does and Low and Behold, the IE8 Install Screen (Long Zheng)
Sneak Peak at the Virtual Universe (Alan Boyle)
How to Create Fully Encapsulated Domain Models (Udi Dahan)

Blogging

Blog Move, Redesign, and Refocus (James Avery)
Google Lets You “Chatback” with Your Visitors (Nick Berardi)
Technorati to Launch Blogger Advertising Network (Michael Arrington)

Web Development

MIX Preview: Consume Windows Live Services From Astoria Client Libraries (Julie Lerman)
An Introduction to Adobe Flex For Beginners – Part 1 (Clayton Gibb)
Updated AJAX Control Toolkit Release (Shawn Burke)
Pownce Finally Unveils Full API (Nik Fletcher)
Windows Live Dev News (Paul Thurrott)
New Expression Encoder Team Blog: Hello World Video (James Clarke)
Latest and Upcoming Book(s) (Dino Esposito)

Silverlight/WPF

Special Leap Day Link-O-Rama (Matthias Shapiro)
Tafiti and Windows Live Quick Apps (Sunshine)

Visual Studio

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 Released (vsxteam)
Patterns and Practices for Visual Studio Team System (J.D. Meier)

PowerShell

Remoting Using PowerShell v1 (Jeffrey Snover)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 29, 2008 and Interesting Finds: March 1, 2008 (Jason Haley)
8 Links Today (2008-02-29) and 3 Links Today (2008-03-01) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for February 29. 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – March 1, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5: Omar AL Zabir: Books

Technorati: daily links, microsoft, .net development, powershell, silverlight, programming books, asp.net

Daily Bits – February 29, 2008

Misc

No Surprise Here – Offshoring Losing Popularity (Frank Kelly)
Launching the Microsoft Tester Center (Charles Sterling)
Hanselminutes Podcast 102 – Mike Pizzo on the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Scott Hanselman)
UsWare vs ThemWare (Jeff Atwood)
FiOS Subscribers are 96% Happy (weaz) – I love my FiOS Internet & FiOS TV!
C# Algorithms Book Review (Julian M. Bucknall)
DevHawk’s Inessential List of Tools (Harry Pierson)
Lead-Developer Compression Ratios (Larry O’Brien)
Ruby Code Samples for the Live Search API (MS Downloads)
Is Xbox 360 Past Its Peak? and FTP7 for Windows Server 2008 RTM Is Released (Paul Thurrott)
Google Book Search Adds a Social Layer (Alex Chitu)

Silverlight/WPF

First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2 (Scott Guthrie)
Grabbing the Visual Tree for an Item Displayed by an ItemsControl (Josh Twist)
Microsoft to Launch New MSN Toolbar Beta – Powered by Silverlight (Chris)

Web Development

Microsoft’s Flurry of API News for MIX08 (John Musser)
LinkedIn Style Themes For the AjaxControlToolkit Tab Container Control (Matt Berseth)
What I Learned About MVC on Day One (Nick Berandi)

Visual Studio

FAQ: How Do I Prevent FxCop 1.36 From Firing Warnings Against Generated Code? (David M. Kean)
Immediate Window – A Forgotten Tool (null)

.NET

CSLA .NET 3.5 Property Code Reduction (Rocky Lhotka)
The Managed MMC 3.0 Snap-In Cookbook (Bart De Smet)
LINQ to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers (Charlie Calvert)
New Object-Oriented Features in C# 3.0 (Thiru Thangarathinam)

PowerShell

Frank’s at It Again: Another Free PowerShell Book (Jeffrey Snover)
PowerGUI Now Officially Released! (Jeffrey Snover)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Morning Coffee 151 (Harry Pierson)
Links (2/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #43 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Data Structures and Algorithms Using C#: Michael McMillan: Books

Technorati: daily links, silverlight, xbox 360, .net development, c# books, powershell, microsoft live

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