Dew Drop – January 21, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and the 2009 Presidential Inauguration (Scott Guthrie)
• Survey – Camtasia and Silverlight (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Expression Newsletter – Silverlight Toolkit Charting Article (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Docking and Ribbon Controls (Tim Heuer)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Laurent Bugnion on ‘Silverlight 2 Unleashed’ (Me)
• My First Silverlight Part 1 – Introduction and Preparation and Part 2 – Create the WCF News Service (Ton Stegeman)
• WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring: Expose Static Method and EnumHelper Class and Refactoring: Delete Unneeded Code (Gunnar Peipman)
• ExtractM "Oslo" Sample (Chris Sells)
• Lap Around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform (Jeff Barnes)
• Things to Notice When Binding to Large Collection (Amit Raz)
• Simple Port Scanner Written in VB.NET 2003/2008 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Enterprise Library Logging 101 (David Starr)
• Truncate a Path String (Srinath MS)
• Installing ReSharper 4.5 in an Experimental Visual Studio Hive (James Kovacs)
• Learning Windows Workflow Foundation – Release: Introduction to Fault Handling (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Web Development

• Quick Tip: Prevent Animation Queue Buildup (Brandon Aaron)
• Capturing and Playing Back Web Service Calls with Wireshark and SoapUI (Mike Hadlow)
• HTML5 Introduction (Richard Heyes)
• Periodically Updating the Screen and Web Page Title with ASP.NET AJAX (Scott Mitchell)
• 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools (Jacob Gube)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Sometimes I Write Bad Code (JP Hamilton)
• Extreme Programming Explained (Gunnar Peipman) – A review of Kent Beck’s book.
• Coding: Contextual Learning and C#: Builder Pattern Still Useful for Test Data (Mark Needham)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Using Type Classes (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Multi-Dimensional Seniority (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day
• DDD: Specification or Query Object (Greg Young)
• JavaScript Decorator Pattern (Jimmy Bogard)
• When to Use Dependency Injection (Miško Hevery)
• Developer Diary – Ramp Up (Dave Bost)
• It Takes a Master to Lead an Apprentice (Sergio Pereira)
• NCover – Code Coverage for .NET Developers (Stephen Ward)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Review of the MDC at NYC (Dave M. Bush)

 

Database

• SqlDependency and SQL Service Broker Permissions (Keith Elder)
• SQL Server Code Repository on Live Mesh (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Before I Sign, Can I See Your Codebase? (Peter Eysermans)
• Thoughts on Three Monitors for Developers (Roland Weigelt)
• Ruby Is Cool – Part #1 (Michael Ceranski)
• Mozilla’s Ubiquity Gets Faster, Prettier (Josh Lowensohn)
• Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-In (Joe Stagner)
• Small Basic Is on Channel 9 (Vijay)
• Cookbook, Guide Can Assist in Windows 7 Application Compatibility Tests (Bruce Kyle)
• The One Thing Programmers and Musicians Have in Common (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Creators Club Communiqué 14 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Weekly Links for 1/21/09 (Dana Coffey)
• LINKBLOG for January 20. 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.18~01.21 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #269 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – January 20, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Everyman Links for January 20, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for January 20th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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