Dew Drop – September 7, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Enumerable.Range and Enumerable.Repeat (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Code Analysis Performance (Doug Holland)
• Type-Free Lambda Calculus in C#, Pre-4.0 – Defining the Lambda Language Runtime (LLR) (Bart de Smet)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Exploitable Crash Analyzer (Sasha Goldshtein)
• NHibernate on the cloud: SQL Azure and SQL Azure, Sharding and NHibernate: A call for volunteers (Oren Eini)
• Set focus on DataGridView cell (DotNetFacts)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Dynamic type parameter constraints in C# 4 (Chris Burrows)
• Code Contracts.Net to Xml Comments! (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

Web Development

• How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) (Peter Kellner)
• Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web (Ben Parr)
• Patching Ruby on Rails Refresher (Rob Bazinet)
• Creating an Image Frame (Chris Love)
• Tidbits for Web Developers Targeting IE8 (Jim O’Neil)
• Setting Cookies in Fiddler (Julie Lerman)
• MVC – Using the jQuery DatePicker (Michael Ceranski)
• Insert FrontPage Includes in Microsoft Expression Web 2.0 and 3.0 (Minal Agarwal)
• Fiddler: Trying to work out how it all hooks together (Mark Needham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When conversions ignore the errors… (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Noodling on Kanban… Part Four and The Big Agile Persona and Building an Agile Book with Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Step #1 – Claim Your Territory, Own your team and The first five Whys and Step #2 – Use a big visible board with post it notes and If you don’t own your team, Someone else will and 4 ways to discover a stuck team member, and what you can do about it (Roy Osherove)
• Why Git? and Break the algorithm: Distributed Lock and Soft Deletes aren’t Append Only model (Oren Eini)
• Manufacturing Authority And Trust (Alan Skorkin)
• More ORM Ignorance (Davy Brion)
• Hiring Developers – Why "Smart and Gets Things Done" is not Enough (Ed Willis)
• The Provider Model Pattern, Really? (Justin Etheredge)
• Balsamiq – It’s Not Just For Salad Anymore (Lee Dumond)
• Book Club: Promiscuous Pairing & Beginner’s Mind (Arlo Belshee) and Coding: Checking invariants in a factory method (Mark Needham)
• Configuring Team build using XUnit [From client] – Update. (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Introducing Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
• Stone Soup (James Bender)
• Staff Meeting Bingo (aka Geo Distributed Engineering Challenges) (Jason Zander)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Supporting Graceful Shutdown and Saving on Close From a WPF Prism App (Brian Noyes)
• SketchFlow: Global State Behavior Sample (Christian Schormann)
• What do you call that small white square icon in Expression Blend? (Adam Kinney)
• 5 Reasons Why Silverlight Is My Preferred Web Development Platform (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• Selector Double Click Firing ViewModel ICommand and Selector DoubleClick Behaviour calling ViewModel ICommand and Cinch : A Code Generator Is Coming (Sacha Barber)
• How to prevent a TabItem from being selected (Josh Smith)
• Detecting design time mode in WPF and Silverlight and Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit and MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1: What’s new? (Laurent Bugnion)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Comments about Adding… (Brad Abrams)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: VS 2010, Must-Have Developer Utilities, Upgrade your home (Dan Fernandez)
• Connected Show – Episode #15 – Jon Skeet goes DEEP on C#4.0 (Bob Familiar)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #3- REST Collections (Stephen Forte)
• Review: Three Technical Podcasts I Subscribe To (Steve Sanderson)
• Show #331: Seattle Penny Arcade Expo 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• New DevNugget: ASP.NET Databinding and jQueryUI (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spreadsheet of every TED talk as of 9/2/2009 (Mark Frauenfelder)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Wants You to Party Like It’s XP (Mary Jo Foley)
• Event: Silverlight Firestarter, September 17th and Event: ASP.NET MVC Firestarter, October 3rd (Dave Bost)
• Microsoft MVPs Are Ready For Windows 7! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Rhino Mocks 4.0 Planning Forum (Oren Eini)
• How to contribute to open source (Krzysztof Koźmic)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Cannot drop the database because it is being used for replication. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3724) and SQL SERVER – Find Gaps in The Sequence and SQL SERVER – Importance of Database Schemas in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Mapping the Brain using SQL Server 2008 Spatial Features (Trevor Dwyer)
• Using SQL Server in Powershell outside of SQLPS (Martin Bell)

 

SharePoint

• URL Shortening in SharePoint with bit.ly (Jan Tielens)

 

Miscellaneous

• Creative Mindmaps for Learning (Chance Brown)
• Free eBook: DevShaped (Dave Bost)
• Updated New and Final Wrox Covers (Jim Minatel)
• Looking for Free Stock Photos? Try Everystockphoto (Simon Mackie)
• Work Item Notifications and Recommended Download (Sara Ford)
• Branding 101 for Developers – Part 3 of 4 (Sidney de Koning)
• Old WordPress Versions Under Attack (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Dynamic Typing? (Bil Lewis)
• Expanding your blog readership (Eugene Rosenfeld)
• Data Visualization Features in Excel 2010 (MS Office Team)
• Newsflash: Killing Zombies Increases your Typing Speed (Russell Ball)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2009 – 2 — #684 and Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2009 – 2 — #685 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #90 – “Shadow Complex is so cool” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.01 ~ 09.05 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #69 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Post… 8/30/2009 through 9/5/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• New and Notable 367 (Sam Gentile)
• LINKBLOG for Sep 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for 4th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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