Dew Drop – June 22, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are garbage collectors slow? (Granville Barnett) – Link of the Day
• 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)
• Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint and TDD (Sahil Malik)
• Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Seams: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• A small web design rant: beware of the RADical designer (Peter Van Ooijen)
• What’s in a controller? That which we call an action… (Javier G. Lozano)
• Agile Behavior: Nurture Knowledge Database (Patrick Smacchia)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Box Selections and Multi-Edit in Visual Studio 2010 (Coding4Fun)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Using memory mapped files (Gunnar Peipman)
• Assigning MSBuild Properties to SQLCMD Variables (Gert Drapers)
• Fantastic on-going Entity Framework Tips Series from EF’s Alex James and Visual Studio’s Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment and EF4: Model-Defined Functions Level 1 & 2 (Julie Lerman)
• TFS 2010 – WorkItems Linking and Automation Workflow implementation for Closing Linked Workitems (Subodh Sohoni)

 

Web Development

• Recent Member Activity now in Sueetie User Profiles and Three Wolves Howling at the JSON Date Moon (Dave Burke)
• Using claims for driving web sites… without writing any code (Vittorio Bertocci)
• 50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow (Smashing Magazine)
• Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)
• Microsoft Expression 1..2..3 (Mike Ormond)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services (Ron Jacobs)
• Toolshed Tooltip #9 – VSTS DB Pro from Episode 2 and Toolshed Tooltip #10 – SQL Reporting Services from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: E3 2009 and Iraq (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 7 Application Compatibility (Matthijs Hoekstra)

 

Community / Events

Announcing "Agile Database Techniques" Workshop (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

SharePoint

• My checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites (Chris O’Brien)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.1 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Man Who Goes Against His Instincts… (Max Pool)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 21, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #373 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.15 ~ 06.21 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #58 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009 — #619 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 99 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 06/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

 

Book of the Day