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Dew Drop – November 24, 2008

Web Development

Six Indispensible CSS Tips and Tricks I Use on Every Project (Brian Reindel)
ASP.NET MVC: AcceptVerbsAttribute and ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (David Hayden)
jQuery Hover Fading on Mouse Over and Mouse Out Without Images (Thomas Williams)

.NET / Visual Studio

Remember, Generics Are Still Statically Typed Objects and Developing for the Zune (Jeremy Jarrell)
Beware Exceptions in Attribute Constructors (Jimmy Bogard)
NHibernate Fact When Saving a Transient Entity with Second Level Caching Enabled (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Populating Entities From Stored Procedures with NHibernate and Populating Entities with Associations from Stored Procedures with NHibernate (Davy Brion)
First and Second Level Caching in NHibernate (Gabriel Schenker)
Reflector.Snippy Addin (Jason Haley)
Architecture Exploration with VSTA2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
VSTS 2010 Architecture: [Part Two] Model Project and 4+1 Project Template (Cameron Skinner)
New and Improved CLR 4 Thread Pool Engine (Daniel Moth)
Some Common Operations Using LINQ to XML – Part III (Suprotim Agarwal)
LINQ Reference Documentation (Charlie Calvert)

Silverlight / WPF

Validation Scopes: Draft (Paul Stovell)
Using the Visual State Manager in Silverlight Templates (Dan Wahlin)
Silvester Meets CodePlex (Emil Stoychev)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Aspects of Domain Design (Oren Eini)
Distributed Teams (Jeremy Jarrell)
Three Signals of Death March Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
TDD: Test Driven Debugging (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
MbUnit & VS10 (Andrew Stopford)
The Most Critical P-Word of All (Bob McIlree)
Application Architecture Visios Now Available (J.D. Meier)
Quit Putting Your Solution in My Feature Request! (Max Pool) – Link of the Day
Considerations for Using PostSharp (Mike Nichols)
Elegant Tracing with PostSharp and Aspect-Oriented Programming (Saveen Reddy)
Don’t Be Afraid of Easy (Justin Etheredge)
Can You Really Rent a Coder? (Jeff Atwood)

Events / Community

Building the PDC Keynote (Steve Clayton)
Joining the NHibernate Developers (Davy Brion) – Congrats again, Davy! You’ll be a great addition to the team.
I’m a Free Agent – Available for Your .NET Architecture, Custom Dev, Agile, and SOA Needs (Sam Gentile) – Sam is awesome.
patterns & practices Developer Team Blogs (Ade Miller)

PowerShell

PoshBoard and ConvertTo-HashTable and ConvertTo-HashTable.ps1 Part 2 (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

ISO Standard ‘Office’ Formats Overpromise Compatibility? (Rick Jelliffe)
Windows Azure Explained in 145 Seconds and Tesco.com and Innovation (Steve Clayton)
Five Best Desktop Customization Tools (Adam Pash)
The Power of Home Electronics (Michael Janke)
Microsoft to Rebrand Search. Will It Be Kumo? (Michael Arrington)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2008 — #436 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: November 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links of the Week #61 (week 47/2008) (David Vidmar)
Links (11/23/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 69 (Rhonda Tipton)
Weekly Links #28 (Grant Palin)
The Morning Brew #229 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for November 24, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net): Andrew Troelsen: Books

ISBN: 1590598849
ISBN-13: 9781590598849

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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – November 22-23, 2008

Design / Methodology / Testing

4 Steps to Ensure You’re the Worst Developer Ever! (Justin)
Building Frameworks: It Is One Day or Three Months (Oren Eini)
Is Microsoft Interested in Helping Architects? (David Solivan)
Do Not Test Private Methods (Chad Myers)
NDepend – The Massive Code Analysis Tool for Every Developer (Muhammad Mosa)
Why on Earth Would a Developer Do This? (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

Back to Basics: Generics (Karl Seguin)
The Misuse of var in .NET – It’s Bad Programming! (Anders Bursjöö)
How to Create a WCF Client Proxy Without Having a Deployed WCF Service (Sacha Barber)
Dude, Where’s My LINQ DML? (Bart de Smet)
WCF REST Starter Kit Hands On Labs – Release – 2008-11 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

Facebook Apps on Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
Live Framework CTP Updated (Kevin Ledley)
Combining jQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

A Better Multi-Page Solution (Jesse Liberty)
Prism v2 – Drop 6 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) (Erwin van der Valk)
In-Place Editing for Silverlight Using Styles and Templates (Nikhil Kothari)
Silverlight Glass Button (Michael Sync)
Silverlight DataBinding Basics (Timothy Khouri)

Events / Community

ALT.NET Online Open Meeting (Chad Myers)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode #19: Windows Azure – The Overlord in the Cloud (Keith Elder)
The NHibernate Community (Oren Eini)
Welcome Davy Brion to Elegant Code (David Starr)

PowerShell

Verbs vs. Nouns by Snapin (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

How Important Is the Problem of Whether or not P=NP? (Leon Bambrick)
Setting Up Subversion on Windows Home Server (Ade Miller)
1 Year Anniversary (Chad Myers)
Live Mesh or Live Sync? Microsoft’s Branding Problem (One of Many) and The Anti-Beta Revolution. Or Is It a Counter-Revolution? (Zoli Erdos)
Why the New Zune Pass Should Be Irresistible (Ed Bott)
New VSDB Blog (Gert Drapers)
$500 Million in Advertising??? Did I Use the Jump the Shark Joke Already? (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2008 — #434 and Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2008 – 2 — #435 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for November 21, 2008 and LINKBLOG for November 22, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: November 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
CloudNews for November 21st, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Head First Software Development (Brain-Friendly Guides): Dan Pilone, Russ Miles: Books

ISBN: 0596527357
ISBN-13: 9780596527358

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