Day: March 5, 2008

Career

• A Common Interview Mistake to Avoid (Janelle)

Events

• IronRuby @ MIX 08 (John Lam)
• Inside the MIX 08 Swag Bag (Frank La Vigne)
• See You at MIX08! (Jeff Atwood)
• 10 Reasons to Be Happy For Not Attending MIX ’08 (Max Pool)

Misc

• Quotes From the Past Couple Days (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Some Recommended Books (Ian Cooper)
• Introduction to Algorithms OpenCourseWare Course at MIT.edu (via dzone)
• Best Practices for ORM and Persistence APIs (Mario Van Damme)
• So, About That Free 19″ LCD HDTV For Signing Up with FiOS (fiosblog) – I love my FiOS, but would like my free HDTV. I’m one of the folks ‘waiting’.
• Patterns and Practices Complete Catalog (J.D. Meier) – You can also download the whole P&P April ’07 DVD here.
• Writing About EF With No Limits (Julie Lerman)
• MSF Process Template for Agile Software Development v4 (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Offers $100K to Testers of Office Live Workspace (Eric Lai)
• New Microsoft OS Aimed at Researchers (Nancy Gohring) – Some info on Singularity. The RDK is available on CodePlex.
• Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator (Amy Dullard)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 Tip of the Day Is Back – Tutorials Are Launched! (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Documentation Available on MSDN (MSDN Library)

Web Development

• Source Code For ASP.NET 3.5 Core Ref (Dino Esposito)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (Daniel Moth) – Link to download doesn’t work for me at the moment. Perhaps it was put up early by mistake and taken down… I’ll try again later.
• Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK (MS Downloads)

Visual Studio

• Top 13 Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts (Boyan Kostadinov)
• Source Code Outliner Power Toy – Source Code Available (CodePlex)

 

Link Collections

• 4 Links Today (2008-03-04) (Matt Hinze)
• Lunchtime Coffee 153 (Harry Pierson)
• LINKBLOG for March 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Finds of the Week – March 2, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #46 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day