Dew Drop – March 30, 2008

 

Miscellaneous

• Agile Coaching: The Daily Stand-Up Meeting (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SharedView is Very Cool (Chris Johnson)
• Using RSS for System Status (Michael Janke)
• The Roots of Best Practices (Christopher Bennage)
• Towards Bug-Free Code (Patrick Smacchia)
• Concurrancy-Oriented Code Reviews (Joe Duffy)

 

.NET

• Simple Way to Convert IEnumerable<Entity> to List<Entity> and Sorting Lists the .NET 3.5 Way (Derik Whittaker)
• Another Code Release – Preview Handlers for XP (Tim Heuer)
• How to Grayout an Image in .NET (Dan Rigsby)
• Custom Aggregations in LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• Patterns and Practices WCF Security Guidance Now Available (Hosam Kamel)
• A Simple Closure to Handle Try/Catch Around Transactions (Ray Houston)

 

Silverlight/WPF

• DLR Pad: Xaml + Ruby/Python (Rob Relyea)
• Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF – Stock DataModel Sample (Eran Kampf)

 

SQL Server

• How to Use COALESCE and NULLIF to Prevent Updating Columns When a Parameter IS NULL or a Default Value (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 2 (Jason Follas)

 

Visual Studio

• UPDATE: New Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper Release (MS Public Sector Team)
• IronPython Studio Integrated Shell Setup Released on CodePlex (Quan To)

 

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 28, 2008 and March 29, 2008 and March 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2008 – #239 and March 30, 2008 – #240 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for March 28, 2008 and March 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – March 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Links Today (2008-03-30) (Matt Hinze)

 

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