Day: February 21, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s Pair Programming Really Like? (James Shore) – Link of the Day
• DDD: Living In The Enterprise (Casey Charlton)
• Code & Run / Speed Kills (Dave Schinkel)
• The Commented Version Of The Readable Code Challenge (Davy Brion)
• With Services the focus is on behavior (Ian Cooper)
• Application Lifecycle Management and a Collaborative Culture. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven DevelopmentDesign with Entity Framework Part 1.b, Review (Muhammad Mosa)
• DDD: Isn’t Learning the Domain Half the Battle? (JP Hamilton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Type Theory Essentials in Pictures – Part 1 – Hints (Bart de Smet)
• AutoMapper feature: projection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Troubleshooting common mapping bugs with NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #7 – Data providence (Eric Gunnerson)
• .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace Poster (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The MVC Template Team Got It Right (John Teague)
• Getting Objects from the Object Context, not the database (Julie Lerman)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Jump Lists (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: closure basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Mvc Contrib – Version 1.0 preparation / project restructuring (Jeffrey Palermo)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #48 – Disable Request Validation (Stephen Walther)
• What Happens When You Deploy on Windows Azure? (Steve Marx)
• Get inspired for web, photography, anything – SmashingMagazine.com (Tim Heuer)
• Implementing Prototype’s Array Methods in jQuery (Josh Powell)
• ASP.NET MVC: Driving partials by convention (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Extending the reach of your 2D XNA game to the web (Bill Reiss)
• Flash vs Silverlight (Peter Bromberg)
• More About the Layout System (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 – The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE (Mike Snow)
• Sonic : Out There In The Wild (Sacha Barber)

Database

• SQL Server Indexed Views (Black Wasp)
• SQL SERVER – Observation – Effect of Clustered Index over Nonclustered Index (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• MOSS Solutions and Features in Deployments ( Part 3 ) (Michael Cummings)
• VS 2010 and SharePoint (Chris Johnson)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell is Awesome (Vlad)

Community / Events

• MIX09 10k Contest Winners and Just published TCSWeekly episodes 4, 5 and 6 (Adam Kinney)
• Progressive.NET Event (Ayende Rahien)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow Kicks Off Next Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Party with Palermo Alt.Net/MVP Summit 2009 Edition is 9 days away! and NHibernate users mailing list going strong – Almost 10,000 posts and 1322 members (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Online Windows 7 event: MSDN Unleashed (Raymond Comvalius)
• Webcast Schedule for March 2009 (Nandita)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Aims to Build a Better Thesaurus (Ina Fried)
• Windows Mobile is short changing .NET Developers (Ork)
• CraigsList Reader makes searching Craiglist (even more) simple (Brad Linder)
• Windows 7 Friday: Locking Down and Protecting Your Computer With AppLocker (Denny Boynton)
• Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job (Kevin Purdy)
• Hire the Best – Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft anticipating April 10 for Windows 7 release candidate (Lee Mathews)
• Get yourself a Windows Home Server (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 20, 2009 — #523 and Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2009 — #524 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 293 (Sam Gentile)
• Functional Discoveries in the Microsoft Sociocosm 02/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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