Daily Bits - February 5, 2008
Career
- Word of Mouth Career Advice (Steve Clayton)
Misc
- Battle of the Technorati Challenged (Russell Ball)
- The Quest For Perfect Proportions in Your Software (Max Pool)
- Official: Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing - Headed Your Way… in March (Thomas Ricker)
- Windows Server 2008 Has RTM’d (Bob Fox)
- Windows Media Services for Windows Server 2008 (MS Downloads)
- Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development (Ian Cooper)
- SharePoint Search Ranking Rules and Running It Programatically (Sahil Malik)
- TFS Sticky Buddy CodePlex Project (Martin Hinshelwood)
.NET
- Shell Style Drag and Drop in .NET (WPF and WinForms) (Adam Root)
- Fluency in Fluent Interfaces (Matthew Podwysocki)
- LightSpeed 1.2 Released (John-Daniel Trask)
- Exploring the Performance of the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Brian Dawson)
- Why I Changed My Mind About Extension Methods (James Newton-King)
- Google Chart C# API (Steven Hildreth)
- Zip/Unzip Folders and Files with C# (Peter Bromberg)
- The Weekly Source Code 15 - Tiny Managed Operating System Edition (Scott Hanselman)
- ORMs… Their Real Benefit (Jay Kimble)
- Ruby.NET Is Dead (Antonio Cangiano)
- LINQ to SQL DataContext Lifetime Management (Rick Strahl)
WPF
- Connecting to the Wii Control with WPF (Rick Barraza)
Database
- Get Your Database Under Version Control (Jeff Atwood)
- Close Those Loopholes: Stress-Test Those Stored Procedures (Alex Kuznetsov)
Visual Studio
- VS 2005 AddIns: NAntAddin and NUnitAddin
- Breaking on Exceptions Reveals the Ugly Truth of Your Application (Derik Whittaker)
Events and Community
- Presenting Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) at IASA Tampa Meeting in February (David Hayden)
- Thinking Digital Conference (Steve Clayton)
Other Link Blogs
- Link Listing - February 2, 2008, Link Listing - February 3, 2008 and Link Listing - February 4, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
- Interesting Finds: February 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- LinkList 03022008 - Dynamic Programming Design Patterns, Erlang/C# AMQP Client, AOP (Nauman Leghari)
- LINKBLOG for February 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- The Morning Brew #25 (Chris Alcock)
- links for 2008-02-05 (Sam Buchanan)
Book of the Day
Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series): Books: Rebecca M. Riordan
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