Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

It’s must-see web TV this week when Arnold and Dudley have to fend off Gordon Jump’s advances… wait… that was a diff’rent show…

Watch Dan Fernandez & company talk about Revolution 9, and the future of Channel 9 (as well as Channel 8, Channel 10, Coding4Fun and MIXOnline).

Good luck guys!

Alvin

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Posting the video from Viddler for those who did not get to attend this live webcast.

From the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group:

Who is and what makes this Billy McCafferty guy tick? Well he is a long time developer and a hopeless romantic when it comes to writing beautiful software. Billy currently leads a double life between helping to run a small training and consulting company known as Codai (which will be getting a new website very very soon) and filling the role of lead developer and architect with Parsons Brinckerhoff. After Billy gets his life back – which should be after the release of S#arp Architecture 1.0 – expect to see him soon at ALT.NET and other development conferences.

In this video from the April 22nd Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) meeting, Billy demonstrates the latest cut of S#harp Architecture 1.0 with a 45-50 minute non-PPT presentation.

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• Poll Results: Threading, Mock Frameworks and Unit Test Frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• Presumed Hostile – Your Application Is Out to Get You (Michael Janke)
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• Using an ORM? Think Objects! (K. Scott Allen)
• The Blame Game: How Necessary Is Traceability? (Max Pool)
• Understanding Dependency Injection (Mohammad Azam)
• Using Flip Video’s Mino for Programming (Mike Riley)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting Them to Play Nice (Part 3) (Tom Hollander)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
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• Doing Nothing in .NET (Chris Love)
• IsNull Extension Method (Steven Smith)
• LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators (Charlie Calvert)
• ASP.NET Client Side State Management – Hidden Fields (Gil Fink)

 

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Silverlight Map (Frank La Vigne)
• Philly.NET – An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight – July 16th (Community Megaphone)
• Philly ALT.NET Meeting – Building Maintainable Applications with WPF – July 17th (Community Megaphone)
• Learning NHibernate? Join the Email List with 600 Other Users (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

SharePoint

• FarPoint Has Released Their Spread Control for SharePoint (Bob Mixon)
• GetActiveFeatureDefinitions – A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)
• SharePoint Toolbox – Release: Project Site v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE Columns – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 13, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight News for July 14, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for July 13, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 50 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #9 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #135 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #51 (Darren Stokes)

 

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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)

 

Book of the Day

 

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Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Prism and Caliburn’s Future (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Encoder SDK Now Available (Pete Brown)
• Popup Control and Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF (Jesse Liberty)
• Browser Resize – How to Capture the Size of Your Browser When It Is Resized and Dynamically Loading and Display Images in Beta 2 and What’s New with Silverlight Tools Beta 2 (Mike Snow)
• What’s Changed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? and Upgrading Your Silverlight 2 Projects to Beta 2 and Using ADO.NET Data Services in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Sites and Debugging ADO.NET Data Services… with Fiddler 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available Plus Refreshed Screencasts (Mike Taulty)
• WPF GlassEffect for Non-Vista OS (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released, Now MSN Toolbar Works (Kip Kniskern)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Dude Extensibility – How IBM Integrated DB2 Into Visual Studio and Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost (David Starr)
• Using the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools v1.0.0.0 (Andrew Whitechapel)
• LINQ DataContext Logging with the Logging Application Block (Ade Miller)
• Functional C# Revisited – Into the Great Void (Matthew Podwysocki)
• VSX Developer Center Update – June 2008 (VSX Team)
• uCertify M70-533: Upgrade MCSD.NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Developer Using C# Exam Preparation Kit (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
• Give Way to the yield Keyword (Shay Friedman)
• Higher Order Function Demo (Justin Etheredge)

 

Web Development

• MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform (Nick Berardi)
• 5 Developer Add-Ons for Firefox 3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• How to Create a Package for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Design / Methodology

• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N (Sam Gentile)
• Creating a Culture of Quality (John Teague)

 

SharePoint

• Multiple RSS Aggregator Web Part Example (Zlatan Dzinic)
• SharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.1 (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Miscellaneous

• Opera 9.5 Web Browser Gets a New Look (Brad Linder)
• 10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy (Celine Roque)
• How to Be Jeff Atwood (Leon Bambrick)
• Microsoft Videos – Official News, Demos, How-To’s and More (Chris)
• Run Xbox Media Center From a USB Drive (Kevin Purdy)
• Xbox Jobs: Developers in Test (Josh Poley)
• Cube Desktop (Mike Taulty)
• The Greatest Invention in Computer Science (Jeff Atwood)

 

Events / Community

• Followup to Testing with Mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
• TechEd 2008 Notes: The Gentle Art of Pair Programming (Joe White)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – June 5, 2008 and Link Listing – June 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 6, 2008 #2 (Emil Stoychev)
• Everyman Links for June 5, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Links Today (2008-06-06) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #76 (Tim Boland)
• Cool Links for Programmers (Shahar Abramovich)
• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2008 — #292 (Dave Campbell)

 

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