Day: July 21, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Engineering Software For Accessibility eBook (MS Downloads)
• TAM v3.0 beta (MS Downloads)
• Don’t castrate your architecture (Oren Eini) – Co-Link of the Day
• When You Absolutely Need To Use A Real Database In Tests (Davy Brion)
• In the absence of done… there is risk. (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Swarm Theory and Architecture Explorer (Clemens Reijnen)
• Git and command-line fear (James Gregory)
• Is Software Engineering Dead? (Process, not Construction) (Jim Holmes)
• A New Plugin: Mockups for FogBugz! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2.1 is out! (Oren Eini)
• Why I Dislike Classic Or Typical WCF Usage (Davy Brion)
• NHibernate 2.1 Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia)
• July CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Resharper Test Runner in 64-bit Windows (Sergio Pereira)
• CouchDB in the Cloud – Cheap and Flexible Persistence For .NET (Rinat Abdullin)
• Workflow-Enabled Services with Windows Workflow Foundation (Masoud Kalali)
• Comparing doubles can produce unexpected results (Kirill Osenkov)
• Iterator blocks Part Four: Why no yield in catch? (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design (Cameron Chapman)
• Adding a DotNetKicks Image/Badge via jQuery (Chris Pietschmann)
• Azure SDK July CTP – Multiple web and worker roles (David Makogon)
• jQuery-UI visual studio intellisense (vsdoc) file (Jay Kimble)
• Testing Multiple IE Versions, VPC’s and Super Preview (Pete LePage)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here’s a workaround (Wolf Schmidt)
• Blacklight v4 for Silverlight 3 Released (Martin Grayson)
• New book: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Devon Musgrave)
• Prism’s Plugin Architecture (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3? Easier Easing (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Roman Schindlauer on Complex Events (Carl Franklin)
• Distributed Agile Interview – Dan Mezick chats with Andy Singleton (Andy Singleton)
• ARCast.TV – The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft doing (Bob Familiar)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #128: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup Auto Registration (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to SketchFlow (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight MVP Creates PRISM Videos and Interviews! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SDL-LOB Phase 3: Implementation (Jossie Tirado)
• Ping 21: Gates & Ballmer talk Chrome, MS Office edits Google Docs, MS Retail, Natal is hiring (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Blogher or Bust (Anne Taylor Hartzell)
• patterns and practices wants you to take the Web guidance survey (Blaine Wastell)
• Google Wave: Updates from today’s hackathon (Dan Peterson)
• Northeast Roadshow and More! (Jim O’Neil)
• CodeClimber Q2-09 Report (Simone Chiaretta)
• Microsoft Contributes Code to the Linux Kernel (Nic Fillingham)
• Community Leadership Summit Trip Report (Sara Ford)
• Introducing CodePaste.NET (Rick Strahl) – Co-Link of the Day

 

Database

• To SQL or not to SQL? (Simon Brown)
• Attaching SQL Server database without log file (Gunnar Peipman)
• Developer Tip Quickly look up table information in SQL Server Management Studio (Jonathan Cogley)

 

SharePoint

• June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download (Jie Li)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Documents "Windows 7 Upgrade Paths" (Blake Handler)
• New Touch Up Suite: 15 Ways To Turn Heads! (Ali Fisher)
• Bing on the Jingles (The Bing Intern)
• Audacity 1.3.8 Beta: Open source audio editor now faster than ever (Brad Linder)
• 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories (Cameron Chapman)
• Keyboard Krazy with Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• Just Enough MBA to Be a Programmer (Jeff Moser)
• Flash Text Layout Framework goes Open Source (Steve Tibbett)
• Could Popfly’s pop out be game over for Microsoft? (Joe Wilcox)
• Scripting WMI Namespace Security (part 1 of 3) (Steve Lee)
• Windows 7 Media Center and Windows Home Server PP3 (Taimur Asad)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #394 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 — #647 and Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 – 2 — #648 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 20th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

Book of the Day