Dew Drop – April 8, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Startup: Build and Deploy (James Shore)
• IndyHall 201: The Iterative Process (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Back on Repositories and Paging. Introducing Reporting. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• CRISP Builds and BOOK: Clean Code – A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship (Brad Appleton)
• 5 Ways to Get Your Clients to Follow Your Work Process (Celine Roque)
• Feature Crews: kanban systems for software engineering in the large (Corey Ladas)
• Using complex types to make calling services less… complex (Dave Ward)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Gunnar Peipman)
• Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing (Rob Conery)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate Mapping – <property/> and NHibernate Mapping – <component/> (Oren Eini)
• Declarative Workflow with MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• Coding: Passing booleans into methods (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Visual Studio debugger related attributes cheat sheet (Tamir Khason)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF String.Format in XAML with the StringFormat attribute and The Free Office WPF Ribbon (blagunas)
• Patterns and practices in the Composite Application Library – part 1 (Pencho Popadiyn)
• [MVVM + Mediator + ACB = cool WPF App] – The MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• 5 Random Gotchas with the WPF DataGrid (Vincent Sibal)
• Silverlight 3 Beta – Capturing a Screenshot (Mike Taulty)

 

Web Development

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: A Look at JSON Serialization (Scott Mitchell)
• Using the ASP.NET MVC Futures AsyncController (Maarten Balliauw)
• Web Application Project generated CodeBehind .designer file not being updated (Rick Strahl)
• One little gotcha to remember when upgrading to ASP.NET MVC RTM (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight Spy – Visual Debugging Silverlight Applications (Adam Kinney)
• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 6? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• Gazelle – Operating System Architecture and Web Browser Security (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #99: Creating SOLID Code: Refactoring the SOLID episode on DI to use StructureMap (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow starts "Shared Experience" initiative (Ivan Dragoev)
• Speaking Dates + Sexiest Female Developer Contest (Sara J. Chipps)
• Magenic webinars in April 2009 (Rockford Lhotka)
• MVC Course is Coming Online! (K. Scott Allen)
• Open Source Club continues to focus on Rawr for April (Sara Ford)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 and SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, April 2009 (MS Downloads)
• A Quick Look At Compression In SQL 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Where’s my Data? (Kirstin Juhl)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Clean code for sequential workflow (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• First screenshots of build Windows 7 build 7077 leak (Emil Protalinski)
• Introduction to 3D Using Flash CS4 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OpenOffice.org 3.1 RC1 released (Brad Linder)
• In Defense of Editing (Jeff Atwood)
• Delivering a quality upgrade experience (Windows 7 Team)
• Upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to the Release Candidate (Paul Thurrott)
• How to leave comments on a CodePlex project wiki page – #010 (Sara Ford)
• More on IE 7 Compatibility Mode (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #324 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2009 — #565 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for April 7, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for April 7th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 311 (Sam Gentile)
• Creators Club Communiqué 23 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

Book of the Day