Dew Drop – August 14, 2009

 

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating High Quality Images with C# and GDI (Tom Hearn)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Painting on the DataGridView and Converting Month Abbreviations to Month Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple requests (Oren Eini)
• Four switch oddities (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Mocks is finally born (Daniel Cazzulino) – Link of the Day
• Testing with NHibernate and SQLite (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation (Roy Osherove)

 

Web Development

• Twitter Announces Retweet API (Andres Ferrate)
• A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• 3 New APIs for Gamers: World of Warcraft in 3D, LEGO and GamePro (John Musser)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Harish Ranganathan)
• JavaScript: Not for the faint at heart? (Scott Koon)
• PHP Linux Windows ASP.NET Performance – Redux ! (Joe Stagner)
• Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure Reference Application released to MSDN Code Gallery (Lamont Harrington)
• All Programming Is Web Programming (Jeff Atwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Microsoft support distributed teams and cloud deployments? (Andy Singleton)
• To Test The Untestable Bug. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• “Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 13 : Extract Method Object (Sean Chambers)
• DDD is a dense book (Greg Young)
• Modularity by Example (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)
• Singletons Are Evil Part 2 (Scott Densmore)
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! (Jamie Cansdale)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Triggers in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Linq For Silverlight Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• More Silverlight application themes and fixes (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #135: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup profiles (Derik Whittaker)
• SharePoint MVP Debuts on The Water Cooler Show (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Easing in Silverlight Animations (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Behind the Scenes: Office Labs (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Virtual Architect Council Events in August (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight 3 FireStarter Will Be Streamed Online (Frank La Vigne)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
• Friending and Reputation (Chris Brogan)

 

Database

• Recover a database without the ldf file (Ted Krueger)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 1 (Martin Bell)

 

PowerShell

• Growl for Windows – From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader (Me)
• Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs (Kevin Purdy)
• Microsoft NERD gets a logo (Steve Clayton)
• Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate (Osama Sajid)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #412 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (8/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 355 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Non-Book of the Day