Dew Drop – December 2, 2008

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Iterative Development and the Evolving Architecture (Chris)
• Tending Your Software Garden (Jeff Atwood)
• Unit Testing Legacy Code with C# 3.0 Language Features (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Avoiding Abstractions (Brad Abrams)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introduction to NHibernate, Part 1 (Ian Cooper)
• Filtering Your Data Using Predicates (Amit Raz)
• Fluent NHibernate for Configuring NHibernate (David Hayden)
• VSTA Layer Diagram and MEF – Does My Design Smell? (Clemens Reijnen)
• Addicted to MEF – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• IronPython and LINQ to XML Part 4: Generating XML (Harry Pierson)
• If Only My IDE Could Do… (Andrew Stopford)

 

Web Development

• Now Waegis Is Completely Free (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Charting in ASP.NET, ASP.NET Chart Controls for .NET 3.5 SP1 (ranganh)
• Have Some Input into "Programming ASP.NET 4.0" (Dan Maharry)
• WCF and Multiple IIS Site Bindings (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• XM Radio Player Part I: Fiddling (K. Scott Allen) – Link of the Day
• Exploring the ASP.NET 3.5 Chart Controls (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Best Code Syntax Highlighter for Snippets in Your Blog (Scott Hanselman)
• jQuery – Events (Dave M. Bush)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Simple Expander – Silverlight Toolkit (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #76 – Animating Objects with DoubleAnimation and #77 – Creating an Efficient Random Generator (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Trick: Inline Silverlight Apps (John Stockton)
• Controllerizing the ScrollViewer Thumbnail (Josh Twist)
• Build a Silverlight Line-of-Business Application – Part 4 (Chris Anderson)

 

Database

• SQL Agent Job Notifications (Ted Krueger)

 

Events / Community

• Upcoming Talk: RESTful Applications with WCF (David Makogon)
• Events This Week – December 1st, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking About PowerShell for Developers on December 17th (Joel Bennett)
• Central Penn Code Camp 2008 (Rachel Appel)

 

Miscellaneous

• Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead (Dave Schinkel)
• Blockbuster Teams Up with Microsoft to Offer Services via Live Mesh Platform (Chris)
• Yet Another Way to Save Your A** in Outlook (David Starr)
• Time to Think Twice About Free (Mike Gunderloy)
• Gmail on Your Desktop (James Yum)
• Upgrading an Old Compaq Ipaq from Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger to 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and Christmas Cards Made Easy – Shutterfly, Excel, and a Word Mail Merge (Scott Hanselman)
• Mount SkyDrive as a Virtual Drive in Windows (Sarah Perez)
• Why I Love Twitter (Tim O’Reilly)
• Google Delivers Plan for Chrome Extensions (Samuel Dean)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/WPF (Scott Guthrie)
• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #13 – December 2, 2008 (Bob McIlree)
• LINKBLOG for December 1, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for December 01, 2008 — #443 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for December 02, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #235 (Chris Alcock)

 

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