Day: July 7, 2008

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ARCast: Biff Gaut on the Microsoft Certified Architects Program (Bob Familiar)
• Estimating Availability of Simple Systems – Introduction and Non-Redundant Systems and Redundant Systems (Michael Janke)
• Who Should Own the Non-Functional Tests? (Simon Brown)
• How to Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms (Davy Brion)
• How Does Design Get Done on an Agile Project? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Conventions-Based Binding (Nate Kohari)
• Introducing Depender – Testability Problem Finder and Extending Depender with Your Own Custom Dependency Rules and Is Moq Too Powerful? (Roy Osherove)
• The Problem with Code Folding (Jeff Atwood)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• A Tool for Building Circle Arcs with WPF (odewit)
• Themes for Silverlight Applications (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight Web Chat (with WCF Callbacks) (Thomas Halloway)

 

SharePoint

• You Should Learn SharePoint (Robert Bogue)
• Is VSeWSS 1.2 Ready for Prime Time? (Scot Hillier)
• Exporting Site Content From a SharePoint Content Database for Recovery Purposes (Keith Richie)
• GetFeatureAndDependencies – A SharePoint PowerShell Function (Darrin Bishop)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• xUnit ReSharper 4.0 Support and Moq 2.5 Released (David Hayden)
• 2D Game Tutorial Now Available (XNA Team)
• Cool New Features in Rosario (Granville Barnett)
• Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with ReflectionHelper (Chad Myers) – Link of the Day
• Visual Studio Test Results Window Behavior Fix (David Starr)
• Cascading Deletes in LINQ to SQL (Scott Lysle)
• Extension Methods + Atributes = A Whole New World (Shay Friedman)

 

Web Development

• Gravatar’s New Features and ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
• Inclusion of JavaScript Files (Rick Strahl)

 

SQL Server

• Database Performance: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later (Ken Downs)

 

Miscellaneous

• Review of the Check-In Dance (Kyle Baley)
• Being Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make (Justin Etheredge)
• Customer Polarizing – Why Microsoft Will Always Be a Mediocre Giant (Max Pool)
• Do You Have Time to Learn Everything? (Arjan Zuidhof)
• 5 Rules of Thumb for Web Workers (Mike Gunderloy)
• PoshCode – The PowerShell Code Repository (Joel Bennett)
• 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud (Stacey Higginbotham)
• Why You’ll Have a Long Wait for Microsoft’s Next OS (Ed Bott)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 7, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Interesting Finds: July 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Bookmarking the Web – w27/2008 (Erwin)
• LINKBLOG for July 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 49 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/6/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 6, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – July 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #130 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #242 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

Book of the Day