Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Design / Methodology

• When Does Design Happen in Agile? (Ian Cooper)
• Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything? (Ben Northrop) - This guy’s just begging for a comment flame war. Don’t let Bellware see this one.  

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 – Part One and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four (Faisal Khan) - Nice four-part series on Silverlight animation. Link(s) of the Day.
• WPF Multipage Reports – Part II – Data Grouping (Jan Repisky)
• Revolutionizing the User Interface (Introducing MenuKiller for WPF) (Zlatan Dzinic)
• Awesome DeepZoom Demo (Pete Brown)
• Chiron (Jimmy Schementi) – "This contains Chiron.exe, the Silverlight development web server for Dynamic Languages, with a fix for the IPv4/6 issues."
• Trying Out Binding.StringFormat (Mike Hillberg)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF and Extending WCF InstanceContext to Store Custom State (Dan Rigsby)
• What’s Wrong With this? (Alan Mendelvich) - I’m not a fan of this. Code readability issues should be resolved with proper naming conventions.
• WCF Callbacks: A Beginner’s Guide (Barry Dorrans)
• Detailed Code Metrics with NDepend (Maarten Balliauw)
• ReSharper Introspection Severity and the var Keyword (David Hayden)
• Utilizing Your .NET Projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports – Part 2 (Eric Landes)
• What’s on Your Entity Framework v2 Wish List? (John Papa)
• Foundations of Programming – Part 8 – Back to Basics: Exceptions (Karl Seguin)
• Fluent Interfaces and Readability (Joel Ross)
• No More null Checking on Your IEnumerables Before You Iterate Over Them (John)
• IronRuby and Rails (John Lam) – Congrats to John and the IronRuby team!

 

Web Development

• ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hawley)

 

SharePoint

• Pimp My Content Deployment Job (Stefan Goßner)
• Updating Pages Library with Default Page Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Development (MS Downloads)
• One CAS Policy for Many Web Part Assemblies (Patrick Tisseghem)

 

Miscellaneous

• Deep Fried Bytes Podcast Is Live (Keith Elder)
• Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Review (Scott Hanselman) - I need to get this for my wife.
• Get Your Learning On!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Holy Crap – I Like to Write Specs! (Mike Desjardins)
• Gmail Labs? (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Automating the PowerShell Script Repository (Joel Bennett)
• Authorization and Encryption in Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• Turbografx Emulator Hits iPhone (Rob Beschizza) - Ok, now I officially need an iPhone.
• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (Jeff Atwood)

 

Blogging / Community

• Calm Days for the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Great Podcast About the Development Community (Rhonda Tipton)
• Using FriendFeed’s Public Links (Sarah Perez)
• Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind (Scott Hanselman)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links Today (2008-05-29) (Matt Hinze)
• Squeezed Links: May 2008 (Max Pool)
• Links (5/29/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for May 29, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing – May 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #104 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day

 

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SharePoint

• SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool v1.0 (Mark Harrison)

Web Development

• Boost ASP.NET Performance with Deferred Content Loading (Dave Ward)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day Gadget Version 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed – Book Review (Chris Love)
• Do Not Name a Web Form “Login.aspx” on VS2008 with ASP.NET 2.0 (Al Pascual)

WCF

• Building WCF Services for Deployment in Transiently Connected Networks (Rick Garibay)

WPF

• Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications (Josh Smith)
• The Rise of WPF vs. WinForms (John-Daniel Trask)
• How Do I Wrap Text in the ComboBox? (Matthias Shapiro)

.NET

• Irony: A .NET Compiler Construction Kit (David Brabant)
• Welcome, Wayne Kelly! (John Lam)
• Update to LINQ to SQL Business Object Wrapper Sample (Rick Strahl)
• C# 4, Part 1: Looking Back at the Past (Jon Skeet)
• For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerations, or None of the Above? (Jeff Moser)
• A “Transactional” Generic DbHelper for LINQ to SQL (Tanzim Saqib)
• LINQ to Objects – Measuring Performance Implications of the WHERE Clause (Steve Hebert)
• Download All the .NET Reference Source Code at Once with Net Mass Downloader (John Robbins)

Misc

• Thinking or Worried About Getting Your Microsoft Certification for SQL Server 2008? (Robert Shelton)
• PowerShell Podcasts (Rhonda Tipton)
• Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts From the Best Colleges in the World (OEDb)
• BuildCop v1.0 Release (CodePlex)

Visual Studio

• Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2008 Professional (Dan Miser)
• CodeIt.Right v1.0 Released! (Serge Baranovsky)

 

Other Link Blogs

• New and Notable 223 (Sam Gentile)
• 10 Links Today (2008-02-05) (Matt Hinze)
• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/5/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• links for 2008-02-06 (Sam Buchanan)
• The Morning Brew #26 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Feb 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, WPF (Scott Guthrie)

 

Book of the Day

 

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Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing just blogged about a 2006 book – The Case Against Homework. It looks like a very interesting read. These types of books can sometimes be a bit one-sided, so it’s good to keep that in mind while reading them. Co-author Sara Bennett also has an anti-homework website.

We are currently looking at a couple of pre-schools for our three-year-old daughter, so education issues are becoming more relevant to us. We live in a fairly good public school district, but are still considering other options such as homeschooling and/or private schools. Public schools seem to be more and more focused on standardized tests. It’s certainly clear that no matter what type of schooling your children get, it’s imperative that the parents are aware of how and what their children are being taught.

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