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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – December 27-28, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

Container-Managed Application Design, Prelude: Where Does the Container Belong? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Unit Testing in Silverlight Land with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
Learning Culture and Nothing Fails Like Success – Why Continuous Improvement Is Continuous (Scott Bellware)
SOA Principles of Service Design (Colin Jack)
Thinking Only of the Junior Developer (Chris Brandsma) – Link of the Day
Junior vs Senior Developers? (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

Using Closures to Simplify Asynchronous Programming and Caution When Eager Loading in the Entity Framework (Shawn Wildermuth)
What Is Microsoft Waiting for Providing a Descent Path API? (Patrick Smacchia)
Tired of Working with Big Visual Studio Solutions? (Davy Brion)
Fixing the VS2010 CTP Expiration Problem (Darren Stokes)

Web Development

New Features in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Simone Chiaretta)
ViewData Mechanics and Segmentation (Excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action) (Jeffrey Palermo)
When Is a ASP.NET Project Not an MVC Project (Shawn Wildermuth)
Reverse Engineering the WMD Editor (Jeff Atwood)
Page Design with CSS Using Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
Accessible News Slider Plugin for jQuery Is Making a Comeback (Brian Reindel)
New Sueetie Wiki Setup Doc Roundup (Dave Burke)
Windows Azure – End to End App Dev Journal (David L.)

.NET Community

Elegant Code Cast 18 – Chris Tavares on EntLib, Unity and More (David Starr)
Xmas Present from DZone: My First Article Resyndicated to DZone .NET Zone (Simone Chiaretta)
DZone Syndicates Top .NET Articles and My Interview on High on Coding About ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Miscellaneous

WordPress 2.8 Survey: What Do You Want in the Next Version of WordPress? (Lorelle VanFossen)
Extract an msi Before Installing It. (Like the ASP.NET MVC RC msi) (Jeffrey Palermo)
My Software Is Being Pirated (Jeff Atwood)
My Bests of 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Small Basic: Tetris – Sample of the Week (Vijay)
SQL Server Management Studio Startup Options (Richard Carr)
Windows 7 Beta Review (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

Triple Shot Links #13 (Russell Ball)
Silverlight Cream for December 26, 2008 — #467 and Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2008 — #468 and Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2008 — #469 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: December 27, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
My Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2008 and Weekly Link Post 74 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (12/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
40+ JavaScript and jQuery Resources That Will Make You a Better Web Developer (Brian Reindel)
LINKBLOG for December 27, 2008 and LINKBLOG for December 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

3D Programming for Windows (Pro – Developer): Charles Petzold: Books

ISBN: 0735623945
ISBN-13: 9780735623941

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Dew Drop – December 17, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Final Release (J.D. Meier) – Co-Link of the Day
Chief Engineer (Scott Bellware) – Co-Link of the Day
Rhino Service Bus (Oren Eini)
Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of User Interface (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ to SQL / Entity Framework / NHibernate ORM Top-Down, Objects First (Peter Bromberg)
IronPython and LiveFX: Ori’s LiveOE.py and IronPython and LiveFX: Raw HTTP Access (Harry Pierson)
SharpDevelop – Release 3.0 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
Processes in .NET Part 2 – Performing Actions on Files with Verbs (Rick Minerich)
Introduction to Directed Graph Markup Language (DGML) (Cameron Skinner)
Lhotka’s Post Is Pointless – Please Get Rid of VB, Microsoft! (Dave Schinkel)
Language Improvements in C# 4 (Gunther Lenz)
Migrations in C# Using RikMigrations (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

Some Tips and Tricks While Using ASP.NET GridView Paging (Suprotim Agarwal)
Create Your App on Zoho Creator and Deploy It on Google App Engine (Krishnan Subramanian)
Connecting Your Web Site to the Live Framework (i.e. Using Delegated Auth) (Kevin Ledley)
Locking the Screen During a Postback (Scott Mitchell)
Car Trackr on Windows Azure – Part 3 – Data Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
ASP.NET MVC Samples, Oxite, and Community (Scott Hanselman)
GridViews – Multiple Rows Per Record (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

IronPython and WPF (JP. Hamilton)
Building and Deploying WPF Applications Using the .NET Client Profile (Zhiming Xue)
Using WPF Binding StringFormat Property with Nullable Types (Karl Shifflett)
XAML Practices Series, Part 1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
Silverlight 3 – What We Know So Far and What We Can Predict (Part 2 of 3) (Bart Czernicki)
Exploring the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern (Pencho Popadiyn) – MVC with Silverlight

Events / Community

Saving DotNetKicks (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

Impersonating a SQL Server DBA (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Prepares Developers for ODF in Office 14 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Are Bloggers & Social Networks Killing the Big Shows? (Robert Scoble)
New in Labs: Turn an Email Into a Google Doc (Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann)
Publish and Share Your Presentations in the Cloud (Zhiming Xue)
I’ve Concluded That You Guys Don’t Think I’m an Idiot – A Reflection on the Sexes and the Field (Sara Chipps)
Detours (MS Research)
Microsoft Sends Out Windows 7 Beta 1 Invites (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for December 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 — #457 and Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 – 2 — #458 (Dave Campbell)
WMOC#28 – Zen of Results – eBook and WSOAC#40 – REST Patterns and Anti-Patterns and WSDAC#28 – IronPython 2.0 Released (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight News for December 17, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #246 (Chris Alcock)
CloudNews for December 16th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter): Garr Reynolds: Books

ISBN: 0321525655
ISBN-13: 9780321525659

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