Month: February 2009

Please let me know if you find any issues with today’s links. I wrote a plug-in for Windows Live Writer the other night to generate the links from my Google Reader starred items Atom feed. This is the first post created using the plug-in. I’ll be putting the code up on CodePlex after I clean it up a bit and make it more generic and re-usable.

Web Development

• Mini jQuery Lab (Elijah Manor) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET Wire Format for Model Binding to Arrays, Lists, Collections, Dictionaries (Scott Hanselman)
• URL Rewriting using ASP.NET for SEO (Steve Riggall)
• Selectors API Test Suite in IE 8 (John Resig)
• SharePoint Blogs Update: Mirrored Feeds (Dustin Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using .Select() instead of foreach (Josh Twist)
• Why Would I Create A Custom LINQ Operator? (K. Scott Allen)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 148 – MEF – Managed Extensibility Framework with Glenn Block (Scott Hanselman)
• New ‘How Do I’ Videos Released (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• In Defense of Uncle Bob and the SOLID Principles (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Modeling an Application in Oslo Part II: Domain Entities and Refactoring (Stephen Forte)
• DDD : Command Query Separation as an Architectural Concept (Casey Charlton)
• Book review: User Stories Applied (Laila Bougria)
• Do you wanna be the Picasso of programming? First learn the rules, and only after break them (Simone Chiaretta)
• Getting a SOLID start. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Object Thinking (Mo Khan)
• the touring test (James Whittaker)
• Lexing and Parsing (Paul Vick)
• Managing Humans (Steve Rowe)
• So, On a Very Practical Level, What is a Taxonomy? (Mark Schneider)

Silverlight / WPF

• Hanselminutes Podcast 149 – Deconstructing "blu" – a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23 (Scott Hanselman)
• Tuning Animations in Silverlight Apps and Get John Papa’s Excellent Silverlight Data Service Book for 40 Percent Off! (Shawn Wildermuth)

PowerShell

• PowerBoots: Loading XAML Windows in PowerShell 1.0 or 2.0 (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores and Microsoft Exchange 14 Webmail to get Gmail-like threads, Firefox support and Sources: Windows 7 moving toward 2009 release (WinBeta)
• Thank You IE8 Beta Testers (Allison Burnett)
• Organizing Software Projects (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Windows Live Messenger upgrade available and Microsoft Exchange Labs renamed to “Outlook Live” (but what about SkyLine?) (Kip Kniskern)
• This afternoon, party like it’s 1234567890 Unix time (Ross Miller)
• Gog.is Shortens Google Search URLs for Easy Sharing (The How-To Geek)
• There’s a Reason for Windows 7’s Name (Joe Wilcox)
• Skyfire 0.9 for Windows Mobile Goes Social (Larry Larsen)
• Podcast #41 (Jeff Atwood)
• Hulu Coming Soon to Media Center via SecondRun.tv and Federated Search Implementer’s Guide (Sarah Perez)
• Old school fun: WindowBlinds skin turns Vista, XP into Windows 3.11 (Lee Mathews)
• SQL Mesh update (Jamie Thomson)

More Link Collections

• Bag of Links #2 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #286 (Chris Alcock)
• LINKBLOG for February 12, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 12, 2009 — #515 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for February 12th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day