Month: February 2009

Web Development

• Plunging into the sea of jQuery plugins – Part I (Xun Ding)
• Circular References no More (Ben Anderson)
• 10 Useful Tips For Ruby On Rails Developers (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show #136 – Rachel Appel on Dynamic Data (Wallace B. McClure)
• Test your site in all mainstream browsers without installing (Wesley Bakker)
• Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 6 – The ESB Channel Model (Sam Gentile)
• Splitting DateTime – Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binders (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #49 – Use the LinqBinaryModelBinder in your Edit Actions (Stephen Walther)
• DotNetNuke – FileUploadControl Danger! and ASP.NET MVC – Is The Grass Really Greener? (Dave M. Bush)
• New ASP.NET Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ReSharper 4.5 EAP (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Moving to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (Steve Marx)
• Code Contracts for .NET (Zhiming Xue)
• How to determine which language(s) were used to build a .NET assembly (Rick Minerich)
• Functional C# – Fun With Folds (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C#: Wrapping DateTime and Coding: Using "ToString" (Mark Needham)
• Create custom LINQ providers fluently (Mehfuz H.)
• Expert to Expert: Inside Concurrent Basic (CB) (Charles Torre)
• Ninject 2 Reaches Beta! (Nate Kohari)

Silverlight / WPF

• New themes: EDGE and INC (formerly “Executive”) (Dax Pandhi)
• Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET Framework 4 Serves as User Interface Base for Upcoming Beta of Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
• Please turn the fidelity higher please (Coding4Fun)
• Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 (Dave Campbell)
• Better Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight’s ProgressBar And Possible Memory Leaks (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight Unit Test Runner for ReSharper – January 2009 Update (Einar Ingebrigtsen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• links you’ve been asking for (James Whittaker)
• An Agile Workflow (Karl Scotland)
• Who’s Your Coding Buddy? (Jeff Atwood)
• Distributed Reliability Testing (Ian Fette)
• MVP Delivers Free Data Structures and Algorithms EBook! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Plunging your way to better code (Larry Clarkin)
• Silverlight Unit Testing, RhinoMocks, Unity and Resharper. (Justin Angel)
• Hallmarks of Good System Design (Marcus Bratton)

Database

• SQL Server In The Cloud Vaporware Or Inevitable? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server 2010 Features Leaked! (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Find Relationship of Foreign Key and Primary Key using T-SQL – Find Tables With Foreign Key Constraint in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Paging in a sql result set (Peter Van Ooijen)

Community / Events

• Teamcity.Codebetter.com is alive and kicking (Derik Whittaker)
• Heading to MIX09? Get ready for MIXAPALOOZA (Nic Fillingham)
• How not to get help on an Open Source Project (Nick Berardi)
• Mix09 Wiimote/C4F Meetup? (Brian Peek)
• Speaking at DevTeach in June (Shawn Wildermuth)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7: Beta testers, not Microsoft, need more feedback (Mary Jo Foley)
• Muglia: Open source to permeate Microsoft (Matt Asay)
• Send Emails with .NET and Gmail (gatekiller)
• VB6 Runtime to ship and be supported in Windows 7 (Charles Sterling)
• Kodu: Visual Programming on the Xbox with P2P Level-sharing (Brady Forrest)
• Some Changes Since Beta for the RC (Chaitanya Sareen) – Some Windows 7 RC details – Link of the Day
• Updates to attachments: multi-select and progress bars (Wes Carr)
• 5 Tips For Making Better Use Of Your Time (Simon Mackie)
• Get Yer TwitStamp and Your ass is grass and I’m the lawn mower (Steve Clayton)
• Windows 7 Trigger-Start Services (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #295 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Twitterings #17 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 25, 2009 — #528 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for February 25th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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