December 2008 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Free eBook – Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples

Granville Barnett has just announced that his free eBook, Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples, has been updated and is now available for free download here.

Read Granville’s post about the release for more details. The book is a fantastic resource, and it is awesome that he has made it available to the developer community at no cost. Happy holidays!

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Dew Drop – December 18, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

Object Oriented Programming vs. Class Oriented Programming (Scott Koon)
There’s Nothing New Under the Sun (Kevin Seal)
Trying to Use Unit Tests as Integration Tests (Francis K. Cheung) – Link of the Day
Introduction to TestApi – Part 2: Command-Line Parsing APIs (Ivo Manolov)
Is This a Good Approach for Multi-Tenancy or Not? (Davy Brion)
Oxite Refactor, Take 1 (Rob Conery)
Vertically Stratifying Your Team (Jeremy Jarrell)
Don’t Forget to Sharpen the Saw (Ken Howard)

Web Development

XForms, A Pause for Reflection (Philip Fennell)
FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension (John Resig)
CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 4 – Membership and Authentication (Maarten Balliauw)
Ajax and Forms Authentication (Peter Van Ooijen)
The "Double Submit" Issue from the Server Side (Dave M. Bush)
If You Can’t Make Assumptions, Then Don’t Bother with JavaScript (Brian Reindel)
ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Design Competition (Joe Stagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

"Standard Graphs" and Channel 9 and 10-4 (Cameron Skinner)
VSTA, the Enterprise Architect and the Application Lifecycle (Clemens Reijnen)
New Entity Framework Documentation Topics (EF Team)
CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and for Silverlight Is Released! (Rocky Lhotka)
Early Peek at ReSharper 4.5 Features (John Papa)
10-4 Episode 1: Working with the Visual Studio 2010 CTP (Charlie Calvert)
.NET 3.5 SP1 GDR Is Available to Download (Scott Hanselman)
LINQ to SQL – Enabling Full-Text Searching (Simon Sabin)
Cool Posts: Visual Studio Tips & Tricks (James Brundage)
LOTS of Videos on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (Brian Keller)

Silverlight / WPF

XboxFriendsWatch Gamercard v2 Has Arrived! (Adam Kinney)
Handling Dynamic Storyboards and Animations in Silverlight 2 (Dan Wahlin)
Bubble Chart (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight, Firefox and 100% (Peter Van Ooijen)

SharePoint

Shipped!!! SharePoint Guidance (Francis K. Cheung)
SharePoint + jQuery = Stay Here Feature (Wesley Bakker)

PowerShell

PowerShell Documentation (Alex Mueller)
PowerShell find-to-set-alias (Harry Pierson)
PowerShell for Developers – Presentation (Joel Bennett)

.NET Community

NINE Questions with Scott Hanselman (Chris G. Williams)

Miscellaneous

Guide to Flowcharts xkcd Style (Frank La Vigne)
My Rules for Talks (Wallace B. McClure)
Personal Development Books (J.D. Meier)
Announcing Small Basic v0.2! (Vijay)
My "Best Of" for 2008 (Jeremy D. Miller)
The Ultimate Web Developer’s Christmas Wish List (Glen Stansberry)
6 Free Open Source Resources for Web Workers (Samuel Dean)
Indexed: Hitting Close to Home (Jeff Blankenburg)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008… Part 2 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for December 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #247 (Chris Alcock)
CloudNews for December 17th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
Tech Twitterings #8 (Elijah Manor)
Silverlight News for December 18, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage: Books

ISBN: 0321293533
ISBN-13: 9780321293534

Technorati Tags: silverlight,csla .net 3.6,resharper,windows azure,asp.net mvc,jquery,sharepoint,powershell,javascript,ajax

Dew Drop – December 17, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Final Release (J.D. Meier) – Co-Link of the Day
Chief Engineer (Scott Bellware) – Co-Link of the Day
Rhino Service Bus (Oren Eini)
Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of User Interface (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ to SQL / Entity Framework / NHibernate ORM Top-Down, Objects First (Peter Bromberg)
IronPython and LiveFX: Ori’s LiveOE.py and IronPython and LiveFX: Raw HTTP Access (Harry Pierson)
SharpDevelop – Release 3.0 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
Processes in .NET Part 2 – Performing Actions on Files with Verbs (Rick Minerich)
Introduction to Directed Graph Markup Language (DGML) (Cameron Skinner)
Lhotka’s Post Is Pointless – Please Get Rid of VB, Microsoft! (Dave Schinkel)
Language Improvements in C# 4 (Gunther Lenz)
Migrations in C# Using RikMigrations (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

Some Tips and Tricks While Using ASP.NET GridView Paging (Suprotim Agarwal)
Create Your App on Zoho Creator and Deploy It on Google App Engine (Krishnan Subramanian)
Connecting Your Web Site to the Live Framework (i.e. Using Delegated Auth) (Kevin Ledley)
Locking the Screen During a Postback (Scott Mitchell)
Car Trackr on Windows Azure – Part 3 – Data Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
ASP.NET MVC Samples, Oxite, and Community (Scott Hanselman)
GridViews – Multiple Rows Per Record (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

IronPython and WPF (JP. Hamilton)
Building and Deploying WPF Applications Using the .NET Client Profile (Zhiming Xue)
Using WPF Binding StringFormat Property with Nullable Types (Karl Shifflett)
XAML Practices Series, Part 1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
Silverlight 3 – What We Know So Far and What We Can Predict (Part 2 of 3) (Bart Czernicki)
Exploring the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern (Pencho Popadiyn) – MVC with Silverlight

Events / Community

Saving DotNetKicks (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

Impersonating a SQL Server DBA (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Prepares Developers for ODF in Office 14 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Are Bloggers & Social Networks Killing the Big Shows? (Robert Scoble)
New in Labs: Turn an Email Into a Google Doc (Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann)
Publish and Share Your Presentations in the Cloud (Zhiming Xue)
I’ve Concluded That You Guys Don’t Think I’m an Idiot – A Reflection on the Sexes and the Field (Sara Chipps)
Detours (MS Research)
Microsoft Sends Out Windows 7 Beta 1 Invites (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for December 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 — #457 and Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 – 2 — #458 (Dave Campbell)
WMOC#28 – Zen of Results – eBook and WSOAC#40 – REST Patterns and Anti-Patterns and WSDAC#28 – IronPython 2.0 Released (Dilip Krishnan)
Silverlight News for December 17, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #246 (Chris Alcock)
CloudNews for December 16th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter): Garr Reynolds: Books

ISBN: 0321525655
ISBN-13: 9780321525659

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