My blogging schedule is going to be a bit erratic over the holidays. I’ll try to get the Dew Drop up daily, but may miss a couple.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Volatile Variables and C# Threads (Dave M. Bush)
• Cleaning Up Your C# Closet, Making Messy C# Code More Readable (Keith Elder)
• StructureMap 2.5.1 Is Released (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Return an Empty IEnumerable<T> from a Yield Iterator (David Kean)
• Free C# and VB Coding Standards Reference Documents (Joe Stagner)
• Saving the Find Results (Darren Stokes)
• If You Liked Zork, You’ll Love Spork! (Chris Sells)
• StickyNotes for Visual Studio (Tom Hollander)
• The VSTS Layer Diagram and the p&p App Arch Guide 2.0 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio, Ruby Improvements Slated (Yahoo! Tech)
• Dealing with the "Project File Must Include the .NET Framework Assembly…" Error (Pete Brown)

Web Development

• Peeling Away the jQuery Wrapper and Finding an Array (Cody Lindley)
• Windows Azure Storage – More Blobs! (David Lemphers)
• Viewing Data with ASP.NET MVC (Buddy Lindsey)
• Editing a Variable-Length List of Items in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)
• Thoughts on the WCF REST Starter Kit (James C. Bender)
• jQuery – Creating Plugins (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• DeepEarth Released on CodePlex (Jon Bostwick)
• Mesh-Enabling the Dive Log Silverlight Application (Jonas Follesø)
• Application Set: Templates & Custom Controls (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• new Repository<T>().DoMagic() (Karl Seguin)
• The Facade Design Pattern in Javascript (Brian Reindel)
• DSL Exceptionalism (Martin Fowler)
• Framework Guidelines V2 (Glenn Block)
• How I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Asynchronous JavaScript Testing with QUnit (Chad Myers)
• The Unrealistic Deadline Anti-Pattern (Davy Brion)
• How Will Your Parallelize your Existing Codebase? Try R.A.S.P. (Rick Minerich)
• About Scrum – The Online Resource About Project Management (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Stroustrup on What’s Wrong with CS Programs (Steve Rowe) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

• PowerShell 2 CTP 3 Released (Joel Bennett)
• More Advanced Functions – Get-Assembly and Get-ExportedType (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• What Will It Take to Be a Web Worker in 2009? (Celine Roque)
• What Is DHCP Network Hint? (MS DHCP Team)
• Find Torrents of Your Favorite TV Shows with TED (Sharninder)
• The Top 5 Books I Read in 2008 (Meera Subbarao)
• The Zen of Results and Evernote and Know Your Learning Styles (J.D. Meier)
• Dr. Popper Now on Xbox Live Community Games (Bill Reiss)
• Pressing the Software Turbo Button (Jeff Atwood)
• The Syndrome of Verbose Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• SharePoint Predictions for 2009 (Paul Galvin)

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #91 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for December 22nd, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for December 22, 2008 — #464 and Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2008 — #465 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.12.19~2008.12.23 (yuanjian)
• LINKBLOG for December 22, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #250 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Find #115 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for December 23, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

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