Dew Drop – September 12, 2010

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Top Links

• This Developer’s Life 1.0.3: Problems (Rob Conery)
• Trust Your Instincts! Or how to stay interested in programming (Mike Hadlow)
• Patterns of Windows Phone Architecture Part III (James Ashley)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tips on Debugging : Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
• Marble Diagrams and Rx (Abhishek Sur)
• Find out how long your method runs (Gunnar Peipman)
• Replace in Files: Tagged Expressions (Zain Naboulsi)
• Chained null checks and the Maybe monad (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Relative Date Time Converter (Nigel Sampson)

 

Web Development

• Using TemplateHint and other Model Metadata features in MVC (Arun Mahendrakar)
• SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET A Little Background (Peter Kellner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning: Study habits (Mark Needham)
• Dependency Injection (Richard Carr)
• Discussions On Software Development Are Good And So Is Programming. (Rajiv Popat)
• Estimates sucks, especially when I pay for them (Oren Eini)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Direct Volume Licensing for Expression Encoder Pro Announced (Allan P.)
• Expression Encoder 4 Pro is getting GPU accelerated encoding (James Clarke)
• Google Weather API on Windows Phone 7 and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF 4.0 Progress Bar Control using Dispatcher Thread (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Checking if a Remote (HTTP) File Exists (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Flash to Canvas Experiment: Bonsai Tree (Adam Kinney)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebDevRadio Episode 81: indieconf, client-side image resizing, moral dilemmas (Michael Kimsal)
• Windows Weekly 173: The Fiddly Bits (Paul Thurrott)
• Let’s Play TDD #13: The TaxRate Class (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Go That Way, Really Fast (Jeff Atwood)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Soft Delete Conversation – Your Opinion Needed (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• "Masterminds of Programming" (Jason Bock)
• Configuring two wireless routers with one SSID (network name) at home for free roaming (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 09/12/2010 (Rick Minerich)

 

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu