Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

I was offline yesterday, so I’m playing a bit of catch-up this morning.

Blogging/Community

• Have You Tried Community-Credit.com? (Dan Rigsby)

.NET

• Sexagesimal Conversions in .NET (Dan Rigsby)
• A C# Operator I Would Like to See (Dave)
• F# Compiler (zip) v1.9.4.15 (MS Research)
• Using XLinq to Manipulate an XML Document, XLinq U Rock (Derik Whittaker)
• Red-Black Trees (Part 5, bis) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using the SqlTraceListener with Enterprise Library Logging (Josh Twist)
• Using NHibernate (Years After I Should Have Been) (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Operator~ and BinarySearch (Shahar Yair)
• Writing a Simple Role-Playing Game with C# .NET and the State Design Pattern (Kory Becker)
• Why There Is Still a Limitation in LINQ to SQL? (Al Pascual)

Web Development

• Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ - Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Turn Off Session State If You’re Not Using It (DNTOTD)
• Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Actually Adding Unity (Michael Puleio)

Design/Methodology

• Whiteboard Wednesday: Keeping Teams Small (Max Pool)
• Side Effecting Functions Are Code Smells and Side Effecting Functions Are Code Smells Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Mocks - It’s a Question of When (K. Scott Allen) - Link of the Day

Silverlight/WPF

• Solving Cross Domain Issues - Tim to the Rescue and Silverlight Debugging Challenge (Jesse Liberty)
• BeginAnimation() Method For Silverlight (Nick Kramer)
• WPF Performance Profiling Tools (Adventurer)
• Using Corrina Barber’s Silverlight 2 Control Skins (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Chat Demo Application Part 1 of 2 (Pete Brown)
• Seesmic Is the First Silverlight Client Ever, Thanks Microsoft and Tequila-Rapido (Loïc Le Meur)
• Animations in Blend (Corey Schuman)
• Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Ships! (Rob Relyea)

Miscellaneous

• Vote For Your Feature (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Would You Read Programming Books If I Offered You Free Pizza? (Brian Reindel)
• A High-Level View of the Neuron ESB Architecture (Sam Gentile)
• Microsoft Pro Photo Tools v1 (MS Downloads)
• Would You Do It Differently Today? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Get-Web (Another Round of wget for PowerShell) (Joel Bennett)

Live Mesh

• Behind Live Mesh: How We Run Cloud Services (Alex Mallet)
• What’s the Point of Live Mesh? (Steve Clayton)
• Live Mesh Technology Preview: A Closer Look - User Perspective, Part 3 (Sunshine)
• Architecture Astronauts Take Over (Joel Spolsky)
• Go Figure… Joel Doesn’t Get Live Mesh (Paul Thurrott)

SharePoint

• Announcing the SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Bob Fox)
• Invalid SharePoint URL Character Cheat Sheet (Bil Simser)

Career

• How to Be a Stress-Free Web Worker (Celine Roque)
• Are You Ready to Stand While You Work? (Mike Gunderloy)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: April 30, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 1, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-30) and Links Today (2008-05-01) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for April 30, 2008 - #262 and #263 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing - April 30, 2008 and Link Listing - May 1, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #198 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #85 and The Morning Brew #86 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Find #63 (Tim Boland)
• Links (5/1/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• SAML and Federated Security - Part 3 Claims Links (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.02 (gOODiDEA)

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