Dew Drop – October 5, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• It’s time for you to consider replacing SourceSafe (Anthony Borton)
• How the TFS team is listening (Ben Scheirman)
• Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2! (Brian Keller)
• Switch Connection String Being Used Based on Constructor Flag (Dave Schinkel)
• Team Build without Tests Lists (David Starr)
• Why NHibernate Entities Need A Public Or Protected Parameterless Constructor (Davy Brion)
• SourceSafe Still? TFS2010 may be the TFS tipping point for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• Fun with Func<T,TResult> Delegates, Events and Async Operations (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More (Alan Skorkin)
• Programming ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
• thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml (Christopher Bennage)
• Efficient Server Side Paging With ASP.NET And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Mobile Website Development With Netbiscuits (Robert Birkenheuer)
• Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from NetworkService to AppPoolIdentity? (Katerina Rohonyan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strive for Functional Cohesion (Chris Eargle)
• xProfiler – A generic OR/M Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Please pass the duct tape (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Thoughts On Intellectual Honesty And Personal Ambitions (Davy Brion)
• Choosing a career path; which way do I go? (Joe Webb)
• Test Plan Template (Josh Poley)
• Lean and Kanban Collection (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Healthy Team Habits with Team System (David Starr)
• Announcing the guide for claims based identity and access control (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Delegate Mapper (Greg Young)
• Learn one thing a day and QTB: Agile Governance – Managing the Enterprise Issues (Mark Needham)
• Just some thoughts on the term ‘Pragmatic’ (Corey Haines)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 11. and Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Quit Living in the Past – Practices Evolve and How we do things – Preamble and Contents and How We Do Things – Who we are, Where we were, Where we stand (Scott C. Reynolds)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) (Daniel Grunwald)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new? (Laurent Bugnion) – Link of the Day
• My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Mouse Over ComboBox Open (Behavior) (Jacek Ciereszko)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Re-architecting Applications for Internationalization (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: SQL Azure, MVC 2, New Channel 9 Content (Dan Fernandez)
• Connected Show Podcast: Paul Thurrott on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Brian Johnson)
• A Great Screencast on Skinning for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)
• Engadget Podcast 165 – 10.02.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 86 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Survey (Ade Miller)
• Hello, authors! (Devon Musgrave)
• Jon Skeet, you will always be an MVP (Ted Neward)
• 10 Years at patterns & practices (J.D. Meier)
• My Software Development journey: Year 3-4 (Mark Needham)
• Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)

 

Database

• Did you know you can use Amazon’s SimpleDB for free? (Just keep the data and transfer below 1GB per month, and keep the queries limited) (Greg Duncan)
• The problem with len()? (Martin Bell)
• SQLAuthority News – Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and SQL SERVER – Choose Right Edition of SQL Server Express for Your Application (Pinal Dave)
• Calculating The Percentage Of Null Values In A Column With Transact SQL (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Jie Li)

 

Miscellaneous

• This Week in Search 10/2/09 (Marissa Mayer)
• Do you sign the default contract? (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Gear – What to wear? (Sara J. Chipps)
• Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (Thomas Ricker)
• October’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors (Robert Scoble)
• Lookbehind in Regex searches (Rick Strahl)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #447 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009 — #703 and Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2009 — #704 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for October 2, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #92 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #73 (Grant Palin)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (Kirill Osenkov)
• CloudNews for 2nd October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #554 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links for the week – 2009.10.02 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A Feed You Should Read #6 – Bite my bytes, Links of the week (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 113 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 376 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/04/2009 (Rick Minerich)

 

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