Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – June 20-21, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 (Andrew Woodward)
• Agile Self-Organization versus Lean Leadership (Brad Appleton)
• Refactoring XmlWriter (Chris Brandsma)
• Book Club: The Readability of Tests – Growing Object Oriented Software (Steve Freeman/Nat Pryce) (Mark Needham)
• Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)

 

Web Development

• The ASP.NET MVC ActionController – The controllerless action, or actionless controller (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Gaining some context into ASP.NET AJAX 4’s DataContext… and How the DataContext can change your data and your life (well, sort of, but not really)… (Jonathan Carter)
• Compiling Conditional Code into ASP.NET Websites (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET MVC – Checkboxes and Search Flags (Michael Ceranski)
• Web Platform Installer (Mike Ormond)
• Update to The CIA Pickup Source (Steve Marx)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part V) (Habib H.)
• F# – Async Running with Continuation Scissors (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Deep Zoom Composer – June 2009 Preview Available (Sunshine)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #183 – Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers and Hanselminutes on 9 – Storyteller with Jeremy Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• This week on C9: Get paid for open source, Azure for dating, debugging and naming lore (Dan Fernandez)
• Building Better User Interfaces (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Episode 74 – PowerScripting Podcast – DevFarm talks about PowerWF (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Toolshed Tooltip #9 – VSTS DB Pro from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• What is Windows Azure? (Steve Marx)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Understanding Table Hints with Examples (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• No, I Don’t Want iTunes Installed. You can quit asking. (Michael Janke) – Link of the Day
• Arrays in Small Basic (Vijaye)

 

Book of the Day