Day: March 19, 2008

 

Silverlight/WPF

• Silverlight 2 Cross-Domain Web Proxy Utility (Frank La Vigne)
• Tip of the Day: Getting Started with Silverlight 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• A Start at Test-Driven Development with Silverlight 2 (Brad Abrams)
• Surface Demo – Silverlight 2 Update and DeepZoom and Breaking Changes in Silverlight 2 (Michael Schwarz)
• Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content and Uploading Silverlight 2 Content to Silverlight Streaming (Tim Sneath)
• Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF – Introduction (Eran Kampf)

 

Blogging

• WordPress 2.5 New Automatic Plugin Upgrade Problems (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques (Noupe)
• Twhirl is a Must For a Desktop Twitter Client (Joe Ocampo) – It’s my Twitter client of choice at the moment as well.

 

.NET

• xUnit.NET and Avoiding Invasive API Design (Oren Eini)
• xUnit.net – Unit Testing for .NET – Release 1.0 RC2 (CodePlex)
• DLRScript Update (Jay Kimble)
• How To: Dependency Injection with Spring.NET (Ian Suttle)
• Mapping Options in LINQ to SQL (Jimmy Bogard)
• GetType() or ‘is’ Keyword? (Brandon Turner)
• Lambda, Lambda, Lambda! (Howard Dierking)
• C# 3.0 and LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• A Set of Useful Extension Methods for DateTime (Fredrik Kalseth)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC In-Depth: The Life of an ASP.NET MVC Request (Stephen Walther)
• WebBrowser Control Rendering Modes in IE8 (Matthew David Crowley)

 

Visual Studio

• Continuous Integration Setup with MSTest (Steven Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• What is FiOS Costing You These Days? (weaz)
• The One Single Tip to Comment Your Code (Soon Hui)
• The Dark Side of Extensions (Jeff Atwood)
• Best Buy – $50 Gift Card If You Purchased an HD DVD Player (spoofee)
• Tracking Web 2.0 (Duncan Riley)
• 10 Killer Firefox Extensions That You Probably Don’t Know About (Seanwin) – There were 5 I didn’t know about.

 

Events/Community

• MIX 08 Sessions – Zune Feed (Matthew Wills)
• Sketch-Notes from SXSW Interactive 2008 (Mike Rohde) – This is a pretty amazing set of images of hand-written/sketched notes.

 

Career

• The Art of B.S. or “How to Write a Cover Letter” (Justin Etheredge)
• 10 Non-Monetary Benefits to Attract and Retain Top Developers (Justin James)

 

Link Collections

• Links Today (2008-03-18) (Matt Hinze)
• Lunchtime Coffee 158 (Harry Pierson)
• Visual Studio Links #11 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (3/18/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #56 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – March 18, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

 

Book of the Day