Dew Drop – April 28, 2008

Silverlight

• Silverlight Playground – Library v1.0.3037.0 Release (CodePlex)
• Silverlight – The Song (Dan Wahlin)

.NET

• From Zero to Logging with System.Diagnostics in 15 Minutes (Josh Twist)
• Foundations of Programming – Pt 7 – Back to Basics: Memory (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day
• Immutability and Tail Recursion (Justin Etheredge)
• Understanding Mock Objects: An Alternate Solution (Jimmy Bogard)

Events/Community

• Some Suggestions to Have a Better Microsoft Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick (Aliza Sherman)
• Slides From My ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks (Scott Guthrie)

SQL Server

• Getting Column Information Using T-SQL (Joe Webb)
• Denormalization Patterns (Ken Downs)

Web Development

• Customized Loading… Images (Rick Strahl)

PowerShell

• Get-Random (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Continuous Innovation in the Online Office (Mike Gunderloy)
• Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous (Max Pool)
• Extreme Patterns with Oren (Glenn Block)
• Diff Tools to See Source File Changes (Patrick Smacchia)
• Chapter 4: Learning and Adapting (Dan Bunea) – Dan continuous his online Agile mini-book.

Blogging

• 6 Years of Blogging! (Sam Gentile)
• The Trouble with Blogrolls (Bryan Person)

Live Mesh

• Live Mesh Technology Preview: A Closer Look – User Perspective, Part 2 (Sunshine)
• Podcast: Windows Weekly #56 – Meet Mesh and Live Mesh Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Mesh Has the Potential to Be HUGE! (Jose Fajardo)
• GillmorGang Talks Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-27) (Matt Hinze)
• Links (4/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Useful Articles and Links 4 (bayarsaikhan)
• Weekly Link Post 39 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.28 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #82 (Chris Alcock)

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