Dew Drop – January 8, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Publishing videos on Windows Azure end-to-end (James Clarke)
• The Binding you wanted from day one in WPF (Josh Twist)
• Call for FubuMVC Contributors (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Refactoring to active patterns (Mark Needham)
• Advanced StructureMap: custom registration conventions for partially closed types (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unity 2.0 Automatic Factories (Chris Tavares)
• Visual Studio 2010 editions and “The Ultimate offer” – If you’re buying Visual Studio in the next three months, information you MUST know (Greg Duncan)
• Debugger Friend or Foe (Kevin Jones)
• C++ in Visual Studio 2010: Windows Platform Developers User Group (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The EF Fail Whale strikes again… (Scott Galloway)
• Tips and Tricks: Zooming in the VS 2010 Editor (Brittany Behrens)

 

Web Development

• JSMag January 2010 is now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Script to Enable HTTP Compression (Gzip/Deflate) in IIS 6 (Keith Dahlby)
• How SparkFun (and 800.com) and small commerce or startup websites can scale (Scott Hanselman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing Internal DSL’s in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Process Safeguards and Ski Slopes (Karl Scotland)
• Advanced Castle Windsor: custom registration conventions for partially closed types (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Problem with Big (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Duck Typing (Mike Ceranski)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using RIA Services Programmatically (Andy Beaulieu)
• Using a ViewModel as a value converter (Josh Smith)
• Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• [Video] Spark View Engine Part 3 (Mike Ormond)
• Hanselminutes: Axum – A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson (Scott Hanselman)
• Connected Show Podcast: PHP LINQ Fest (Brian Johnson)
• 10-4 Episode 37: Leveraging Model Metadata and Validation with ASP.NET MVC2 (Jonathan Carter)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #157: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1 (Derik Whittaker)
• Video of the SLHVP First Release (Jesse Liberty)
• This Week in Testing – Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 1 (Dror Helper)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing PowerShellGroup.org – A home for PowerShell User Groups (Joel Bennett)
• Code Mastery Event – February 11th (Jim O’Neil)
• Vote for Chris Love in the MIX Open Call (Chris Love)
• Creators Club Communiqué 36 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Goals for 2010 (Scott Koon)
• Microsoft’s Grandmaster of Funk (MS JobsBloggers)
• 25 seats for SharePoint 2010 Virtual Ignite GMT+4 Time zone: Limited Availability till Jan 9, 2010 (SharePoint Team)

 

Database

• How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• Misconceptions around database snapshots and transaction rollbacks (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 has lots of ‘GodModes’ (Ina Fried)
• 768-bit RSA modulus factorized (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Will Future Mobile Apps “Bump”? (Adam DuVander)
• Microsoft Bing’s Big Plan For 2010: Refinement (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Automating Maven with PowerShell (Chinh Do)
• PowerShell-based download manager (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Is there such a thing as too much precision? (Eric Lippert)
• (MyPain) => Your.Gain: BitLocker and Bootable VHDs (Jim O’Neil)
• Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility (Larry Waldman)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Confessions of a Public Speaker — Only $9.99! Use discount code CPSE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Adventures in Meta programming in Python: im_class, __import__, __getattribute__ (Ryan Svihla)
• How objects are sent to and from remote sessions (Lukasz Anforowicz)
• Predictions for 2010 Part II- BI For the Masses (Stephen Forte)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #513 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 07, 2010 — #771 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for January 7, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (1/7/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Model-Based Software Testing and Analysis with C#