Dew Drop – May 16, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using new technology will make it faster (Simon Brown)
• Doing Agile in a Team of One (Andrew Woodward)
• Fixing test failures using binary search (Oren Eini)
• Dee Hock on Hiring & Leadership (Brad Appleton)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 7 (Rajiv Popat)
• Notes on "Meeting the Challenge of Simplicity" (Tobin Harris)
• You know you buy into Testing and Testabilty when you wrap a singleton simply to create an abstraction… (Derik Whittaker)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 available for the MSDN subscribers on Monday May 18th (Jose R. Guay Paz)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "MP4 Explorer" – Video Metadata Viewer for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Introducing DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext (Muhammad Mosa)
• Parallel Tasks – new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window (Daniel Moth)
• An update on caricature (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – UppercuT.config and UppercuT – Automated Builds – ConfigBuilder and Uppercut – Automated Builds – DeploymentBuilder (Rob Reynolds)

 

Web Development

• Comparing a S#arp Architecture ASP.NET MVC Project to Classic ASP.NET with LINQ to SQL (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Adding Client-Side Form Validation with JQuery: Thin ASP.NET Part 3 (Chris Love)
• Friday Books – ASP.NET Social Networking (Dave M. Bush)
• Learn How to Design Web Sites for Accessibility with Expression Web 2 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• 42 Different APIs Used in 7 Days – From MTV to NPR (John Musser)
• Tip#62: Did you know… How to add Ajax Control Toolkit to the toolbox? (Deepak Verma)
• Remembering Page Index when returning to a List Page (Steve Naughton)

 

Silverlight

• Writing Behaviors for Silverlight 3 – Part 1 and Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9 at TechEd 2009 with Jeff Hadfield and Greg Duncan (Dan Fernandez)
• New free screencast series on WPF by Ian Griffiths (Fritz Onion)
• Cannon PI – To Catch An Eagle (Mark Brown)
• Prism in Silverlight (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

 

Community / Events

• TechEd North America 2009 Wrap Up (Andrew Connell)
• LINDUG: The LinkedIn .NET Users group (Darrel Carver)
• TechEd North America 2009 Wrap Up (Eric Shupps)
• Best T-Shirt spotted at Tech Ed (Julie Lerman)
• TechEd 2009 Thoughts (Ted Neward)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 3 – Product Group Meeting – Final Presentations – Meeting Friends (Pinal Dave)
• Watch my TechEd 2009 talk on CodePlex (Sara Ford)

 

SharePoint

• How to Emulate Network Shares in a SharePoint Document Library (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint on the iPhone? (Liam Cleary)

 

Database

• SQLCop, FxCop For SQL Server, Would You Be Interested in This? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – How to Drop Temp Table – Check Existence of Temp Table (Pinal Dave)
• Time for another Date? (Martin Bell)
• SQL CLR Integration – Caveat Emptor (Michael Ceranski)

 

PowerShell

• Summer Scripting Games 2009 (Osama Sajid)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Taskbar in 10 Minutes – Part IV: Preview and Window Peek (Gunther Lenz)
• Amazon–; BookShelf++; (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Office 2010 technical preview leaks on torrent trackers and Wolfram Alpha is live and interesting, but not a Google killer (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Product Roadmap (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Remote Media Streaming on Windows 7 (Mike Ormond)

 

More Link Collections

• First Irregularly-Scheduled Linkblog (Peter Seale) – Check out Pete’s links and his opinion of link blogs in general.
• LINKBLOG for May 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #348 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 321 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2009 — #594 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-05-15 (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Technology Post for May 15th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 15th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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