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Dew Drop – July 25, 2008

Posted on July 25, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

.NET / Visual Studio

How to Review NHibernate Application (Oren Eini)
IronRuby at OSCON (John Lam)
LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators (Charlie Calvert)
Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
.NET Rocks! – Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology

Coding Without Comments (Jeff Atwood)
Code Commenting? Try Business Commenting. (Avi Pilosof)
Impedance Mismatch and System Evolution and Default Architecture: Layers (Oren Eini)

Web Development

The MVC Minefield (Michael C. Neel)
GridView or Repeater? (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

Easy Ways to Make Your Technical Blog More Visible and Programmable (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
Book Review: The Productive Programmer – Neal Ford (Shawn Wildermuth)
HD View Control for Internet Explorer (MS Research)
Converting Columns to Date From DateTime Does Not Result in a Scan in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Silverlight

Silverlight a Flash Competitor, Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch (Schalk Neethling)
An Adobe Evangelist Gives His Opinion on Silverlight (Dion Almaer)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight News for July 25, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
Link (7/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #144 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series): Michael Feathers: Books

Technorati: .net development, nhibernate, silverlight, asp.net mvc, linq, ironruby

Dew Drop – July 24, 2008

Posted on July 24, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 2 Comments

I’m a little late getting this out today. I’m having WLW issues with WordPress 2.6, so I’m publishing via the WP admin screens today (copy/paste from WLW worked pretty well though).

.NET / Visual Studio

MSTest, Why I Hate You… You Cause Me Too Much Friction and RhinoMocks New Arrange, Act, Assert Does Not Seem to Work Under MSTest… Odd (Derik Whittaker)
ADO.NET Data Services Support for LINQ to NHibernate (David Hayden)
Using Speech in Visual Studio (Phil Denoncourt)
Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
Professional Visual Studio 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Silverlight

Tall Skinny Data Columns Using Improved WrapPanel for Silverlight (Matt Perdeck)
Silverlight at Gamefest (Tim Heuer)
Drawing Fractal Trees – Part 3 (Avi Pilosof)
Getting Information About the SubImages of the MultiscalImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)

Design / Methodology

Some Points About Services Layer (Gunnar Peipman)
Prevention v. Cure (Part 1) (James Whittaker) – Link of the Day

Web Development

ASP.NET Cookies – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #24 – Retrieve Views From Different Folders (Stephen Walther)

SQL Server

.NET Rocks! – Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database (MS Downloads)
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Online Resources (Joe Webb)
SQL Server 2005 – Track Down Active Transactions Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

stackoverflow Podcast #15 (Jeff Atwood)
Microsoft Announces Reorganization – Platforms & Services Division Will Be Split Up (Gregor Herdmann)
Getting Started With PowerShell 2 – Part 3 (Joel Bennett)
More Information on Windows Live Wave 3 (damaster)
Caligari trueSpace 7.6 for FREE?!? (Chris G. Williams)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight News for July 23, 2008 (Ilia Iordinov)
Interesting Finds: July 23, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 256 (Sam Gentile)
Silverlight News for July 24, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
Interesting Finds: 2008.07.24 (gOODiDEA)
Everyman Links for July 23, 2008 (Dave Burke)
The Morning Brew #143 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2008 — #333 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Professional Visual Studio 2008: Nick Randolph, David Gardner: Books

Technorati: .net development, caligari truespace 7.6, powershell, sql server, silverlight, visual studio, wrox, asp.net mvc, asp.net cookies

Dew Drop – July 23, 2008

Posted on July 23, 2008 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ to NHibernate in 10 Minutes (Matt Hinze)
Ward & I Talk Over the EF Vote of No Confidence Document (Jeremy D. Miller)
Learn How to Use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series (Scott Hanselman)
T4 Templates in Visual Studio for Code Generation Screencast (David Hayden)
Running a x64 Build Server. Challenges Overcome. (Eric Hexter)
Return a List<T> or ObservableCollection<T> (John Papa)
5 Things I Like Better About Visual Studio Than NetBeans (Jim Hoffman)
C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy (MS Downloads)
What New Windows SDK Features Do You Want? (Win SDK Team)

Events / Community

Yay! Philly Geek Dinner (Lindsay Rutter)
CodePlex Project Discussions Mailing Lists (J. Wanagel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Measuring Testers (James Whittaker)
Dealing with Code Un-Coverable by Tests (Patrick Smacchia)
Unit Test Boundaries (Phil Haack)
Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 1 (Keith Elder) – Can’t wait to listen to this one, but I just finished episode 3 of DFB.
Software Plus Services and Developers (Matt Rosoff)
How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients (Brian D. Armstrong)

Silverlight / WPF

Dynamically Selecting Theme in Silverlight 2 Applications (Zhiming Xue)
Building a Silverlight Application: A Designer’s Perspective (Corrina Barber)
Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
Silverlight and Multi-Touch Tablets (Bart Czernicki)

SharePoint

Notes on the Recently Released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint (Chandima Kulathilake)
LINQ4SP – Query Evaluation (Daniel Leiszen)
SharePoint Gradual Upgrade Disabled When Using a SQL Instance Named SharePoint and Database Gotchas When Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS (Scott Lock)

Web Development

AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
Forcing Client Windows to Pop Up as Windows in Tabbed Browsers (Rick Strahl)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #23 – Use POCO LINQ to SQL Entities (Stephen Walther)
My Thoughts on ASP.NET’s MVC (Karl Seguin)
A Sneak Peek at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0’s Client-Side Templating (Dave Ward)

Miscellaneous

Computer Manuals (Larry Clarkin)
The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get in Shape (Adam Pash)
Metered Internet: The Death of Web Work? (Mike Gunderloy) – Link of the Day
Looking Back – A Review of My Most Popular Blogs (Chris Love)
Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA Team)
.NET Rocks! – Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (MS Downloads)
BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 / WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster (MS Downloads)
Microsoft Scalable Fabric (Sarah Perez)
Games for Windows – LIVE Is Now FREE (Kevin Unangst)
Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs (Jeff Atwood)

SQL Server

Introduction to Log Viewer (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: July 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Daily Find #91 (Tim Boland)
Silverlight News for July 22, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 — #332 (Dave Campbell)
WMOC#12 – Terrarium Is Back! and WSOAC#25 – REST Eye For an SOA Guy (Dilip Krishnan)
Links (7/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #142 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) (Pro Developer): Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson: Books

Technorati: .net development, silverlight, wpf, biztalk, wcf, asp.net ajax, asp.net mvc, powershell, sharepoint, linq, nhibernate, entity framework, xbox live, metered internet service

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