…and we’re back! Sorry for the outage over the last 36 hours. Here’s yesterday’s Dew Drop. I’ll probably skip 01/06 and come back with an XL version of the Dew tomorrow. Thanks for reading/clicking!
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Top Links
- Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette (Matthew Johnson) – An addin for VS2010 to work around the lack of built-in themes for the IDE.
 - Essential F# DZone Refcard by Chance Coble & Ted Neward (Greg Duncan)
 - T4MVC 2.6.10: fluent route value API, shorter way to refer to action, and more (David Ebbo)
 - MVC Integration Changes in Autofac Beta 2.1.6 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
 - What the Office team will be talking about at CES (Rachel Bondi)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Open .sln File as Elevated User (Jason Haley)
 - NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0 (Oren Eini)
 - BOOK : Murach’s C++ 2008 (Joe Stagner)
 - Overloading Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
 - Creating WCF Service using Workflow 4.0 Beta 2 (Mahesh Sabnis)
 - F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
 - AutoMapFilter meet IJoinedFilter (Wes McClure)
 
Web Development
- Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)
 - BOOK – ASP.NET 4.0 by Joydip Kanjilal (Joe Stagner)
 - ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- UI Automation tools snake oil? (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Don’t Strive For Perfection (Davy Brion)
 - BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 3: Scenario outlines and tabular templates (Gojko Adzic)
 - Production profiling security considerations (Oren Eini)
 - Agile Tenet #7 – Usable Doc as a Measure of Progress (Julie Stickler)
 - FubuMVC Diagnostics Sneak Peek (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - A web store using FubuMVC and CQRS and Test Driven Spikes (TDS) (Mark Nijhof)
 
Silverlight / WPF
- Extending the SLHVP Player to be a Platform (Jesse Liberty)
 - Bing Maps 3D, WPF, and Windows 7 MultiTouch (Marc Schweigert)
 - Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog (Mike Taulty)
 - Silverlight – Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink (Fredrik Normén)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
 - Pluralcast #5: The Lean Sensei (David Starr)
 
Community / Events
- The Virtual PowerShell Group (Joel Bennett)
 - Northeast Roadshow: Finding Developer Help (Chris Bowen)
 - Community Coding Contest 2010 – Looking for Input and Prizes (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Stack Overflow: Where We Hate Fun (Jeff Atwood)
 - Predictions for 2010 Part I- Beyond .NET (Stephen Forte)
 - 2010 Predictions, 2009 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
 - January 2010 Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)
 - Should PASS hold the conference on the East coast (Simon Sabin) – Yes! 🙂
 - Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement (Silverlight Team)
 - MVC 2 in Action book conducting public reviews (Jeffrey Palermo)
 - Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)
 
Database
- SQLPSX v2 – PowerShell for SQL Server has been PowerShell 2’ed (Greg Duncan)
 - SQL SERVER – SQL Server RDL Specification (Pinal Dave)
 - TSQL Challenge – Remove duplicates from a string (Simon Sabin)
 - SQL Azure CTP Testers Can Upgrade Their Accounts To Paid Commercial Subscriptions Starting Today (Denis Gobo)
 - MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing (Krishnan Subramanian)
 
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Using Windows 7 GodMode to create keyboard shortcuts to settings (James Clarke)
 - First Cousins Once Removed (Eric Lippert)
 - The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009 (Frank La Vigne)
 - Workaround for Start-Transcript on native processes (Tianjie (James) Wei)
 - Oh, no. My TortoiseSVN overlays are missing (Sergio Pereira)
 - Case of the Missing PC Speaker Beep in x64 Win7 (Larry Larsen)
 - An Exercise in De-Obfuscation (Lee Holmes)
 
More Link Collections
- Tech Tweets for 4-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
 - The Morning Brew #510 (Chris Alcock)
 - Independent Consultant Notes: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
 - A Feed You Should Read #18 – F# Discoveries This Week (Greg Duncan)
 
The Geek Shelf
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