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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review of Scaling Lean & Agile Development (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring Exercise (Brett Schuchert)
• What I expect my Continuous Integration server to do for me. (Derik Whittaker) – Link of the Day
• What are you solving for? (Joe Ocampo)
• Why do we extract method? (Mark Needham)
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) (Mike Walker)
• Component-Driven Development and IoC Containers and Developing Component-Driven Applications powered by IoC Containers (Rinat Abdullin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!! (Peter Kellner)
• Retrying Operations (Tony Rasa)
• From LINQ to XPath and Back Again (K. Scott Allen)
• DSL Tools Model Bus Sample (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• Forms Auth\Windows Auth – what is more common? (Brad Abrams)
• Twitter From ASP.NET – Friends vs Followers (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Tools vs jQuery UI (Marc Grabanski)
• More group slicing in XSLT (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
• TUTORIAL: Creating an IE8 Accelator (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The .NET Newbie’s Guide to Customizing the DataGridView Control (Susan Sales Harkins)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Getting Your House in Order – Overview (Howard Dierking) – Be sure to check out Howard’s entire “Extreme ASP.NET Makeover” series on Channel 9.
• MSDN Webcast: XNA Game Studio 3.0 (Lindsay Rutter)
• Scott Hanselman – NerdDinner.com (Robert Hess)
• The History of Microsoft – 1992 (Tina)

Database

• SQL Server Summaries with ROLLUP and CUBE (Richard Carr)
• Removing replication and handling tables with identity seeds (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Boxee Alpha media center for Windows to go public on June 23 (Brad Linder)
• D&D-style map of C++ (Cory Doctorow)
• How to view stats for the entire lifetime of a CodePlex project – #043 (Sara Ford)
• How to Remove the .NET ClickOnce Firefox Extension (Scott Hanselman)
• SQLAuthority News – Rambling of Author and Technology Musing – Bing, Google, Windows 7, Books, Blogs, Twitter and Life (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #362 (Chris Alcock)
• List of Microsoft training kits (Gunnar Peipman)
• Random stuff surrounding Silverlight for June 4, 2009 and Silverlight Cream for June 04, 2009 — #608 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (6/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for June 4, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 326 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 4th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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Thanks to everyone who came out to Philly.NET’s Code Camp last Saturday! I had a great time meeting many of the attendees and other speakers. I think I’ve learned some good lessons from my first public .NET speaking engagement and hope to refine and improve my talk and give it again soon.

I presented ‘ASP.NET MVC Development with S#arp Architecture’ on Rachel Appel’s ASP.NET track. If you are interested in checking out the slides or my sample code, you can get them here:

• Slide Deck
• Sample Code

There is a great list of useful links at the end of the slideshow. Make sure to check them all out if you are working with ASP.NET MVC.

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Complexity Pig (Ade Miller)
• Scrum-It’s not about completing the sprint (Anne Epstein)
• Done, Done, Done: The Cult of Done Manifesto (Bobby Johnson)
• Book Review: Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Jason Haley)
• The flow of team software design (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Always Assume That You’re The Problem (Justin Etheredge)
• First steps with Lightweight Test Automation Framework (Steve Sanderson)
• Updated Release Burndown Spreadsheet Template (Steve Donie)
• Stumbling Through Mediocrity (James Shore)

Web Development

• MVC Beta to RTW upgrade issue – AddModelError and NullReferenceExceptions (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC: Implement Theme Folders using a Custom ViewEngine (Chris Pietschmann)
• Friday Books – jQuery UI 1.6: and ASP.NET MVC – Routing (Dave M. Bush)
• Beginner’s Guide To Ruby On Rails: Part 2 (Jan Varwig)
• MvcContrib v1.0 Released! Download now (Jeffrey Palermo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lazy loading w/ NHibernate and Remoting do not play well (Derik Whittaker)
• Cascading Filters – for Dynamic Data v1.0 (Steve)
• Build a Simple Gmail Notifier Using Windows Forms (Shoban Kumar)

Silverlight / WPF

• Kaxaml – The best lightweight XAML editor (Taimur Asad)
• WPF in F# (Charles Petzold)
• Implementing SelectedValue with the Silverlight ComboBox (Mike Hillberg)
• .NET RIA Services Resources (for March 2009 Preview) (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• The Weekly Source Code 39 – Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3 (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 – Use Integers for Layout Calculations (Mike Snow)

Postcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #173: A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown (Scott Hanselman)
• Colaab, review and collaborate in Silverlight and WPFFX running in the Silverlight 3 Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Agile Toolkit: Tips and Advice – Time Boxes (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #96: Creating SOLID Code: Dependency Inversion Principle (Derik Whittaker)
• MIX09 Keynote and Session Videos (Mike Swanson)
• The History of Microsoft – 1982 (Tina)
• Dave Hoover on Software Craftsmanship (Mike Moore)
• Intro to CSLA .NET video by Andrew Hallmark (Rockford Lhotka)

Community / Events

• The Future of Software Conferences is … Software (Dino Esposito)
• Did anyone have a new SharePoint Codeplex release between 24th Feb and March 9th? (Mike Walsh)
• Saturday’s New England Code Camp (Number Eleven!) Carpooling from VT? (Julie Lerman)
• Stir Trek (no, that’s not a typo) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Wednesday, April 1st, 6:30pm – Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service (Christopher Steen)
• Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 – April 18, 2009 – Registration Is Now Open! (Bill Wolff) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

• Tied Variables in PowerShell (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

SQL Server

• Disable SQL Agent Jobs with TSQL based on events (Ted Krueger)
• Answers To The SQL Server Quiz: Can You Answer All These Post (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Release Candidate Coming to Public May 2009 (Adam Pash)
• My Own Aroma (Peter Seale)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Made to Stick (Dave Burke)
• Updating the Windows 7 release schedule and Is IE8 really fat and slow? (Ed Bott)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Four: Boustrophedonic (Eric Lippert)
• Technet slips Windows 7 RC info (Steven Bink)
• You can rename the URL for your CodePlex project? – #003 (Sara Ford)
• Vuze Integrates with Xbox 360 and An Even Easier Way to Change your Windows 7 Login Screen (Sarah Perez)
• Facebook is lucky it missed buying Twitter and now should eat Yelp (Robert Scoble)
• Google Docs adds vector-based diagramming with new drawing tool (Lee Mathews)
• Windows 7 Might Block Third-Party Video Codecs (Matt Buchanan)
• Microsoft DreamSpark now available for High Schools! (Michael Cummings)
• How to quickly get started with Git/GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)
• Don’t Like It? Code It Yourself! (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #316 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2009 — #553 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #120 (Tim Boland)
• Links (3/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for March 26th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery: Dan Wellman: Books ISBN: 1847195121 ISBN-13: 9781847195128

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Very slick, but is it just me? (Andrew Connell)
• The M Programming Language – Part 2 – Collections and Extents (Bart de Smet)
• References are not addresses (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Easy embed workflow in your application (Juliën Hanssens)
• Implement LINQ to Objects in C# 2.0 (Jérémie)
• Modeling an Application in Oslo Part III: Transforming MGraph to TSQL (Stephen Forte)

Silverlight / WPF

• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight – February 2009 (MS Downloads)
• Prism v2 now supports WPF and Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Porting WPF Applications to the Microsoft Surface (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF Line-Of-Business labs and Silverlight vs. Flash (Tamir Khason)
• NEWS: Prism 2.0 is Live (Joel Reyes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A response to Validation in a DDD world (Billy McCafferty)
• DDD: Services (Casey Charlton)
• Adapting to the situation (Larry Clarkin)
• Great User Interfaces, Clarity, and Information in Parallel (Mark Miller)

Web Development

• Installing the ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant on Windows Vista (ranganh)
• Subtext 2.1 – A great .NET Open Source Blogging Platform (Dave Schinkel)
• jQuery UI – Resizable w/ ASP.NET Themes (Dave M. Bush)
• Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 1 (Javier G. Lozano)
• Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• Calling JavaScript from ASP.NET Master Page and Content Pages – Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Polymorphism with JavaScript (John Teague)
• IronRuby ASP.NET MVC With Filters (Phil Haack)
• JetBrains RubyMine provides navigation and refactoring for Javascript (Jeffrey Palermo)
• IIS7 Load Balancing & Routing Module Now Available! (Omar Khan)

Community / Events

• Slide Decks from the Harrisburg, PA MSDN Freedom Roadshow (David Solivan)
• Pex Europe Tour March’09 (Jonathan de Halleux)
• TechEd North America 2009 (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – February 17th, 2009 and Community Megaphone and UGSS (G. Andrew Duthie)

PowerShell

• Scriptable SSH from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

SQL Server

• SQL Server Distance Calculation Option 3 – Using the CLR (Alex Ullrich)

Miscellaneous

• Does Microsoft already have a Windows 7 release candidate? (Lee Mathews)
• Nerds Show Us How to Count Binary on Our Fingers (John Baichtal)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: The New Influencers (Dave Burke)
• Change Your Windows 7 Media Center Background (Sarah Perez)
• Windows Fader 2 released (David Vidmar)
• Books I Think Everyone Should Read (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: February 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2009 — #520 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #16 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #289 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for February 17th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• In Search of Wild Repository (Mike Hadlow)
• Unit Testing in VB.NET – with TypeMock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or Is It? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Improving Our Industry: It’s Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward (Derick Bailey)
• TDD Using Dependency Injection – Step 1. Refactoring (Andrew Woodward)
• Pex – Automated Whiteboard Testing for .NET (v0.9.40105.0) (MS Research)
• SOA Is Dead? It’s About Time! (Kurt Cagle)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)
• Agile in 6 Words (Brian Button)
• Leadership 101: Calm in a Storm (Jim Holmes)
• Bad Apple Behaviors (David Starr)
• The Story of the Lazy-Loading Lunchbox (Dylan Beattie) – Co-Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Would the CLR Be Different? (Matthew Podwysocki) – Co-Link of the Day
• Microsoft "Oslo" MGraph – the Next XML? (Lars Corneliussen)
• Fluent NHibernate: Mapping Private and Protected Entities (James Gregory)
• Installing Team Explorer 2008 on Windows 7 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• NHibernate + XML Columns (Joey Beninghove)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation Framework – xVal – jQuery Validation Support (David Hayden)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Managing Static Files & Browser Caching (Joel Ross)
• jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation (John Resig)
• SSL Certificates and WWW. Prefix on Domain Names (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Resizable WYMEditor with jQuery UI Resizable (Marc Grabanski)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #81 – How to Scale Your Silverlight Control (Mike Snow)

.NET Community / Events

• Are YOU Going to the Microsoft Developer Conference? (James Bender)
• Presenting Keynote at MDC in Washington, DC (Stephen Walther) – I’ll be there. DM me on Twitter to track me down.
• Top 20+ jQuery Tweeple to Follow (Elijah Manor)
• Developer Faceoff: Sergio Pereira vs. Angelo Anolin (Max Pool)
• Where in the World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From? (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code Episode 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon, Jon Galloway)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Joe Duffy on ‘Concurrent Programming on Windows’ (Me) – Q&A with Joe and a free chapter excerpt download from his book!

PowerShell

• DateTime Casts Are Language Primitives (Lee Holmes)
• Switching Website Root with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)

Database

• Transact SQL e-Learning Collection Now Available (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Free Themes, Gadgets, Wallpaper for Windows 7 Beta (Lee Matthews)
• Office 14 Revealed: Part 2 – Security and Part 3 – A More Far-Reaching Fluent UI and Part 4 – Improving Desktop TCO (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft (Finally) Updates Live Mesh for Windows 7 Compatibility and Windows 7 Beta Users: Run, Don’t Walk, to Download the MP3 Patch (Paul Thurrott)
• My Favorite Feature in Windows 7 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Select Testers Get Office 14 Alpha Release (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Telecommute (as If You’re Right in the Office) (Joel Durham Jr.)
• DSLs: Ready for Prime-Time? (Ted Neward)
• Exchange 14 Video (KC Lemson)
• Refcardz — Free Cheat Sheets for Developers (DotNetShoutout)

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 13 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 — #484 and Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 – 2 — #485 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.13~2009.01.14 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #264 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 14, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 13, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

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