Dew Drop – June 7, 2010

Big week… WWDC for Apple, TechEd NA for Microsoft… will Google crash the party with a public beta of Chrome OS?

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Top Links

• Comparing .Net IoC containers, part seven: MEF (Anthony Steele)
• Subtext 2.5 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Simplified MEF: Dynamically Loading a Silverlight .xap (Michael Washington)
• Code Contracts Part 5 – Abstract Types and Interfaces (Kevin Hazzard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading an XML File and Writing to an XML File (Deborah Kurata)
• Your First Fluent Cassandra Application (part 2) (Nick Berardi)
• TODO Comments in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Endless GridView Scrolling Using jQuery Plugin (Mohammad Azam)
• Subtext 2.5 Skin Improvements (Phil Haack)
• Bing Maps SOAP Services SDK (PDF) and Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK (PDF) and Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) and Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• There can be only One RoleEntryPoint (Scott Densmore)
• First Look – Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook (Gunther Lenz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning A Software Development Lesson From A Children’s Poem (Alan Skorkin)
• The Best Code You Will Ever Write (John Sonmez)
• When to use the SetUp attribute (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simulating Touch Inertia on Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• Adding Facebook Connect to your Silverlight Website using Expression Web and Blend (Don Burnett)
• Creating Scrollable Edit Content in WP7 and PSA: Help my binding is not updating my View Model…. Check your Mode (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 82: Cory Foy and Will Green Compare .NET and Ruby Development (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show 359: Transformers: War for Cybertron and getting ready for E3 2010 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 114 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ryan Dunn on Azure and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 16 – F# with Joel Pobar (Richard Banks)
• Technology and Friends Episode 91: Matt Van Horn on Expression Blend (David Giard)
• Wizards of Smart Podcast (Rhonda Tipton)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Kicks of TechEd North America 2010 (Richard Hay)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Subquery or Join – Various Options – SQL Server Engine Knows the Best – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB & CouchDB – Map and Reduce (Rob Ashton)

Miscellaneous

• "Writerous" – Windows Live Writer Plug-in for Posterous.com (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta (MS Downloads)
• This week in search 6/6/10 (Marissa Mayer)
• Building an iPhone App for Tekpub – Splash Screen (Ben Scheirman)
• Project “Hilo”, A Complete C++ / Windows 7 Sample Application (Jason Zander)
• Survey Finds Developers Would Rather Do Taxes than Test Software (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDAPT (O’Reilly Media)
• Is Arrogance a Factor in Success? (Phil Haack)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #108 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for June 7, 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2010 — #876 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #615 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #122 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction