Month: April 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Don’t Provide Agile Certification (James Shore)
• DDDD: Didn’t You Get The Message? and DDDD: Producers and Consumers (Jonathan Oliver)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
• How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates (Max Pool)
• Code Coverage – 100% Coverage and Still Failing (Tim Barcz)
• Getting Back in the Game (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 Best Libraries for generating PDF Files (AjaxLine)
• The basic syntax of F# – types (Brian McNamara)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Standard Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• The C# Programming Language 4.0 (Doug Holland)
• Syntax Highlighting with MGrammar (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Soma Provides Catalog of Development Tools (Bruce Kyle)
• Function to Extract a Regular Expression Pattern From a String (Cindy Rodriguez)
• Transparent Query Batching Through Your Repository (Davy Brion)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Displaying Values (Harry Pierson)
• Using Pre-Compiled LINQ to Entities Queries in Web Apps and Services (Julie Lerman)
• Euphemized Exceptions for .NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• What are your Visual Studio tips? (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure: .NET Services March CTP Update (Zhiming Xue)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 is now available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Window Switchers and Previews In Depth (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Revisiting “DSLs are a bad idea”… (Paul Vick)

 

Web Development

• Announcement of S#arp Architecture Community Site (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Putting the “M” Back in MVC (Rob Conery)
• The Four Pillars of ASP.NET (Stephen Walther)
• JavaScript: Avoid the Evil eval (Sergio Pereira)
• Help Shape the Future of ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer? (Vinayabhushana GattamReddy)
• Tip #51 Did you know… how to use VS2005 to debug with IE8? (Xinyang Qiu)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Photo Gallery Wall Application (Jeff Paries)
• Efficient Paging In Silverlight 2.0 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Preparing for a Side-by-Side Silverlight Machine (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Resources for Surface WPF Development (Mark Hopkins)
• Announcement: Document Toolkit for Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)

 

Community / Events

• Foundation Series, Session 2 – April 8th (Brian Donahue)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Tomorrow, April 1st, 6:30pm – Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service (Christopher Steen)
• Wrox Authors at TechEd North America 2009 (Jim Minatel)
• Microsoft tech·days virtual conference->April 1st 2009 (Rachel Appel)
• MIX 09 (Scott Guthrie)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Phil Haack on ASP.NET MVC RTM!! (Carl Franklin)
• Fireworks to XAML Panel (Adam Kinney)
• DevHawk on CodeCast (Harry Pierson)
• Herding Code Episode 40: Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3 and RIA Services (Jon Galloway)
• Open Source software at Microsoft – Justin Angel and Shawn Burke (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• 10-4 Episode 14: Sentient DSLs (Jonathan Carter)
• Don Syme: F# and functional programming in . NET (martinesmann)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Reseed Identity of Table – Table Missing Identity Values – Gap in Identity Column (Pinal Dave)
• Should the developer divsion develop the tools for SQL Server (Simon Sabin)

 

Miscellaneous

• MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft XML Core Services) (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft previews Windows Mobile App store, alters developer fees and Mozilla Weave 0.3 syncs Firefox bookmarks, passords, history (Brad Linder)
• New Poll: What’s The Worst Part About Software Development As A Career? (Davy Brion)
• Iran Means History (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• "Multi-core Mania": A Rebuttal (Ted Neward)
• Review: Peopleware (Steve Rowe)
• Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter (Robin Wauters)
• The Open Cloud Manifesto – what I think… (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• How to enable / disable the discussion tab – #005 (Sara Ford)
• IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine (K. Dawson)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – II (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #319 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2009 — #559 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #22 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 22 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for March 31st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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