Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Design / Methodology

• Entities and the Law of Demeter (Jimmy Bogard)
• TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part 1 (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Incremental Migration (Martin Fowler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Great User Experience Example in a Business Application (Brad Abrams)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 120 - The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer Talk About Working with XAML (Scott Hanselman)
• P[e]op[le]Fly (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Recursing Into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 5: Developing .NET Software on a Mac (Keith Elder)
• Some RichTextBox Tricks (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization (Jason Kemp)
• Scale Cheaply – Memcached (Karl Seguin)
• Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux (Kim Hamilton)
• Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache<KEY, VALUE> (Chad Myers)

C#/VB Pursefight

• Declaring Event Handlers in C# Is Just Painful, Prove Me Wrong Please (Chris Love)
• Creating Event Handlers in C# - The Definitive Guide (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Hacks (lessthandot)
• Waegis Will Be Live Tomorrow (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Kill Your Users Table (Schalk Neethling)
• HTTP Request Flow Diagram (Simone Chiaretta)

SQL Server

• An Introduction to New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Events / Community

• User Groups This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Northern NJ .NET User’s Group Meeting: July 8, 2008 (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous

• You Don’t Need a Muse: How to Get Your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired (Celine Roque)
• Might Microsoft’s Midori Be ‘Cairo’ Revisited? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Identi.ca Gets a Reply Tab, Actually Becomes Useful (Sarah Perez)
• Is This the Time That 3D Sticks? (Robert Scoble)
• Bash vs PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Morning Coffee 166 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight News for July 8, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 — #319 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #131 (Chris Alcock)

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