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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – December 20-21, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka – Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban (Derick Bailey)
Oxite – An Example of How Not to Write MVC Applications (Casey Charlton)
Benefits of Root Cause Analysis (Raymond Lewallen)
Adding MSTest Results (.trx) Files to Your TeamCity Build Results (Derik Whittaker)
Acceptance Tests and Lazy Loading Considered Harmful (Scott Bellware)
The Anti-Architect (Bil Simser) – Link of the Day
When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices (Adam Buenz)

.NET / Visual Studio

I Couldn’t Think Up a Language of My Own (Jon Flanders)
Cleaning Up the VS Environment When Things Go Wrong (Darren Stokes)
Microsoft Blueprints – Release: November CTP Refresh 2.1.2 (CodePlex)
Moving Up From CodeRush Xpress to CodeRush (Mark Miller)
Book Review: Entity Framework Tutorial (Muhammad Mosa)

Web Development

A Little Holiday Love from the ASP.NET MVC Team (Phil Haack)
Adobe Acrobat Connect .NET SDK – Release (CodePlex)
Migrating a Versionable ASMX Web Services to WCF (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Screencast: Configuring Services with Behaviors (Aaron Skonnard)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (MS Downloads)
patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism v2 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)
Fluent Animations in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (Brad Abrams)
Updated Silverlight 2 DataGrid Available (John Papa)

.NET Community

PowerShell

Step Up Your FOREACH Game (Jeffrey Snover)

Database

SQL Server – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
Windows Azure Storage – Exploring Blobs (David Lemphers)

Miscellaneous

5 Ways to Keep Your Competitive Edge (Celine Roque)
Windows 7 Beta Imminent? and Microsoft Job Listings Reveal Zune Expansion Plans (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft Answers Launches Beta (Sarah Perez)
How Does the Windows Azure DataCenter Work? (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

Discoveries This Week 12/19/08 (Rick Minerich)
Silverlight Cream for December 19, 2008 — #461 and Silverlight Cream for December 20, 2008 — #462 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: December 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #90 (Darren Stokes)
Triple Shot Links #11 (Russell Ball)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 3 (Denis Gobo)
CloudNews for December 19th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
LINKBLOG for December 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight News for December 20, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
Management Improvement Carnival #50 (Corey Ladas)

Book of the Day

C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3: Jon Skeet: Books

ISBN: 1933988363
ISBN-13: 9781933988368

Technorati Tags: silverlight,wpf,prism,entity framework,oxite,powershell,sql server,sharepoint,coderush,windows azure,windows 7

Dew Drop – December 18, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

Object Oriented Programming vs. Class Oriented Programming (Scott Koon)
There’s Nothing New Under the Sun (Kevin Seal)
Trying to Use Unit Tests as Integration Tests (Francis K. Cheung) – Link of the Day
Introduction to TestApi – Part 2: Command-Line Parsing APIs (Ivo Manolov)
Is This a Good Approach for Multi-Tenancy or Not? (Davy Brion)
Oxite Refactor, Take 1 (Rob Conery)
Vertically Stratifying Your Team (Jeremy Jarrell)
Don’t Forget to Sharpen the Saw (Ken Howard)

Web Development

XForms, A Pause for Reflection (Philip Fennell)
FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension (John Resig)
CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 4 – Membership and Authentication (Maarten Balliauw)
Ajax and Forms Authentication (Peter Van Ooijen)
The "Double Submit" Issue from the Server Side (Dave M. Bush)
If You Can’t Make Assumptions, Then Don’t Bother with JavaScript (Brian Reindel)
ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Design Competition (Joe Stagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

"Standard Graphs" and Channel 9 and 10-4 (Cameron Skinner)
VSTA, the Enterprise Architect and the Application Lifecycle (Clemens Reijnen)
New Entity Framework Documentation Topics (EF Team)
CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and for Silverlight Is Released! (Rocky Lhotka)
Early Peek at ReSharper 4.5 Features (John Papa)
10-4 Episode 1: Working with the Visual Studio 2010 CTP (Charlie Calvert)
.NET 3.5 SP1 GDR Is Available to Download (Scott Hanselman)
LINQ to SQL – Enabling Full-Text Searching (Simon Sabin)
Cool Posts: Visual Studio Tips & Tricks (James Brundage)
LOTS of Videos on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (Brian Keller)

Silverlight / WPF

XboxFriendsWatch Gamercard v2 Has Arrived! (Adam Kinney)
Handling Dynamic Storyboards and Animations in Silverlight 2 (Dan Wahlin)
Bubble Chart (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight, Firefox and 100% (Peter Van Ooijen)

SharePoint

Shipped!!! SharePoint Guidance (Francis K. Cheung)
SharePoint + jQuery = Stay Here Feature (Wesley Bakker)

PowerShell

PowerShell Documentation (Alex Mueller)
PowerShell find-to-set-alias (Harry Pierson)
PowerShell for Developers – Presentation (Joel Bennett)

.NET Community

NINE Questions with Scott Hanselman (Chris G. Williams)

Miscellaneous

Guide to Flowcharts xkcd Style (Frank La Vigne)
My Rules for Talks (Wallace B. McClure)
Personal Development Books (J.D. Meier)
Announcing Small Basic v0.2! (Vijay)
My "Best Of" for 2008 (Jeremy D. Miller)
The Ultimate Web Developer’s Christmas Wish List (Glen Stansberry)
6 Free Open Source Resources for Web Workers (Samuel Dean)
Indexed: Hitting Close to Home (Jeff Blankenburg)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008… Part 2 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for December 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #247 (Chris Alcock)
CloudNews for December 17th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
Tech Twitterings #8 (Elijah Manor)
Silverlight News for December 18, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage: Books

ISBN: 0321293533
ISBN-13: 9780321293534

Technorati Tags: silverlight,csla .net 3.6,resharper,windows azure,asp.net mvc,jquery,sharepoint,powershell,javascript,ajax

Dew Drop – March 14, 2008

Misc

Are Twitter Clients the New Hello World App? (Aaron Lerch)
This Is Why You Need TeamCity Build Server (Sammy Larbi)
Observations (Jeremy D. Miller)
Using YAGNI Responsibly (James Kovacs)
Saying YAGNI to YAGNI? (Rob Teixeira)
FiOS Users Speak (John Czwartacki)
Free Download: Keyboard Jedi (Learn all of your applications’ keyboard shortcuts) (Robert Shelton)
New Version of the Book Out! (Oren Eini)
Clearing Up the Mock Confusion (Jimmy Bogard)
9 of the Best Rich Text Editors Reviewed (Paul Anthony)

Silverlight/WPF

There’s Some Darkness in Your Silver Light (Rob Eisenberg)
DeepZoom in C# – Not Just Possible, but Easy (Laurence Moroney)
Animation Engine for Silverlight and Animate Silverlight 2 Object From 1 Line of Code (Corey Schuman)
Skinning a Button – 4 Different Ways and Counting (Jose Fajardo)

.NET

The Zen of GUI Programming (Mike Gold)
Complex Searching/Querying with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
The Weekly Source Code 19 – LINQ and More What, Less How and List of .NET Dependency Injection Containers (IoC) (Scott Hanselman)
Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ (Brad Abrams)
DLRScript… Now With Added Ruby! (Jay Kimble) – I still think David Lee Roth every time I see DLR.
Creating Screenshots With C# (typeof.net)
Float, Double and Decimal: Do You Know the Differences? (pheaven)
Convert Generic ICollection<T> (Timm)

Web Development

I’m Just a Caveman – The Hanselman Corollary to the Clarke/Wheeler Laws (Scott Hanselman)
ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions and SubSonic: New Project Site Online (Rob Conery)
HTML Reference (beta) (sitepoint)
Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 1 (Hackersoft)
Google Releases Book Search API (gcode) – How long until we see a Google BookSearch .NET library on CodePlex?
JScript Debugger in IE8 (Deepak Jain)

PowerShell

Dev Environment for PowerShell (Tomas Restrepo) – Script to config your .NET dev environment.
PowerShell Plus Is Now Official! (Jeffrey Snover)

Visual Studio

The Command Window (nillfm)
How to Get Enterprise Library 3.1 Working in VS 2008 (Scott Densmore)
VSX Community Letter for March 2008 (Ken Levy)
Restarting VisualStudioHacks.com (James Avery)

Career

5 Ways to Engage Employees (Michael Specht)
Steve Yegge on Interviewing (John Lam)

Blogging

Tags vs. Categories (J.D. Meier)
Post to Your Blog Directly From Google Docs (Jason Harris)
FriendFeed Is This Year’s Twitter, but Why? (Duncan Riley)
MyBlogLog Founder to Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million in Funding (Michael Arrington)

SharePoint

Migrate WSS 2.0 Web Sites to WSS 3.0 (Some Tips About SharePoint) (Luis Du Solier G.)

Link Collections

March 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET (Scott Guthrie)
Interesting Finds: March 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 226 (Sam Gentile)
Links Today (2008-03-13) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for March 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Our Daily Link (2008-03-13) (Trevor Green)
Links (3/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #53 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Joe Celko’s Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems): Joe Celko: Books