Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Happy MLK Day to all!

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# vs C# vs Java: Functional Collection Parameters (Mark Needham)
• Conditional Object Construction in StructureMap (i.e. Fun with Lambdas) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Mono vs. .NET Framework: Public API Compatibility (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• Dynamic Data – Cascading FieldTemplates (Stephen Naughton)
• Building WCF Services with F#, Part 1 (Ted Neward)
• Assembly Loading Across AppDomains (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership 101: Communicate Bad News and Big Changes in Person (Jim Holmes)
• Rhino Service Bus: Concurrency in a Distributed World (Oren Eini)
• Unit Testing File I/O Operations (Jeremy Jarrell)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Fun with ItemsControl (Shawn Wildermuth)
• WPF Basics: Loading Large Datasets (Rudi Grobler)

 

Web Development

• Routing and Rewriting (K. Scott Allen)
• Some ASP.NET GridView UI Tips and Tricks Using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP Dynamic Data Preview – More Ways to Exploit ADO.NET Data Services for Fun and Profit (Scott Hanselman)
• Deciding When to Use ASP.NET MVC Framework (Gil Fink)
• Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Playing Accordion with CSS and jQuery (Schalk Neethling)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Getting Ready for MIX09 (Brad Abrams)
• MSDN Developer Conference and IASA This Week (Bob Familiar)

 

Database

• The Data Dictionary and Calculations, Part 1 (Ken Downs)

 

Miscellaneous

• Offshoring Development Finally Makes Sense to Me (JP Hamilton)
• Frustrated with Coworkers? The Clue You Don’t Want to Hear… (Max Pool)
• Engineering the Windows 7 "Windows Experience Index" (Michael Fortin)
• A Visit with Alan Kay (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 18, 2009 — #490 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 77 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #36 (Grant Palin)
• Triple Shot Links #16 (Russell Ball)
• The Morning Brew #267 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Web Development

• jQuery, JSON, and ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 4 and Part 4a and Part 4b (Julian M. Bucknall)
• DomainDataSource Server Control: LINQ + Code Generation (Nikhil Kothari)
• SYTYAWD #4 Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Abstracting Request State (Davy Brion)
• Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Yield Statement in C# (Michael Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using LINQ with Unfriendly Collections (Simon Sabin)
• January CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Steve Marx)
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta (David L.)
• How to Convert PDF to Image Using Ghostscript API (Lord TaGoH)
• Hard Lessons Learned from ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Deep Fried F# (Chris Smith)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring Our Application (Eric Gunnerson)
• C#, Lambdas, Closures, Value Types (Mike Taulty)
• Named Format Strings (James Hart)
• First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I Love It!!! (Peter Kellner)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Popup Menu (Philip Kin)
• Updated SLS Plugin for Encoder Available (Tim Heuer)
• CodePlex, Now with Silverlight (John Stockton)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #82 – How to Implement Double Click (Mike Snow)
• Command Helper Classes for Silverlight & WPF (Nick Kramer)
• Perenthia, a Silverlight-Based RPG in Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Prism V2 – Drop 9 Now Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Friday Books – Silverlight 2 in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• Tutorial #11: Creating a Navigation in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller)
• Named Formats Pex Testimonium (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Getting Results From Software Development Teams (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Big Redesign in the Sky (Uncle Bob Martin)
• 12 Useful Web Tools for Designers (Jacob Gube)
• The Danger of Commenting Out Code and YAGNI: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)
• DDD: The Generic Repository (Greg Young)
• Future-Proofing a Design (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Test Case Reuse (in the Future) (James Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 146 – Test Driven Development Is Design – The Last Word on TDD (Scott Hanselman)
• The Aggressive Class vs The Laid Back Class (Chris Missal)
• Eric Evans on Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Code Refactoring – Freaking Awesome (Mike Bernat)

SharePoint

• SPSiteBuilder 3.0 Re-released with Source (Keith Richie)
• Five Steps to More Successful SharePoint Solutions (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• Using Fluent NHibernate to Map Composite Keys for a Table (Derik Whittaker)
• How to Implement a TypeOf Operator in SQL by Using sql_variant_property (Denis Gobo)

.NET Community / Events

• TCSWeekly, A New Client-Focused Show on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• A New Side Project – Geeks Without Borders (James Johnson)
• Follow Up: Developer Dinner on Silverlight Business Applications (Marc Schweigert)
• MSDN Developer Conference – WOW! (G. Andrew Duthie) – It was a really great event. My full wrap-up post is coming soon!
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #83 – Go to MIX09 (Mike Snow)

PowerShell

• How to Make Your Own Module Repository and Using PowerShell to Protect Against Conficker (Enabling and Disabling AutoRun.inf) (James Brundage)
• Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7 (Lilia Gutnik)
• XML Part 1: Playing wit RSS Feeds and XML Content (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Search Twitter with Windows 7′s Federated Search (Lee Matthews)
• User Account Control (UAC) – Quick Update (Windows Team)
• Video Demonstration: The Best New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Adam Pash)
• My 2009 Top 10 Technology Hit List (Russell Ball)
• What I Use (January 2009 Update) (Paul Thurrott)
• Planet of the Apes Font (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Hire the Best: Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Top 10 Things to Learn – 2009 Edition (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Live Mesh Team Joins Windows/Windows Live Org (Kip Kniskern)
• Google Chrome Installation and Updates (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 16, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #117 (Tim Boland)
• CloudNews for January 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Visual Studio Links #100 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (1/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2009 — #487 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 — #488 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 – 2 — #489 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – January 15, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #266 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight News for January 16, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.15 ~ 01.17 (yuanjian)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 7 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

 

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