Day: July 13, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Comments on The Myth of Developer Productivity (Brian Noyes)
• Discover Your Why (J.D. Meier)
• Why There’s Nothing Wrong With Dependency Injection in NerdDinner (Tim Barcz)
• Lessons From My First Attempt At Bringing Agile Into A Non-Agile shop. (Ryan Svihla)
• The Myth of Developer Productivity (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• The 3 L’s Towards Loving The Code We Hate (Max Pool)
• nplus1.org – A Crash Course in Failure (Michael Janke)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• NibblesTutorials: Beautiful New Tutorials On Blend and SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Overview of Sample Data in Blend 3 (Corey Schuman)
• A Simple Electronic-Music Sequencer for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight 3 Element To Element Binding (Deepak Kapoor)
• Welcoming Silverlight 3 RTW (Pete Brown)
• Simplifying the Process of Calling a WCF Service from Silverlight (or any .NET Application) (Dan Wahlin)
• Animating when Data Changes – Part II (Josh Twist)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 1 (Bart de Smet)
• The MethodLinq concept (Brendan Kowitz)
• Accessing ActiveMQ on Mac OSX from a Windows VM (Chris Patterson)
• Handy WCF Techniques (David Starr)
• Entity Framework 4.0: POCOs and table-per-type inheritance mapping (Gunnar Peipman)
• How we handle application configuration (Joshua Flanagan)
• F#: Wrapping .NET library calls and F#: A day writing a Feedburner graph creator (Mark Needham)

 

Web Development

• AspPathGuru: A little T4 love for ASP.NET WebForms (David Ebbo)
• Create and Stylize Horizontal Navigation Menu from CSS lists using Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Part II) (Minal Agarwal)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 115: Windows 7 Secrets (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Show #325: NCAA, BF:1943, Madden, Babo:Invasion and gdgt.com (Larry Hryb)

 

Community / Events

• Boston .Net Architecture Study Group – Wed July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interested in a Free SharePoint 101 Hands-On Lab on July 25, 2009? (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Database

• How parameter datatypes can effect caching (Martin Bell)
• Shrink log in all your user databases (Naomi)
• SQL SERVER – BLOB – Pointer to Image, Image in Database, FILESTREAM Storage (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• PCPlus 270: An introduction to diffs (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Missing from Windows 7, but Not Lost (Brad Jones)
• Download Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 and Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 1 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Releasing Technology Too Fast? (Sam Gentile)
• The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 (Leena Rao)
• Traffic in the Cloud with Azure, Bing Maps, DeepZoom (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #388 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2009 — #635 and Silverlight Cream for July 12, 2009 — #636 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #84 – “Finally Summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.06 ~ 07.12 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #61 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 101 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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