November 12, 2008 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

One Year of Link Posts

Posted on November 12, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 3 Comments

It seems I missed my one-year anniversary of link posts by a week and a half. My blog has been up longer than that, but it took a little while to find its raison d’être. Here is the first link post… it wasn’t very developer-focused at the beginning, more general geek links.

Daily Dose of Links – 20071102

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Dew Drop – November 12, 2008

Posted on November 12, 2008 | by Alvin A.

There are a lot of really interesting posts from the last 24 hours. It was tough to pick a “Link of the Day”.

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Myth of Self-Organizing Teams (Jeffrey Palermo)
Overview and Review of S#arp Architecture (Kyle Baley)
Beyond Scrum: Lean and Kanban for Game Developers (Clinton Keith) – Link of the Day
Choosing the Right Presentation Technology (J.D. Meier)
Multiple Threads to Improve UX (User Experience) (Jay Kimble)
Fluent Interfaces and Flowcharts (K. Scott Allen)
Introduction to Code Contracts (Melitta Andersen)
Behavior Driven Design (BDD) Talk on Video (Ben Scheirman – uploaded by Chris Patterson)

.NET / Visual Studio

StyleCop and ReSharper (Andrew Stopford)
Minimize Flickers in Windows Forms (Jayadev D.)
C# 4.0 New Features Part 4 – Generic Contravariance (Justin Etheredge)
Did You Know… Visual Studio Has a Content Installer? – #355 (Sara Ford)

Oslo

Explorations Into "M" (Ted Neward)
Vim Support for MGrammar (Fredrik Eriksson)
Generating Code Using MS Codename "Oslo", T4 Templating Engine and VS Custom Tool (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
How Modeling Will Change Programming (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Web Development

Gravatar on ASP.NET MVC (Ryan Lanciaux)
Use jQuery and quickSearch to Interactively Search Any Data (Dave Ward)
Custom JSON Serialization in ASP.NET AJAX (Keyvan Nayyeri)
HTML Stripping Challenge (Phil Haack)
Find New IIS Extensions at http://www.iis.net/extensions/ (Bill Staples)
Using Numbers as Keys in Windows Azure and Paging Over Data in Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
SSDS REST Library – Release: 20081011 Refresh (MSDN Code Gallery)
jQuery Looks Like XPath (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

WPF and Silverlight Toolkit Compatibility (Shawn Burke)
Creating and Consuming a WCF Service in Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
RadControls for Silverlight Official Release (Silverlight Show)
Composite WPF and Merged Dictionaries (Martin Hinshelwood)

SharePoint

Jumping Off the SharePoint Train (Maggie Longshore)
On Being a SharePoint Master (Woody Windischman)
Unit Testing SharePoint – Getting Into the Object Model (Andrew Woodward)

Career / Personal Development

You Are Not a Plumber (Leon Gersing)
My Best Days as a Coder and Evolution of a Developer (in Regards to DI/IoC) (Jeremy D. Miller)
The Worst Software I’ve Ever Written (David Starr)

Events / Community

Events This Week – November 11th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

The Register Explains Azure (Steve Clayton)
My Top 20 All-Time Favorite Computer and Console Games (Pete Brown) – Great list. I’ll be posting one of my own this week.
Proposed Federal Uber-CTO: It Isn’t About the Technology (Bob McIlree)
Up-Diggity-Date (Sara Chipps)
Microsoft Re-Thinks Open Source CodePlex Site (Gavin Clarke)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2008 — #424 and Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2008 – 2 — #425 (Dave Campbell)
Creators Club Communiqué 08 (Kathleen Sanders)
LINKBLOG for November 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #221 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for November 12, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
CloudNews for November 11th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Microsoft Visual Studio Tips: Sara Ford: Books

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