Dew Drop – March 25, 2008

 

Miscellaneous

• Back Up Your Code! (Jesse Liberty)
• Unity Annoyances (Oren Eini)
• Is Eeyore Designing Your Software? (Jeff Atwood)
• Win a $10,000 Digital Home Makeover From Microsoft (Terry Walsh) – Submit a 2-minute video telling MS why your digital life is so disconnected.

 

Community

• Slides and Demo Code Posted for Lehigh Valley .NET (Sam Gentile)

 

Blogging

• 20 More Free First-Class WordPress Themes (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

 

Silverlight/WPF

• What I’m Thinking About April (Jesse Liberty)
• Neudesic UX/Silverlight Team on Code to Live (Sam Gentile)
• Building a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF – The DataModel (Eran Kampf)
• How to Create a Spiral Xaml Asset (Jose Fajardo)
• Creating Reflections with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Faisal)
• WPF regtool (MS Downloads) – Repairs registry permissions for XBAP execution.

 

.NET

• Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks (Phil Haack)
• Grouping Expectation Verification in Moq (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio Recent Files Utility Now OpenSource on CodePlex and …Big Mailer Utility Is Too (Michael C. Kennedy)
• Non-Invasive API, Take 2 (Oren Eini)
• Inner, Outer, Let’s All Join Together With LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• IronRuby Revision 86 in SVN (Aaron Junod)

 

Web Development

• Introduction to ADO.NET Data Services (Part 2: Reading and Manipulating Results in the Browser) (Greg Galipeau)
• Where’s My .NET 3.5 (on IIS), Dude? (Rick Strahl)

 

SQL Server

• The Parable of the Bathroom (karlagius) – Great post explaining deadlocks.

 

Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #13 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-03-24) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for March 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• New and Notable 230 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (3/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Finds of the Week – March 23, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• Link Listing – March 24, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Bits for March 25, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #58 (Chris Alcock)

 

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