Dew Drop – August 3, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your domain model isn’t in the Entity Relationship Diagram (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Yo Dawg, I Heard Your Build Failed Because You Refactored Unit Tests… (Bobby Johnson)
• The Daily Scrum Exercise Program (Brett Schuchert)
• Discover dead code in your application using Code Analysis (Habib Heydarian)
• Fluent Domain Methods (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• “Latching” an Event Aggregator Subscriber and What’s hard about activating screens? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Who Activates, Displays, and Closes Screens? (John Papa)
• The spirit of MVVM (ViewModel), it’s not a code counting exercise. (Glenn Block)
• Strong opinions, weakly held (Mark Needham)
• How To Be A Tracer Bullet Architect (Max Pool)
• In Memory SQLite Testing with NHibernate (Tobin Harris)
• 31 Days of Refactoring and Refactoring Day 1 : Encapsulate Collection and Refactoring Day 2 : Move Method (Sean Chambers)
• Structure and composition of agile teams (Scott Koon)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 7. (Rajiv Popat)
• MVVM Study Part 2 – “View of the Model” or “Model of the View” ? (Rob Eisenberg)
• Initial thoughts on MVVM (Rockford Lhotka)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflector.Babel Addin (alpha) (Jason Haley)
• Stable Composition in MEF Preview 6 (Glenn Block)
• IronRuby 0.9 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• A big step for Stored Procedures in EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• WCF Essentials Series (Sam Gentile)
• Getting Ready for .NET 3.5 and LINQ – Exploring C# 3.0 – Part II (Manish Sharma)
• Twitter API with C# example(part 2) (Paul Zubkov)
• Does It Make Sense To Use NHibernate in a Sproc-Only Shop? (Russell Ball)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service and Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered! and Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary (Brad Abrams)
• Hosting Silverlight Client Apps In A Silverlight Host App (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight, Validation and MVVM – Part II (Josh Twist)
• How to work with PropertyChanged’s smelly name string (Josh Twist)
• Updated – INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code Smell (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Spy 3 update available (Koen Zwikstra)
• Controls Supported in Silverlight 3 RTW (Manish Sharma)
• Adding DataContextChanged in Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 4 is out (Sacha Barber)

 

Web Development

• Single Project Areas With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed in Bookstores! (Stephen Walther)
• Part 2: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• What’s new in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: Microhoo, ATL Security, VS 2010 Cut List (Dan Fernandez)
• Show #327: COD WaW Map Pack 3 and Guitar Hero 5 (Larry Hryb)
• A Peek Behind C9 Revolution UX (Larry Larsen)
• Testing Techniques with JB Rainsberger and Moving Specificity Towards the Tests with JB Rainsberger (Corey Haines)
• Windows Azure Storage Overview and What is Windows Azure? (Ryan Dunn)
• Tool Shed: Episode #4 – It’s All About The Tools (Russell Fustino)

 

Community / Events

• "Un-Official" List of Microsoft Twitter Feeds (Blake Handler)
• One Year of Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Revive your User Group, part IV (Joe Webb)
• OSCON 2009: One of the greatest weeks in my Microsoft Career (Sara Ford)

 

Database

• LINQ To Entities, SQL and performance (Gunnar Peipman)
• Download Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler (Pinal Dave)
• MapPoint Add-in for SQL Server (Trevor Dwyer)

 

SharePoint

• Building and Packaging SharePoint Solutions (Eli Robillard)
• Updated Version of SharePoint SP2 is now available which contains a fix for the Trial issue (Stefan Gossner)

 

PowerShell

• Setting PowerShell Switch Parameters Dynamically (Gary Lapointe)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Add Bing Search Box to Your Blog or Website (Blake Handler)
• This Is Why I Don’t Like Microsoft’s Way Of Open Source Development (Davy Brion)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 2, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #403 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 01, 2009 — #660 and Silverlight Cream for August 02, 2009 — #661 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 31, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.27 ~ 08.03 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #64 (Grant Palin)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.31 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Squeezed Links: July 2009 (Max Pool)
• CloudNews for 31st July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Post… 7/26/2009 through 8/1/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Discoveries This Week 08/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Links (8/2/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 347 and New and Notable 348 and New and Notable 349 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day