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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee (J.D. Meier)
• Brownfield Application Development in .NET: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• The Problem with Big Design Up Front is the "Big" not the "Up Front" and Designing the Work (Scott Bellware)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• UX Thoughts – Learning Phase Tools II (András Velvárt)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources (Gunnar Peipman)
• DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is here! (Habib Heydarian)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons Part 7: Refactoring, Deployment And Wrap-Up (Ryan Svihla)
• Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF) (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls and Day #5: Silverlight Drag and Drop (Jeff Blankenburg)
• “XNAVATARS” – PART 2 – NO SHADOWS? (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Porting DinnerNow.NET to Azure (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

• Revive your User Group, part II (Joe White)
• Experimenting with PowerShell (Jose Barreto)
• 5 Things You Can Do With Aviary Screen Capture (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2009 — #628 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.01 ~ 07.05 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 100 (Rhonda Tipton)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Should We Return Null From Our Methods? (Lee Dumond)
• Stop Using Structs Everywhere (Chris Eargle)
• High Test Coverage Ratio is a good thing, Anyway! (Patrick Smacchia)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Test Category Filters (Rob Reynolds)
• The Fallacy Of ReUse (Udi Dahan)
• Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon (Roy Osherove)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 1) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• What Do You Value? and Productivity in the Cloud… (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Releases Sensor & Location Platform Development Kit for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• LINQ in Action samples available in LINQPad (Fabrice Marguerie)
• Connection Pooling: Implemention (Oren Eini)
• VS2010 help for the WPFer (Rudi Grobler)
• Parallel Stacks – Method View (Daniel Moth)
• Getting and compiling T4 Toolbox source code (Oleg Sych)
• Operation could destabilize the runtime – Reflection.Emit and common pitfalls (Mehfuz Hossain)
• F#: Explicit interface implementation (Mark Needham)
• Generic Value Object (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• How to Bridge the Client-Server Gap using AJAX and jQuery-Part 1 (Jonathan Chaffer & Karl Swedberg)
• Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• Book review: jQuery in Action (Peter Eysermans)
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and VS 2010 plan now public (Jeffrey Palermo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Project Natal, Qex for SQL, and Bing for Devs (Dan Fernandez) – Link of the Day
• 10-4 Episode 22: Simplifying Data-Driven Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)

Community / Events

• 20 Developers to Follow on Twitter (Ben Parr)
• MSDN Roadshow Slide Decks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bridging the gap between communities – ColdFusion and SOTR (Sebastien Lambla)

Database

• T-SQL MERGE: My New Friend (Charles Chen)
• Thinking outside the box – impressive (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQLAuthority News – Using SQL Server 2008 Extended Events – White paper By Jonathan Kehayias (Pinal Dave)
• Favorite SSMS Options – and some gotchas (Kimberly L. Tripp)

SharePoint

• WCF and SharePoint: context != context (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

• WINDOWS 7 FAQ: Top Answers to First Time User’s Questions and Free Ringtones for Your Mobile Phone "Hidden" Within Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Outliers (Dave Burke)
• Twitter finally verifies verified accounts rumor (Jay Hathaway)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2009 and LINKBLOG for June 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #56 (Grant Palin)
• June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Discoveries This Week 06/07/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Web Development

• Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project (Philippe Leybaert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof & Teaching NHibernate and NHibernate Queries – Should I use HQL or Criteria? (Oren Eini)
• .Net Service Bus: How to make training kit examples authenticate without problems (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sorting Filters in Dynamic Data (DD v1.0) (Stephen Naughton)
• The Future of GhostDoc (Roland Weigelt) – Link of the Day
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 1 (Jason Meridth)
• SharpCouch: Use anonymous type to create JSON objects and CouchDB/Futon: ‘_all_dbs’ call returns databases with leading ‘c/’ (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works (Silverlight Team)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 1 (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Architecture Different Based on Where You Live? and Do Architecture Principles Matter? (Mike Walker)
• Internal DSLs, method chaining and discoverability (Sebastien Lambla)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Browser 1 Released! (Tom Hearn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebCast on SOA in the E-VAN (Udi Dahan)
• Major Nelson Show #321: Zune HD, CellFactor and Steve Wiebe (Larry Hryb)
• Road Thoughts – History (Corey Haines)

Community / Events

• A eulogy: DevelopMentor, RIP (Ted Neward)
• IE8/Win7 MSDN Roadshow Coming to Reston & Richmond This Week and June is Silverlight Month in DC (Frank La Vigne)
• Pictures from Tech Ed 2009 and Party with Palermo posted and Austin Code Camp was a hit! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Join the Bing community (Kip Kniskern)

Database

• null IS NOT NULL (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – List All Objects Created on All Filegroups in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Whats the most important thing when performance tuning? (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• Gametrak Freedom Xbox 360 motion controller up for pre-order with Squeeballs (Darren Murph)
• Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Leave in IT (Dave Schinkel)
• Top 25 Hitler Rants (Jurgen Appelo)
• Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit (Michael Arrington)
• Daily news blogs about .NET and related creatures (Roy Osherove)
• Bosom Buddies: How to make Google Chrome use Microsoft Bing for Search (Scott Hanselman)
• Just Bing It! – Start Bing’ing the Internet! (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #358 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #82 – “Finally on Sunday” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #55 (Grant Palin)
• Easy links to remember for asking sharepoint questions (Ishai Sagi)
• Weekly Link Post 96 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (5/31/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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