Dew Drop – September 23, 2008

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Flattening the Learning Curve – Your Input Needed (Tim Barcz)
• Architecture Frame (J.D. Meier)
• Jeremy’s First Law of Continuous Integration and Jeremy’s Other Laws of Continuous Integration and Jeremy’s Penultimate Law of Continuous Integration (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Why SOLID? GIMME AN L! and Laribee’s Final Law of Continuous Integration (Dave Laribee)
• Beware the Evils of Code Generation (Davy Brion)
• Parameterized Unit Test Patterns (Draft) (Jonathan de Halleux) – Link of the Day
• Find Unity with Enterprise Library 4.0 (Shaun Sargent)
• A TDD Investment Addendum (Jimmy Bogard)
• Learning and Craftsmanship (Ian Cooper)
• Getting Rid of Spaghetti Code in the Real World: A Case Study (Patrick Smacchia)
• Builder Design Pattern (Richard Carr)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• 4 New Training Sessions for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2008 Available Today (Charles Sterling)
• Building Firefox Plugins Using Visual Studio (James Bacon)
• Arrays Considered Somewhat Harmful (Eric Lippert)
• F# Scripting Zen – Word Interop (Chris Smith)
• Cloud Services and Visual Studio 10 (Gunther Lenz)

 

Web Development

• Passing Objects to SubControllers (Matt Hinze)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip of the Day #43: Making It Snow in Silverlight and #44: Silverlight-Enabled WCF Services Versus ASMX Web Services (Mike Snow)
• Learning About WPF Effects (Adam Kinney)
• WPF: Colour Blindness Shader Effect (Paul Stovell)
• Another 3D Example in Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Loader Custom Control: Dynamically Loading User Controls in Silverlight 2 (John Papa)
• Add Mouse Wheel Support to ScrollViewer (Tim Heuer)

 

Database

• ISO Week in SQL Server and SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 1 Is Available From Microsoft (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server Guidelines and Coding Standards Part 1 (Pinal Dave)

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week – September 22nd, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Have You Heard About LINQ? (Jimmy Nilsson)
• How Do You Make a Girl Developer? (Sara J. Chipps)
• What I Do to Become a Better Developer (Grant Palin)
• Microsoft Announces PDC Details (Paul Thurrott)

 

Miscellaneous

• Spolsky’s Cross-Platform Password Management Method (Jason Clarke)
• Updated PowerShell Syntax File for vim (Peter Provost)
• Windows 7 Videos Preview What’s to Come (Adam Pash)
• Designing Erlang# (Oren Eini)
• Windows 7 Must Appeal to Geeks… or Else (Don Reisinger)
• Google Book Search Now Fits on Your Blog (Josh Lowensohn)
• The IE8 IEAK (Jatinder Mann)
• Adobe Officially Announces CS4 (Christina Warren)
• Halo 3 Title Update (Larry Hryb)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Find #100 and Daily Find #101 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for September 22, 2008 and LINKBLOG for September 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Triple Shot Links #2 (Russell Ball)
• Silverlight Cream for September 22, 2008 — #374 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #185 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for September 23, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)

 

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