Dew Drop – September 10, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Telerik Offers Free Developer Team Management Tools (Justin Sargent)
• First step in troubleshooting complex issues: Define and scope your issue properly (Tess Ferrandez)
• Sorry, but I just don’t get Oslo (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Big Huge Objects and WCF (Kirstin Juhl)
• ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Feature: Projections (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- I (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

Web Development

• Embeddable Google Document Viewer (Alex Chitu)
• Build an AJAX Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Adding Menu Components (Bogdan Zamfir)
• NetFlix API (Dave Cook)
• The Future of the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Matching links with regular expression in HTML (David Vidmar)
• Building a RESTful application with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• XML, XPath, and Namespaces (Robert L. Bogue)
• How Subtext’s Lucene.net index is structured (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SOA may be failing, but the approaches will live on (Simon Brown)
• Exceptional and Substitutable (Dave Laribee)
• Recommended Books: Ship It! (Davy Brion)
• Your unit test may smell if…….! (Derik Whittaker)
• There are Two Types of Developers (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How do you use Pex in Visual Studio? Your Input Is Needed! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Is face to face pairing better? and Spend at least 50% of your time with your team (Roy Osherove)
• Impersonators: Using them in showcases (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 4 to do for PCs what HD DVD couldn’t (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – II (Forms Authentication) (Phani Raj)
• New articles about the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1 (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expression Blend Sketchflow (CodeFest)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 36: What Happens In The Speaker’s Lounge is Supposed to Stay In the Speaker’s Lounge (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) – Link of the Day
• 10-4 Episode 32: MEF Preview 7 (Jason Olson)
• Video Killed the Radio Star (Jennifer Marsman)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #139: Learning the Specification Pattern (Tim Barcz)
• Screencast: Project Planning 101 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• ThirstyDeveloper #72 – A Lot of Something (Dave Bost)
• Ade Miller and Patterns of Parallel Programming (Robert Hess)

 

Community / Events

• Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Me)
• Interview on DZone About ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• TechEd Australia – 25 Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips (Sara Ford)
• Death of a user group, or “How to give up” (Kyle Baley)

 

Database

• Updating Existing Data with SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
• RESTful Northwind on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Extracting Data (again) (George Mastros)
• Spools in Execution Plans (Grant Fritchey)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Desktop Screen Background (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• How to: Add a folder to a SharePoint list using C# (Eugene Rosenfeld)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: The Apple Best Buy Slides Are Legit, Too (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• US Government Opens-Up to OpenID and Information Cards (Andres Ferrate)
• ImageResizer PowerToy Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• How would Apple Market their OS without Windows? (Stephen Chapman)
• WorkScore: A Social Resume (Thursday Bram)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #430 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 — #687 and Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 – 2 — #688 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 9th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #537 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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