Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Metrics: An Introduction to Visual NDepend (Jose R. Guay Paz)
• Embracing Change – quotable quotes on change and uncertainty and Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Protecting Your Application From Remote Problems (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from James Waletzky (J.D. Meier)
• Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob) (Jurgen Appelo) – Link of the Day
• Sometimes Hardware is Cheaper than Programmers (Michael Janke)
• Form over function often fails (Nick Berardi)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Simple .NET Profanity Filter (James Newton-King)
• MSpec – Take 2 (Chris Bilson)
• Looking Inside Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• What is a build script? Writing MsBuild Scripts – Part I (Tuna Toksoz)
• WSDL/Schema First – WSCF.blue for WCF goes Beta 1 (Sam Gentile)
• Day #6: Silverlight and the Twitter "Hello, World" (Jeff Blankenburg)

 

Web Development

• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Smashing Magazine)
• jLinq 2.2.0 Released! (webdev_hb)
• miniurl – ASP.NET MVC URL Redirection Sample Application (Javier G. Lozano)
• CSS Tips and Tricks (Michael Ceranski)
• AutoMapper in NerdDinner (Matt Hinze)
• Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffrey Palermo (Jonathan Allen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 114: Rob Greenlee (Paul Thurrott)

 

Database

• SQL Server Subqueries (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Languages for BI – MDX, DMX, XMLA (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Building WCM Sites on SharePoint? – Get the Adventureworks demo modules and site installer (Chandima Kulathilake)

 

Community / Events

• July 7th – Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Nerd Dinner (Scott Hanselman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Players Become Gamers with Kodu (Bruce Kyle)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 and LINKBLOG for July 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #383 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2009 — #629 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #83 – “Not much to bookmark” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #60 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 07/05/2009 (Rick Minerich)

 

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