Daily Bits – February 21, 2008

Misc

• Programming Self-Generating Code for Windows Applications (Jim Charles)
• On Hiring a Brainy Developer (Jay Kimble)
• Joystiq Live From the Microsoft GDC Keynote (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Session: Rules of Engagement: Blizzard’s Approach to Multiplayer Game Design and Session: Taking Xbox Live Arcade Games to the Next Level (Dan Fernandez)
• Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 and Zune (David Weller)
• HealthVault: Opening Up the Vault! and HealthVault: Offline Access Sample (VaibhavB)
• Which Is the Must-Have Skill For a Software Developer? (Abhijit Nadgouda)
• Pattern Focus: Singleton v2.0 (Patrik Löwendahl)
• The SharePoint Developer – New Job (Paul Andrew)
• Dude, This Sucks! (Neil Versel)
• The Mission of a Software Architect (Rainer Eschen)
• SharePoint Bootcamp Tickets on Sale (Heather Solomon)
• JackFlash Gadget Factory – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

.NET

• Do try..catch Blocks Hurt Runtime Performance? (pheaven)
• WEBCAST: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008 (Marc)
• LINQ to XSD Preview Alpha 0.2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• The Weekly Source Code 15 – Duct Tape Edition (Scott Hanselman)
• Working with Lambda Expressions (Brian Mains)
• Workflow Foundation 101 (Maurice de Beijer)
• Writing Better Code – Keepin’ It Extensible (Matthew Cochran)

Web Development

• Manage Your ASP.NET Web.config Files Using NAnt (JKealey)
• Update to wwScriptVariables Server to Client Variable Container (Rick Strahl)

Visual Studio

• P/Invoke Library – VS 2005 & 2008 Add-In (Ernest Laurentin)

 

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: February 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for February 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• links for 2008-02-21 (Sam Buchanan)
• The Morning Brew #37 (Chris Alcock)

 

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