Dew Drop – July 25, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Review NHibernate Application (Oren Eini)
• IronRuby at OSCON (John Lam)
• LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators (Charlie Calvert)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
• .NET Rocks! – Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology

• Coding Without Comments (Jeff Atwood)
• Code Commenting? Try Business Commenting. (Avi Pilosof)
• Impedance Mismatch and System Evolution and Default Architecture: Layers (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• The MVC Minefield (Michael C. Neel)
• GridView or Repeater? (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Easy Ways to Make Your Technical Blog More Visible and Programmable (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: The Productive Programmer – Neal Ford (Shawn Wildermuth)
• HD View Control for Internet Explorer (MS Research)
• Converting Columns to Date From DateTime Does Not Result in a Scan in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Silverlight

• Silverlight a Flash Competitor, Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch (Schalk Neethling)
• An Adobe Evangelist Gives His Opinion on Silverlight (Dion Almaer)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 25, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Link (7/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #144 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series): Michael Feathers: Books