Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Requirements Debate

• It’s Not the Client’s Job to Know What He Needs - It’s Our Job to Find Out (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Doctors We Ain’t (Dave Laribee)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 4 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Ward Bell and I Wade Into O/R Mapping Issues (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How Microsoft’s p&p Teams Do Daily Standup Meetings (Ade Miller)
• Too Much Quality (Jacob Proffitt)
• Enterprise Architect - Joke or Joker? (Richard Veryard)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache and Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Channel 9 - C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team (Granville Barnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #region. Sliced Bread or Sliced Worms? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code (Matthew Podwysocki) – Link of the Day
• Anonymous Delegates, How I Love Thee (Josh Twist)
• Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code (Brad Abrams)
• CLR Security Team CodePlex Site (Shawn F.)
• Looking at EF Performance - Some Surprises (Julie Lerman)
• Mocking Expensive Template Methods (Davy Brion)
• Back to Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (That Memory)! (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Things I Like Better About NetBeans Than Visual Studio (Jim Hoffman)
• Scrubbing Null Values From a DataReader (John Papa)
• How to Navigate Around Your Code in Visual Studio (Ged Mead)
• Mastering F# Lists (Chris Smith)
• Identity Framework for .NET (René Løhde)
• MSDN Code Gallery - Functional C# - Release: v0.1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning WPF with BabySmash - MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• How About Some LIVE Silverlight Service Debugging? (Tim Heuer)
• Animation Hands on Lab for Silverlight 2 (Adam Kinney)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #17 - How to Run an ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• SubSonic: New Code Samples and a SubStage Walkthrough (Rob Conery)
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls (Rick Strahl)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Clustered SQL Servers - Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets (Chad Boyd)
• Observations on Embedded Databases (Oren Eini)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Frank La Vigne)
• Find Nearby Events with Windows Live Writer Search Mobile and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Rachel Appel (Chris Williams)

Miscellaneous

• My First-Hand Experience with Microsoft Surface (Archis Gore)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows XP Ain’t the Only OS Retiring This Year: Goodbye Windows 3.11 (Brad Linder)
• The Phone Screen (Alex Mueller)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #87 (Tim Boland)
• Link Listing - July 9, 2008 and Link Listing - July 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #245 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 - Early Edition (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #49 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #134 (Chris Alcock)

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