Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Web Development

• jQuery Ajax Uploader Plugin (with Progress Bar!) (Steve Sanderson)
• Announcing the Web Platform Installer Release Candidate and Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET Supported on Server Core – Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bill Staples)
• MVC Storefront: Episode 25 Preview (Rob Conery)
• Web Platform Installer Now Supports XP – And the Master Plan Continues (Scott Hanselman)
• RenderPartial vs RenderAction (Derik Whittaker)
• 20 Amazing jQuery PlugIns and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (Specky Boy)
• Adding a Property (Column) in Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• HowTo: Basics of ASP.NET MVC or Why MVC? (Robert Muehsig)
• Partial Page Updates with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (and Action Filters) (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Silverlight Fade In and Out Popup Window (Amit Raz)
• IronPython and WPF Part 5: Interactive Console (Harry Pierson)
• Details on Silverlight 3 (Sarah Perez)
• XAML Power Toys from Karl Shifflett (Adam Kinney)
• Graphing – Silverlight Toolkit (Jesse Liberty)
• Naming and Conventions in XAML (Anders Bursjöö)
• Silverlight Tooltips – Positioning and Customizing (Corey Schuman)
• Adding Store and Forward Support to the Prism EventAggregator (Ade Miller)
• Custom Slider for Silverlight 2 Media Players (MSDN Code Gallery)
• A Big Change Is Coming Today (Popfly Team)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated: Seajax Support, New API, and More! (Sunshine)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Opening the Current Directory from the Command Line (Jeremy Jarrell)
• What’s New with Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (Sarah Perez)
• CodeRush Shortcuts and Templates – Quick Start Sheets (Mark Miller)
• Dustin Campbell on the Future of VB in VS2010 (Ted Neward)
• Model and Work Item Integration (Cameron Skinner)
• Connect to a MySQL 5.0 Database with ADO.NET (Eugen Ciuta)
• Working with Large Models in Entity Framework (Srikanth Mandadi)
• Database Project Import Scripts Add-In (Patrick Sirr)
• Setting Properties for WiX in MSBuild (Jason Kemp)
• Renaming Properties, Methods and Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Windsor WCF Integration (Mike Hadlow)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Framework Design Guidelines: Supporting Experimentation (Brad Abrams)
• .NET Systems Need Software Architecture Too (Simon Brown)
• Elementary Application Security Part 1: Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Street (Jason Ipock)
• ORM Is NOT Inherently Evil (Davy Brion)
• Code Contracts – TDD in a DbC World (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Refactoring: Getting Started Is the Hardest Part (David Yancey)
• Slightly Different Way to Write Unit Tests (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Dealing with Parameters in Expressions and Strongly-Typed Reflection (Jimmy Bogard)
• PTOM: Bend 3rd Party Libraries to Your Will with the Adapter Pattern (John Teague)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)

 

patterns & practices Pocket Guides (J.D. Meier)

• Service Architecture
• Rich Client Application Architecture
• RIA Architecture
• Mobile Application Architecture
• Web Application Architecture
• Agile Architecture
• Series for Application Architecture

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week – November 24th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Øredev 2008 Summary (Tim Heuer)
• Chat with Beth Massi at PDC08 (Chris G. Williams)
• Boodhoo Take 2 (Brian Donahue)
• Stack Overflow Is You (Jeff Atwood)

 

SharePoint

• The World’s Greatest SharePoint Admin Book Is Here (Shane Young)
• Announcing Isolator for SharePoint with a Free Full License for Bloggers (Roy Osherove)
• Creating and Deploying SharePoint Solution Files (Joydip Kanjilal)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Interesting Observation About Order of ResultSet without ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)
• Database Thaw (Martin Fowler)

 

Career

• The Dangers of Testing as Part of an Interview (Dave M. Bush)
• Resumes Are Dead. Social Media Is Your New Resume. (Zoli Erdos)
• Outsourcing Sites: Threat or Opportunity? (Mike Gunderloy)
• Download the Free Inaugural Issue of Productive Magazine (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Presentation Styles (Oren Eini)

 

Miscellaneous

• 10 Reasons the Zune Beats the iPod. Seriously. (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How to Clean Up a Folder Tree with NAnt (Simone Chiaretta)
• Subversion Upgraded with New Features (Andy Singleton)
• SaaS Is Here to Say (Unreasonablemen)
• A New Live Mesh App: Flickr2Mesh (Sarah Perez)
• Diskeeper 2009 Features Detailed (Cristian)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2008 — #437 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for November 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.11.21~2008.11.25 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #230 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 25, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

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Web Development

• Six Indispensible CSS Tips and Tricks I Use on Every Project (Brian Reindel)
• ASP.NET MVC: AcceptVerbsAttribute and ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (David Hayden)
• jQuery Hover Fading on Mouse Over and Mouse Out Without Images (Thomas Williams)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Remember, Generics Are Still Statically Typed Objects and Developing for the Zune (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Beware Exceptions in Attribute Constructors (Jimmy Bogard)
• NHibernate Fact When Saving a Transient Entity with Second Level Caching Enabled (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Populating Entities From Stored Procedures with NHibernate and Populating Entities with Associations from Stored Procedures with NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• First and Second Level Caching in NHibernate (Gabriel Schenker)
• Reflector.Snippy Addin (Jason Haley)
• Architecture Exploration with VSTA2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• VSTS 2010 Architecture: [Part Two] Model Project and 4+1 Project Template (Cameron Skinner)
• New and Improved CLR 4 Thread Pool Engine (Daniel Moth)
• Some Common Operations Using LINQ to XML – Part III (Suprotim Agarwal)
• LINQ Reference Documentation (Charlie Calvert)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Validation Scopes: Draft (Paul Stovell)
• Using the Visual State Manager in Silverlight Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• Silvester Meets CodePlex (Emil Stoychev)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Aspects of Domain Design (Oren Eini)
• Distributed Teams (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Three Signals of Death March Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• TDD: Test Driven Debugging (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• MbUnit & VS10 (Andrew Stopford)
• The Most Critical P-Word of All (Bob McIlree)
• Application Architecture Visios Now Available (J.D. Meier)
• Quit Putting Your Solution in My Feature Request! (Max Pool) – Link of the Day
• Considerations for Using PostSharp (Mike Nichols)
• Elegant Tracing with PostSharp and Aspect-Oriented Programming (Saveen Reddy)
• Don’t Be Afraid of Easy (Justin Etheredge)
• Can You Really Rent a Coder? (Jeff Atwood)

 

Events / Community

• Building the PDC Keynote (Steve Clayton)
• Joining the NHibernate Developers (Davy Brion) – Congrats again, Davy! You’ll be a great addition to the team.
• I’m a Free Agent – Available for Your .NET Architecture, Custom Dev, Agile, and SOA Needs (Sam Gentile) – Sam is awesome.
• patterns & practices Developer Team Blogs (Ade Miller)

 

PowerShell

• PoshBoard and ConvertTo-HashTable and ConvertTo-HashTable.ps1 Part 2 (Jeffrey Snover)

 

Miscellaneous

• ISO Standard ‘Office’ Formats Overpromise Compatibility? (Rick Jelliffe)
• Windows Azure Explained in 145 Seconds and Tesco.com and Innovation (Steve Clayton)
• Five Best Desktop Customization Tools (Adam Pash)
• The Power of Home Electronics (Michael Janke)
• Microsoft to Rebrand Search. Will It Be Kumo? (Michael Arrington)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2008 — #436 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: November 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the Week #61 (week 47/2008) (David Vidmar)
• Links (11/23/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 69 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #28 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #229 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 24, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

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