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Dew Drop – January 3, 2010

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Top Links

.NET Serialization Performance Comparison (James Newton-King)
Parsing strings to System.Linq.Expression (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Fluent Silverlight – Implementing a fluent API (Gabriel N. Schenker)

.NET / Visual Studio

Resolve Anything (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Entity Framework – MergeOption.NoTracking and CompiledQuery.Compile (Simon Sabin)

Web Development

Learning Django and Python with “The Django Book” (Rick Ross)
Building A Ratings Widget With ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
Creating ASP.NET MVC Helpers (Mohammad Azam)
Rendering ASP.NET Script References into the Html Header (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Test Soon Development: a case study (Ward Bell)
Entrepreneurship Tip: Do Not Start ‘Good News Wildfires’ Using Your Wishful Thinking. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

Architecting SL4 Apps with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 4 (of 3) (Shawn Wildermuth)
Magellan Extension Points (Paul Stovell)

Community / Events

Balsamiq – A look back at 2009 (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Miscellaneous

10 must have Google Chrome extensions for Bloggers and Download the Bing Sidebar Gadget for Windows 7 and Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7 (Imran Hussain)
New, Lower Careers Pricing (Jeff Atwood)
Influential technologies of the last decade (Larry Clarkin)
Firefox for Mobile 1.0 gets a release candidate (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

Top 9 Posts from 2009 (Bart de Smet)
Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe (Scott Guthrie)
Silverlight Cream for January 02, 2010 — #769 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WPF

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Dew Drop – December 29, 2009

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Top Links

OCGM: A New Windows User Experience (Stephen Chapman) – Some insight into the UX design philosophy in Windows 8.
Day #28: Silverlight Application Themes (Jeff Blankenburg) – Jeff nears the end of his 30 days of Silverlight sereies.
Cost of Maintenance (Larry Clarkin) – A reminder about the importance of a good design up front.
iPhone and Android Development – NOT STARTING A FLAME WAR!!!! (Leon Gersing) – Leon compares ease of programming against each platform.

.NET / Visual Studio

Creating An Application With Full Plug-in Support (Arian T. Kulp)
Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F# (Rick Minerich)
D3DImage Extension Methods (Jeremiah Morrill)
Update for Windows Azure Blob Storage publishing plugin for Expression Encoder (James Clarke)
Migrating Applications to Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
More Windows Code Pack and Windows 7 developing delightfulness (Greg Duncan)
More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exploiting the code = data relationship (Bart de Smet)

Web Development

JavaScript inside ColdFusion – CFJS (Michael Kimsal)
7 Tips for Loading JavaScript Rich Web 2.0-like Sites Significantly Faster (Omar Al Zabir)
Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor)
Do you know how to permanently redirect old incoming URL’s? (Martin Hinshelwood)
KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 3 The Core (Muhammad Mosa)
Self executing recursive javascript functions (Kris Gray)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Fighting the profiler memory obesity (Oren Eini)
Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My First Attempt (Mark Needham)
Agile Tenet #6– Face-to-face Communication (Julie Stickler)

Silverlight / WPF

Windows 7, VS2010, WPF all mixed together DevX article style (Greg Duncan)
Silverlight HVP Design Update (Jesse Liberty)
Using Compass indicators properties for Telerik’s Docking Control for Silverlight and WPF (Telerik Silverlight Team)
Silverlight 4 – Yet More on Capturing Video from Webcams (Mike Taulty)
Better WPF Circular Progress Bar (Sacha Barber)
Solution to minimize the loading of too much data to a DataGrid– WCF RIA Services and Silverlight (Fredrik Normen)
Read and Recommended: Essential Silverlight 3 (Stephen Forte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Hunter Tours Us Through ASP.NET 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
(free) Training videos from the last year. (Eric Hexter)
Episode 96- PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy on PowerShell Best Practices (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

Mark Your Calendars for Microsoft BI Conference (Bruce Kyle)
Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)
January Events (Matt Hinze)
12/28/2009 – Speaking at Northern Delaware .NET User Group on 1/28/2010 (Kevin Goff)
This One is for the Quiet Ones (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

Data is Just Data – Information – that’s another thing! (Buck Woody)
Standard Point-in-time and time-interval representations (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – Get Date of All Weekdays or Weekends of the Year (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

On Learning (Anne Epstein)
Using "within" in a WMI event query (Kapil Mathur)
DZone Daily Dose – 12/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Write-Progress & WPK (James Brundage)
A Desktop UI for Zoho Services (Rodrigo Vaca)
Consulting vs. Employee-hood, or “How to consider your options” (Kyle Baley)
The decade in graphic form (Steve Clayton)
Chrome Corner – weekly updates, extensions, themes, and tips for Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
Read Facebook updates in Google Reader (or any other RSS tool) (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2009 — #765 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 28-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
The Morning Brew #506 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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Dew Drop – December 9, 2009

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Top Links

10 AppFabric/.Net 4 Virtual Labs now available (Greg Duncan) – Greg points out a recent post from Nicholas Allen about new Virtual Labs.
A VS 2010 Beta3 would be welcomed (Patrick Smacchia) – Count Patrick among the .NET community members with concerns about the stability and performance of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
Silverlight 4 COM Support and 32/64 bit machines – the C64 Emulator (Pete Brown) – Pete works around a 32bit/64bit issue by going out-of-process with COM.
Behind PaulStovell.com (Paul Stovell) – Get the inside scoop on Pauls home-grown blog engine / web site.
Which Code Metrics Do You Consider Important? (Davy Brion) – Get some discussion going in the comments.
Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin) – A great intro to MVVM with Silverlight. New to the pattern? Start here.
The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science (Brendan Tompkins) – Fantastic initiative!
Microsoft Gets Serious About Its Cloud Business (Krishnan Subramanian) – Krishnan’s take on Microsoft Azure/WinServer re-org.
Chrome Extensions beta launched, with over 300 extensions! (Erik Kay & Aaron Boodman) – Is FireBug there yet? :) Make sure you use LastPass so you don’t have to risk Chrome displaying your saved passwords as plain text.

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ query operators and null lists (Jimmy Bogard)
SidePOP XMLConfigurator (Rob Reynolds)
The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 2 – Contextual Registration and Resolution (Marcus Bratton)
Feedback Wanted: Links to C# Tech Info (Charlie Calvert)
Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository Part 5: IObjectSet and Include (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

Organizing ASP.NET MVC solutions (Jimmy Bogard)
Adding a Color Picker Control To Your ASP.NET Application (Scott Mitchell)
Featured Open Source Project: the ColdBox ColdFusion Platform (Alex Coisman)
Creating a Twitter Like TextBox Character Warning Using JQuery (Chris Love)
Guided Tour: jQuery – guard and default operators (Sergio Pereira)
Easy HTML Templating with jQuery (Sara Chipps)
SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application! (Scott Mitchell)
Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part II (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Efficient vs. Effective (Christophe Louvion)
CQRS – Domain state (Mark Nijhof)
Simple Prototyping: PowerPoint and SketchFlow (James Chittenden)
Software process improvements with Lean and Kanban at BNP Paribas and Shock therapy agile adoption at 7Digital (Gojko Adzic)
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

Field Level Access with RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
WCF RIA Services Exception Handling (Fredrik Normén)
Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 2 (Gabriel N. Schenker)
That’s a WrapPanel and I am outta here… [A balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
Careful using Mouse.OverrideCursor (Corey Miller)
Windows 7 & WPF 4.0 Beta – Taskbar programming of jumplists and thumbnail previews (Mike Taulty)
MEF, Silverlight and the HVP (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

E2E2E: Meijer, Rys and Vick – Programming Data and Building on Azure: Persistent Systems (Charles Torre)
Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (Level 200) (Charlie Calvert)
Reactive Extensions API in depth: Zip (Jeffrey van Gogh)
Hanselminutes – Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius (Scott Hanselman)
Dimecasts.NET Episode #154: How to host a WCF Service inside your Windows Service (Derik Whittaker)
CSLA .NET, MVVM AND DNR TV (Rockford Lhotka)
Major Nelson Show 343: Interviews with members of the 343 Team about Halo and more (Larry Hyrb)
William Stanek: Fun with Windows Media Player 12 and Windows 7 (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

Coding4Fun Show in Orlando (Brian Peek)
We’re Hiring! (Eran Kampf)
Events This Week – December 8th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 1: Summary and IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 2: What sets IronRuby apart? (Jimmy Schementi)
Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video (Silverlight Team)
4th NYC Girl Geek Dinner & 1 Year Anniversary (Stephen Forte)
Guest Post: The Product Group (Peldi Guilizzoni)
What Does Clam Chowder & the Google Wave API Have in Common? Boston! (Pamela Fox)

Database

Age calculation with SQL Server (Dave Ballantyne)
Unambiguous date formats : T-SQL Tuesday #001 (Jamie Thomson)
Locking & Blocking (Joe Webb)
SQL SERVER – Business Intelligence – Aligning Business Metrics (Pinal Dave)
T-SQL Tuesday #001: My Datetime FAQ (Kalen Delaney)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Find the PowerShell cmdlet you’re looking for and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? (Andrew Connell)
Common compilation error for SharePoint 2010 VS projects (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Nice IE8 add-ons from Play.com (Mike Ormond)
Stack Overflow Trilogy Lego Minifigs (Jeff Atwood)
Digital Signatures in Office 2010 (Shelley Gu)
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/9 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Microsoft Bing and MSN Messenger apps coming to the iPhone (Sebastian Anthony)
Windows Azure Joins Windows Server in a New Organization: Server & Cloud Division (Windows Azure Team)
Why you need a public speaking book (Scott Berkun)
EntityCube Ready to Define and Connect Entities (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #494 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2009 — #752 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 8-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation): Kindle Store

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