Dew Drop – November 12, 2008

 

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)

 

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