Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 5. The Startable Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• The Value Driven Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• I Am Not CodeMash (Jim Holmes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learning to LINQ, provider that is – Writing a LINQ To Wikipedia provider walkthrough (Greg Duncan)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
• InjectionFactory and Automatic Factories in Unity 2 – Tutorials and Examples (David Hayden)
• Search for the currently-selected string without bringing up the Find window (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• Accessing a Web Service Using Sys.Net.Webrequest (Anup Hosur)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pair Programming continued (Mark Nijhof)
• Programmer Tip: Have The Spine To Question Authority (And Your Manager). (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 3 of X – Repository implementation and Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 4 of X – DomainService, using DTO and Unity (Fredrik Normen)
• Persistable View Models & XAML for Config (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 139: Big Trouble In Little Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Clint Rutkas, Photoshop results, MVC 2 resources galore (Dan Fernandez)

 

Community / Events

• On self-promotion, lies, and being a woman (Rachel Andrew)
• What three events brought you here? (Paul S. Randal)
• Interview with Silverlightshow.net and a sneak preview of my next articles (András Velvárt)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Get Server Version and Additional Info (Pinal Dave)
• Scripting Indexes (Patrick LeBlanc)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Live Meeting Console & Outlook Conference Add-In for Office 2010 and Microsoft Releases "System State Analyzer Tool" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• New, Improved Comments with @reply (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Post… 1/11/2010 through 1/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

 

 

Tweet This Post

 

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• Ten things thou shalt not tweet (Xeni Jardin)
• UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil (Michael Feathers)
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: v1.8.0.3 (CodePlex)
• Extending NHibernate data with one-to-optional relationships (Louis DeJardin)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Bytes (Sean Timm)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –1) (Mehfuz Hussain)

 

Web Development

• Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure? (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Business Applications Could (Or Should) Look Like (Davy Brion)
• Handling Concurrency: It’s a Matter of Trust (Dan Simmons)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 2: Making scenarios easier to read with tables (Gojko Adzic)
• Unity/Moq – AutoMocker or AutoMockingContainer (Jason Jarrett)
• Test Soon Development: a case study (Ward Bell)
• Programmer Tip: Do Not Waste Your Professional Trump Card On Funny Things. (Rajiv Popat)
• Balsamiq Roadmap for 2010 (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 4 – Make Commanding use lesser code (Fredrik Normén)
• Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading (Glenn Block)
• Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Dynamic Data Services in a WPF Application (Brady Kelly)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• F# Parallel Programming Video (Talbott Crowell)
• ARCast.TV – Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator (Bob Familiar)

 

Community / Events

• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2009 in Retrospective: Mike Cottmeyer Edition (Mike Cottmeyer)
• PowerShell, Virtually (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL Server WHILE Loops (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Unique Nonclustered Index Creation with IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? (Thom Holwerda)
• Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7 (Imran Hussain)
• New, Lower Careers Pricing (Jeff Atwood)
• Why Windows Media Center is dead (Daniel Cazzulino)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 9 Posts from 2009 (Bart de Smet)
• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #509 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #104 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #86 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Links (1/3/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 126 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Best of Sources of Insight 2009 (JD Meier)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

 

 

Tweet This Post

 

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• Introducing MarkdownSharp (Jeff Atwood) – Jeff & Co. open up the server-side implementation of their Markdown language.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – Sequences under construction (Bart de Smet)

 

Web Development

• Change Image Opacity on MouseOver using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Tenet #6– Face-to-face Communication (Julie Stickler)
• Programmer Tip: The Best Of The Projects In Your Life Never End. (Rajiv Popat)
• Introducing Siege.ServiceLocation.Extensions: FactoryMethod Support, Dependency Resolution based on type injected into added (Marcus Bratton)

Community / Events

• 12/27/2009 – Speaking at NJ SQL Server User Group on 1/19/2010 (Kevin Goff)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Temp Table and Table Variable – Effect of Transaction (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Year End Review – SharePoint in 2009 (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• DZone Daily Dose – 12/28 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• PowerPivot Demo Part II (Stephen Forte)
• Get me all groups I manage (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell tip.
• Free tool makes managing your Windows 7 library settings easier (Lee Mathews)
• Two (More) Free Utilities for Microsoft’s Windows 7! (Blake Handler)
• PowerShell: Determine your function’s position in the pipeline (Joel Bennett)

 

More Link Collections

• Everyman Links for December 27, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #103 (David Vidmar)
• Links (12/27/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/28/2009 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 125 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

The Geek Shelf

Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell TFM

 

 

Tweet This Post

 

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

No time for descriptions in Top Links today. Sorry!

 

Top Links

• Use the right tool for the job (Eric Lippert)
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit (Scott Guthrie)
• RssResult – An ASP.NET MVC RSS ActionResult (William Duffy)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Zoom Zoom! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Pixel8 Podcast – Silverlight4 with Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty (Craig Shoemaker)
• MVVM Study Part 5: Convention over Configuration (Rob Eisenberg)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Database Design (Ted Krueger)
• What 25 Holiday Classics Teach Us About Life and Fun (JD Meier)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Office 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path is denied (Dave Schinkel)
• C# QuickSort using Continuation Passing Style (As requested by a comment) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• “Everything You Need to Know About Azure as a Developer” 18 part course on msdev.com updated to include four new Windows Azure AppFabric sessions (Greg Duncan)
• Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping (Jarod Ferguson)
• Going Hybrid – Implementing a Shopping Cart in F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman (Peter Kellner)
• Building setup and deployment packages in VS 2010 (Somasegar)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard Walk Through (Stephen Forte)
• Customizing Visual Studio 2010 (Suzanne Hansen)

 

Web Development

• Google Releases Fusion Tables API for Visualizing and Sharing Data (Andres Ferrate)
• Using WCF RIA Services without Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010 for building 3 tier ASP.NET Applications (Harish Ranganathan)
• 3rd Public Drop Available for Web Client Guidance (Blaine Wastell)
• How the IIS SEO Toolkit Saved My Butt (Phil Haack)
• The New Google App Engine Blobstore API – First Thoughts (Eran Kampf)
• Quick and dirty way to auto-copy ASP.NET WebSite using MSBuild (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Back up your Site/Blog by Crawling it with HTTrack (Pete Brown)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ralph Waldo Emerson Would’ve Been a Great Developer (Tim Barcz)
• Adopting or Adapting Agile (Julie Stickler)
• I’m Not In It For The Money and The Padawan That Couldn’t (Davy Brion)
• Sometimes it is the ‘little’ things in life that make one happy (Derik Whittaker)
• Coding: The little details all add to our understanding and TDD: Only Mock Types You Own (Mark Needham)
• Towards FsUnit 1.0 (Ray Vernagus)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 12 Days of RIA – Day 6 – Pagination (John Pelak)
• Build your own databinding inspector in Silverlight Spy (Koen Zwikstra)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9 features Silverlight AR, BugCamSmash and Blend Extensibility (Adam Kinney)
• New Tech Talks Posted (Ian Fette)
• endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric in action monitoring and troubleshooting (Ron Jacobs)
• Pete at PDC09: Rick Barraza and Mike Wolf – Star Trek Experience (Pete Brown)
• Ping 41: Top stories of 2009, bing, windows 7, laptop hunters, azure (Laura Foy)
• Rx API in depth: Hot and Cold observables (Jeffrey van Gogh)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing Discount, Keynote, and Speakers for SharePoint 2010 @ The Experts Conference 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Two new BDD workshops available (Gojko Adzic)
• IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 3.5: Embedding IronRuby (Jimmy Schementi)

 

Database

• Perform a Striped Backup (Bru Medishetty)
• Wizards are evil – wait, no they aren’t! (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Difference TempTable and Table Variable – TempTable in Memory a Myth (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• We did it! LightSpeed 3.0 is done! (JD Trask)
• How to set Replication Directory Changes (SharePoint Team)
• SharePoint 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows PowerShell Help for SharePoint Server 2010 and Windows PowerShell Help for Office Web Apps and Windows PowerShell Help for Project Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• fb.me: Facebook Now Has Its Own URL Shortener and Goo.gl: Google Launches a URL Shortener, Too (Ben Parr)
• Zoho Reports Moves Out of Beta, Pricing Plans Announced (Clarence Rozario)
• PowerGUI Survey (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• A Feed You Should Read #15 – LiveSide.net (Greg Duncan)
• The PowerShell of the Future (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Microsoft should take Zune to the cloud, offer music for any device (Joe Wilcox)
• Stack Overflow Rack Glamour Shots (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 12/14/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #498 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for December 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/14/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Windows Azure – Great Resources (Gunther Lenz)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Article Index (Peter Blum)

 

The Geek Shelf

 

 

Tweet This Post

 

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

•  use Less to reduce CSS clutter! (Coding4Fun) – Info on .Less, a .NET port of a Ruby Gem.
• Mary Poppendieck on “The Tyranny of The Plan” (Christophe Louvion) – A video from the 2009 UK Lean Conference
• ASP.beer Seattle (Javier G. Lozano) – A meetup during the MVP Summit in February. I’ll be there!
• So Long Tehran and Thanks for All the Fish (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Keyvan has made his way to the U.S. to continue his studies. Join me in welcoming him!
• Confessions of a First Time Manager (Tim Barcz) – Some lessons learned from Tim.
• Creating Team Trust (Johanna Rothman) – Some team leadership tips from Johanna on Roy Osherove’s “Five Whys” blog.
• ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight – Options for Hooking a View to its Model (Nikhil Kothari) – Nikhil looks at some MVVM options with Silverlight.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Passing JavaScript Objects to the CLR World (Mohammad Azam)
• Two reasons that Assembla is the best way to deliver or get code (Andy Singleton)
• Garbage Collection in .NET – How it really works (Techie Mate)
• Compiling F# code for the XBox 360 (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131515) (Brad Abrams)
• Remote Command Service for Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Agatha Feature Suggestion: Caching and Agatha’s Caching Layer Implementation: First Draft and Using NHibernate In Your Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Killer Feature for VNext – Language Embedded DSL (Kathleen Dollard)
• Programmatically Increase, Decrease and Mute the Volume (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Web Development

• Code for My Blog is On Github (Rob Conery)
• Using Fiddler to Capture RIA Services (Andy Beaulieu)
• Roll your own AJAX Extender for JQuery Calendar (Brendan Kowitz)
• ASP.NET: Gradients and ASP.NET: Buttons (Deborah Kurata)
• Enabling IoC in ASP.NET ActionResults (or, a better ActionResult) (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC ControllerFactory for Unity and the reasoning behind it (Simone Chiaretta)
• Generating Dynamic HTML Tables with jQuery From an In-Memory DataTable (Michael Ceranski)
• A free standing ASP.NET Pager Web Control (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is Not Scrum, Part 2 (David Starr)
• 5 Simple Steps to Execute Unit Testing Using NUnit (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Name that refactoring: 1 and Name that refactoring: 2 (Brett Schuchert)
• NDepend And Lack Of Cohesion Of Methods… Not to be trusted (Davy Brion)
• Keeping Close to Users – Everyone Should be Tech Support for Someone (Julie Stickler)
• The Art of Subliminal Productivity (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Understanding Perceived Performance and More on Perceived Performance (Howard Dierking)
• TDD: Only mock types you own (Mark Needham)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Mike Hadlow)
• Entity Framework Profiler is now in public beta and ÜberProf new feature: Programmatic Integration (Oren Eini)
• Picking Between Your Official Designation And Your Secret Titles. and Programmer Tip: Look Out For The Best Alpha Geeks And Learn From Them. (Rajiv Popat)
• Four Kinds of Trust (4): Trust Yourself! (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 3 – Extending the container with custom use cases (Marcus Bratton)
• The Art of Color (Dave M. Bush)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Wish List (Deborah Kurata)
• Magellan Transitions and Magellan Action Results and Magellan Exceptions (Paul Stovell)
• Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• My XAP file is 5 Mb size, is that bad? (Braulio Diez)
• Make Your WPF Applications Adapt to the Host Machine (Srinath MS)
• Using a different mscorlib for F# in Visual Studio (Silverlight and probably XNA too) (Steve Gilham)
• 12 Days of RIA – Day 5 – Read Only Data (John Pelak)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 and Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Exchanging Data between Silverlight 3.0 User Controls using Dependency Properties and Events (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 134: Prestige Mode (Paul Thurrott)
• Hidden Gem from PDC Videos (Jason Haley)
• ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Silverlight Web cam apps, VS extensibility, Explorer shell extensions (Dan Fernandez)
• Enterprise Library 5 Video from PnPSummit (David Hayden)
• Rx API in depth: Concat, Catch and OnErrorResumeNext (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Herding Code 65: Scott Hanselman on His Secret Ninja Squad and Jon’s new job (bonus: netbook operating system install clinic!) (Jon Galloway)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 7: PeerChannel Basics (Jeff Brand)
• Technical Preview for CAT.NET 2.0 (Jossie Tirado)

 

Community / Events

• IronRuby @ RubyConf – Part 3: Sneaking Ruby to the top (Jimmy Schementi)
• French MVP Launches Windows 7 Tutorials Site! (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

Database

• SQL Server Query Plan cache – what is it and why should you care? (Damien Guard)
• Introducing SQL Server to Oracle and Dynamic SQL Server connections in Reporting Services (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Query Commenting/Uncommenting Quick Tip (Erik)
• SQL SERVER – White Paper – Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 vs. MindTouch the Battle of the Platforms (Mark Fidelman)
• BCS Webinar Slides (Nick Swan)
• Video Blogging with Javascript and the Media Web Part (Mihai Coman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Mark Anderson to Microsoft: Your consumer business is dead (Todd Bishop)
• Google Apps highlights – 12/11/2009 (Jeremy Milo)
• P80 Windows Home Server add-in update (Ben Palmer)
• Stack Overflow Rack Glamour Shots (Jeff Atwood)
• Jive Software vs. MindTouch – a Guide for Decision Makers (Mark Fidelman)
• WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API (Leena Rao)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #497 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2009 — #755 (Dave Campbell)
• AppFabric a.ka. "Dublin" Links (Sam Gentile)
• Links of the week #101 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.08 ~ 12.14 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #83 (Grant Palin)
• Links (12/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 123 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/14/2009 (Pete Brown)

 

The Geek Shelf

 

 

Tweet This Post