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Dew Drop – January 11, 2010
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Top Links
- The TekPub LINQ Challenge Part 2 – Faster Algorithms (Justin Etheredge)
- ASP.NET MVC 2: Strongly Typed Html Helpers (Scott Guthrie)
- Patterns in Practice: A Retrospective (Jeremy D. Miller)
.NET / Visual Studio
- First Look at Workflow in .NET 4 (Bruce Kyle)
- List of extensibility points in visual studio 2010 (Roy Osherove)
- C# Object Initializer: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
- 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – Introduction and 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1. Registering Delegates (Mike Hadlow)
- .NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle (Grant Palin)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC 2 (Scott Guthrie)
- Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers (Maarten Balliauw)
- Serialize only Selected Elements of a Form and Submit it using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Virtual Method Performance Penalty (Davy Brion)
- Learning in the Open: I – Starting with ActiveRecord (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- A philosophical discussion about Inversion of Control frameworks (Marcus Bratton)
- Gesturcons: an icon language to describe natural user interface gestures (Ron George)
Silverlight / WPF
- How SilverUnit can help you be famous (Roy Osherove)
- Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
- Using the Model View Presenter pattern in WPF (Paul Stovell)
- Migrating from Silverlight Streaming to Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
- Synchronous Invocation of Delegates with the Silverlight Dispatcher (Daniel Vaughan)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Screencast: How to Effectively Utilize Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
- This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 3 (Dror Helper)
- Episode 97- PowerScripting Podcast – Clint Huffman and His PAL Project (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Fun with Physics for Toddlers with eBeam and Crayon Deluxe (Jonathan de Halleux)
Community / Events
- This Week In User Group Land 1/11/2010 – 1/17/2010 (Chris G. Williams)
- 2010 – A Personal Change: putting my “Head In The Cloud” (Bart de Smet)
- Lessons Learned in 2009 (JD Meier)
Database
- Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
- DZone Daily Dose – W3C Drafts Indexed Database API Standard (Mitch Pronschinske)
Miscellaneous
- Predictions for 2010 Part IV: Google v Apple (Stephen Forte)
- Today’s kindergartners, tomorrow’s workforce (Anthony Salcito)
- Stupid Windows 7 Trick: Keyboard Shortcut for Windows XP’s Task Switcher (Blake Handler)
- Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
- Tortoise SVN tip: Repair move (Simone Chiaretta)
More Link Collections
- Silverlight Cream for January 10, 2010 — #774 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #514 (Chris Alcock)
- Links of the week #105 (David Vidmar)
- Interesting Post… 1/4/2010 through 1/10/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
- Links (1/10/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
- Weekly Link Post 127 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/11/2010 (Pete Brown)
The Geek Shelf
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Dew Drop – August 3, 2009
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Your domain model isn’t in the Entity Relationship Diagram (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
- Yo Dawg, I Heard Your Build Failed Because You Refactored Unit Tests… (Bobby Johnson)
- The Daily Scrum Exercise Program (Brett Schuchert)
- Discover dead code in your application using Code Analysis (Habib Heydarian)
- Fluent Domain Methods (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- “Latching” an Event Aggregator Subscriber and What’s hard about activating screens? (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Who Activates, Displays, and Closes Screens? (John Papa)
- The spirit of MVVM (ViewModel), it’s not a code counting exercise. (Glenn Block)
- Strong opinions, weakly held (Mark Needham)
- How To Be A Tracer Bullet Architect (Max Pool)
- In Memory SQLite Testing with NHibernate (Tobin Harris)
- 31 Days of Refactoring and Refactoring Day 1 : Encapsulate Collection and Refactoring Day 2 : Move Method (Sean Chambers)
- Structure and composition of agile teams (Scott Koon)
- Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 7. (Rajiv Popat)
- MVVM Study Part 2 – “View of the Model” or “Model of the View” ? (Rob Eisenberg)
- Initial thoughts on MVVM (Rockford Lhotka)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Reflector.Babel Addin (alpha) (Jason Haley)
- Stable Composition in MEF Preview 6 (Glenn Block)
- IronRuby 0.9 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
- A big step for Stored Procedures in EF4 (Julie Lerman)
- WCF Essentials Series (Sam Gentile)
- Getting Ready for .NET 3.5 and LINQ – Exploring C# 3.0 – Part II (Manish Sharma)
- Twitter API with C# example(part 2) (Paul Zubkov)
- Does It Make Sense To Use NHibernate in a Sproc-Only Shop? (Russell Ball)
Silverlight / WPF
- Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service and Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered! and Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary (Brad Abrams)
- Hosting Silverlight Client Apps In A Silverlight Host App (Davy Brion)
- Silverlight, Validation and MVVM – Part II (Josh Twist)
- How to work with PropertyChanged’s smelly name string (Josh Twist)
- Updated – INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code Smell (Karl Shifflett)
- Silverlight Spy 3 update available (Koen Zwikstra)
- Controls Supported in Silverlight 3 RTW (Manish Sharma)
- Adding DataContextChanged in Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)
- Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 4 is out (Sacha Barber)
Web Development
- Single Project Areas With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 (Phil Haack)
- ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed in Bookstores! (Stephen Walther)
- Part 2: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
- What’s new in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- This Week C9: Microhoo, ATL Security, VS 2010 Cut List (Dan Fernandez)
- Show #327: COD WaW Map Pack 3 and Guitar Hero 5 (Larry Hryb)
- A Peek Behind C9 Revolution UX (Larry Larsen)
- Testing Techniques with JB Rainsberger and Moving Specificity Towards the Tests with JB Rainsberger (Corey Haines)
- Windows Azure Storage Overview and What is Windows Azure? (Ryan Dunn)
- Tool Shed: Episode #4 – It’s All About The Tools (Russell Fustino)
Community / Events
- "Un-Official" List of Microsoft Twitter Feeds (Blake Handler)
- One Year of Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
- Revive your User Group, part IV (Joe Webb)
- OSCON 2009: One of the greatest weeks in my Microsoft Career (Sara Ford)
Database
- LINQ To Entities, SQL and performance (Gunnar Peipman)
- Download Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler (Pinal Dave)
- MapPoint Add-in for SQL Server (Trevor Dwyer)
SharePoint
- Building and Packaging SharePoint Solutions (Eli Robillard)
- Updated Version of SharePoint SP2 is now available which contains a fix for the Trial issue (Stefan Gossner)
PowerShell
- Setting PowerShell Switch Parameters Dynamically (Gary Lapointe)
Miscellaneous
- How to Add Bing Search Box to Your Blog or Website (Blake Handler)
- This Is Why I Don’t Like Microsoft’s Way Of Open Source Development (Davy Brion)
More Link Collections
- LINKBLOG for August 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- Interesting Finds: August 1, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 2, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #403 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for August 01, 2009 — #660 and Silverlight Cream for August 02, 2009 — #661 (Dave Campbell)
- Everyman Links for July 31, 2009 (Dave Burke)
- Interesting Finds: 2009 07.27 ~ 08.03 (yuanjian)
- Weekly Links #64 (Grant Palin)
- Links for the Week of 2009.07.31 (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Squeezed Links: July 2009 (Max Pool)
- CloudNews for 31st July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
- Interesting Post… 7/26/2009 through 8/1/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Discoveries This Week 08/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
- Links (8/2/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
- New and Notable 347 and New and Notable 348 and New and Notable 349 (Sam Gentile)
Book of the Day
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Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (PRO-Developer) (9780735626287): Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew: Books
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