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Poll: Who Is Your .NET Man-Crush?

Hot on the heels of Nick’s Which Software Blogger Do Girls Like Better? article, I’ve posted a new poll on my blog: “Who Is Your .NET Man-Crush?”. It’s completely unscientific and will remain open through the end of the month. I will post the final results at that time.

Please post your nominees for the 2009 poll, provided this one gets more than two or three votes, in the comments.

Technorati: man-crush, .net fanboys, meaningless polls

Dew Drop – July 8, 2008

Design / Methodology

Entities and the Law of Demeter (Jimmy Bogard)
TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part 1 (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
Incremental Migration (Martin Fowler)

Silverlight / WPF

Great User Experience Example in a Business Application (Brad Abrams)
Hanselminutes Podcast 120 – The Odd Couple – A Developer and a Designer Talk About Working with XAML (Scott Hanselman)
P[e]op[le]Fly (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

Recursing Into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion (Matthew Podwysocki)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 5: Developing .NET Software on a Mac (Keith Elder)
Some RichTextBox Tricks (Patrick Smacchia)
The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization (Jason Kemp)
Scale Cheaply – Memcached (Karl Seguin)
Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux (Kim Hamilton)
Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache<KEY, VALUE> (Chad Myers)

C#/VB Pursefight

Declaring Event Handlers in C# Is Just Painful, Prove Me Wrong Please (Chris Love)
Creating Event Handlers in C# – The Definitive Guide (Keith Elder)

Web Development

ASP.NET Hacks (lessthandot)
Waegis Will Be Live Tomorrow (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Kill Your Users Table (Schalk Neethling)
HTTP Request Flow Diagram (Simone Chiaretta)

SQL Server

An Introduction to New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Events / Community

User Groups This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
Northern NJ .NET User’s Group Meeting: July 8, 2008 (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous

You Don’t Need a Muse: How to Get Your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired (Celine Roque)
Might Microsoft’s Midori Be ‘Cairo’ Revisited? (Mary Jo Foley)
Identi.ca Gets a Reply Tab, Actually Becomes Useful (Sarah Perez)
Is This the Time That 3D Sticks? (Robert Scoble)
Bash vs PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: July 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 166 (Harry Pierson)
Silverlight News for July 8, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 — #319 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #131 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf: Books

Technorati: .net development, waegis, powershell, silverlight, xaml, sql server 2008

Dew Drop – July 7, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

ARCast: Biff Gaut on the Microsoft Certified Architects Program (Bob Familiar)
Estimating Availability of Simple Systems – Introduction and Non-Redundant Systems and Redundant Systems (Michael Janke)
Who Should Own the Non-Functional Tests? (Simon Brown)
How to Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms (Davy Brion)
How Does Design Get Done on an Agile Project? (Jeremy D. Miller)
Conventions-Based Binding (Nate Kohari)
Introducing Depender – Testability Problem Finder and Extending Depender with Your Own Custom Dependency Rules and Is Moq Too Powerful? (Roy Osherove)
The Problem with Code Folding (Jeff Atwood)

Silverlight / WPF

A Tool for Building Circle Arcs with WPF (odewit)
Themes for Silverlight Applications (Nikhil Kothari)
Silverlight Web Chat (with WCF Callbacks) (Thomas Halloway)

SharePoint

You Should Learn SharePoint (Robert Bogue)
Is VSeWSS 1.2 Ready for Prime Time? (Scot Hillier)
Exporting Site Content From a SharePoint Content Database for Recovery Purposes (Keith Richie)
GetFeatureAndDependencies – A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)

.NET / Visual Studio

xUnit ReSharper 4.0 Support and Moq 2.5 Released (David Hayden)
2D Game Tutorial Now Available (XNA Team)
Cool New Features in Rosario (Granville Barnett)
Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with ReflectionHelper (Chad Myers) – Link of the Day
Visual Studio Test Results Window Behavior Fix (David Starr)
Cascading Deletes in LINQ to SQL (Scott Lysle)
Extension Methods + Atributes = A Whole New World (Shay Friedman)

Web Development

Gravatar’s New Features and ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
Inclusion of JavaScript Files (Rick Strahl)

SQL Server

Database Performance: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later (Ken Downs)

Miscellaneous

Review of the Check-In Dance (Kyle Baley)
Being Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make (Justin Etheredge)
Customer Polarizing – Why Microsoft Will Always Be a Mediocre Giant (Max Pool)
Do You Have Time to Learn Everything? (Arjan Zuidhof)
5 Rules of Thumb for Web Workers (Mike Gunderloy)
PoshCode – The PowerShell Code Repository (Joel Bennett)
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud (Stacey Higginbotham)
Why You’ll Have a Long Wait for Microsoft’s Next OS (Ed Bott)

Link-O-Rama

Silverlight News for July 7, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
Interesting Finds: July 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Bookmarking the Web – w27/2008 (Erwin)
LINKBLOG for July 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Link Post 49 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (7/6/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight Cream for July 6, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
Link Listing – July 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #130 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #242 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams (Microsoft .Net Development): Will Stott, James W. Newkirk: Books

Technorati: .net development, powershell, sharepoint, wcf, silverlight, wpf, sql server, microsoft certified architect, ninject, moq, resharper

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