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Dew Drop – January 19, 2009

Posted on January 19, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Happy MLK Day to all!

.NET / Visual Studio

F# vs C# vs Java: Functional Collection Parameters (Mark Needham)
Conditional Object Construction in StructureMap (i.e. Fun with Lambdas) (Jeremy D. Miller)
Mono vs. .NET Framework: Public API Compatibility (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
Dynamic Data – Cascading FieldTemplates (Stephen Naughton)
Building WCF Services with F#, Part 1 (Ted Neward)
Assembly Loading Across AppDomains (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Leadership 101: Communicate Bad News and Big Changes in Person (Jim Holmes)
Rhino Service Bus: Concurrency in a Distributed World (Oren Eini)
Unit Testing File I/O Operations (Jeremy Jarrell)

Silverlight / WPF

Fun with ItemsControl (Shawn Wildermuth)
WPF Basics: Loading Large Datasets (Rudi Grobler)

Web Development

Routing and Rewriting (K. Scott Allen)
Some ASP.NET GridView UI Tips and Tricks Using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
ASP Dynamic Data Preview – More Ways to Exploit ADO.NET Data Services for Fun and Profit (Scott Hanselman)
Deciding When to Use ASP.NET MVC Framework (Gil Fink)
Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Playing Accordion with CSS and jQuery (Schalk Neethling)

.NET Community / Events

Getting Ready for MIX09 (Brad Abrams)
MSDN Developer Conference and IASA This Week (Bob Familiar)

Database

The Data Dictionary and Calculations, Part 1 (Ken Downs)

Miscellaneous

Offshoring Development Finally Makes Sense to Me (JP Hamilton)
Frustrated with Coworkers? The Clue You Don’t Want to Hear… (Max Pool)
Engineering the Windows 7 "Windows Experience Index" (Michael Fortin)
A Visit with Alan Kay (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for January 18, 2009 — #490 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Link Post 77 (Rhonda Tipton)
Weekly Links #36 (Grant Palin)
Triple Shot Links #16 (Russell Ball)
The Morning Brew #267 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: January 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series): Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides: Books

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Dew Drop – January 17, 2009

Posted on January 17, 2009 | by Alvin A. | 2 Comments

Web Development

jQuery, JSON, and ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 4 and Part 4a and Part 4b (Julian M. Bucknall)
DomainDataSource Server Control: LINQ + Code Generation (Nikhil Kothari)
SYTYAWD #4 Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
Abstracting Request State (Davy Brion)
Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
The Yield Statement in C# (Michael Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

Using LINQ with Unfriendly Collections (Simon Sabin)
January CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Steve Marx)
Real World Apps in Days not Weeks (Scott Hanselman)
Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta (David L.)
How to Convert PDF to Image Using Ghostscript API (Lord TaGoH)
Hard Lessons Learned from ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
Deep Fried F# (Chris Smith)
Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring Our Application (Eric Gunnerson)
C#, Lambdas, Closures, Value Types (Mike Taulty)
Named Format Strings (James Hart)
First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I Love It!!! (Peter Kellner)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Popup Menu (Philip Kin)
Updated SLS Plugin for Encoder Available (Tim Heuer)
CodePlex, Now with Silverlight (John Stockton)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #82 – How to Implement Double Click (Mike Snow)
Command Helper Classes for Silverlight & WPF (Nick Kramer)
Perenthia, a Silverlight-Based RPG in Beta (Adam Kinney)
Prism V2 – Drop 9 Now Available (Bob Brumfield)
Friday Books – Silverlight 2 in Action (Dave M. Bush)
Tutorial #11: Creating a Navigation in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller)
Named Formats Pex Testimonium (Jonathan de Halleux)
Getting Results From Software Development Teams (Gunnar Peipman)
The Big Redesign in the Sky (Uncle Bob Martin)
12 Useful Web Tools for Designers (Jacob Gube)
The Danger of Commenting Out Code and YAGNI: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)
DDD: The Generic Repository (Greg Young)
Future-Proofing a Design (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
Test Case Reuse (in the Future) (James Whittaker)
Hanselminutes Podcast 146 – Test Driven Development Is Design – The Last Word on TDD (Scott Hanselman)
The Aggressive Class vs The Laid Back Class (Chris Missal)
Eric Evans on Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
Code Refactoring – Freaking Awesome (Mike Bernat)

SharePoint

SPSiteBuilder 3.0 Re-released with Source (Keith Richie)
Five Steps to More Successful SharePoint Solutions (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

Using Fluent NHibernate to Map Composite Keys for a Table (Derik Whittaker)
How to Implement a TypeOf Operator in SQL by Using sql_variant_property (Denis Gobo)

.NET Community / Events

TCSWeekly, A New Client-Focused Show on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
A New Side Project – Geeks Without Borders (James Johnson)
Follow Up: Developer Dinner on Silverlight Business Applications (Marc Schweigert)
MSDN Developer Conference – WOW! (G. Andrew Duthie) – It was a really great event. My full wrap-up post is coming soon!
Silverlight Tip of the Day #83 – Go to MIX09 (Mike Snow)

PowerShell

How to Make Your Own Module Repository and Using PowerShell to Protect Against Conficker (Enabling and Disabling AutoRun.inf) (James Brundage)
Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7 (Lilia Gutnik)
XML Part 1: Playing wit RSS Feeds and XML Content (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

Search Twitter with Windows 7’s Federated Search (Lee Matthews)
User Account Control (UAC) – Quick Update (Windows Team)
Video Demonstration: The Best New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Adam Pash)
My 2009 Top 10 Technology Hit List (Russell Ball)
What I Use (January 2009 Update) (Paul Thurrott)
Planet of the Apes Font (Mark Frauenfelder)
Hire the Best: Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Top 10 Things to Learn – 2009 Edition (Arjan Zuidhof)
Live Mesh Team Joins Windows/Windows Live Org (Kip Kniskern)
Google Chrome Installation and Updates (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for January 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 16, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Daily Find #117 (Tim Boland)
CloudNews for January 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Visual Studio Links #100 (Darren Stokes)
Links (1/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2009 — #487 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 — #488 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 – 2 — #489 (Dave Campbell)
Link Listing – January 15, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #266 (Chris Alcock)
Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
Silverlight News for January 16, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
Interesting Finds: January 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Interesting Finds: 2009.01.15 ~ 01.17 (yuanjian)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 7 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 2 in Action: Chad Campbell, John Stockton: Books

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Dew Drop – January 14, 2009

Posted on January 14, 2009 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Design / Methodology / Testing

In Search of Wild Repository (Mike Hadlow)
Unit Testing in VB.NET – with TypeMock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or Is It? (Jeffrey Palermo)
Improving Our Industry: It’s Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward (Derick Bailey)
TDD Using Dependency Injection – Step 1. Refactoring (Andrew Woodward)
Pex – Automated Whiteboard Testing for .NET (v0.9.40105.0) (MS Research)
SOA Is Dead? It’s About Time! (Kurt Cagle)
Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)
Agile in 6 Words (Brian Button)
Leadership 101: Calm in a Storm (Jim Holmes)
Bad Apple Behaviors (David Starr)
The Story of the Lazy-Loading Lunchbox (Dylan Beattie) – Co-Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

How Would the CLR Be Different? (Matthew Podwysocki) – Co-Link of the Day
Microsoft "Oslo" MGraph – the Next XML? (Lars Corneliussen)
Fluent NHibernate: Mapping Private and Protected Entities (James Gregory)
Installing Team Explorer 2008 on Windows 7 (Martin Hinshelwood)
NHibernate + XML Columns (Joey Beninghove)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Validation Framework – xVal – jQuery Validation Support (David Hayden)
Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
Managing Static Files & Browser Caching (Joel Ross)
jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation (John Resig)
SSL Certificates and WWW. Prefix on Domain Names (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Resizable WYMEditor with jQuery UI Resizable (Marc Grabanski)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #81 – How to Scale Your Silverlight Control (Mike Snow)

.NET Community / Events

Are YOU Going to the Microsoft Developer Conference? (James Bender)
Presenting Keynote at MDC in Washington, DC (Stephen Walther) – I’ll be there. DM me on Twitter to track me down.
Top 20+ jQuery Tweeple to Follow (Elijah Manor)
Developer Faceoff: Sergio Pereira vs. Angelo Anolin (Max Pool)
Where in the World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From? (Jeff Atwood)
Herding Code Episode 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon, Jon Galloway)
.NET Fireside Chats – Joe Duffy on ‘Concurrent Programming on Windows’ (Me) – Q&A with Joe and a free chapter excerpt download from his book!

PowerShell

DateTime Casts Are Language Primitives (Lee Holmes)
Switching Website Root with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)

Database

Transact SQL e-Learning Collection Now Available (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

Free Themes, Gadgets, Wallpaper for Windows 7 Beta (Lee Matthews)
Office 14 Revealed: Part 2 – Security and Part 3 – A More Far-Reaching Fluent UI and Part 4 – Improving Desktop TCO (Stephen Chapman)
Microsoft (Finally) Updates Live Mesh for Windows 7 Compatibility and Windows 7 Beta Users: Run, Don’t Walk, to Download the MP3 Patch (Paul Thurrott)
My Favorite Feature in Windows 7 (Jennifer Marsman)
Select Testers Get Office 14 Alpha Release (Mary Jo Foley)
How to Telecommute (as If You’re Right in the Office) (Joel Durham Jr.)
DSLs: Ready for Prime-Time? (Ted Neward)
Exchange 14 Video (KC Lemson)
Refcardz — Free Cheat Sheets for Developers (DotNetShoutout)

More Link Collections

Creators Club Communiqué 13 (Kathleen Sanders)
Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 — #484 and Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 – 2 — #485 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for January 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
LINKBLOG for January 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: 2009.01.13~2009.01.14 (yuanjian)
The Morning Brew #264 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for January 14, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
Link Listing – January 13, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: January 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Concurrent Programming on Windows (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Joe Duffy: Books

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