April 2008 – Page 7 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 13, 2008

Miscellaneous

My Philosophy on Using New Technologies (Rocky Lhotka)
Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader (Andrew Tokeley) – Link of the Day

Design/Methodology

The Cost of Abstraction and Part II and Part III (Oren Eini)

.NET

Designing with Lambdas – Part I (Sergio Pereira)
LINQ to SQL ObjectTrackingEnabled and Deferred Loading of Related Data (Rick Strahl)
xUnit.net 1.0 RC3 Released Today (Brad Wilson)
ThreeSharp – Release v1.3 (CodePlex) – .NET Library for Amazon S3.
Mocking Events (Aaron Jensen)
Introducing the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Daniel Moth)
Encrypting Passwords in a .NET app.config File (Jon Galloway)

Web Development

OpenID 2.0 for .NET Now Available (Rob Howard)
Getting Started with Silverlight and IronRuby (Jim)
AJAX Templates (Nikhil Kothari)

Events/Community

2 Weeks Until Mesh – Press Invites for Demoes Go Out (Chris)

Link Collections

Links of the Week – April 12th 2008 (Chris Love)

Book of the Day

LINQ Quickly: Satheesh, N Kumar: Books

Technorati: .net development, asp.net ajax, silverlight, ironruby, openid, mocking

Dew Drop – April 12, 2008

Miscellaneous

Donating $5,000 to .NET Open Source (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
Programmers – Start ’em Young? (Joe Stagner)
Small Software – Big Impact (Jesse Liberty)
Schools of Software Development (Martin Fowler)
Everything I Know About Code Reviews I Learnt From Star Wars (and JCooney) (Leon Bambrick)
CHAPTER 3: Communicating and Collaborating (Dan Bunea) – Agile Mini Book

Blogging

bTweets (Twitter) and bTittleTattle (FriendFeed) Apps (sobees)
Welcome to the New TRT (Jay Kimble)
EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin Release v3.2 (CodePlex)
Blogging Extension for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)
GroupTweet Enhances Twitter (Mike Gunderloy)

Web Development

Must Have Tool for ASP.NET Developer (adventurer)
Silverlight Gems (Jesse Liberty)
Most Useful 50 CSS Tips and Tools for Webmasters (Emma Alvarez)

.NET

Printing with WPF (Rob Relyea)
Unity Community Contributions and Interception (Matthew Podwysocki)
LINQ with DataReaders (devprime)
A .NET Cryptography Primer, Part Two (Will)
SubSonic 2.1 Beta 3 Release (CodePlex)
LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client – Part 1: Building the Middle Tier (Beth Massi)
IUpdatable & ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Pratik Patel)
Writing Your First WCF Client (Sahil Malik)

Events/Community

VSLive Orlando Coming Soon! (Rocky Lhotka)
Where You Can Find Me This Spring (Jeffrey Palermo)
Thank You North Carolina (Brad Abrams)

Visual Studio

Simpler Code Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
PowerCommands 1.1 Released (vsxteam)
Spec# for Visual Studio 2005 v1.0.20411 (MS Research)
p&p – Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Release (CodePlex)

PowerShell

The SQL Server PowerShell Provider (Joel Bennett)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 11, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-11) (Matt Hinze)
Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2008 – #250 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 11, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
New and Notable 233 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Implementation Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Kent Beck: Books

Technorati: daily links, .net development, agile development, powershell, linq, asp.net, unity, subsonic

Dew Drop – April 11, 2008

.NET

How to Expose Your Collections Safely (Shahar Abramovich)
The Fastest Way to Insert 100K Records (Pablo)
xUnit.net RC3 Just Released (Matthew Podwysocki)
Xaml for Config (Josh Twist)
Pattern Matching in C# – Part 4 (Bart de Smet)
The Empty Try Block Mystery (Siddharth Uppal)
MyDock – Release v0.9.1000 (CodePlex)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 3 (Rob Conery)
37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins (noupe)
Putting ASP.NET Dynamic Data Into Context (Scott Hanselman)
WCF REST Configuration for ASP.NET AJAX and Plain REST Services (Rick Strahl)
Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with Sockets: Part I (Dan Wahlin)

Design/Methodology

Unit Test Projects or Not? (Bil Simser)
Being Greener (Eric Gunnerson)

Visual Studio

Database Change Management Using Team System 2008 (Angela Binkowski) – Jim Blizzard gave this presentation to my company, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.
Calling All Data Dudes… (jbarnes) – More Blizzardy goodness.
An Idea for Making Efficient Use of Your Multiple Monitors for Development (David Christiansen) – Link of the Day
Visual Studio 2008 PowerShell (Mark Seemann)
Announcing AC’s VS SharePoint Project Utility Tool Window (Andrew Connell) – Amazing VS Add-In for SharePoint developers.
Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” April 2008 CTP (VPC Image) (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

An Editor’s Top Six Pet Peeves (Nancy)
New Subscriber Downloads and Product Keys UI Is LIVE (SubscriptionsBlogger2)

Career

4 Places for Developers to Make Money (bayarsaikhan)

Link Collections

New and Notable 232 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: April 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-04-10) (Matt Hinze)
April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
Silverlight Cream for April 10, 2008 – #249 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
February / March 2008 Recap (Jon Galloway)
Links (4/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Visual Studio Links #18 (Darren Stokes)
The Morning Brew #71 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Professional WPF Programming: .NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation (Wrox Professional Guides): Chris Andrade,Shawn Livermore,Mike Meyers,Scott Van Vliet: Books

Technorati: daily links, silverlight, .net development, asp.net mvc, asp.net ajax, sql server, visual studio 2008, powershell, sharepoint