Dew Drop – September 3, 2009

 

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing PowerBuilder 12 .NET (Yakov Werde)
• Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0 (Tom)
• Rhino Divan DB – Consideration (Oren Eini)
• Global Exception Handler (WinForms) and Nullable Data Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Dev Tip Build Your Solutions from the Context Menu (Jimmy Bosse)
• Thoughts on C# 4.0’ optional parameters (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CodeRush Test Runner In-source UI Preview (Mark Miller)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Web Development

• Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.net: The Main Concepts (Simone Chiaretta)
• Simple Example of Twilio and Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Kanban Board Is A Production Leveling Task Board (Derick Bailey)
• Is Agile a mystery? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Answer: The lazy loaded inheritance many to one association OR/M conundrum (Oren Eini)
• DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
• Your code via NDepend (Brendan Kowitz) – Link of the Day
• Modularity Pattern – Manage Relationships (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Coding: Reduce fields, delay calculations (Mark Needham)
• The Conversation Conversation and Noodling on Kanban… Part One (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why Declarative UIs Are Important (Shawn Wildermuth)
• brownfield development – other ideas? (Howard Dierking)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• U.S. Army using Silverlight for Resourcing Troops (Adam Kinney)
• Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• More Silverlight MVVM fun (Rockford Lhotka)
• Service Locator in MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Expression Blend 3.0 TFS Source Control (Doug Holland)
• UI without code or XAML: PropertyGrid, DataForm, etc. (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen on the Legal Side of Software! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 1, What it Means to the User and ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft Doing (MS Podcasts)
• Creating DSLs in Oslo (Amanda Laucher)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #66 (Jeff Atwood)

 

Community / Events

• Western European ReMix Tour 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Webinars Next Week (William Vaughn)
• I’m A Lucky Programmer Too! (Chris Missal)
• Windows 7 Compatibility Labs and Seminars in Washington DC region (Ashish Jaiman)
• MVP Releases Windows Azure Community Site (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Random Thoughts on Day 2 of the Nothing But .NET Course (Russell Ball)
• Thanks and A Software Development School Idea (Corey Haines)
• Get Windows 7 Ultimate for free… by throwing a party (Nilay Patel)
• Please, please, please post StructureMap questions to the list (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Database

• Microsoft Downplays SQL Server Database Vulnerability (Brian Prince)
• Handling Temp tables in reporting services (Simon Sabin)
• Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – What is Data Mining – A Simple Introductory Note (Pinal Dave)
• Using a Calendar for a Date Hierarchy Parameter with SSAS 2008 and SSRS 2008 (riverguy)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Governance and best practices, some thoughts (Joris Poelmans)

 

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope’s New Frontier (Rob Knies)
• 3 Ways to Track Your Rank on Twitter (Adam DuVander)
• Using Ruby Blocks And Rolling Your Own Iterators (Alan Skorkin)
• Zoho Projects : Add Task Notes, Log Time from My Timesheet, View Unread Chat Topics (Celina B.)
• WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview (Kip Kniskern)
• “Weekly” Release: FogBugz Wiki integration and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• New Feature in Zoho Share : Add to Favorites (Rajasekaran Gopalan)
• The Ultimate Windows Console Replacement (Michael Ceranski)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #425 (Chris Alcock)
• Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Web Slice, Accelerator, Search Provider resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• CloudNews for 2nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day