Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

We have a tie for ‘Link of the Day’ honors today. There were a bunch of great posts while I was offline yesterday.

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing Kanban at Xclaim (Dave Laribee) – Co-Link of the Day
• A Train of Thought - August 24th, 2008 Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Streamlined BDD Using SubSpec for xUnit.NET (Phil Haack)
• Scrum Bestiary - The Rubber Duck (Ade Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Distributed Processing with MassTransit.Grid (Chris Patterson)
• NHibernate 2.0 Final Is Out! (Oren Eini) – Co-Link of the Day
• Adventures in F# - F# and ADO.NET (Bittis)
• DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset in .NET and TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .NET (Dan Rigsby)
• SmallestDotNet: On the Size of the .NET Framework (Scott Hanselman)
• Exploring the F# Language Series Part 3 - Functional Programming (Kevin Hazzard)
• Fast Serialization (Greg Young)
• More on Converting Native Exceptions to Managed Exceptions (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part I and Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Installing Data Dude CTP16 with SQL 2008 and Visual Studio (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• Core .NET Refcard Available - Download Now (Jill Tomich)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 - Create an Auto-Complete Text Field and The Evolution of MVC (Stephen Walther)
• Getting Started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend (Christian Schormann)

Events / Community

• Codeapalooza Is Approaching (Sergio Pereira)

Miscellaneous

• My Last Visit to Shea Stadium Ever ;( (Stephen Forte) – I also attended my last game at Shea over the weekend.
• Indispensable WordPress Plugins (Dan Rigsby)
• Software Development  Books: Investing in Yourself (Davy Brion)
• Transitioning - Part I - Getting Out (Sergio Pereira)
• Vista Battery Saver - Release: Beta 2 R2 + RC1 (CodePlex)
• Vista Annoyances Resolved (Paul Thurrott)
• How to Use Photosynth in 4 Easy Steps (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• The World Still Moves (Dave Bost)
• New and Notable 268 (Sam Gentile)
• Link Listing - August 22, 2008 and Link Listing - August 24, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• LINKBLOG for August 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2008 — #354 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: August 23, 2008 - [Final Cut] and Interesting Finds: August 24, 2008 - [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for August 23, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Link Post 56 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (8/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Links #15 (Grant Palin)

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