Dew Drop – January 12, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Kick the DateTime.Now Addiction and Topshelf (Dru Sellers)
• James Gregory on the AutoMapping Features of Fluent NHibernate and It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s… StructureMap Documentation!!! and StructureMap 2.5.2 Is Released (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Great Links on Using Garbage Collection Efficiently (Davy Brion)
• First Thoughts on VS2008-on-Windows 7 (Ted Neward)
• C# Trivia – What? No Overflow? (Justin Etheredge)
• Announcing: Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint v1.3 (SharePoint Team)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC RSS Feed Action Result (Eran Kampf)
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 5) – The Model (Nick Berardi)
• Etixo (Javier G. Lozano)
• Why ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Windows Azure (Stephen Walther)
• jQuery Lesson Learned: Close Your Tags (Joe White)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ethics in Software Development: Craftsmanship Over Crap (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Ethics in Software Development: Pragmatism Over Dogmatism (Davy Brion)
• TypeMock AutoMocker – Release 1.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Leadership 101: Want Respect? Give Respect. (Jim Holmes) – Link of the Day
• Enabling Success with Opinionated Architecture (Jimmy Bogard)
• App Configuration and Databases (K. Scott Allen)
• Beware of Fear-Driven Architecture (Do You Fear Deployments?) (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Interactive CD/DVD (Andy Beaulieu)
• MouseEnter and MouseLeave Loops in WPF (Scott Hanselman)
• Interaction Between Silverlight and HTML (Boyan Mihaylov)
• HOWTO: Create Vector-Based Backgrounds in WPF (Rudi Grobler)

 

.NET Community / Events

• A Rant on Professionalism (Chad Myers)
• Starting a User Group, Entry #1 (Jason Haley)

 

Database

• Upgrading Indexes with a Data Dictionary (Ken Downs)

 

PowerShell

• Colorized Capture of Console Screen in HTML and RTF (PowerShell Team)
• Copy Console Screen to System Clipboard (Vladimir Averkin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Things I Love About Windows 7 (Beta) (Josh Twist)
• New Google PageRank Formula – Back to the Zero Point (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows 7 Looks Good So Far (Michael Janke)
• "Windows 7 Download Frustration", Defended (Ted Neward)
• Git on Windows 7 (Jimmy Schementi)
• What C-3PO Can Teach You About Job Security (Max Pool)
• A Tip for Those Who Intend to Dual Boot Between Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 (Kit Kai)
• If You Don’t Change the UI, Nobody Notices (Jeff Atwood)
• 2009: The Year Ahead – Live Mesh (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Links #35 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the Week #67 (David Vidmar)
• Links (1/11/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 76 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for January 11, 2009 — $482 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #262 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.12 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight News for January 12, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• SQL Server – Top Five Articles of Year 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Visual Studio Links #98 (Darren Stokes)

 

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