May 2008 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 19, 2008

Posted on May 19, 2008 | by Alvin A.

I posted links last night, so this morning’s edition is a little bit lighter than the average Monday post.

.NET

Unity 1.1 Released and Included in Enterprise Library 4.0 (David Hayden)
Code Snippets For Some Common Operations With Exceptions (.NET TotD)
Func and Action (Josh Twist)
Beginners Guide to Threading in .NET – Part 1 of n (Sacha Barber)
7 Tricks to Simplify Your Programs with LINQ (Igor Ostrovsky)

Web Development

ASP.NET: Officially Unmaintainable (Jimmy Bogard)

Miscellaneous

Good Development Practices – Basic Reading List (Casey Charlton) – Link of the Day
Database Triggers, Encapsulation and Composition (Ken Downs)

Link-O-Rama

The Morning Brew #96 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction: Steve McConnell: Books

Technorati: .net development, linq, enterprise library 4.0

Dew Drop – May 18, 2008

Posted on May 18, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

SharePoint

Guidance for Developing Custom Solutions with SharePoint 2007 (Glenn Block)
Developing SharePoint Solutions in Visual Studio (Greg Galipeau)
SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices Book Coming Soon (Bill English)

Silverlight / WPF

Blend, VS, Events and C# (Jesse Liberty)

.NET

Extension Methods Roundup: IndicesWhere, TakeEvery, Distinct (Omer van Kloeten)
Revenge of the Statically Typed Languages (Greg Young)
Cloning Objects in .NET (Edgar Sanchez)

Web Development

Auto-Registration in ASP.NET MVC (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology

Crash Responsibly (Jeff Atwood)
Design: Paul Rand & Ubiquitous Language (Dave Laribee)

Blogging

Why Is Your Blog Unsuccessful? (Lorelle VanFossen)
Welcome Dear Reader! (Arjan Zuidhof) – Arjan’s blog has a new home.

Events / Community

Austin .NET Code Camp ’08 == Awesome (Chad Myers)
Philly Code Camp May 17, 2008 (Sam Gentile)
F# Presentation – Slides and Demos (Chris Alcock)
Austin Code Camp 2008 Recap (Rhonda Tipton)

Miscellaneous

The Next Generation (Chris Sells)
Book Review: The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Jim Holmes)
Eight Simple Tips to Improve Your Presentation Skills (Brian Di Croce)
SQL Server 2005 – Microsoft Will Release SP3 Soon (Pinal Dave)
ALT.Consultancy: Reflections on Doing It My Way (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: 2008-05-18 (gOODiDEA)
Interesting Finds: May 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for May 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Link Post 42 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (5/18/2008) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

The ThoughtWorks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (Pragmatic Programmers): ThoughtWorks Inc.: Books

Technorati: .net development, extension methods, sharepoint, asp.net mvc, philly.net, code camps

Dew Drop – May 17, 2008

Posted on May 17, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight / WPF

Did You Know It Is WPF Week on Channel 9? (Marc)
Expression Blend for Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta (wcsdkteam)
Encoding Resources for Silverlight Streaming (G. Andrew Duthie)
CameraPanel From IdentityMine (Marlon Grech)
Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta – Part Two (Faisal Khan)

.NET

MbUnit TestFixture Attribute Is Now Optional (Jeff Brown)
Using Where and Group in LINQ (Andrew Stopford)
Rhino Mocks – Arrange, Act, Assert Syntax and Rhino Mocks 3.5 Beta Released (Oren Eini)
My New Favorite Utility for .NET (Jesse Liberty)
Reading Code Over the Telephone (Eric Lippert)
Inline Edit Box on CodePlex and New PostBack Ritalin Beta (Dave Ward)
.NET Framework 3.5 – Client Application Services (Saurabh Pant)
Enterprise Library 4.0 – May 2008 (MS Downloads)
Enterprise Library 4.0 – Get It While It’s Hot! (Tom Hollander)
Enterprise Library 4.0 Released with Unity IoC Integration (David Hayden)
eNurse Personal Health Record – Release: May 2008 Preview for .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta (CodePlex)
Building a Pub/Sub Message Bus with WCF and MSMQ (Tom Hollander)
DebuggerVisualizers in F# (Brian)
Why Use the Entity Framework? (Danny Simmons)

Design / Methodology

What Determines High Quality Code? (Casey Charlton) – Link of the Day
Zero Friction & Maintainability (Oren Eini)
How Is SaaS Different From ASP of the Past? (Krishnan Subramanian)
Writing Code That You’re Proud Of (Jason Young)
Book Review: Designing for the Social Web (Mike Gunderloy)

Web Development

Intellisense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008 (Lance Fisher)
Enjoying Expression Web (Dave Burke)

Events / Community

Programming for Windows Mobile Event at Malvern PA, May 22, 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
DevHawk World Tour 2008 (Harry Pierson)
11 Top Tips For a Successful Technical Presentation (Scott Hanselman)

SQL Server

What Did You Do to Master SQL? (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

LINQ4SP – Create New List Item (Agnes Molnar)
Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part I (Joris)

Miscellaneous

Innovation at Microsoft (Gretchen Ledgard)
Oh Yeah? Fork You! (Jeff Atwood)
New Requirements Tool for TFS by stpsoft Ltd. – Reqsheet (Charles Sterling)
BAM Poster for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (MS Downloads)
Punctuality: More Than Showing Up on Time (Jason Harris)
Looking to Get Certified on VS 2008 or SQL 2008? And Save Money? (Angela Binkowski)
ShutterSpeed – Episode #1 Is Now Posted! (Michael Palermiti)
New XNA Creators Club Online Web Site Coming Soon! (David Weller)
4 Free Digital Photography and Image Editing Resources (Samuel Dean)

Link-O-Rama

Visual Studio Links #28 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: May 16, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for May 16, 2008 and LINKBLOG for May 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #4: The Betas Are Out and Weekly SOA Crumbs #17: JavaOne Week and Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #4 (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight Cream for May 16, 2008 — #276 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman Links for May 17, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition (Books for Professionals by Professionals): Matthew MacDonald: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, sql server, digital photography, wcf, wpf, silverlight, linq, xna game studio

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