December 2008 – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 22, 2008

Posted on December 22, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Shameless Plugs

DZone .NET Zone’s Top 10 Articles of 2008

Silverlight / WPF

Prism v2 – Drop 8 Available (Robert Brumfield)
Physics Helper Now Supports Farseer 2.0! (Andy Beaulieu)
IronPython and WPF Redux (JP. Hamilton)
Deep Zoom Composer Has Been Updated: Documentation And Bug Fixes! (Sunshine)

.NET / Visual Studio

ReSharper 4.5 Coming Out Soon (Derik Whittaker)
NH Prof Public Beta Date and NH Prof New Features: Analysis (Oren Eini)
Piecemeal Expression Evaluation (Jimmy Bogard)
Reflectorizing a ClickOnce App (Josh Twist)
Publishing WCF Services to WIndows Azure (Brian Loesgen)

Web Development

C# Style Attributes in Script#/Javascript (Jay Kimble)
Oxite Review (Chad Myers)
Sueetie: The First 48 Hours and the Next Two Weeks (Dave Burke)
Apply Expand All and Collapse All to Collapsible Panels in ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery (Muhammad Mosa)
Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008 (Richard MacManus)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Resolvable (Davy Brion)
Ship It Often vs. TDD (Patrick Smacchia)
Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 4 (Matthew Podwysocki)
DDD: Specifications, Language, and Locality (Greg Young) – Link of the Day
Testing Internal Classes (Fredrik Eriksson)
Data Structures and Algorithms Book Flying Out (Again!) (Granville Barnett)
How to Better Estimate Web Projects (Brian Reindel)

.NET Community / Events

Community Megaphone – To Discover or Promote MS Technology Community Events (Julie Lerman)
MIX 10k Smart Coding Contest (Andy Beaulieu)

Database

SQL Server – Find Next Running Time of Scheduled Job Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Shipping Seven: An Ongoing Dialog About the Next Windows, Part 5: From M3 to Beta (Paul Thurrott)
Which Sites Will Make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame? (Ed Bott)
BUG Labs Intros BUGvonHippel, Talks Up Big Plans for CES (Darren Murph)
PowerBoots – Shoes for PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

More Link Collections

Triple Shot Links #12 (Russell Ball)
Interesting Finds: December 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Weekly Links #32 (Grant Palin)
LINKBLOG for December 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (12/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 73 (Rhonda Tipton)
Best of Codesqueeze 2008 (Max Pool)
Silverlight Cream for December 21, 2008 — #463 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #249 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for December 22, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series): Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin: Books

ISBN: 0131857258
ISBN-13: 9780131857254

Technorati Tags: windows azure,wcf,powershell,sql server,silverlight,deep zoom composer,wpf,prism v2,asp.net ajax,javascript,jquery,community megaphone,mix09,resharper

Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – December 20-21, 2008

Posted on December 20, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka – Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban (Derick Bailey)
Oxite – An Example of How Not to Write MVC Applications (Casey Charlton)
Benefits of Root Cause Analysis (Raymond Lewallen)
Adding MSTest Results (.trx) Files to Your TeamCity Build Results (Derik Whittaker)
Acceptance Tests and Lazy Loading Considered Harmful (Scott Bellware)
The Anti-Architect (Bil Simser) – Link of the Day
When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices (Adam Buenz)

.NET / Visual Studio

I Couldn’t Think Up a Language of My Own (Jon Flanders)
Cleaning Up the VS Environment When Things Go Wrong (Darren Stokes)
Microsoft Blueprints – Release: November CTP Refresh 2.1.2 (CodePlex)
Moving Up From CodeRush Xpress to CodeRush (Mark Miller)
Book Review: Entity Framework Tutorial (Muhammad Mosa)

Web Development

A Little Holiday Love from the ASP.NET MVC Team (Phil Haack)
Adobe Acrobat Connect .NET SDK – Release (CodePlex)
Migrating a Versionable ASMX Web Services to WCF (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Screencast: Configuring Services with Behaviors (Aaron Skonnard)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (MS Downloads)
patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism v2 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)
Fluent Animations in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (Brad Abrams)
Updated Silverlight 2 DataGrid Available (John Papa)

.NET Community

PowerShell

Step Up Your FOREACH Game (Jeffrey Snover)

Database

SQL Server – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
Windows Azure Storage – Exploring Blobs (David Lemphers)

Miscellaneous

5 Ways to Keep Your Competitive Edge (Celine Roque)
Windows 7 Beta Imminent? and Microsoft Job Listings Reveal Zune Expansion Plans (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft Answers Launches Beta (Sarah Perez)
How Does the Windows Azure DataCenter Work? (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

Discoveries This Week 12/19/08 (Rick Minerich)
Silverlight Cream for December 19, 2008 — #461 and Silverlight Cream for December 20, 2008 — #462 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: December 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #90 (Darren Stokes)
Triple Shot Links #11 (Russell Ball)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 3 (Denis Gobo)
CloudNews for December 19th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
LINKBLOG for December 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight News for December 20, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
Management Improvement Carnival #50 (Corey Ladas)

Book of the Day

C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3: Jon Skeet: Books

ISBN: 1933988363
ISBN-13: 9781933988368

Technorati Tags: silverlight,wpf,prism,entity framework,oxite,powershell,sql server,sharepoint,coderush,windows azure,windows 7

Dew Drop – December 19, 2008

Posted on December 19, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Design / Methodology / Testing

White Paper on ORM (Stephen Forte)
How I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 1 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Updated Version of the Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book Available! (Granville Barnett)
Getting Value Out of Your Unit Tests (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

The Death of System.DateTime? and MSBuild Script to Compress All JavaScript Files in a Project (Omer van Kloeten)
(Very) Tentative Steps with the Live Framework SDK (Mike Taulty)
Cloud Messaging Made Easy with Linxter (Brian Noyes)
Why We Need Named Parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
Dynamic Data: Associated Types and the Models They Love (Jonathan Carter)
Did You Know That Today’s Tip on msinfo32.exe Ends the Series? – #382 (Sara Ford)
String Extraction (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)
An Investigation into Routes (Kyle Baley)
MVC Controllers and Forms Authentication (Nikhil Kothari)
Sueetie – The Future in .NET Open Source Online Community Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 5 – Deploying in the Cloud (Maarten Balliauw)
On Oxite (Glenn Block)
Hot New Features Coming with ASP.NET MVC RC in January 09 (Simone Chiaretta)
Creating a REST WCF Service From an Existing XSD Schema (Keith Elder)
This Could Be Big. Sueetie Is Online! (Dave Burke) – Link of the Day
Friday Books – jQuery Reference Guide (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

Patient Journey Demonstrator December 2008 Released (Martin Grayson)
Making the WPF Slider Control Behave (Karsten Januszewski)
Now Available: Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2! (John Papa)
WPF Application Quality Guide (jytylr)
WPF DataGrid Sample: Locking Input to the Row Being Edited (Vincent Sibal)
Bubbles – 1 Chart – Three Axes (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

2009 Goals (Pete Brown)
Webcast Schedule for January 2009 (Nandita)
Congratulations Sara Ford! (Shawn Wildermuth)
ALT.NET Is the Opposition Party (Nate Kohari)

Miscellaneous

Your Developer Horoscope (K. Scott Allen)
Top 10 Most Annoying & Overplayed Phrases or Actions in the Workplace (Dave Schinkel)
The Perfect Time to Release Source Code? (Robert Muehsig)
8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
Microsoft Digs Into PHP (Matt Asay)
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 — #459 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 – 2 — #460 (Dave Campbell)
Visual Studio Links #89 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: 2008.12.12~2008.12.18 (yuanjian)
Links (12/18/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #248 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for December 19, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

jQuery Reference Guide: A Comprehensive Exploration of the Popular JavaScript Library: Jonathan Chaffer: Books

ISBN: 1847193811
ISBN-13: 9781847193810

Technorati Tags: jquery,silverlight,wpf,oxite,windows azure,windows live sdk,php,asp.net mvc,sueetie,bdd,unit testing

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