Daily Bits – February 16, 2008

Community

• The Code Trip Schedule Announced (Tim Heuer)
• Virtual Usergroups (Jeff Schoolcraft)

Web Development

• The Code Project Gets Silverlight Support (Brad Abrams)
• ADO.NET Data Services + PopFly (Julie Lerman)

.NET

• Writing Better Code – Keepin’ It Cohesive (Matthew Cochran)
• Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (Jeff Moser)
• Human LINQ (Jon Skeet)
• File System Search via LINQ to Objects (Jaycent Drysdale)
• A C# Central Logging Mechanism Using the Observer and Singleton Patterns (Muaddubby)
• Fully Customizable Random Password Generator (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 (MS Downloads)

Career

• Top 10 Reasons You Should Be Using LinkedIn (Dustin Brewer)
• Freelancers Happy but Underpaid (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Key Difference Between Developer and Architect Roles (Simon Brown)

Misc

• Anti-Pacman (playZgame) – You control the ghosts and must catch Pacman before he eats all dots.
• Mark February 27, 2008 on Your Calendars (Miguel Carrasco)
• NHibernate Composite-Element Mapping (Matt Hinze)
• Scott Guthrie and Somasegar Get Big Microsoft Promotions (Julia Lerman)
• Do YOu Really Need a Distributed Architecture? (ACE Team)
• The Custom MSBuild Task Cookbook (Bart De Smet)
• 500th Post (Jeremy D. Miller) – Congrats, Jeremy! Keep up the great work.

Visual Studio

• ReSharper 4 EAP Is Out (Derik Whittaker)
• PHP IDE – VS.Php for Visual Studio 2008 (the3factory)
• Gosh! GAT/GAX Is Golden! (Tom Hollander)

Database

• Apply Test-Driven Development to Your Database Projects (Gert Drapers)
• Stored Procedure Performance Varies Between ADO.NET and Management Studio (Steven Smith)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Advanced Content Videos and Whitepapers Now Available on TechNet! (Michal)

 

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: February 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for February 15, 2008 and LINKBLOG for February 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• 1 Link Today (2008-02-16) (Matt Hinze)
• Bits for February 15, 2008 (Dave Burke)

 

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