Dew Drop – September 29, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• String interning and String.Empty (Eric Lippert)
• IronPython Post 2.6 Roadmap (Harry Pierson)
• ScottGu, DotNed, loads of new stuff and intellisense (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Dump Environment Folder Paths (Kirill Osenkov)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• CSLA .NET version 3.7.1 available (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Web Development

• Playing with JQuery Validation library (Chris Brandsma)
• Forms Authentication – Managing Users (Dave M. Bush)
• PROBLEM: CSS Styles No Longer Apply For Anonymous Users (Scott Mitchell)
• Running Oxite blog engine on Windows Azure (Sergejus Barinovas)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s Not About The Duct Tape It’s About The People (And More) (Alan Skorkin)
• Scenario Driven Tests (Oren Eini)
• Beating the duct programmer with generic domains, subdomains, and core domains (Ian Cooper)
• Ideas for Coding Kaizen (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Unit Test Definition 2.0 (Roy Osherove)
• How to keep your mouth shut (Scott Berkun)
• ANOTHER release! HUGE Performance boost, Smart Lorem Ipsum, z-Ordering shortcuts… (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Helpful extension methods for Show / Hide animations in Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site (Adam Kinney)
• “Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation” (WPF) Cheatsheet/Refcard from DZone (Greg Duncan)
• Random Gradient Wallpaper Generator (Kirill Osenkov)
• Niagara’s Validation DSL – First Pass and Choosing a Data Access Layer for Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight is slowly becoming the real WPF/Everywhere (András Velvárt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steven Borg on All Things Team System (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Clemens Vasters on Architecture Implications of the Internet Service Bus (Bob Familiar)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 1 of 2 and E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 and Scott Guthrie: ASP.NET MVC 2 (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• UK Silverlight Apps: Trader Media Group & Autotrader (Mike Taulty)
• PDC09 Workshop: Getting the Most out of Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Robert Hess)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #27 – Expression Blend 3 – Behaviors (Russell Fustino)
• Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 1 and Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Thirsty Developer 74 – A Roundtable in the Cloud with David Chappell and Cumulux (Dave Bost)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One and The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two (Tina)
• Episode 85 – PowerScripting Podcast – Lee Holmes on PowerShell v2 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Events this Week – September 28th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MVPs Headline At SQLBits! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• MassTransit at Skills Matter (Mike Hadlow)
• Looking for Seattle-area participants for CodePlex Usability Study (Sara Ford)
• Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)

 

Database

• SQL Server All, Some and Any Operators (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Review of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)
• LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous

• Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Releases Free "Security Essentials" AntiSpyware & AntiVirus Software Starting Tomorrow and Microsoft’s TechNet Release 77 Windows 7 Tips (Blake Handler)
• PowerShelling in your application (Coding4Fun)
• Windows 7 in action: A smarter way to manage windows (Ed Bott)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 2 – When a provider doesn’t support enumeration what will be the impact for the WMI consumer? (Kapil Mathur)
• De-clutter Google Reader with Absolutely Customisable (Nik Fletcher)
• Trusted Documents (Maithili Dandige) – Info from the Office 2010 team.
• Orphans at the Bookstore (Lee Dumond)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #442 and The Morning Brew #443 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009) (Jurgen Appelo)
• CloudNews for 28th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #549 and Double Shot #550 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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